Vests. Making void the word of God by
your tradition that you have handed down.
And many such things you do thus making void the word of God by
your tradition that you have handed down and many such things
you do. These are the words of the Lord
Jesus Christ found in Mark, chapter 7 verse 13 and they were
directed to the spiritual leaders of his day, who
questioned him about his disregard for man-made.
Addition that dominated his culture back then.
And that stinging statement that was made by Jesus Christ.
Still has resounded in relevance to our spiritual climate today.
Because as you know, there are many customs and there are many
rituals that are being honored and handed down in the name of
God. And as a result are directing
people away from the liberating truths that are found in God's
revelation and we have been lingering here in Chapter 7 for
some time for the sole purpose of addressing.
Some of those prevailing Traditions that we are familiar
with in Christendom familiar with my baby, not acquainted
with maybe not knowledgeable in and we want to address some of
these things in the spirit of Christ.
Now, I know that for some, this may seem like an unnecessary or
an uncharitable approach, but understand that even the Lord
hear you, you have read. With me through this chapter
many times, he addressed specific areas from different
systems of belief sometimes by name and the apostles followed
and those who would occupy the the office of a Preacher.
Are required from time to time to also follow the example of
Christ. It's not an easy thing.
It's not a comfortable thing, but it is a necessary thing.
You know, I was reading in the book of Lamentations and my
personal reading. And I came across a verse that
ministered to me in this area, and I prayed that it would
encourage you. So I quoted Mark chapter 7, but
if you have your Bibles with you, turn with me to limitations
right after Jeremiah Lamentations chapter 2, and look
with me at verse 14 for a moment.
Limitations to 14. Jeremiah is speaking here.
And he says, After the fact after the fact that judgment has
come to Judah limitations to 14, your prophets have seen for you,
false and deceptive Visions. They have not exposed your
iniquity to restore your fortunes, but I've seen for you
oracle's that are false and misleading They have not exposed
your iniquity to restore your fortunes.
Now, depending on your translation, if you have a good
solid faithful translation, some would say to turn away, thy
captivity, or to turn to bring back your captives or to restore
you from captivity, whatever translation you hold.
The principle is still the same. The Holy Spirit through the lips
of Jeremiah makes a connection between uncovering or
undisclosed, engaging, making known the sins of the people and
then being liberated from captivity.
The Captivity in this context is literal, right?
They literally went into captivity but it was the fruit
of a spiritual captivity. And so God puts blame on those
who are self appointed representatives, in Jeremiah's
day, those who are self acclaimed prophets, and they
refuse to address the errors of the people of that time.
And in refusing to expose the errors, they kept the people
bound. They kept the people in
darkness, they kept the people in falsehood and that ultimately
let to led to their own discipline and their own
chastisement. Aunt.
And so, what's the, what's the point here, here's the point
that if there are things in Christendom, right, that are
deterring people hindering people from coming to saving
faith Then surely there is some sort of responsibility,
especially for those who are leaders in the True Church of
Jesus Christ to say something about it, to address it to
confront it. And if there's any confusion
about what the goal of these messages are, please don't be
confused any further. We want to see people set free.
We want to see people liberated, we want to see people be
restored to their fortunes restored to the true blessings
that are in Christ that are only available when the truth is
Faithfully presented. And when that same truth is
responded to, with repentant faith, So, this is the heart
posture behind what have, what has been presented and what will
continue to be presented? Now, with that being said, I
know that last week you were here.
Some of you were here at least and you heard some discussion,
some insight concerning the doctrines, the false doctrines
pertaining to marry and we did so by examining namely what the
Roman Catholic Church teaches about her.
And I have to say, we received great encouragement from Last
Sunday and one of the common responses from people here and
Beyond is I didn't know that. I just I understood that there
was differences but I didn't know the depth of the
distinctives, I didn't know that this is what people believed and
that's what we're trying to do to make people aware of these
differences for the sake of Restoring and reaching out to
others. Now with the great encouragement
with some testimonies, as you can imagine, there's a little
bit of pushback, right, and not from here.
Thank God, maybe in your heart, I don't know.
But Mainly from people who watch Us online who visit our channel
from time to time, I guess and there were some Egyptian
objections and I'm not going to take the time to address every
single one of those objections. But I think I want to make
mention of one thing because it will only confirm the main point
of all of this. The central idea, the driving
desire of what's being communicated here.
There is truth in this that some of the reformers Martin Luther
Wright, John Calvin, and zwingli and other prominent fingers.
I John Wesley. Also affirmed.
And hold to the Perpetual virginity of Mary They did
believe that and and Colts were provided in response to what was
presented yesterday of how they did hold firm to that view of
her. Now, I understand why that was
brought forward. But here's the thing that I want
to say, regardless of the intention regardless of what's,
what was trying to be done in presenting these men and what
they believe to us I think that attempt missed the whole point
of the message. Because you see whether it's
Luther or whether it's Calvin. Whether it's Wesley, regardless
of who the person is, we don't look to the authority of man, we
look to the authority of the Bible.
