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00:38 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:41 I'm Chris Shelton, your host, 00:42 I wanna thank you for joining us. 00:45 Our message for today is entitled 00:47 "Upon This Rock I Will Build My Church." 00:50 This title is taken directly from Matthew 16:18, 00:55 which is a passage 00:57 that has confused thousands of well meaning believers 01:00 over the centuries. 01:01 Let's read this passage together. 01:04 "And I say also unto thee, thou art Peter, 01:07 and upon this rock I will build my church, 01:11 and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." 01:14 You know, several weeks ago, 01:15 Pastor Kenny had given a message 01:17 that was entitled "Was Peter The First Pope?" 01:20 which initially should have addressed this question 01:23 we are about to embark upon today. 01:26 However, Pastor ran out of time during the message 01:28 to fully cover whether or not Peter was the first pope. 01:33 Therefore, today, 01:34 we are going to take another look 01:36 at this important question 01:38 and centuries of controversies over 01:41 who Christ meant 01:42 that He was going build His church upon. 01:45 A church that this passage clearly states, 01:48 that "the gates of hell will not prevail against it." 01:51 Clarity is needed, friends, clarity upon this question, 01:55 because millions of people 01:57 have misinterpreted this passage 01:59 over the centuries. 02:00 And this misinterpretation 02:02 has led them to accept other traditions 02:05 as the gospel of truth 02:07 and join a church 02:08 that is not founded solidly upon the rock 02:12 that this passage is referring to. 02:15 You know, I truly believe 02:17 that who this rock is 02:19 and who Christ's true church has been built upon 02:23 will become clear today 02:24 as we study together with Pastor Kenny Shelton 02:28 this message that is entitled once again, 02:30 upon this rock I will build my church. 02:33 But first let's... 02:35 We're going to be blessed to go to 3ABN 02:37 and listen to a song that is entitled, 02:39 "I bowed my knees" 02:41 as sung by Ashley Sabol. 02:58 I dreamed Of a city called Glory 03:11 So bright and so fair 03:21 When I entered that gates 03:25 I cried, "Holy" 03:32 The angels all met me there 03:41 They carried me From mansion to mansion 03:51 And oh the sights I saw 04:01 But I said, 04:03 "I want to see Jesus 04:10 The One who died for all" 04:20 Then I bowed on my knees And cried 04:26 "Holy, O Holy 04:30 He is O Holy He is 04:37 My God is Holy" 04:39 I clapped my hands And sang,"Glory" 04:49 And I sang, "Glory to the Son of God" 04:59 And I sang, "Glory to the Son of God" 05:09 And as I entered the gates Of that city 05:19 My loved ones they knew me well 05:28 They took me down The streets of Heaven 05:37 O the scenes too many to tell 05:46 I saw Abraham, 05:54 Jacob and Isaac 06:03 Spoke with Mark and Timothy 06:15 But I said, 06:19 Timothy 06:21 I want to see Jesus 06:28 'Cause He's the One Who died for me 06:39 Then I bowed on my knees And cried 06:45 "Holy, O Holy 06:49 He is O Holy He is 06:56 My God is Holy" 06:59 I clapped my hands and sang, "Glory" 07:09 I sang glory, 07:14 "O, Glory, Glory" 07:19 I clapped my hands and sang, "Glory" 07:28 I clapped my hands and sang, "Glory" 07:38 I clapped my hands and sang, "Glory" 07:48 I sang, "Glory to the Son of God" 07:58 I sang, "Glory to the Son of God" 08:14 Thank you for joining us 08:15 here once again at Behold the Lamb Ministries. 08:17 Again we appreciate so very much. 08:19 I know you appreciate my wife 08:21 if she gets on here and gives a nice big opening 08:23 and gives you an idea 08:24 of what we're gonna be talking about. 08:26 So I don't have to spend that much time on it 08:27 and just gives a real good closing 08:29 and kind of puts things together 08:30 and better than I do the whole 50 minutes I'm doing, 08:33 she does it better in five. 08:34 So anyway, we thank God for that. 08:36 We're gonna be talking about 08:37 "Upon This Rock, I Will Build My Church." 08:40 And so we're gonna look again, 08:42 everything in God's Word is either is true, right? 08:45 Or it could be a lie of the enemy. 08:47 So we wanna see what is truth. 08:50 And truth does make a difference. 08:53 I've never seen like the world that we live in, 08:55 it seemed like some people just don't care 08:56 if it's truth or not. 08:57 If it fits their lifestyle that's just what they want. 08:59 That's where they want to live. 09:00 But that's not what God says is gonna inherit eternal life. 09:04 So again, we're glad you've joined us, 09:05 get your Bible, pencil, paper, everything that you might need, 09:08 as I will move as quickly as I can, 09:09 with 40 some minutes to go. 09:13 There's a truth to be learned here. 09:14 There's also a foundation 09:15 that we're gonna be building on. 09:17 Praise God, we need to build on this foundation. 