1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,280 or contact us at my libertybaptist.org or just look 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,760 us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,040 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,400 We're going back to look at Roman Catholicism. 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,720 We did an introduction last week about Roman Catholicism. 9 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:34,880 We went to Matthew chapter 16 and we saw where Jesus said upon 10 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,520 this rock I will build my church in the gates of hell shall not 11 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,440 prevail against it. We saw that the Catholic Church 12 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,480 takes that passage of Scripture and assigns that Peter was to 13 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:47,240 become the first Pope and the foundation of what is called the 14 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,400 Catholic Church, Catholic meaning universal, that it is 15 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,360 the Church, the gatekeeper of Jesus Christ, if you will. 16 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,440 And we looked at why that is not the case. 17 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,560 And we started to look at many of the doctrinal differences 18 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:03,560 that we have between ourselves as Bible believing Baptist and 19 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,200 the Catholic Church. And I will say once again, as I 20 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,480 said last week and I will today to your Catholic friends, it 21 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,080 might be shared this video that they're watching online or they 22 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:16,840 might listen on a podcast or whatever, that our desire is not 23 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:20,360 to mock or make fun of those who are adherence to the Catholic 24 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:22,520 faith. But it is to point out that the 25 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,240 Catholic faith is different from the faith that comes in the word 26 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,440 of God. That salvation is not found 27 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,880 gatekeep through a church that includes the Baptist Church. 28 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,680 It is found in one and one only, that is Jesus Christ. 29 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,320 Jesus Christ does not need the Catholic Church to provide 30 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:42,840 salvation. Mary and the Saints and all of 31 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,240 those others that we are going to look at today, those 32 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:47,600 doctrines not found in the Bible. 33 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,360 And we really, we brought everything down to this one fact 34 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,200 and this one fact alone last week that when you look at being 35 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,560 a Bible believing Baptist, we look at the word of God and we 36 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,160 say it's the word of God and the word of God alone. 37 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:00,720 Amen. If the word of God says it, we 38 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,840 believe it. If the word of God is silent, 39 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,880 then we do not try to add to what the word of God says. 40 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,120 However, the Catholic Church makes it very clear that it's 41 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,360 the word of God and, and you can add a lot of words after that, 42 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,760 can't you? It's the word of God and the 43 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,920 infallible words of the Pope when he speaks ex cathedra. 44 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:23,920 It is the word of God and dogma. It is the word of God and the 45 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:26,280 Catechism. And we looked at that last week. 46 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,480 And when it comes to adding anything to the word of God, 47 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,280 there's really no limit to what can be added. 48 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:36,080 It's just man's imagination. And so because of that, you see 49 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:40,200 in the Catholic Church doctrine changing rapidly over the years, 50 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,800 and even, we'll look at rheology here a little bit this morning, 51 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,680 the very worship of Mary. Catholics won't agree that they 52 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,520 worship Mary, but again, as we talked about last week, that if 53 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,280 something walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it is, 54 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,600 well, a duck. And there's a lot of teaching 55 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,440 that makes it come to the place that's very clear that whether 56 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,960 intentional or not, worship of Mary is part of the Catholic 57 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:01,800 Church. Where's that come from? 58 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,760 Does it come from the Bible? Well, no, because you can't find 59 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,680 that anywhere in Scripture, but you can't find it in the 60 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:09,840 Catechism. You can find it in the 61 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,960 proclamations of the Pope and because of that there's no limit 62 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,480 to really what can be taught. But when we are limited to what 63 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,600 the word of God says and we believe that we can really be 64 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:24,960 sure that we are on the solid rock and not on sinking sand. 65 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,880 And so this morning, as we're not going to have a main text 66 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,280 today, but we're going to look over several Catholic doctrines, 67 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,640 including the sacraments, and then give you Bible verses to 68 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:38,040 tell you why the Bible speaks about it in a different way than 69 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,240 the Catholic Church does. And so last week we saw that 70 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,960 Peter was not the first Pope. We saw that the claim of papal 71 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,200 authority is one that is not found in the word of God. 72 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,440 Really, the issue comes down to Scripture against Catholic 73 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,880 tradition. And then we took time to ask 74 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,920 ourselves, is salvation by faith or is it by faith and works? 75 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,240 And again, I understand the crowd that I'm speaking to this 76 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,480 morning. I understand that you are aware 77 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,000 of what the Bible says. But we looked at why the 78 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,840 Catholics would believe that it's about works and that 79 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,800 salvation is about those things. And again, perhaps the saddest 80 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,200 thing about all of that is that the Catholic Church does teach 81 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,399 that salvation comes through the sacraments, which means that it 82 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:21,519 does come by works. But even if someone was a 83 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:24,200 faithful Catholic their whole life, let's say that they were 84 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,400 baptized as a baby. Let's say they went through the 85 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:30,920 CCD confirmation that they had the marriage rights, which is 86 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,400 also a sacrament, that they are married in the Catholic Church, 87 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:38,240 that they have taken confession, that they even have the last 88 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,520 rights before they are to perish. 89 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,760 Let's say they're within the Catholic Church ecosystem for up 90 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,960 to 80 years, and you would have asked them on their deathbed 91 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,480 after they have received the last rites, do you know for sure 92 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:51,560 that you're going to go to heaven? 93 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,120 That their honest answer would have to be, I hope so. 94 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,360 Can you imagine? Now we have a hope and 95 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,520 salvation, the Bible says, but it's not a hope so salvation, 96 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:05,400 it's that we have a hope, the expectant anticipation of that 97 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,560 which Jesus Christ has done in our life. 98 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:11,320 We have hope in that, but we don't hope that well someday 99 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,360 we're going to make it. No, the Bible makes it very 100 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,080 clear that you can know go to first John. 101 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:16,600 Well, you don't have to go first John chapter 5. 102 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:18,320 The way I said it, you were, some of you were about to turn 103 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,880 to 1st John 5:00. But you can go to first John 5 104 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:22,920 and you can realize that you can know. 105 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:27,200 He that hath the Son hath life, and he hath not, the Son hath 106 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,200 not light. That's a very definite verse 107 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,640 that makes it clear you can know. 108 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:37,040 And so we left off with the differences between salvation in 109 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,080 the Catholic Church and Bible salvation. 