That's the point that's why we're doing what we're doing,
whether it is a pope or it is a reformer, whatever.
Any man claims as being Revelation from God, must
subject himself and every single one of those statements must be
subject to the evaluation the Station or the condemnation of
what God has written, that's the truth and I think even some
evangelicals have to be careful here because I hear some
evangelicals quote. These guys as though they were
authoritative What does the Bible say?
What does God's word say? What does God's word say through
the men that he has placed his hand on for a special purpose of
revealing Divine truth? That's the goal here, that's
what we're saying. And so this is an evangelicals
and Protestants versus Catholics in Eastern Orthodox in the
world. This is about claiming what the
word of God has to say about itself and then calling people
to observe the truth of the scripture as supreme authority.
That's the point. So let there be no confusion
here again, this is not the denominationalism here.
This is not camps. Here, this is the Bible, the
word of God that has been preserved and kept by Sovereign,
will has been granted to us to know what he desires from us.
All right, there's a lot of things I can say, but I won't
because this will turn into Mary ology part 2 and we don't have
time for that. My desire here is to communicate
something else. I want to take the time to
examine yet. Another instance sense of what
can occur when scripture alone is no longer regarded as
absolutely authoritative, when it doesn't have the final say
last week, you heard some disturbing things and this week,
we're going to look at how some traditions have misinterpreted.
The meaning and the practice of the Lord's Supper.
Again, for the sake of making this a digestible session.
I'm not going to exhaustively teach on this.
Nor am I going to pull from what?
Every single ancient and traditional Church believes
about this. What I'm going to do is stay
consistent with what we did last week and that's pulled from the
Roman Catholic teaching, and then bring that before your
attention. And hopefully, you'll be stirred
enough to look deeper and then to look at what other people
believe in other traditions and other institutions, hold to
concerning this subject. Because the spectrum is quite
wide. And over the years, it became
apparent to me that some professing Christians, do
different things. And and with that, they can
find, he's regularly participating in different
settings. That offer the bread and the
cup. And among those people, you have
some who do things like, attend the Roman Catholic church in the
morning and then go to a faithful Evangelical Church and
that same day and and partake of the mass while also partaking of
the communion that's presented in a Evangelical expression.
And it doesn't seem to bother them and it doesn't seem to work
them. And it doesn't seem to encourage
them to think a little bit deeper about if there are
differences here. Now, listen, I'm fully aware
that some of you might be thinking brother, why again?
I said this last week. Why is this really important?
Why are you making such a big deal of this?
There's enough in our Bible to discover, why are we going this
way? And I understand, right?
And I understand that some would even say leave people alone I
mean can we just not excused them and excuse, what they're
doing as simple devotion to the Lord that they want to express
in different kind of ways. Why do we have to nitpick this?
Why do we have to point these things out?
Is it really important? To, which I would respond.
Listen, it's not about what's important to you and me.
Here's the question isn't important to God.
Is it important to the head of the church?
It's not enough to say we worship.
It's not enough to excuse any kind of practice or engagement
as worship. God wants us to know how to
worship. Not just if we worship.
Okay, more than that. We understand.
What do we believe about our spiritual disciplines?
What do we believe about our expressions of devotion and
adoration? And with that, we have to
understand what do we understand to be this massive, Monumental
ordinance that Christ has established for his people for
all generations until his very return.
What truths that we ascribe to that?
What is it? That were actually doing when
once a month you come forward here and you you engage in this
corporate Act of Thanksgiving and recognition.
And I hope you have a grasp of that.
I hope you yourself are aware of why it is.
You do what you do and if you don't then hopefully you'll know
it now, you know, that we do this in remembrance of him, we
know that we do this in, proclaiming the Lord's death
until he comes. But what others believe?
What others believe about the table, what others believe about
the supper, what other people believe about this ordinance?
Well to Roman Catholics according to their own
catechism. And my intention here is not to
misinterpret anything and so everything I'm going to claim.
And I as I said last week, I don't prefer this kind of
delivery but my head's going to be down more than might be up,
but it's because I want to quote the sources for you so that I
would not be labeled as deceptive or misleading.
I want you to hear what they have to say for themselves and I
want that to stir your heart, stir your heart to have a
greater Zeal for God's glory and a greater Zeal to reach out
people who might not know what. Or even doing, which is very
common, very, very common. Don't catechism.
Their own statement of faith. That is binding.
That is universal. In the Catholic catechism and
paragraph number 132 for the Eucharist which they call it,
which really just means Thanksgiving.
The Eucharist is the source and Summit of the Christian Life.
It is the source and the summit of the Christian Life Source,
meaning that all spiritual life flows from the partaking of the
Eucharist. And the summit meeting that it
is the Pinnacle of the Christian experience.
You can't get any higher than partaking in Mass.
To claim this is quite astounding.
And just from that statement alone, you can make the obvious
observation that the Eucharist is absolutely vital and Central
to the faith of Rome. There's no question about it,
but here's a question to ask, why, why is the mass so primary?