09:20 Because there's some truth here that I believe it's essential 09:23 that we understand and know 09:24 as we are here 09:26 in these last days of earth's history. 09:27 Once again, I'm gonna kneel, have a quick prayer. 09:30 Those of you who can deal with me, wonderful. 09:32 I'm glad that you do. 09:33 But be sure you pray, 09:34 you may not be able to get on your knees. 09:36 You may be going down the road in the car 09:37 a little bit later on you have this message, 09:39 maybe watch it on TV, 09:40 but you can pray with me. 09:41 Thank you. 09:43 Our loving Heavenly Father, 09:44 we thank You again for the privilege of prayer. 09:45 We ask now You clean our hands, our hearts, our minds, 09:48 will be covered by thy blood. 09:50 We pray the Holy Spirit 09:51 will just electrify our hearts and our minds 09:54 and our life right now 09:55 with these beautiful truths that You have in Your Word 09:58 because I want to know 09:59 who You've built Your church on. 10:01 And we thank you for everyone listening, 10:03 everyone that will view around the world 10:05 in Jesus' name, amen. 10:09 "Upon This Rock, I Will Build My Church." 10:13 Just a little background quickly, 10:14 we talk about Satan has developed, 10:16 we know this, but let's go over you know, 10:19 sometimes I go over things 10:20 that where they call milk of the Word, 10:22 and the reason is, 10:23 is because this is a little more unique. 10:26 I really don't have time to go into it, 10:27 but this is unique. 10:28 Because we have new viewers and listeners every week, 10:32 every program, there's somebody that's new 10:34 that does not know Jesus. 10:36 And so sometimes some of the stuff 10:38 that's the meat of the word is hard for them to chew 10:41 just as a baby trying to chew on a piece of meat 10:44 when there's, you know, don't have any teeth yet. 10:46 That makes sense? 10:48 And so we need some time go over thing 10:49 you might call them little elementary or not. 10:51 But remember, 10:52 Satan has developed an error for every truth. 10:56 Think about it, every truth 10:58 so that he can simply just cover up the truth. 11:01 Truth is laid out in God's Word, 11:02 that enemy said, 11:04 "Let's get something that will counteract that truth 11:05 and cover it up, 11:07 so people can't see what the truth is." 11:10 Remember, err cannot stand by itself, 11:13 err pops up over here. 11:15 But if there's not truth close by, 11:16 err does like this. 11:18 So what does err do? 11:20 It say, it gets down on its knees, 11:21 somebody stay with me, 11:23 gets on its knees and it crawls, 11:25 and it attaches itself to the truth. 11:27 It tries to suck like a parasite, right? 11:32 The truth of God's Word and get enough in that err 11:34 that sometime we're just, 11:36 you know, if we're just kind of looking over the Word 11:38 and just kind of casual readers, 11:40 we're gonna be fooled. 11:41 There's no doubt about it. 11:42 It draws err, draws its life from truth. 11:47 And what does it do? 11:49 It captivates the mind of a lot of people out there. 11:52 Theories are produced, 11:54 commandments of men are organized together. 11:57 You know, Jesus said, 11:59 "In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines 12:01 the commandments of men." 12:02 And notice err is passed on from generation to generation 12:07 and pretty soon it's accepted as what? 12:09 As truth. 12:11 We don't know it. 12:12 For instance, Sabbath Sunday issue 12:13 and let's get down to it. 12:15 I mean, over 1000 years before... 12:16 Oh, my lands, 12:17 over 1000 years before there was a Protestant. 12:20 The change was made by the Roman Catholic Church 12:23 seventh day is the first day of the week. 12:24 Are you still with me? 12:25 A thousand years 12:27 that's why when that came into being, 12:29 it's all covered up all these years. 12:31 Sometime if we let something go 12:32 just three or four or five years we forget. 12:34 Thirty years we forget, right? 12:35 Four or five generations we've forgotten. 12:39 Let alone 1000 years or more. 12:42 So we see like God wants us to go back to what is truth. 12:45 But you know what? 12:46 Generation and generation, 12:47 they accept it now this err as truth. 12:49 And we need to expose that because the Bible says, 12:52 you know, it says 12:53 "You're going to be free, 12:57 by their fruit they will know them, 12:58 by the fruit of what is this truth 12:59 you're going to know." 13:01 And John 8:32, it talks about here, 13:03 "And the truth will, " do what? 13:04 "You shall know the truth 13:06 and the truth shall set you free." 13:08 We all want to be what? 13:10 We all want to be free. 13:11 Now I know, I know everybody say, 13:14 "Oh, we have the truth. 