110 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,480 And we'll pick up this morning with the doctrine of purgatory. 111 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,680 The doctrine of purgatory is the Catholic doctrine that those who 112 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:51,040 die in a state of grace, but with remaining punishment that 113 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:55,040 needs to be meted out. We'll go through purification in 114 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:56,920 this place, place called purgatory. 115 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,680 You know, you'll hear me preach and you'll hear a Bible 116 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:02,560 believing churches that there is heaven and hell. 117 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,440 And of course we understand that from the word of God. 118 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:07,960 However, there is this additional place that the 119 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,160 Catholic Church has invented, and I use that word 120 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,440 deliberately. They have invented called 121 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,760 purgatory, meaning you haven't quite made it to heaven yet and 122 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,200 you have to spend some time in purgatory to make sure that you 123 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,640 are going to be purified so that you can someday go to heaven. 124 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,800 This is why when you go to a Catholic funeral, as many of you 125 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,480 have as I have, when you go to a Catholic funeral, there are 126 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,640 still prayers being made on behalf of the person who has 127 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,640 passed because they are unsure that that person has made it to 128 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,320 heaven yet. The Catechism of the Catholic 129 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,240 Church teaches all who die in God's grace and friendship, but 130 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:48,280 still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal 131 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:53,680 salvation, but after death they undergo purification so as to 132 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,080 achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven. 133 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,320 Meaning this, the work that Christ started in you is still 134 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,120 not done. That's a dangerous teaching. 135 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:06,720 The work that Jesus Christ has started in you still is not 136 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,640 done, even after you have perished again. 137 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:14,240 The Catholic Catechism says indulgences are a remission of 138 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,520 temporal punishment due to sin granted by the Church. 139 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,920 This doctrine ended up funding the sale of indulgences that 140 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,840 provoked the Reformation. How many remember playing 141 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,240 Monopoly when you can, by the way, you want to ruin a family, 142 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:28,200 play Monopoly. Amen. 143 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:32,880 All right, but how many of you play remember play Monopoly and 144 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,200 you get one of those get out of jail free cards. 145 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,520 You know, that is a a really nice thing to be able to get, I 146 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,640 think from chance or community chest or one of those places. 147 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,080 I haven't played for a while because I love my family, but 148 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,560 you get one of those get out of jail free cards. 149 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:52,480 The Catholic Church were literally selling in the 1400s, 150 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,360 in the 1500s. Get out of jail free cards, you 151 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:57,440 say, Pastor, you're making that up. 152 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,480 No, that's what the indulgences were. 153 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:02,680 Do you want to make sure that you can get out of purgatory? 154 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,800 You want to make sure that you got the fast track a a Disney 155 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,440 fast pass, if you will, to cut through the line and get right 156 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,480 up to the front. How do you do that? 157 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,640 You need to pay an indulgence. Those indulgences funded many of 158 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,560 those beautiful cathedrals that you see in Europe. 159 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:22,080 Many of those were funded off the backs of people who were 160 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,880 paying their hard earned money to make sure they didn't spend 161 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:29,360 time in purgatory. It was an awful, awful teaching 162 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,440 that sparked the Protestant Reformation. 163 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:33,840 Again, I'm not saying that I agree with everything came out 164 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,799 of the Protestant Reformation. Some of those reformers were 165 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:41,679 very big persecutors of the Baptist, including Luther and 166 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:45,040 Zwingli and Calvin. However, I would say that 167 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:48,000 absolutely that they were correct in the fact that these 168 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,720 indulgences were evil and wicked, but yet it all goes 169 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,120 together with the teaching of purgatory. 170 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,880 Now where does purgatory come from other than the mind of 171 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,200 someone who is not reading the Bible? 172 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:03,240 And the answer is there are some verses in Second Maccabees say 173 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,880 pastor I I've read my Bible. I don't seem to remember Second 174 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,080 Maccabees in there at all. And the reason why is because 175 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,440 that's part of a group of spurious books called the 176 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,480 Apocrypha. There are many doctrines that 177 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,080 the Catholic Church teaches that we wouldn't find in the word of 178 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:23,240 God, but however are found in these non Canon books called the 179 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,880 Apocrypha. Second, Maccabees teaches of 180 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:31,000 this place called Purgatory and the Apocrypha has been rejected 181 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,560 as non canonical by Protestants by Jewish tradition. 182 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:39,040 It's very clear that they are riddled with errors compared to 183 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:43,680 the very perfect word of God. And the fact of the matter on 184 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:46,640 top of that is, is that the doctrine of purgatory was never 185 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,640 repeated in the New Testament, nor is even intonated by 186 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,840 anything that Jesus Christ said. Why? 187 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:56,520 Because there is no such place. Now what does the Bible say 188 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:57,240 about this? What? 189 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,200 We'll start with a verse that quote quite often, Hebrews 927. 190 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:06,000 It has been appointed unto men once to die, and after this the 191 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,920 judgment, the sequence death, then judgment, not death, then 192 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,920 purification, then judgment. That is quite clear. 193 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,160 Second Corinthians 58 We are confident, I say, and willing 194 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,880 rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the 195 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,240 Lord. A purgatory would make that 196 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,120 verse very unclear. If we're absent from the body 197 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,480 and present with the Lord, but we're in purgatory where the 198 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,280 Lord's presence is not compared to heaven, then how does that 199 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:35,600 work? It seems very clear that that is 200 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,040 contradicting the Word of God, the teachings of the Catholic 201 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:43,080 Church. Luke 2343 Verily I say unto 202 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,840 thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise. 203 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:47,920 If anyone should have been in purgatory, it should have been 204 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,200 the thief on the cross. What did he do? 205 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:54,640 Well, he recognized that Jesus was the Messiah in his dying 206 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,120 moments, but he also had said previously while he was on the 207 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,640 cross that they deserved to be on the cross. 