Why is it so defended? Why is it so cherished?
Why is it worshipped? Yes, worshipped.
It's an important question because once you understand the
attributes, once you understand the implications of what is
being taught with the Eucharist, then you'll get why it is so
love, cherish and defended. Unfortunately deceiving and here
I'm going to make it so easy for you.
I hope that's my goal is to break down everything that is
learned in the week and to present it to you in a way that
you can understand and apply it. All you have to remember is two
main aspects, just to two main distinctives that Makes Rome's
understanding of the Lord's Supper different than ours.
And the first one is this that the mass the Eucharist Rite, the
mass is the partaking of the literal body and blood of the
son of God. The mass is the partaking of the
literal body and blood of the Son of God.
Here's a summary from their own documents that leaves a clear
foundation and an overview of their belief in this.
Be patient with me please, as I read a lot, In their catechism,
number 13, 76137 64, you taking notes, the Council of Trent
summarizes, the Catholic faith by declaring, because Christ,
Our Redeemer said, it was truly his body.
That he was offering under the species of bread, it has always
been the conviction of the Church of God and this holy
Council. Now declares again, pay
attention that by the consecration of the Bread and
Wine. They're Takes place a change of
the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body
of Christ, Our Lord, and of the whole substance of the wine into
the substance of his blood. This change the Holy Catholic
church has fittingly and properly called
transubstantiation. You've heard the term
transubstantiation that Fant fancy term simply means a change
a transformation in substance. It's real, it's literal, it's
not metaphorical. It's not spiritual, it's not
allegorical, it is material. And this is a miraculous event
by their own claim that the actual elements become the
physical body of Jesus and the physical blood.
This is again something to be understood as real and tangible
here. It is from their own catechism.
I caught it to you. 1376 here's paragraph, 1374, this is
astounding. In The Most Blessed Sacrament of
the Eucharist, the body and blood together.
So the body and the blood together with the soul and
Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And therefore, the whole Christ is truly really substantially
contained. You're going to hear me quote
later on from Catholic answers. Then the same way.
Jesus Christ was here, two thousand years ago.
He is with us daily. When the Eucharist is presented.
Now before I unpack, what that implies, we have to understand
that this notion according to the catechism is a teaching that
they believed to be from the very lips of the master.
You might be wondering where, where do they get this
understanding, right, and you remember how I quoted the first
paragraph because Christ Our Redeemer said that it was truly
his body that he was offering under the species of bread, he
said it. So, the claim is, we didn't get
this out of thin air. We didn't even, we didn't
attribute this to Sacred, to just soon or to the magisterium
our basis for this is Christ. And what's their go to passage?
You know, it, John chapter 6 and I want you to turn there to the
collection of verses that is often referred to to justify
this teaching. In John chapter 6.
In verse 53. So Jesus said to them, truly
truly, I say to you, unless you eat the Flesh of the son of man
and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks.
My blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last
day for my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink.
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks, my blood abides in me
and I in him. Seems straightforward.
Seems clear, right? Here's the problem.
Here's the first problem of going to John chapter 6, to try
to justify this. Massive teaching with massive
implications and it is catastrophic when you break it
down. Was the Lord's Supper even
Institute at this point in the ministry of Jesus Christ and
sir. No.
There is quite some time to go before the institution of the
Lord's Supper it even takes place.
So what you have here is a teaching that has no connection
whatsoever to the ordinance that Christ will establish after he
is going to serve his disciples and make and before he makes his
way to the Cross, There Is No Illusion here whatsoever.
That Jesus is providing some kind of commentary of what takes
place at the table. Nothing of the A short.
And so, to take a teaching that uses similar terminology, but
then to apply it to something that you and I engage with as an
ordinance, is a dangerous stretch to make.
So then, how do we understand this?
How do we make sense of what Jesus is saying?
The way you try to understand anything that is being said, in
the Bible, you investigate the immediate context.
And as you investigate the immediate context without your
presuppositions, without any kind of authority telling you,
otherwise Eyes. But just with the word of God,
in John chapter 6, you have to make the honest, conclusion is
in the simple reading and evaluating Jesus, implying that
we should not on his body and drink his actual blood.
Well let's look forward because thankfully what Jesus says in
the very same chapter clarifies, what he meant by this.
So I want you to again, look at verse 54, look at the promise
associated with eating and drinking him.
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks.
My blood has what eternal life has eternal life and I will
raise him up on the last day. What a glorious promise you eat
of me. You drink of me.
You will have eternal life and I will raise you up on the last
day. You know what's fascinating
about that? That's not the only time in this
context, Jesus gives that promise he gives it back here in
verse 40. Look at John 640 and what do you
read? For this is the will of my
father that everyone who looks on the son and believes in Him
should have eternal life and I will raise him up on the last
day of parallels perfectly. One difference, the precondition
is different. The prerequisite is different.
Look, back at verse 54. Why was the prerequisite?