13:15 We have the truth, we have the truth." 13:17 If you say you have the true, 13:18 somebody get in the Word and show me that you had it. 13:21 Isn't that right? 13:22 And we're gonna get into Word 13:23 and show you that it is the truth of God's Word. 13:26 And this, can I say foolishness? 13:28 This foolishness that it doesn't make any difference. 13:30 You can just believe what you want, 13:32 then heaven's gonna be opened up 13:33 and you're going to go there. 13:35 It's absolutely as wrong as wrong can be. 13:38 Not trying to criticize, condemn anything or anybody 13:41 except if you want to go to heaven, 13:43 we need to know what? 13:45 What truth is. 13:46 And when you develop, 2 Thessalonians, 13:47 a love for the truth. 13:51 No one wants to hear a lie. 13:52 No one likes to hear lies all the time. 13:54 But interesting in the Word of God, 13:55 we feed on and many times as Christian 13:57 and we don't know any better. 13:59 We feed on lies and lies and lies 14:00 and we can't figure out why we're backsliding, 14:02 backsliding and backsliding. 14:05 Because when you get feed on truth, 14:07 you're growing and growing and standing taller and taller, 14:09 reaching toward heaven by faith. 14:12 We're gonna look at one such parasite. 14:15 Is it okay to say that? 14:16 We're gonna look at one err, 14:18 one parasite today 14:20 that we're gonna unmask from the Word of God. 14:23 I'm convinced to this, 14:24 the children of light will obey truth. 14:29 Children of what? 14:30 Of light will obey what? Truth. 14:33 Children of darkness will what? 14:35 Reject truth. 14:36 So today you're going to be challenged 14:38 with accepting 14:40 what we're talking about as a truth or it is a lie. 14:44 You're gonna have to decide what it's gonna be 14:46 "Upon This Rock, I Will Build My Church," 14:49 Matthew 16:18, 14:52 "And I say into thee, " 14:53 Matthew 16:18, 14:55 "But I say into thee, " 14:56 notice there's a comma, 14:58 "that thou art Peter, 15:01 and upon this rock I will build my church, 15:04 and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." 15:07 If we had time we'd read 19, 15:08 maybe we'll do a little bit later on, 15:10 because it's talking about there 15:11 and I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven 15:13 and so on so forth of heaven and earth. 15:16 Some real power there that the Lord is talking about. 15:19 And I just want to say again, quickly as I can. 15:21 We here at Behold the Lamb. 15:24 We want to by the grace of God value what truth really is. 15:29 We've tried by the grace of God for many years 15:31 to try to present. 15:33 And we've been put in positions 15:35 to where we have to take positional stances. 15:37 And a lot of times, we don't wanna do that 15:39 because people throw stones one way or the other. 15:41 Whatever stance you take, some will like it, some won't. 15:44 Sounds almost like politician, doesn't it? 15:48 No matter what you do, 15:49 but we've tried to track all the, 15:52 you know, the basis of whatever we're talking about here 15:55 was we look at it, 15:56 we try to take the stance that the Word of God gives us. 16:00 It's very important that we stay on the Word of God. 16:02 And again, despite so many voices out there, 16:06 that's in your ear all the time, 16:08 despite all the traditions that are out there 16:10 that poked in your face so many times, 16:13 despite all the commandments of men, 16:16 you know, think about doctrines of devils 16:18 the Bible talks about, 16:20 despite all the winds of doctrines 16:23 that's blowing every which way, 16:24 that's blowing many 16:26 who are not anchored on that solid rock, 16:28 they're blowing away. 16:30 Despite the pressure that's being applied, 16:34 somebody listen to me, within and without the church, 16:38 despite the pressure. 16:43 Because we know and understand, Matthew 7:14. 16:47 Matthew 7:14, the Bible says, "Straight is the..." 16:50 Come on church, 16:52 "Straight is the gate that leads," what? 16:55 "Great and narrow is the way that leads to eternal life 16:59 and few there in that find it." 17:01 I thought four things real quick, 17:02 you can speak the whole hour on this, 17:04 we will not do it. 17:05 Four things are here, 17:06 "straight, " 17:08 notice in that verse and "narrow." 17:09 Did you get it? 17:11 And "few" and "find." 17:13 Notice that few that find, 17:14 straight and narrow is the gate. 17:15 Oh, no, we're all gonna make it. 17:17 You hear that a lot. Do you not? 17:19 It doesn't matter what you believe. 17:20 Just believe. 17:22 Interesting what the Bible says, 17:23 "The devils believe and tremble." 17:24 They're not gonna be in the kingdom, 17:26 it must take more than just belief. 17:28 There's got to be some actions. 