208 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:04,280 He and the other thief acknowledging that he had sins 209 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:06,960 that he had never gone a confession for he'd never 210 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:10,080 received the last rites. He'd never had any type of 211 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:13,680 issues that had taken place. So if anyone should have gone to 212 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:16,680 a place called purgatory, it should have been the thief on 213 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:19,440 the cross. Yet Jesus made very clear, not 214 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:22,080 eventually you'll make it to me with paradise. 215 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:24,640 He said today thou shalt be with me in paradise. 216 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:26,280 And I think that's very, very important. 217 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:28,240 So that is the doctrine of purgatory. 218 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,360 We will reject the doctrine of purgatory out of hand as 219 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:36,080 unbiblical, but also click, click, we have Mary Ology, the 220 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,880 issue of Mariology. What is Mariology? 221 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,320 It's the Catholic doctrine that has developed through formal 222 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:47,480 dogmatic definitions, 2 of which are declared infallible by the 223 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:51,280 Pope and are required belief for all Catholics. 224 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,000 Let's start with the Immaculate Conception. 225 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,080 Now if you watch football, there was the Immaculate reception 226 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,680 that happened with the Pittsburgh Steelers some time 227 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:02,480 ago and you say was that have anything to do with it? 228 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:05,880 No, it's a take off on this term Immaculate Conception. 229 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:10,080 This was declared dogma in 1854. Now I find it interesting that a 230 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,680 lot of the teachings on Mary that the Catholic Church holds 231 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:17,280 to dearly today are actually really within the last 200 years 232 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,040 that they have really popped up in a very real way. 233 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,320 They don't go back deep into the history of the Catholic Church 234 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:24,760 like some of these other teachings have. 235 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,080 What is the Immaculate Conception teach? 236 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:31,840 Rome teaches that Mary was preserved from all stain of 237 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:36,320 original sin from the first moment of her conception, that 238 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:41,040 she was conceived in an Immaculate way and was without 239 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,440 sin and without original sin. Well, there's some problems with 240 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,120 this one. The teaching of the word of God 241 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:51,760 is this all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. 242 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,560 Now you don't have to be a Greek scholar to know that word all 243 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:59,520 means this all, that's it, all have sinned and come short of 244 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,880 the glory of God. Luke 147 And this really should 245 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,320 settle the debate right here and right there. 246 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:09,200 And my spirit, this is Mary, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God 247 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,640 my Savior. What did Mary recognize? 248 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,560 She needed a savior. If she was out sin, she would 249 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:20,280 not need a savior. Mary herself understood that she 250 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:25,360 which carried that child within her was carrying her own savior. 251 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:30,560 Not that she also was in some type of special category that 252 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:32,880 was somewhere similar to what Jesus was. 253 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:36,840 And this was a invented doctrine by the Catholic Church. 254 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,200 But further, they have proclaimed that Mary is a 255 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:45,600 Mediatrix and Co Redemptrix. Now think about this, that she 256 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:52,560 is a mediator and a Co Redeemer. Now there's you're going to hear 257 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:54,680 me say this a lot today. There's that, that there's a 258 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:57,120 problem with this because pretty much everything I'm presenting 259 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:58,640 you with this morning there's a problem with. 260 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:04,680 We have a mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. 261 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:12,280 We have a Redeemer who doesn't need any assistance in redeeming 262 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:16,560 us. Jesus is not a Co Redeemer along 263 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:20,520 with his mother Mary. No, He is the mediator and he is 264 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,720 the Redeemer. The Catholic catechism #969 Mary 265 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:30,000 is invoked under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, 266 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:34,920 and Mediatrix. Further First Timothy 2 verse 5 267 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,920 says, For there is one God as I just quoted, and one mediator 268 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,160 between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. 269 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:45,240 The word 1 is absolute. You cannot add another mediator 270 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:49,360 and say that he is a Co mediator with his mother Mary. 271 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:54,160 Hebrews 725 Wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost 272 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:58,600 that come unto God by him, seeing he liveth ever to make 273 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,240 intercession for them. Christ intercession is 274 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:06,000 continuing and complete. There is no need for Mary to 275 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:11,600 come alongside and to assist her son to be able to help in this 276 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,160 note that is not taught in the Bible. 277 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:16,880 In fact, it's taught very contrary in the word of God. 278 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,120 The last time the Pope spake ex cathedral. 279 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,920 And remember, I wanted to make clear last week because I do 280 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,960 want to make sure that I'm accurate in that which I'm 281 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:30,680 teaching and I'm not just giving you ideas that are false, even 282 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:32,680 though in our minds they might seem to be true. 283 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:37,080 The idea that every time the the Pope speaks that he speaks ex 284 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,760 cathedra, that's not the case. The Pope does not. 285 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,160 Every word that he says, every tweet he makes is not ex 286 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:44,880 cathedra. That is not Catholic doctrine. 287 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,560 I want to be clear about that. However, we do recognize that 288 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:53,120 the Pope can speak ex cathedra. And when he speaks ex cathedra, 289 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:56,200 he speaks on earth in the place of Christ. 290 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,680 Send a shiver down your spine to think that someone could say 291 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,880 that he is going to speak doctrine and he speaks in the 292 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,720 place of Jesus Christ as if Jesus Christ is standing right 293 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:08,600 here. He is not. 294 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:10,040 So the Pope is standing in his place. 295 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:14,640 That is abominable doctrine. But the last time the Pope did 296 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,280 speak ex cathedra was 76 years ago. 297 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:21,040 It was 1950, and that was the meriology doctrine of the 298 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:25,080 Assumption, meaning this, that Mary was bodily assumed into 299 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,640 heaven. She did not suffer physical 300 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:34,640 decay that she literally, like Elijah, like Enoch, was just 301 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,960 brought up into heaven and her body never decayed one bit. 302 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:43,280 Now why would that be important? Along with the teaching of the 303 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:47,080 Co Mediatrix and the and the Redemptrix and the teaching of 304 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,800 the Immaculate Conception? Because whether they like to say 305 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:54,520 it or not, they worship Mary. Now again, they would say they 306 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:56,640 venerate Mary. That's the word that the 307 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,320 Catholic Church will often use, that they hold her in very high 308 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,120 regard. Well, there's a lot of people I 309 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:04,440 hold in high regard, but I wouldn't assign to them the very 310 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,960 characteristics of Christ. And in the case of Mary, it's 311 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,560 not just holding her in high regard, it's that they are 312 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,400 assigning the characteristics of Christ to her. 313 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:15,160 I would say as a Bible believing Baptist, I hold Mary in high 314 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:16,680 regard. Why would I? 315 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,839 Well, because we find that when the proclamation was made that 316 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:23,240 she was held by the Lord in high regard, that's why she was 317 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,000 chosen for such a wonderful and beautiful task. 318 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:29,320 What task? That has only been performed 319 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,880 once and will only be performed once in world history. 