If you feed on my flesh and if you drink my blood, you have one
eternal life and to you have the promise that I will raise you up
on the last day. Hold on to that.
That's the reward. That's the assurance.
You go back to verse 14, you realize that the rewards are
still there, the same ones, but what, what is required before
that? He says, it who looks on the son
and believes in him, who looks on the son and believes in Him.
St. Promise, yes.
Different precondition. It seems.
So and less Jesus here. When you join these two
statements proves that in this parallel, the feeding and
drinking. Is not a literal command to
Feast on him physically, but it is a metaphor for receiving him
and believing in him by faith to Christ eating is believing.
That's all it is to eat. Means to receive him by faith.
And by receiving and by faith, you receive the nourishment and
the sustenance that he provides through that channel of simple
trust and who he says to be and this is the emphasis in John
chapter 6. So, wait, well, why is he using
the language of eating and drinking because why are the
people there there? They want actual bread.
He just multiplied, bread fed, thousands of people and here
they are. Again, they want a refill.
So Christ meets them there and he takes their physical desire
and he parallels it with a spiritual truth.
He's meeting them where they're at and he's challenging them
through this metaphor, through this figure of applying.
It spiritually. Look at verse 35 of John chapter
6, Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life whoever comes to
me, shall not hunger. And whoever believes in me,
shall never thirst believe, believe verse 29.
When the same crowd asked them, what are the works of God that
we need to do? How does Jesus respond?
This is the work of God that you believe in him whom he sent.
Belief. Receive.
Comes by faith, not by feasting. Comes by trust, not by
transubstantiation. Now if this is not the true
meaning of Jesus words, then we have more problems than just
transubstantiation we do because I want you to think about it.
If we're consistent with Rome's interpretation here, then you
also have to understand that when Jesus says you have eternal
life and I will raise you up on the line last day, then I'm just
by simple equation. Me eating him and drinking and
means I will have eternal life. Eating and drinking him is by
faith. That's consistent with the whole
scripture that's in harmony with the rest of the Bible.
But if eating him and drinking and means that after the priest
consecrates, the bread and the wine and it transforms it to
Christ's body and I am to eat of him then naturally we have to
understand that it is the Eucharist that gives me eternal
life. It's the mass that ultimately
saves me. That's a different gospel.
And only is a different gospel, which I'll get to in a moment.
It's inconsistent with scripture because we know that the Lord
instituted the Lord's Supper, not for people to become
Christian. But for people who aren't
Christians, So even the very purpose and definition of the
Lord's table is is obliterated because we know that it's for
the church that we come in remembrance of him, we don't
come to the table to be in him or for him to be in us.
Know, because we are in and we now can and have the right to
partake in that table. So there's a lot of problems
here and this is why it can't be according to how our Roman
friends claimed it to be in a common objection that that is
often given. It's really a foundational
objection to what I just said to you is that if Christ really was
speaking here metaphorically, then why didn't you make the
effort to clarify that he was speaking and figurative language
to those that were there because they interpret it literally and
they even walked away. Assuming that what was being
said was literal Why didn't Jesus say whoa wait, hold on,
no, no let me understand. This is actually talking about
faith and although he already talked about belief belief
belief over and over and over again.
So this is what usually brought forth as an obstacle.
And here's a simple answer. Apart from the fact that Jesus
uses metaphor a lot especially in John, how many I am
statements? I am the door.
I am the light, right? How many of them there are
seven, including this one apart from that is it foreign to us to
actually see in Jesus preaching and teaching that he does not
elaborate on what he had said to his audience.
Keeping them in the dark. It's not a foreign idea.
In fact, Jesus did that and we learned that in Mark especially
through his Parables that when he discerned the heart of the
people, that no matter how many miracles and how many truths
were brought forth to their attention, that they were still
willing to deny and not apply the truth.
That was given to them. He was still willing to engage
with them. But in a way that would solidify
their darkness and keep them away from the truth, as an act
of discipline in judgment. Is it any different here?
It's pretty obvious here. You have this people fixated on
the fact that Jesus provided them food, and that's all they
wanted him for they saw. Saw him as the king that can
overthrow Rome that can make their lives a little bit easier.
And so they want to Crown Him and Jesus sees right through
them. And so every time, if you read
that lengthy chapter, every time Christ tries to diverts them to
spiritual truth and eternal life, the people became more and
more hostile, more and more upset, more and more Disturbed.
And when Christ claimed his Heavenly origin, you can just
you can tell just by the reading that they're becoming more
distant to Christ. Truly is not more attracted.
To the point where Jesus makes these very graphic claims about
himself and what is required of them and they walk away and
guess what? He doesn't chase them.
He doesn't run after them. And this isn't the only time
that he does that because Christ knows the heart.
And that's why in that same chapter, he talks about the
father drawing, right? He talks about what needs to
happen in the heart. Something needs to happen in
that heart. There needs to be disposition of
your heart, to receive who crisis and his claims and not to
ignore to misinterpret with your fleshly understanding.