17:31 Now if I sound like there's little urgency to it, 17:33 I believe there is an urgency 17:34 because of the hours that we're living in, 17:36 the mess that we are in right now. 17:37 The world is getting ready 17:39 to crumble around our shoulders. 17:40 And most of us, 17:42 you know, we're up to here as it were already. 17:44 And it won't take much before it's over here. 17:46 We need a life preserver. We need a solid rock. 17:50 We need to make sure that we're built on that rock that 17:53 that is the church that God built. 17:55 And I guarantee you, 17:57 it's gonna float amidst the storm. 17:58 I guarantee you, it's gonna go through, 18:00 the real church will go through. 18:03 We can look at the Word of God. 18:05 But you look at this, you say, 18:06 I'm gonna paraphrase that verse quickly. 18:09 There's just so much, 18:10 somebody pray for me I can get through. 18:13 Notice it, 18:14 you just paraphrase without changing the meaning 18:16 things that just come in your mind 18:17 how, notice this, the meaning of that verse, 18:19 "How narrow and how compressed, 18:23 and how much self denial is required 18:26 to make it to heaven? 18:28 Because so few refuse to find it." 18:32 Did you get that few? 18:34 Why? 18:35 Why it's just a few people, you know, 18:37 because they're not looking. 18:38 Did you get, a few there in that find it 18:40 because they're not looking, that's why. 18:43 Because the Bible says, Revelation 22:17, 18:46 the Bible said, 18:48 "He whosoever will." 18:51 Did you get it? 18:53 Well, we don't know. We don't know. 18:55 How can we can't find it? 18:58 "Whosoever will," 18:59 if you want to find it, 19:00 if you want to find Christ, you will find Him. 19:03 If you want eternal life, you will have it. 19:05 I guarantee you if you miss heaven 19:07 it's because you have chosen to miss it. 19:10 I'm gonna say don't dare blame somebody else. 19:15 Oh, it was in my life. 19:16 I had a bad marriage and I had bad days, 19:18 and I had a bad that 19:19 and the preacher was so blah-blah, blah-blah. 19:21 Look in the mirror. 19:23 That's what I have to look in the mirror. 19:25 If I miss heaven, 19:27 it's because I've chosen something else 19:29 that's more important to me. 19:30 And you know what? 19:31 Many Adventists today, better wake up 19:33 because it's time to wake up. 19:35 It's time to wake up, time is fast approaching, 19:37 Jesus is coming. 19:39 Little article in a magazine quickly Review 19:41 and Herald, 3-9-1886 says this, listen, 19:44 "The privileges of those who overcome," 19:46 I like this, 19:48 you overcome by the what? 19:49 By works and by going to church on Saturday? 19:51 No, no. 19:53 "You overcome by the blood of the Lamb 19:55 and the word of their" what? 19:57 "Testimony," 19:58 and notice this, 20:00 "is beyond comprehension." 20:02 To be able to overcome the enemy, 20:04 think about all these things. 20:06 It's a privilege you can't even imagine it. 20:10 It's beyond our understanding 20:12 the goodness and the greatness of God 20:15 who is leading in this world today, 20:18 amidst the storms, 20:20 amidst the winds that are blowing, 20:23 everything that's going on right now. 20:26 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb. 20:28 Praise God. 20:29 His ways are past finding out what the Bible says. 20:33 Isaiah 55:9, 20:34 read that when you have an opportunity. 20:37 His thoughts are not your thoughts. 20:39 And I praise God for that, don't you? 20:41 I don't want His thoughts to be my thoughts. 20:44 But my thoughts need to be His thoughts as it were, 20:46 but they're way past finding out. 20:48 But God can reveal those things to us 20:50 that we keep our mind stay upon thee. 20:52 Now notice, it seems that 20:54 we are not hearing an awful lot. 20:56 And I just wanna say this as nicely as I can 20:57 and go through. 20:59 Why? 21:00 Because the things that are happening right now, 21:02 before we identify, 21:03 and we will get time to do that. 21:05 And we will get to it today. 21:06 Praise God, we've got to. 21:07 If we don't, 21:09 my wife will have me do another teaching on it. 21:13 Okay. 21:15 Every once a while, she'll say, 21:16 "Well, the subject of this 21:18 was that you never even got to the subject." 21:20 Hmm. 21:22 Yeah, that's all right. 21:24 So just a quick few words on this, 21:27 we're not hearing a lot about the third encyclical. 21:30 You remember? 21:32 It was called the Fratelli tutti. 21:34 That's what it's called, 21:36 it simply means brothers and sisters all. 21:38 Remember, the reason we go through this, 21:40 the third encyclical of Pope Francis 21:42 is because he has laid out right in front of your nose, 21:45 exactly what he plans on accomplishing 21:48 and how he plans on getting it done. 21:50 And we read it and just kind of aha-aha, 21:52 when the Bible predicts exactly that will happen that way. 21:55 Why don't we read it? God is so good. 21:57 He said, I will not let these things happen until what? 21:59 Till I warn my people first, isn't that right? 