320 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,280 But yet there's a difference between saying thou art highly 321 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:40,320 favored among women and saying thou art the mediator, thou art 322 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,400 the Redeemer. Thy body will not have 323 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,480 corruption. By the way, who does the Bible 324 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,640 talk about? That would be Jesus Christ, that 325 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:54,320 they continually try to add Mary into the worship of God, and it 326 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,600 is so far from what the word of God tells us. 327 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,400 Now here's another thing. This morning we talked about 328 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,400 purgatory. We talked about Mary Ology, but 329 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,240 I don't know if you heard about this, but the Catholic Church 330 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,040 has a few Saints. How many of you remember back 331 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:11,400 maybe you had some experience in the Catholic Church and you had 332 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:15,440 maybe a pendant or prayers that were offered to particular 333 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:17,440 Catholic Saints? There are different Catholic 334 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:22,960 Saints that are important to different issues at certain 335 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:25,280 jobs. Have Saints that patron Saints, 336 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:28,240 if you will, that will help you. If you've lost something, you're 337 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,480 supposed to pray to Saint Christopher, I believe it is, 338 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:32,520 and Saint Christopher will help you find what you lost. 339 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:34,600 Hopefully you didn't lose the pendant to Saint Christopher 340 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,240 because then you're in trouble because you're not going to be 341 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:37,760 able to find anything because now you lost it. 342 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:41,360 But the idea is that there's these patron Saints that you can 343 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:44,320 pray to and be able to have help to you. 344 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,040 But the question is, who are the Saints? 345 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:49,800 Who are these Saints? Well, again, we don't want to 346 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,360 look to Catholic tradition. We want to look to the Word of 347 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:54,640 God. And the interesting thing is the 348 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:58,800 Saints in the Word of God are actually seated amongst us here 349 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,240 today. You say, who is that? 350 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:03,840 Well, if you know Jesus Christ, you're a St. 351 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:06,840 We may not always act like Saints, Amen, but the fact of 352 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,040 the matter is, is that we are Saints. 353 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:12,280 This is what we are called to be in Scripture. 354 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,760 Every born again believer is a St. 355 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,520 Not a special tier of those who have been exceptionally 356 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,640 virtuous. Just a sampling. 357 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:25,360 Go to the beginning of any epistle and you'll get the very 358 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:28,840 clear answer of who the Saints are but a sampling Romans one 359 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:34,080 verse 7 to all that be in Rome, beloved of God called to be 360 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:36,600 Saints. First Corinthians one verse 2 361 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,640 unto the Church of God, which is at Corinth to them that are 362 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,000 sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be Saints. 363 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,360 Now consider this. Corinth was one of the most 364 00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:48,440 troubled churches that you'll find in the word of God. 365 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,240 I mean, we know that from Wednesday night, don't we? 366 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,680 All the messes that we have been uncovering for almost a year 367 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,040 going through the book of first Corinthians, but yet even Paul 368 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:01,000 assigned them the fact that they were called to be Saints, 369 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:05,520 Ephesians, one verse one to the Saints which are at Ephesus and 370 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:09,880 to the faithful in Christ Jesus. First Peter 2, verse 9, you're a 371 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:14,640 chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a 372 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,640 peculiar people. Every believer belongs to this 373 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:22,840 priesthood, this royal priesthood, the Catholic process 374 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,840 of canonization. Declaring certain deceased 375 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:30,120 individuals to be Saints through ecclesiastical process requiring 376 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:32,920 verified miracles has no basis in Scripture. 377 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:38,040 The fact is, is that for someone to become a St. the Church has 378 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,200 to recognize that they are blessed above others. 379 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,840 Then there has to be two miracles that have been assigned 380 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:49,880 to that person and then they can be called a St. and canonized if 381 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,120 you will, in the Catholic Church as a St. 382 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,480 Recent Saints over the past few years would be Mother Teresa. 383 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,560 Many of us of a certain age remember Mother Teresa and her 384 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:02,040 work in Calcutta, India. But since her death, she is now 385 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:08,680 Saint Mary. She, she has been, has been 386 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:09,920 sainted. I'm thinking there's a church 387 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,880 that I just passed, not recently in Pawtucket that has been named 388 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,840 for her and for her work. And she is now a St. 389 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,840 There's a St. believe it or not. And, and I, I promise you that 390 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,120 I'm not saying this to be funny. I'm saying, not saying this to 391 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:28,280 be cute, but there is literally over the last few years, a Saint 392 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:33,640 of the Internet is a 15 year old boy who passed away of leukemia, 393 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,520 who has been canonized as a Saint of the Internet. 394 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,720 Now you ask, your name is Carlos Acutis. 395 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,960 And if you're like me, you're thinking, well, what miracles 396 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,320 did this 15 year old boy do before he passed? 397 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,760 Because I just have of the curious nature to try to figure 398 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,040 out, well, what is it that they would have assigned that he had 399 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,360 done? And this is where again, the 400 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:57,760 Catholic Church plays by their own rules. 401 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:59,640 They're making them up as they go along. 402 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,840 What miracles did he do in this life? 403 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,960 None. What happened was, is that after 404 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:11,200 his death, there were Catholics who prayed for miracles and 405 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,520 prayed specifically to Carlos Acutis, this 15 year old who 406 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,360 tragically passed away from leukemia. 407 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,600 And they believe they received that which they prayed for. 408 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,560 And those two people's miracles were assigned to him because 409 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:27,960 they were praying to him to receive the miracles. 410 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,640 Thus, St. Carlos Acutis, a 50 year old boy 411 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:35,760 who died just in the last, I believe 15 years, is now the 412 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:41,160 patron St. of the Internet. It's just a highlight of how 413 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:46,480 absolutely again the the Catholic Church just plays by 414 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,440 their own rules because they are not tethered to the scripture. 415 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:54,360 Prayer is offered to the Saints Rome teaches. 