And so it's clear but tradition as a way of skewing and
confusing, what is clear? Have you ever wondered how not
the wise, not the what's but how transubstantiation takes place?
Because it's spelled out in great detail and it's actually
very important for you to know and here is from their
catechism. Number 1105 1105, The invocation
upon. So when the priest makes
invocation is the intercession in which the priest begs of the
father to send the Holy Spirit the sanctifier so that the
offerings may become the body and blood of Christ and at the
faithful by receiving them may themselves become a living
offering to God, John O'Brien who is a Catholic priest wrote a
book called The Faith of millions.
The faith of Millions. Is the credentials of Catholic
religion and in his work, which is very popular, not just
popular. It is often referred to, as a
theological guide for serious, Roman Catholics.
He expands on what is in the catechism here?
He expands on it and he gives us even more specific details of
what actually takes place. When the priest, yes, that same
priest that's their daily. When the priest is ready to
consecrate the elements, what actually takes place.
Pay attention. This is disturbing.
I'm just giving you a heads-up. It's disturbing.
This is in his book, from the 1933 publication date, and it's
found on page, 27, T and 271. And this is again, this is not
some peripheral thing. I was just kind of scrolling
through different websites and apologist from the Roman
Catholic faith. And I found John O'Brien being
referred to as a reference and one of the arguments this is not
the same reference but it just goes to show that he still being
referred to Quote, you ready for this?
When the priest? Pronounces the tremendous words
of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens, brings Christ
down from his throne and places them upon are altered to be
offered up again as the victim for the sins of man.
It is a power greater than that of monarchs and Emperors.
It is greater than that, of saints, and Angels, greater than
that of seraphim and cherubim. Indeed it is Greater even than
the power of the Virgin Mary. For while the Blessed Virgin was
the human agency by which Christ became incarnate, a single time,
the priest brings Christ down from heaven and renders him
present on our altar as the Eternal victim for the sins of
men. Not once but a thousand times.
And quote. You almost got to take a few
breaths before you dissect this. Right?
It's jarring. It is jarring because according
to O'Brien, the priest is the one who has the authority by his
command to bring Jesus Christ, out of heaven and to be in our
midst. And so great is the office of
the priest. According to Old Brian, that his
authority, surpasses the prerogative 's that are uniquely
bestowed upon who we learn about.
Last week, the Virgin Mary, which is another startling thing
because of all the praise and the veneration in the worship.
That goes to her. It makes you wonder really,
there's something that actually challenges Mary.
The inconsistencies in a false system are not surprising.
And if you think about a deeper, what you have here is actually
an imitation, you have an imitation here of the levitical
priesthood so we believe what Christ did on the cross is
suffice has, right? It's finished.
But what you have with the levitical priesthood was what
you had priest. You had an altar, you had daily
sacrifices priest, alter daily sacrifices.
That is mirrored perfectly with Rome's version.
You have priests the front. There is not just a nice table
decorated, it's an altar, where sacrifices take place, There is
an altar and instead of goats, and instead of oxen you have
Christ being sacrificed. And this is not my
interpretation that's from his very same book on page, 262.
We believe that the sacrificial system of old points to a New
Covenant, with a greater sacrifice and a greater high
priest. But to Rome it foreshadows their
priesthood. And it gives them some kind of
License to justify their priesthood, their Altar and
they're sacrificing, not of animals, but of the son of God.
That's a whole different conversation, but let me
continue for my original quote going into page 271, okay?
If you thought, what I quoted to you was hard, get ready for
this? The priest speaks and low
Christ, the Eternal, and omnipotent God, boughs, his
head, and humble, obedience to the priest command.
Of what Sublime dignity is the office of the Christian priest?
Who is this privilege to act as the Ambassador and the
vicegerent of Christ on Earth. He continues the essential
Ministry of Christ. He teaches the faithful with the
authority of Christ. He pardons the penitent sinner
with the power of Christ. He offers up again the same
sacrifice of adoration and atonement, which Christ offered
on Calvary. No wonder that the name which
spiritual writers are. Especially fond of applying to
the Priestess called, is that of alter Christus?
For the priest is and should be another Christ.
Funny. I remember Jesus warning about
false Christ that would emerge in the last days.
Do you remember That people who claim the authority and the
power of Christ would be in our midst.
So, what you have in the system is not just a false
interpretation of communion. You have false Christ who are
offering it. Clergy you actually claim and
believe that they have the ability to pull Christ down from
heaven and to become elements that can be consumed by others.
Which results in what exactly think about it.
Think about the order of thought, think about the
implications, think about what can happen if you have Christ.
Actually literally being here in our very presence in close
proximity, then you have the Son of God in your midst and if you
have the Son of God in your midst, with people who love God
or their God, love their Jesus, then what does that invoke?
What does that provoque at least worship?
Christ is here. And if Christ is here, we're
going to worship Him. Worship God no worship the
sacrament. Because the sacrament is God
With Us. If you don't believe me, if you
think this is exaggeration, let me quote from Catholic answers.