22:02 He tells us first that He's going to warn us, 22:05 He's going to show us these things. 22:07 And then as they come to pass, 22:09 then you will know, 22:10 then you can lift up your heads what the Bible talks about. 22:14 And the reason I mentioned is because 22:15 we need to be aware of these things. 22:18 Because just a couple of things that he says, 22:20 you can take it and leave it if you want to. 22:22 This is what was said, 22:23 this was on the catholicnews.com 22:26 not picking on them at all. 22:27 But I'm saying that they're bold enough, 22:29 they wanna print it, they wanna talk about it, 22:31 they wanna tell 22:32 how they're gonna change the world, 22:33 they're gonna tell you how they're gonna change this 22:35 and change all that stuff. 22:36 I want to know about it. 22:38 I want to know about it. 22:39 Because I believe the Bible 22:41 and prophecy is something we need to be studying. 22:43 Pope say, what we need to do is 22:45 take this world and change it into a Catholic world. 22:50 And if you do that, 22:51 it will take away religious freedom, 22:53 they will take away of that freedom, 22:55 that conscience. 22:57 It's gonna take away free speech, 22:59 it's gonna push for climate change. 23:01 Climate change means automatic push for Sunday laws. 23:05 Automatically, he says we're gonna push 23:07 and we're gonna change 23:08 the social aspect of this country 23:10 and the political aspect of this company, 23:12 can't you see it? 23:13 And the economy 23:15 and the obligations that we have, 23:17 and we're gonna redistribute the wealth of this country? 23:20 This is all in this book, 23:22 and then in the encyclicals we ought to be reading to say, 23:24 "Oh," because he says, you know what? 23:25 We're gonna have goodwill toward everybody, 23:28 and common goals for all. 23:31 I don't know about you. 23:33 But all those things are not common goals 23:34 for me at all. 23:35 I don't know about you. 23:37 We live in a very prejudiced world. 23:38 Did you know that? 23:40 A very prejudiced world. 23:42 In many ways, 23:44 and specially I believe in religion. 23:48 You know, finally find out what truth there. 23:51 There is a danger, 23:52 I found a little article I like it, 23:54 Testimonies to Ministers, 105 and 106 tells us this. 23:59 Now remember, people come in sometimes to the church 24:03 and automatically, they've got a problem. 24:08 They've got a problem with what they think 24:10 that the church teaches. 24:12 Because they don't know 24:14 number one, they never read it and never looked into it. 24:15 So how do they really know? 24:17 But there's a prejudice there. 24:18 When they come in, 24:20 they come in with a wall built up already, 24:21 no matter what said, 24:22 no matter what you read from Scripture, 24:24 the wall is so thick, you can't get through. 24:25 Or may, whoo, I'm just gonna say 24:27 that the heads are so thick sometime, 24:29 that we can't get the Word of God through, 24:31 you see what I mean? 24:32 The Holy Spirit we realize does that. 24:34 But let's get down to it. 24:35 We can't have that kind of prejudice. 24:37 When the Word of God is opened up, 24:38 our hearts and minds need to be open regardless. 24:41 I always say the pope is gonna preach from the Word of God. 24:44 I'm gonna hear what he has to say. 24:45 And then I'm gonna look and say now 24:47 is that what the Word of God 24:48 really is talking about here? 24:50 If wherever truth is, I don't really care about it. 24:52 I really don't care about, you know, if it's truth, 24:55 and it's founded in the Word of God, 24:57 I'm loving it. 24:58 I'm loving it. 25:00 Because remember what err even does, what's it do? 25:02 It clings to truth. 25:05 And so there's certain, 25:06 gonna be a certain amount of truth 25:08 that will be in err. 25:10 But you know, I don't want that kind of teaching. 25:12 I want it to be all truth because Christ is all truth, 25:15 is He not? 25:17 Testimonies to Ministers 105 and 106 says this. 25:20 We still have 30 something minutes, 25:22 so don't get discouraged. 25:23 If you say, "Oh, he's not into it yet. 25:25 He's not into it yet." 25:26 I'm getting into it. 25:30 I hope you're getting into it. 25:32 God's people in these last days 25:34 are gonna really be getting into it. 25:35 If you're not gonna be getting into it, 25:37 you're gonna be getting out of it. 25:39 Does that make sense? 