416 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:57,400 I just mentioned that Saints in heaven may be asked to intercede 417 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,680 for the living. The Catholic Catechism, 2683. 418 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,680 Those who now behold the face of God may pray on behalf of those 419 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,520 still on the earth. Let me run that by one more 420 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,200 time. Those who now behold the face of 421 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,240 God may pray on behalf of those still on the earth. 422 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,880 If you need help in praying, you pray to the Saints and the 423 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:23,600 Saints will pray on your behalf. Now obviously the Scriptures 424 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,320 make it clear again this is not the case, that we don't need 425 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,840 another mediator. We don't need another 426 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,040 intercessor. That doesn't matter if it's Mary 427 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,440 or if it's Mother Teresa or whoever. 428 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,600 It may be that we only need one mediator between God and man. 429 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:42,120 Again, the man Christ Jesus. Hebrews 416 Let us therefore 430 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:45,640 come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy 431 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:47,960 and find grace to help in time of need. 432 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:51,680 Every believer may come to God directly and boldly. 433 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:56,160 No St. is ever placed between the believer and the throne room 434 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,880 of God. That there is no go between 435 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,280 between ourselves and the Father. 436 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,360 What does the Bible teach? The Bible teaches we pray in the 437 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,960 in the name of the Son, our prayers directed to the Father, 438 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:11,600 and through the power of the Holy Ghost, that all three parts 439 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,080 of the Trinity are actively involved in prayer. 440 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:18,280 Never do we find that there is Mary or any other St. that is 441 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,920 involved with the prayer of God's children. 442 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,240 Matthew 6 verse 9 after this manner. 443 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,120 Therefore pray he our Father, which art in heaven. 444 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,440 Now we don't call this the Lord's Prayer. 445 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,400 If you call the Lord's Prayer, certainly that's fine. 446 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,440 I don't think it's wrong to. But I prefer here at Liberty 447 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,120 Baptist Church, as others do, to call it the model prayer. 448 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,800 Why? Maybe you've wondered, you're 449 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,520 new here and you've wondered why don't we say the Lord's Prayer 450 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,640 around Liberty? Because if you grew up like me, 451 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,000 we said the Lord's Prayer every service. 452 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,560 And we kind of said it like robots, to be honest with you, 453 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,560 our Father who art in heaven, because you just got so used to 454 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:53,280 being able to say it. But I could tell you, I could 455 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,840 recite it like that because I had 16 years just about of 456 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,760 reciting it every Sunday in the Lutheran Church. 457 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,120 But maybe you say, why don't we recite that? 458 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:05,160 Well, the answer is we call it the model prayer because Jesus 459 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,880 was not saying that we should recite it every time we can. 460 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:12,160 In fact, Jesus just in the previous verses condemns vain 461 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,680 repetitions of saying the same thing over and over and over 462 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,200 again with emptiness. But rather it gives us all the 463 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:23,680 components of prayer you find in that in worship and adoration 464 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,200 and confession. All of this is found and more in 465 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,720 the model prayer. But nowhere in that model prayer 466 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,040 do we see that we're to pray to the Saints. 467 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,480 You say, well pastor, that was something that came later. 468 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,400 Well, then, where do we find it in the Bible? 469 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,680 Of course the answer is the Bible doesn't teach that. 470 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,800 It comes through Catholic doctrine later. 471 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,360 Interestingly enough, Deuteronomy 18, verses 10 and 11 472 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:51,200 forbids consulting the dead. Isaiah verse 8 chapter 8, verse 473 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,640 19 says should not a people seek unto their God for the living to 474 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,480 the dead? What the Catholic Church is 475 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:03,000 actually asking people to do is to consult the dead to be able 476 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,800 to speak to a living God. This is condemned in the Old 477 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,880 Testament and it is never told that this is something we should 478 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,920 do in the New Testament. In fact quite opposite, we have 479 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:16,080 a living high priest whoever lives to make intercession for 480 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,680 us. There is no vacancy requiring 481 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,760 another intercessor. Next I want us to look at papal 482 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,440 infallibility. Papal infallibility. 483 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,480 What does Rome teach about the Pope being infallible? 484 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:34,200 The Catholic Catechism 882 The Pope has full supreme and 485 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,560 universal power over the whole church. 486 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,520 And when I look in the Catholic Catechism, that word Church is a 487 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,920 capital C, as it often is. Meaning this the one church that 488 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:48,480 the Pope is the supreme universal power over what they 489 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:53,720 would call the true Church. 891 Catholic catechism when speaking 490 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,320 ex cathedral on matters of faith and morals, the Pope enjoys 491 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,920 infallibility. This was declared dogma at the 492 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:04,120 first Vatican council in 1870 and has never been reversed. 493 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:08,720 What does scripture teach? Nowhere in scripture do we find 494 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:13,280 any office of supreme infallible human authority over the whole 495 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,800 church never is found. Has God placed pastors within 496 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:17,800 the church? Yes. 497 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:22,920 Did Paul tell Titus to go and set the elders in place at the 498 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,120 Isle of Crete to make sure that churches were set in order and 499 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:27,600 that there was leadership? Yes. 500 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,120 Do we find in Acts chapter 6 that there were deacons, table 501 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:34,680 servers if you will, that assisted with the apostles in 502 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,480 the leadership because there was more work to be done than the 503 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,640 apostles could do and they wanted to be able to give 504 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,040 themselves to the Word of God and prayer? 505 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,280 Yes, absolutely. But nowhere in any of those 506 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,720 offices do you find any claim of infallibility. 507 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,680 In fact, quite the opposite. What do you find? 508 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,080 You find that while there are some standards that need to be 509 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,080 held to an elder to make sure that you are not railing against 510 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,840 an elder or bringing false accusations against an elder, a 511 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,400 pastor of a church. That does not mean that a pastor 512 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,960 should not be able to have his feet held to the fire or to be 513 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:12,040 able to make sure that a pastor is asked questions or that he is 514 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,200 infallible. That a pastor cannot just stand 515 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,600 up in a pulpit and slap his hand on his Bible and say, I'm the 516 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,760 man of God and you'll do what I tell you to do. 517 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,520 By the way, sometimes there's a problem with that in Baptist 518 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,720 churches that we have to be careful of. 519 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,480 Why? Because I am not above any of 520 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,160 those things. No, rather, I have to live under 521 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,040 the same commandments of the Word of God that you all do Why? 522 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:40,080 Because we're all fallen creatures that need the help of 523 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,600 Jesus Christ to overcome the sinful flesh every day to put in 524 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,040 practice the victory that Christ has already reserved for us 525 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,560 through the cross. And so yes, there's no 526 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,320 infallibility here, but yet the the the the Catholic Church 527 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,520 rather has made the Pope infallible. 