And this is not an anxious in text.
This is modern apologist. Who clarify what they believe
quote, since Christ is present in the Eucharist, God is truly
present. This means that we give the
Blessed Sacrament the worship and adoration that we give to
God Alone. We see this especially in our
liturgies. When we kneel and genuflect only
before the Blessed Sacrament, these are postures that are due
to God and only to God as signs of adoration.
So what do you have here? You don't have the elements
before in which we give thanks to God for what he has done.
You have the worship of the actual elements because they're
no longer Bread and Wine. It's the body and blood of
Christ here with us. And how does that happen?
When a man was been ordained in. The priesthood makes the command
Christ. Humbles his head in obedience
that command and makes his way down.
This happens every single day all across how do they explain
it? Well, they say it's a miracle,
it's a miracle. Only the only the Holy Spirit
can make Christ, physically appear in thousands of thousands
of their churches or thousands, thousands of wherever they
celebrate this at the same time and it's just as real.
As you was here, 2,000 years ago.
Now here's what they say, the main reason Catholic answers for
so great, a confidence resides in the meaning of the Eucharist.
Jesus Christ is here on Earth again in the Eucharist just as
he was 2,000 years ago. He's not just present in memory,
he is not just spiritually present, he is on Earth, body,
and blood, soul, and divinity. But is that the only reason why
is that the only reason why Catholics believe that bread and
wine become the actual presence of Jesus Christ?
No, that's not the only reason why it's not so that they can
worship Him in closer. Proximity.
It's not so that they can have some euphoric, you know,
experience this mystical kind of thing.
It's more than that. Here's a simple question.
If Christ is being brought down, not just to make a show, not
just to make some kind of dramatic demonstration.
But if he is coming down as a sacrifice, the question is a
sacrifice for what? Which is the second Point
member. All of that was under the first
point, the point that the mass is the literal body, and blood
of Jesus Christ. It's the partaking of him
physically. Secondly, and lastly, the mass
is recognized. As an actual sacrifice.
Perhaps some here, you haven't heard that.
Maybe this is you hearing it again, but it's very important
to understand here. When Christ comes down in the
Eucharist, it's not so that he can be merely worship or doored.
It's so that a real sacrifice can take place.
That something can actually take place in your life as a result
of you participating. That sacrifice.
And you and I understand the Lord's table to be an act of
remembrance. We reflect on what he has done.
We even in some measure look forward to what will come to
pass when he does return and feast with us.
And we reflect as we enjoy, and we rehearse to one another of
his saving faith of his grace. That's what we do.
But Rome cannot accept the Simplicity of this to them.
It's much more. It's, there's something else
happening in mass and we have no intention to misrepresent them.
So, again, forgive me, I must read what they say and I hope
you understand what they're saying.
So this isn't their catechism. I did brought the book last
time, but you can look this up. This is recorded.
You can you can, you can look this up yourself.
It's free on a pdf online and number 1367 of the catechism of
the Catholic Church. Here's what it says the
sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are
one single sacrifice, very, very important, the Eucharist and
what happened on Calvary is one single sacrifice the victim.
Christ is a victim, right? The victim is one and the same,
the same. Now offers through the ministry
of priests who then offered himself on the cross only in a
manner of the offering is different and since in this
Divine sacrifice, which is celebrated in the mass, the same
Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner, on the altar
of the Cross is contained in his offered and an unbloody manner.
The sacrifice is truly propitiatory.
So, let's break that down. It's one sacrifice.
So, when the mass is taking place, this is an additional
sacrifices that are happening. The claim is what happened on
the cross. Through the mass is being
repeated again and again, and again and again, over and over
and over and over. And so what happened?
2,000 years ago, it's happening every single day by the power of
the priesthood commands Christ by to come down and for a
sacrifice to take place. Now what's the difference and
they highlight the difference, the only difference is 2000
years ago, it was a bloody sacrifice and what happens daily
is an unbloody sacrifice. What does that mean?
Here's what it means. The bloody sacrifice means that
we don't see the mass as what they saw that day when Jesus
Christ died. We don't see the the gruesome
bloody bruised, Jesus know. It's the same sacrifice, but
it's under the appearance of bread and wine.
It's unbloody same sacrifice though.
Just different appearance. And that's why a number 136 sis
of the catechism. We are told that the Eucharist
makes present, they use the word re present but then they they
clarify it represent, meaning that they make present, not
symbolically they make what happened, then is now happening
before your very eyes. I'm sure you can sense, the
troubling, realities of this. And it sounds strange, but it's
more than strange. It's blasphemous.
Blasphemy there's no other way to put it.
Call me what you want, kill me if you want.
I say it as it is, it's blasphemy.
And all you have to do is read the book of Hebrews to
understand and know how off this all is and ironically in the
theme of the book of Hebrews. What is the author doing by the
spirit? He is promoting crisis being so
much greater than the levitical system which includes their
priests and their sacrifices Christ is better.