25:41 And I'm talking about the whole body, 25:42 the whole mind, the whole soul, 25:44 I'm gonna get into it like God wants us to be 25:46 saturated in the power of the Holy Spirit of God. 25:50 How desperately we're gonna need this experience 25:53 that some are just saying, 25:54 "Oh, yeah, I know, I know. I know." 25:55 And the very first little disaster to hit, 25:57 you fall apart, 25:59 and you're looking for the glue to glue yourself back together. 26:03 Think about it. 26:05 We've all come to that, 26:06 it's all happened here and there. 26:07 But I'm saying right now we need to come 26:09 that we need to be fixed in Christians. 26:11 If we don't, we're not gonna make it through this time, 26:13 if people only understood. 26:16 I think that's our hearts cry today 26:20 is Lord help us all including myself to understand 26:23 what's on the horizon while we're playing church. 26:26 We're making a mess of things. We're missing church. 26:29 We're fooling around. 26:30 We can go everyplace but church. 26:32 We put money into everything but the church. 26:36 We can spend it for everything 26:37 but we can't spend it on winning a soul to Christ, 26:40 and still call ourselves, 26:41 we're still okay with God, are we? 26:44 We got to look in the mirror and just see, 26:46 "Those who allow prejudice to bar 26:47 the mind against the reception of truth 26:50 cannot receive divine enlightenment." 26:54 If your mind is closed, and you have a prejudice, 26:57 "Well I'm gonna the seventh day church, 26:58 but sure, I don't believe that 27:00 seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." 27:02 Boy, I tell you 27:03 if there's anything clear in the Word of God, 27:05 I wanna know what it is. 27:07 If there's any clear just one, two, three, the Bible said, 27:11 "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." 27:16 See, I mean it regardless 27:18 of how offensive it might be to somebody else 27:20 how clear it is to me and you have to look at, 27:23 "Oh, yeah, God changed it." 27:24 Really? Is God changeable? 27:26 Once this went out of His mouth, He said, 27:27 "I cannot change or alter it. 27:30 If you love it, you keep My commandments." 27:33 There will never be a commandment breaker 27:34 enter the kingdom of God. 27:36 So get that right. 27:37 Praise God for that blood that we've broken the law. 27:39 None of us are good. 27:41 We're all in the same boat here. 27:42 Not a one of us is any better than anybody else here. 27:44 We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. 27:47 We all need a savior. 27:50 Remember, if heaven's not gonna be your home, 27:53 dear friends, you've wasted your life. 27:55 I've wasted my life 27:57 if heaven's not gonna be my home. 27:59 What else is there? 28:01 Man just grow old and cripple and die. 28:03 Come on now there's gotta be more life. 28:06 There's a heaven, right? 28:08 Heaven to gain and a hell to shun. 28:09 Isn't that right? 28:14 Testimonies of Ministers 107 says this, 28:15 and I believe this because God is working 28:18 in His last day church. 28:20 Now remember, anybody can be a part of that 28:21 that wants to be. 28:22 But listen, you need to be, you need to get in it. 28:25 Or I'm gonna be careful. 28:26 I'm gonna turn my back or get out. 28:31 I don't wanna say that. 28:34 See I don't wanna say that 28:36 and somebody will think that's too harsh. 28:38 But let me tell you, 28:39 it's either get in or we need to get out 28:41 because Jesus said, "I want you" what? 28:43 "Hot, not cold." Not lukewarm. 28:45 "Hot or cold." 28:47 Cold means you're not in, right, 28:49 hot means you are. 28:51 Puking hot water, isn't that right? 28:53 That means you're not in either. 28:54 But you know what? 28:56 You're a bad example on everybody else. 28:58 If I'm lukewarm, 28:59 I'm a bad example on everybody else 29:01 because everything's just liberal. 29:02 Everything you say, it doesn't really matter. 29:04 Everything matters because God says it matters. 29:07 And when will we get that through our heads. 29:09 God help us to do it. 29:12 No, you get splinters, that's all you get. 29:15 Testimonies of Ministers, 107. 29:17 "The Lord will raise up men 29:18 who will give the people the message for this time." 29:21 Did you get it? What will God do? 29:24 God will raise up people He will make. Notice. 29:27 Yeah, He will raise up men, 29:28 people who will give the message for this time. 29:31 And though He's gonna give the books of Daniel, 29:33 He's gonna get the books of Revelation 29:34 that we should be studying now. 29:36 That should have the attention of God's people. 29:38 Ten years ago, 15 years ago, 29:40 that's all that people talked about anymore. 29:42 You can't talk about Daniel, 29:43 you can't talk about hardly Revelation anymore 29:45 because people don't wanna hear it. 29:48 Am I telling you the truth? 29:50 Herb? 29:52 Okay, I'm getting his attention. 29:53 Because he loves it, 29:55 he loves Daniel and he loves Revelation. 