528 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,640 Acts 17 verse 11, the Berean searched the scriptures whether 529 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,360 those things would be so I love that verse. 530 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,280 And one of the reasons why is because who are they searching 531 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,280 the scriptures to Fact Check, if you will. 532 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,200 I don't have a lot of regard for fact checkers today. 533 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,280 I love those fact checkers need to be fact checked. 534 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,720 That's why I always wonder who's fact checking the fact checkers, 535 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,080 right? But the Bereans were fact 536 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,440 checkers and they were going through the scriptures. 537 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,640 Who were they fact checking, quote UN quote, Paul. 538 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,760 If Paul would say you know it's OK to be able to be fact 539 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,960 checked, well then who is the Pope? 540 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,280 Who or any of us that we are not above the word of God. 541 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,800 But yet when the Pope thinks he speaks the word of God just it 542 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,840 comes out of his mouth. Of course he would think that he 543 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,280 is above all those things. It's a dangerous, dangerous 544 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,360 teaching. Galatians 211. 545 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,040 We talked about this recently, but when Peter was come to 546 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,160 Antioch, I was stood him to the face because he was to be 547 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,640 blamed. Remember that whole issue where 548 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,240 Peter was eating with the Gentiles? 549 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,320 But then when the group of Jews came in, he all of a sudden 550 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,000 became embarrassed and moved away from the Gentiles and sat 551 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,960 down with the Jews. And Barnabas got caught up in 552 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:02,200 all this. And Paul, who in many ways was 553 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,680 the apostle, the Gentiles went up to him and rebuked him. 554 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,400 And someone should have took, took Paul to the side, say, hey, 555 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,320 don't do that, he's the Pope. Get what I'm saying? 556 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,680 No, no one did that. Why? 557 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:19,080 Well, because Paul and Peter and anyone else is not above rebuke 558 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:23,360 when it comes to not being in alignment with the word of God. 559 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,440 No infallibility whatsoever. And just as I mentioned, elders 560 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,120 and bishops were appointed in the New Testament pastors. 561 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,600 First Timothy 3, Titus chapter 1 gives us the requirements for 562 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,800 them. But yet none hold universal 563 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,880 jurisdiction or infallibility. That is not the case. 564 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,200 Very quickly I want to give you the seven sacraments and then 565 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,480 give you some closing thoughts about this as well. 566 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,200 What are the seven sacraments that Rome teaches? 567 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,600 There are 7 sacraments, each instituted by Christ, each 568 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,840 necessary in some form of the Christian life. 569 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:59,400 The Catholic Catechism 11/29 states the sacraments of the New 570 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,760 Covenant are necessary for salvation. 571 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,960 Salvation comes through the sacraments. 572 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,960 The sacraments are the vehicle of which God's grace is given to 573 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,120 ma'am. This teaching makes sacraments 574 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,440 the channels of grace that the Church controls and administers. 575 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,600 And here's the issue. Where do you get the sacraments? 576 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:18,880 You have to get them through the Catholic Church. 577 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,480 And that's why excommunication was such a difficult thing. 578 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,520 It was used in power in the in the Middle Ages against kings. 579 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,400 Why was that? When a nation was interdict, 580 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,160 what did that mean? Well, that meant that the 581 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,880 Catholic Church would no longer give the sacraments to anybody 582 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,720 that was in that Kingdom until the king came and bowed to the 583 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,840 Pope, meaning this. No one could be saved because no 584 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,000 one was receiving the sacraments. 585 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:47,080 Could you imagine that type of power being wielded by these 586 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,920 men, these evil men? But this is what we see here. 587 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,120 So what are these sacraments? First would be baptism. 588 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,480 And I will say that if you come from a Protestant background, as 589 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,600 I did, there were not 7 sacraments, but there were two 590 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,400 sacraments, these vehicles of grace. 591 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,240 And the Protestants would also say that baptism is one of those 592 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,800 vehicles of grace. And as a reminder, we as 593 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,120 Baptists are not Protestants because we have never associated 594 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,640 with Rome through history. We've not protested anything. 595 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,000 We have always been separate and typically have been persecuted 596 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,160 by both Protestants and Catholics. 597 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,320 Rome teaches that baptism removes original sin and 598 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,520 initiates justification. Catholic catechism, 1263. 599 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:31,560 By baptism, all sins are forgiven original sin and all 600 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,840 personal sins. But yet Scripture teaches the 601 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,920 baptism is outward sign of what has already happened inwardly 602 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,880 within a believer. We took a lot of time a couple 603 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:42,760 weeks ago on Sunday morning to look at this. 604 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,520 I won't spend much time on it because we preached on it when 605 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,280 we had the baptisms a few weeks ago, but yet we would 606 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,800 understand. Romans chapter 6 makes clear, as 607 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,960 well as every passage that deals with baptism. 608 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,360 The order is always the same. They are saved, then they are 609 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,240 baptized. Interestingly enough, a couple 610 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,840 weeks ago I put up a video clip from that sermon about being 611 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,520 saved and baptized. I put it on our social media and 612 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,400 I don't remember of all the times that this was on YouTube 613 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,800 actually, that we've had a lot of comments on those video 614 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:12,600 clips. But all of a sudden people came 615 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,960 out of the woodwork and said that's not what the Bible says. 616 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,120 And I thought, how could you not say that's what the Bible says 617 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,240 unless you are part of the Catholic Church, which doesn't 618 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,680 want you to read your Bible because it's very clear. 619 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,560 Book of Acts, the Gospels, they were saved, they were baptized, 620 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,760 not the other way around. The second is confirmation. 621 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:34,200 Now you might know it by the letters CCDCCD. 622 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:38,160 The confirmation class is part of the sacraments. 