Don't go back to it. He's better, don't go back to
it. He sufficient and know you know
the verses I'm sure there's so many of them I'm just going to
pull out a collection of to and I'm Going to read it.
I don't even need to expound upon it for it to absolutely
obliterate. What you just heard.
I'll turn with me in your Bibles.
I don't want to quote the catechism more than the Bible.
Hebrews 7:26. May this refresh your soul, may
this bless you, may the secure you met, this create a praise in
your heart. This afternoon, Hebrews 7:26 for
it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest,
wholly, innocent, unstained, separated, from Sinners, and
exalted above the heavens. He has no need like those High
priests who offer sacrifices daily first for his own sins.
And then, for those of the people since he did, This once
for all when he offered up himself once for all amen.
Indeed I'm glad you're awake this afternoon.
Hebrews 10 term with me, Hebrews 10:10.
What a lovely sound. And by that will we have been
Sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all I apologize. I said I want to comment on it
but I must buy that. We will have we have been past
tense we have been Sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus went every single day. When the priest commands it?
No, once for all verse 11 and every priest stands daily at his
service offering Repeatedly. The same sacrifices which can
never take away sins but when Christ had offered for all time,
a single sacrifice for sins. He sat down at the right hand of
God waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a
footstool for his feet. Hallelujah indeed.
Yes, amen. Now, can you confidently?
And honestly say that as you read these scriptures, can you
reconcile them with What the catechism teaches can you.
Can you truly? Look at these and say we need an
altar. And we need priests and we need
repeated sacrifices and the priest has the ability to pull
Christ now from Heaven, onto Earth again.
We are told here that he sat down at the right hand of God
waiting from that time until his enemies should be made his
footstool. Are these the same?
They're not. They're not the same.
Because it's a different version of the Lord's table.
It's a different Christ. It's a different gospel.
Whoa, brother, you got me saying, amen.
And Hallelujah, few moments ago, but I understand there's
differences brother but for you to make a claim that it's a
different gospel. That's a very, very serious
statement and I stand by it. I do stand by it.
Because, although it is one offering, you have to ask the
question. Why?
Why is it being offered again? Why is what Christ did 2000
years ago? Being re presented made present
over and over and over. I won't tell you, I'll let them
tell you from their own catechism, did you hear the
final words of 1367? This sacrifice is truly
propitiatory. It appeases it satisfies it
accomplishes something. What does it accomplish while in
paragraph number 1366, it's salutary power be applied to the
Forgiveness of the sins. We daily commit, That's not
clear enough. Let me read to you paragraph
1414. As sacrifice, the Eucharist is
also offered and reparation for the sins of the living.
Pay attention in reparation for the sins of the living and the
dead. And to obtain spiritual and
temporal benefits from God. You heard that, right?
So I'm not just approaching the mass to receive forgiveness for
my sins. Now, I can actually partake of
the mass on behalf of somebody who has died so that they can be
forgiven for their sins. Is this the Bible is this?
What Christ taught? You heard this correctly?
And forgive me because I'm going to give you a now, just and
bullet bullet fashion quotes, because I know where this is
going to go, and I want to be no mistakes.
In the 22nd session of the Council of Trent.
In the second chapter under that the title is the sacrifice of
the mass is propitiatory both for the living and the dead.
And I'm just going to read some of it.
Here's what it says for appeased, by the sacrifice, the
Lord, grants the grace and gift of penitence.
And pardons even for the gravest crimes and sins.
For the victim is one in the same.
Whenever they say, victim, they mean Jesus.
So in their view, Jesus is in Eternal victim.
Because he's continually being sacrificed.
For the victim is one in the same.
The same. Now offering by the ministry of
priests who then offered himself on the cross, the manor alone of
offering being different, the fruits of that Bloody sacrifice.
It is, Well, understood our received, most abundantly
through this unbloody one. The fruits of that.
Bloody sacrifice are applied and experienced in this unbloody
one. I received most abundantly
through this unbloody ones so far, it is the latter from
derogating anyway, from the former where.
For, according to the tradition of the Apostles.
This is where I want you to pay attention.
It is rightly offered, not only for the sins punishment,
satisfactions and other necessities of the faithful who
are living, but also for those departed in Christ, but are not
yet fully purified. So if you want to come to the
table and you know, loved one that claimed to believe in God
but didn't really live a Christian Life, didn't really
love God, where they go, they go to purgatory and so they're in
purgatory, there are being purged, and if you want to
accelerate that process, you can take the mass on their behalf
and it would be applied to them. And you want to be upset with
me. Here is the one of the Cannons
under that same session. The twenty second session of the
Council of Trent Cannon three. What does this mean for you?
I'm almost done here.
What does this mean? For those who don't believe
this, if you do believe this, I hope that you come to the truth
of the scriptures. If you don't believe this, What
does that mean for you? I'll tell you what they say.