29:58 Because these are books that reveal the end times. 30:05 The time has come in this article, 30:07 it says that the prophecies are to be fulfilled 30:10 all of them. 30:11 When the books are better understood, I like this. 30:13 If we understand the book of Daniel 30:14 and the book of Revelation better, 30:16 we will have a different kind of religious experience. 30:22 We need not say that 30:23 the church doesn't need 30:24 a different kind of religious experience 30:26 I believe we need a new experience 30:27 every day with Christ. 30:29 I believe that we need that kind of experience, 30:32 a religious experience. 30:33 You know, heaven's gates are going to be open wide. 30:37 The Holy Spirit wants to be poured out. 30:40 And some of us have closed the door to that 30:42 and we don't want it, 30:43 we are near the close of this world's history. 30:47 These prophecies that relate to these last days 30:51 demand our attention. 30:54 Think about demanded. 30:57 And as we near the close of time, 31:01 they're going to be, 31:02 I read again, Testimonies to Ministers, 117-118, 31:05 this is powerful, please pay attention. 31:07 "As we near the close of time, 31:09 there will be greater and still greater," 31:13 notice this, 31:14 "external parades of heathen powers." 31:18 As we near the end, what? 31:20 We're gonna see what? 31:22 More, you see, it's gonna be out there in the open, 31:24 the heathen in other words. 31:26 That means the devil is behind the movements 31:27 that's going on in the world. 31:29 Notice heathen deities manifest their signal power, 31:34 and will exhibit themselves before the cities. 31:38 Somebody is still not home. 31:40 See, most time, it doesn't make any difference. 31:42 "I'm comfy, I've got a home, 31:43 I've got little money in the bank, I'm good." 31:44 That's not gonna do you any good at all. 31:47 Man, that's coming to an end. 31:49 Remember, the deities, 31:51 they're talking about the enemy, 31:52 Satan is going to exhibit his power 31:54 and what really rapid in the cities. 31:56 That's why we keep saying 31:58 you need to get out of the cities 31:59 as fast as you can. 32:01 The time will come when you cannot, 32:02 I will say it from week to week and time to time, 32:05 I just, I don't want to, you get saved when it gets old. 32:08 But I'm telling you, it's a word from the Lord. 32:11 That's long time in coming and we're not listening. 32:13 Many are not listening. 32:16 Perils of the last days are honest. 32:19 In our work, 32:20 we are to warn the people of the danger they are in. 32:25 Let not the solemn scenes, 32:27 which prophecy has revealed be left untouched. 32:30 So why are we going here? 32:32 Because we don't want these things left untouched. 32:34 I don't want to be accountable. 32:35 I don't want you coming to me and say, 32:37 "Well, you knew but you wouldn't tell me." 32:39 Somebody tell me what is truth. 32:42 Somebody tell me, you know what? 32:43 We have to feast on the truth. 32:46 Isn't about time we had to feast on the truth? 32:48 Some of you're not hungry enough 32:50 when you're coming to the table. 32:51 We need to be hungry. 32:53 Today's subject is closely related 32:55 to several other ones 32:57 that Behold the Lamb has already done. 33:00 We've done a lot of in exposing the Roman church or the papacy 33:03 and the errors that they teach. 33:05 Now it doesn't matter if it's Rome, 33:06 doesn't matter if it's another church 33:08 or another church, 33:09 if they're teaching something that I believe 33:11 and you should come to this point here 33:12 that the Bible says is an error, 33:14 then that means 33:16 that's not the teachings of the Holy Spirit. 33:18 It is teachings of man, which the enemy is behind, 33:21 which is what? 33:22 For every truth, the devil has what? 33:24 A counterfeit. 33:27 And for anyone to stand up today 33:28 and say it doesn't matter, 33:30 then you're going to have to go against God. 33:32 Because God says it does matter. 33:34 So this one, I wanna you see 33:36 that when we're talking about this, 33:37 it's not trying to be ugly and smart, 33:39 that we are faced 33:40 that we're going to have to meet our maker. 33:43 And He's going to say to you, 33:45 "Haven't I given you chance after chance 33:47 after chance after chance, 33:48 and you thrown your chances away." 33:51 And so at Behold the Lamb we feel that 33:53 we need to expose the errors of Rome, 33:55 because it's taking the world captive. 33:58 These errors. 34:00 Let me say you're about to, you say, 34:01 "Oh, well, there's not really it." 34:02 Take, if you read the Great Controversy, 34:04 page 50, there's just two lines in there 34:07 that will blow your mind if your mind is there to blow. 34:15 Great Controversy 50 says this, about the papacy. 