623 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:39,640 Now. As a Lutheran, I went through 624 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,880 confirmation as well. It's not considered a sacrament, 625 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,040 however, it is a sacrament for the Catholic Church. 626 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,080 Rome teaches that the confirmation completes baptismal 627 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,840 grace and seals the recipient with the Holy Spirit. 628 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,480 It is administered by a Bishop and considered a distinct 629 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,800 separate sacrament from baptism. But yet Scripture presents the 630 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,360 gift of the Holy Spirit as received the moment that faith 631 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:04,040 comes into the heart of the believer, not through a right 632 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,080 administered years later by some sort of ecclesia biastical 633 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,920 authority. That is abundantly clear. 634 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,520 Again, throughout Scripture there is the Eucharist. 635 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,360 What is the Eucharist? The Mass. 636 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,280 It is not the same as the Lord's Supper. 637 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:22,120 Now again, Protestants will teach that the Lord's Supper is 638 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:27,440 one of the sacraments. As a Lutheran, we believe in 639 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:32,560 consubstantiation, which means that the bread and the wine were 640 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,080 still present. However, the blood of Christ and 641 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,800 the body of Christ we're also mystically, that's the term they 642 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,239 use mixed together to be able to have the Lord's Supper. 643 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,400 But the Catholic Church believes in what is called 644 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,000 transubstantiation. That means that as soon as the 645 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,719 priest gets up and makes his pronouncement over the bread and 646 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,960 over the wine, the bread and wine cease to exist. 647 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:59,760 They are no longer apart, and the host is now completely body 648 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,160 and blood. Again, this is not taught in the 649 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,000 Word of God. The Mass doesn't represent, but 650 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,080 rather it represents. This is important. 651 00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:12,680 It doesn't just represent, it represents the sacrifice of the 652 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,880 cross. Literally every time the Mass is 653 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:20,880 offered, Christ is a fresh crucified afresh over and over 654 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,760 again. But yet Hebrews 925 to 28 655 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,200 chapter 10 verse 10 through 14 are unambiguous. 656 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:32,120 Christ was offered once 1 sacrifice for sins forever and 657 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,880 then sat down. What did Jesus say in John 1930? 658 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,720 It is finished that it does not have to be a continuous 659 00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:40,520 sacrifice. And that's one of the reasons 660 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,680 why, brethren, why we don't have Jesus on the cross here today. 661 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:46,880 Why is that as it is in many Catholic churches? 662 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,840 Because to them the sacrifices continually, it's a fresh, but 663 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,680 for us the cross is empty. Why? 664 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,600 Because the work has been complete. 665 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,360 That's a symbol that is important for us to be able to 666 00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,960 understand very quickly. There is penance, there's 667 00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:01,960 confession. I will tell you, you should be 668 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,280 glad that you don't have to make confession to me. 669 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,800 And I will tell you, I am even more glad I don't have to hear 670 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:07,720 your confession. Amen. 671 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,960 There is someone that you have to go to confess to, and that is 672 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:12,640 the Lord. Now I will pray for you. 673 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,400 If you have struggles in your spiritual life, I'm glad to hear 674 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:16,240 them. I'm glad to help. 675 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,840 I will pray with you, but there is nothing within me that can 676 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,280 say I will forgive you of your sins and those priests will 677 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,720 forgive your sins in the place of Christ. 678 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,240 As a Lutheran, we did something similar. 679 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,600 It was not a priest that we had, it was a pastor. 680 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,560 But we would get up and read from the liturgy that was inside 681 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,640 of our hymnal. And then we would have a time of 682 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,560 silence where you would silently confess your sins before the 683 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,800 Lord as your standing. And the pastor would get up and 684 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,280 he would say, I in the name of Christ forgive you of your sins 685 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,920 against such a dangerous and blasphemous doctrine. 686 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:51,040 For anyone to say that they stand in the the place of 687 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:52,920 Christ. I am your pastor. 688 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,560 I thank the Lord that God has put me in that office. 689 00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,920 I do not stand in the place of Christ, Christ is Christ. 690 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,480 I am not there is leadership that God has placed. 691 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,320 Again, I am not the chief shepherd of Liberty Baptist 692 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,320 Church. I am the under shepherd if you 693 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:08,880 will. I work under the chief shepherd. 694 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,160 I do what he says to do in this word. 695 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,000 When I deviate from him, guess what? 696 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,480 Then I've gone off the reservation and then I have to 697 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,480 be held accountable for my actions. 698 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,040 Not that I can decide what I want to do, and nobody can say 699 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,480 otherwise, but penance is confession. 700 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,840 Catholic Catechism 1446 The sacrament of penance offers 701 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,400 those who have fallen into grave sin a new possibility to recover 702 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,720 the grace of justification. 1456 Confession to a priest is an 703 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:39,480 essential part of the sacrament. But yet first John 19 is, I 704 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,440 quote very often. If we confess our sin, he is 705 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,120 faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all 706 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,720 unrighteousness, who is he? That's Jesus Christ. 707 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,760 You don't have to wait to go to a priest. 708 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,800 You don't have to come to me, you go right to Jesus Christ. 709 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,120 This is so important. As we already said, there's one 710 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:59,120 mediator between God and man #5 very quickly is the anointing of 711 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,400 the sick. It is the last rites Rome 712 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,000 teaches of the sacrament. Sacrament confers grace, 713 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000 forgive, SIM, strengthens the soul. 714 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,280 The seriously ill and dying, Catholic catechism, 1527. 715 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,800 It completes our conformity to the death and resurrection of 716 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,240 Christ. They go to James chapter 5 where 717 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:17,720 it talks about the prayer for the sick. 718 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:19,920 We don't have time to turn there right now, but if you look at 719 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,240 James chapter 5, it's not in reference to anything that would 720 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:25,720 be considered the last rites. It's our responsibility as a 721 00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:28,280 church to pray for one another when someone is gravely ill. 722 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,520 You know, here at Liberty Baptist Church, it talks about 723 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,600 in James about the anointing of oil, those who are sick. 724 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,840 There have been times in the past that we have anointed with 725 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:40,400 oil those who have been sick and prayed as the men of the church, 726 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,440 as the Bible says, to pray for this person. 