If anyone says in Cannon, three of the second twenty second
session of the Council of Trent. If anyone says that the
sacrifice of the mass is only of praise and thanksgiving or that
it is a mere commemoration of the sacrifice consummated on the
cross, but not a propitiatory one or that it profits, him only
who receives and not be offered for the living and the dead for
sins, punishment, satisfactions, and other necessities.
Let him be anathema. Your excommunicated, you're not
part of the true church. You're not a real Christian if
you don't believe that this is more than just remembering.
If you don't believe that this is more than just a reason to
give, thanks to God. If you don't believe that, it
actually can forgive Sins, Not Just for the living but for the
dead, you are anathematized. You want to get angry at me?
You want to think I'm divisive? Here's the 13th session of the
Council of Trent Cannon one. If anyone denies that in the
sacrament of the most holy Eucharist are contained, truly
really, as substantially the body and blood together with the
soul and Divinity of our Lord. Jesus Christ and consequently
the whole Christ but says that he is only as in a sign.
If you believe that it's just the sign and you don't think
it's body, blood soul and Divinity of Christ here on Earth
if you don't believe that. If you only believe it's a sign
of figure or Force, let him be anathema.
So there's condemnation here, condemnation for those who don't
believe what is being taught by the system.
I can end it here but I don't want to end it with you being
condemned. I don't want to end up with you
leaving with that. I've quoted this verse many
times and I can't help it, so forgive me.
And when I was thinking about what's a way that we can end
this with a final exclamation mark, that would hopefully boost
your heart and rejoicing in the truth that you're in.
How can you move forward from Hebrews?
And maybe you have a more accurate way of ending this but
I can't think of anything else other than Hebrews 10:14. for
buying single Sacrifice by single offering, he has
perfected for all time, those who are being sanctified For by
single not, a repeated, not a nun.
Bloody Not by the authority of any priest.
Now, by Christ coming to this Earth again, and again and again
now by taking what he did 2000 years ago and Performing that
sacrifice again and again, for by single offering, We have been
made perfect. Amen.
I appreciate your applauses, this afternoon.
I appreciate your amens, I appreciate your attention.
I want us to pray and how I want us to pray.
I want you to join me in sincerity of your heart.
Maybe you have a Roman Catholic mother father, brother, sister
friend and maybe I'm sure you love them very much.
Maybe this Disturbed you because in my presentation, you are
thinking of them and you might have Associated what I'm saying
as an attack on people that, you know, and that you see who
supposedly love God and serve him.
And again I'm not pointing out. People I'm pointing out this
system and I'm fully aware that there are people who are in that
system, even priests who don't really know what they're doing,
who don't really know what the church teaches their Church
teaches. I want us to pray for our
family. This afternoon I this is not
just some lesson to provide shock value.
We want to hear this and then we want to bring our prayers to God
through the mediator Christ Jesus.
That God would give us an opportunity to share what we've
learned in the spirit of love. And that God would Open the Eyes
of those that we know and those that we don't even know to come
to the truth and to embrace the Simplicity of the Gospel.
Let's pray. And let's really Posh our hearts
seriously and attentively. Father, we are shaken.
Perhaps, we even feel a righteous indignation.
But again Lord we acknowledge in your presence.
We too were once lost. And we too have done and said
and maybe even believe things that are contrary to your word.
And so Lord, we do not sit on the high seat.
Of self-righteousness this afternoon.
If there's any anger, it is towards the evil one.
Who is deceived many? Who seeks to viciously veiled
the glory of Christ to minimize the sufficiency of the cross.
To make less of what you have already done.
And we thank you that your word is clear.
We thank you. That we are in the truth.
We pray for those who are not. We pray for those who might be
uneducated unaware and even worse who are aware but believe
what Rome has to say to be true. And for those who might not be a
part of the Roman Catholic church, but different
traditional churches that have very similar views of the
Eucharist. What have mercy on them?
Give us opportunity to speak kindly to them but without fear
of what is true. We pray that you would convict
those who are actively participating and something that
you do not approve of, we pray for those, even those who claim
to be Evangelical. Who don't see the differences,
who don't care to see the differences.
You don't see the significance of what participating in a
different table actually means. Lord, we are humbled.
We have much to think about but for now Lord we are humbled and
grateful for all that we heard all that was accessed.
Thank you, that we live in an age where these things can be
accessed. So freely and quickly.
Surely you are coming soon. Where your gospel is being
proclaimed to the nation's, At a rate that we've never seen
before. Lord, use us until you do come
help us, honor you and everything, the Lord's supper
and our baptism and are preaching in our daily lives,
help us honor you. And again, with all that, we
learn may not puff us up. May not make us.
Arrogant may not make us abusive or unnecessarily offensive.
Miss often us or may break us. Make me and make us more loving
and compassionate and yearning for people to be saved.
Lord, we say, Amen in a moment and we pray that you would
receive worship even through a heavy session like this may you
receive pure. Holy clean, faithful Worship in
Jesus name. Amen.
Amen, amen Saints, let's stand and Worship the Lord.