727 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,280 You say, pastor. I feel like that's kind of 728 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:45,760 weird. Well, we're just doing what the 729 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,440 Bible says. That's all it is. 730 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,280 We don't take more. We don't take less. 731 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,280 That's what we do. But at the same time, there's a 732 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,960 big difference between that and the actual last rites. 733 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,960 And as I mentioned before, I've met people at the hospital and 734 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:02,440 sometimes they're scared or family members are scared when I 735 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,680 show up because they're afraid. I've come to do the last rites. 736 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,000 I'm just here to pray for you. I'm not, I'm not here to do 737 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,280 anything else other than just tell you we love you and the 738 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,240 Jesus loves you. More important than that, Number 739 00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:13,560 six, the sacrament of holy orders. 740 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,320 Those are for priests. Those are for deacons or 741 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,160 bishops. It's their ordination, if you 742 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,240 will. And then seven is holy 743 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:24,040 matrimony. And matrimony is what Rome 744 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,320 teaches between two baptized persons. 745 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,240 It's a sacrament that confers grace and mirrors the union of 746 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:32,520 Christ and the Church. And does marriage mirror the 747 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,600 union of Christ and the believer? 748 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,160 It does. However, we would say that that 749 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,640 doesn't mean that it is a sacrament, that it confers the 750 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,400 grace of salvation. Again, nowhere in the Word of 751 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,360 God teaches that that is the case. 752 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,720 Now, what is the common thread of all these things? 753 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,160 It is this that if you want salvation, you have to get it 754 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:56,320 through the gatekeeper, and the gatekeeper is the universal 755 00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,240 Catholic Church, that it cannot be found anywhere else. 756 00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:02,560 Now again, I say this not to be unkind. 757 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:03,680 I say this not to be uncharitable. 758 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,440 My prayer, as it has been over the last couple weeks, there 759 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,360 will be some who have been part of the Catholic Church, will end 760 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,000 up watching this that aren't here today. 761 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,040 And that they will come to understand that there are 762 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,440 teachings that they have been given that are nowhere found in 763 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,880 this word of God, but that they can find salvation not through a 764 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,680 church, but through Christ. That's where salvation is found 765 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,800 and that includes the Baptist Church. 766 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,760 That is not by coming a Baptist that you are saved. 767 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,360 This is not well, they're the Catholics and we're the Baptist 768 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,480 and we're better than them. So no, no, it's about this. 769 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,160 You know what's better than everything Jesus Christ that we 770 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,800 are going to go to him and it's just our job as Baptist to 771 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,480 proclaim this book about Jesus Christ and nothing more. 772 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:46,120 Not us and any other doctrine. I'll leave you with this. 773 00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:50,000 We'll look at, we'll start to finish up our series next week 774 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,680 with a week or two on the series on the New Age movement. 775 00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:56,400 But I will leave you with this, the question I receive the most 776 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,440 as a pastor and I want to help you with this because you might 777 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,440 receive this a lot yourself. They someone knows that you come 778 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,560 to a Baptist Church, they ask you this, what's the difference 779 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:05,960 between a Baptist and a Catholic? 780 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:07,520 Anybody ever been asked that before? 781 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:08,840 Probably quite a few of you, right? 782 00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,200 I remember having a ride along as I was working on becoming a 783 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,320 police chaplain, which never did pan out here in Easton for 784 00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,200 whatever reason. But I remember having a ride 785 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:23,040 along with a Sergeant who lived here since retired and moved to 786 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,280 North Carolina. And I was with him for about 10 787 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,160 hours in the squad car. You know, you got to talk about 788 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,200 a lot of stuff for 10 hours when you're together to be able to 789 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,960 ride along to make things work. We were together for 10 hours. 790 00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,600 And really I wanted to minister to him and be able to, you know, 791 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,680 do what I can. But but in a in a chaplaincy 792 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,200 position, you kind of just have to let people talk to you as as 793 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:46,640 they feel comfortable. So we just had conversation and 794 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,160 told him a little bit about the church here there been with him 795 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,400 about 10 hours. We pulled into the parking lot 796 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:53,320 of the police station. He says, you know, I got a 797 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,080 question for you. He said, what's the difference 798 00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:59,400 between Baptists and Catholics? I thought we had 10 hours for 799 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,600 you to ask that question. And I'm pulling into the parking 800 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:07,240 lot now you're going to ask. And my answer was this, as quick 801 00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:11,200 as concisely I be. As Baptists, we believe that the 802 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,560 Bible alone is what we follow in faith and practice. 803 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,040 And that guides what we believe. As in the Catholic Church 804 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,360 believes by their own admission that it's the Bible and the 805 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:26,600 Catechism and the Pope and the dogmas and the Church fathers 806 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,480 and the encyclicals. And we could say this without 807 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,840 being ugly. We could say this without being 808 00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:35,080 indecent to people. I know some wonderful, wonderful 809 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,080 people that have been part of the Catholic Church. 810 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,240 They are wonderful people, loving people. 811 00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,560 It's not my desire to try to offend them or hurt them at all. 812 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,080 I do have to teach the truth of God's word. 813 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:49,360 And the truth of God's Word is it's all about the Word, that 814 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,240 it's not the word. And like salvation, when you add 815 00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:54,440 to salvation, you get yourself into trouble, don't you? 816 00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:56,880 Because you can't add to salvation, but you can't add to 817 00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,920 the word of God either. In fact, you get to the end of 818 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,440 the Book of Revelation, and it seems like God has a pretty dim 819 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,160 view of adding or subtracting from God's Word. 820 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,000 In fact, there's some condemnations that's put in 821 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,920 place. So as you minister to your 822 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:12,800 Catholic friends, love on them. Don't be rude, don't be crude, 823 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,800 don't don't don't mock or make fun. 824 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:19,120 Just show them the love of Christ through the Christ of the 825 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:23,760 Bible and that salvation can be found in Christ alone, in His 826 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:27,080 Word alone. Thank you for listening to the 827 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,680 sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church. 828 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,280 If this message was a blessing to you, or if there's any way we 829 00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,440 can serve you, please let us know by contacting us at 830 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:41,320 info@mylibertybaptist.org. Or you can visit us this Sunday 831 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:45,240 at 800 Washington St. in Easton, MA. 832 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,280 May the Lord bless you as you grow in His Word.