34:18 It said, 34:19 "It's a gigantic system of false religion, 34:24 a masterpiece of Satan." 34:27 I don't revel in that, I don't have a joy 34:30 and because you know people, 34:32 some people will come here and they said, 34:34 "Oh, well you talk about that stuff." 34:36 Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. 34:37 If you're not on spiritual note here, 34:39 on a spiritual high, 34:40 you're gonna say that's goofy. 34:42 Let's talk about something. 34:43 I think there's something better to talk about 34:45 than shining shoes. 34:46 I think there's something better talking about 34:47 then there is holidays, 34:50 and all these other things that are going on 34:52 and how to get along with this 34:53 and get along with that, blah-blah. 34:54 I want to get along with God. I don't know about you. 34:57 This is life and death issues. 35:00 Did you just hear what I read? 35:03 And so the things 35:05 that they advocate 35:06 to the billions in the world today 35:08 who are going that direction, 35:10 and even if you, 35:11 even if you don't belong to that church, 35:13 we have accepted umpteen doctrines in Protestantism 35:17 that came directly from the church, 35:18 that Catholic Church. 35:20 I'm concerned about it 35:22 because it's either truth or error. 35:23 The truth I want it, 35:24 I don't care where it comes from, I told you. 35:26 That if it's error I know where it come from the devil. 35:29 Let me just read the second part, 35:30 Great Controversy 50 says this, 35:32 "The monument," did you get it? 35:34 "The monument of Satan's efforts 35:37 to rule the earth." 35:39 The Roman Church is a monument 35:42 to Satan's effort to rule the earth. 35:45 Now if you can't see that right now, 35:47 through going studying Daniel 2 35:48 and see if you don't study Daniel chapter, 35:50 "Well, I know all the stuff." 35:51 You've got to study Daniel Chapter 2, 35:53 you've got to understand Daniel 7, 35:54 you've got to understand Daniel 8, 35:56 you've got to understand Daniel 11 and 12, 35:58 and Revelation. 35:59 You've got to understand these books, 36:01 Revelation 13, and 17, and 18, and it goes on and on and on. 36:04 Because it talks about beasts 36:06 that comes up and persecutes God's people, 36:07 and death decrees that go out. 36:09 You see death decrees that go out. 36:12 And the way we've seen things change in this world 36:14 don't think that can't happen, it can happen. 36:17 They've already threatened just because of the COVID. 36:19 What they threatened to do? 36:21 You stay in your house, don't you come out. 36:24 If you come out, you better have a mask on. 36:26 If you don't, we will fine you. 36:27 And after, well, they said, 36:28 "Most of you are not doing what we told you to do. 36:30 We're gonna throw you in jail next time." 36:34 And then they said left a blank after that. 36:36 And then this is just, it's only just begun. 36:41 So I'm saying, 36:43 "Don't let this be a surprise to you," 36:44 expect, this is part of God's. 36:47 God right now, His children, 36:49 He's turning up the fire 36:50 of tests of those who really love Him 36:53 and willing to go through that fiery furnace with Him. 36:57 The straight testimony expresses a message, 37:00 exposes the man of sin. 37:03 Dozens and dozens, 37:05 as I mentioned are false teaching 37:07 that millions are falling for today. 37:10 Now, why do we call them false doctrines 37:13 and false teaching coming from Rome? 37:15 Why? 37:17 Because they're not founded in the Word of God. 37:21 Is that, I mean, see, it's so simple it's like, 37:23 "Oh, there's got to be another." 37:24 No, they're false teachings 37:26 because they're not founded in the Word of God. 37:29 And anybody that uses one passage 37:31 or two passages of scripture 37:32 to try to build a doctrine or teaching on, 37:34 you're fooling yourself. 37:36 You can't do that. 37:37 The Bible say, "Line upon line," what? 37:39 "Precept upon precept, 37:41 here a little and there a little, " 37:42 I need to hear what? 37:44 I need to hear what John had to say 37:45 about this given subject. 37:46 I need to hear what Paul had to say about it. 37:48 What John had to say, what Isaiah had to say, 37:50 what Ezekiel had to say, 37:51 and they all talk about these subjects. 37:54 And then you know, if they all harmonize on it, 37:57 1500 years apart it might be, 37:59 1000 years apart, 700 years apart, 38:01 they're saying the same thing you know, you've got a truth. 38:04 No matter what the world is doing, 38:05 doesn't matter what the church is doing. 38:07 Doesn't matter what this church is teaching, 38:09 whatever. 38:10 If it doesn't harmonize with the Word of God, 38:11 then hey, throw it out. 38:13 I think it's pretty sad, I think it's simple, don't you? 38:15 It's simple to do that. 38:17 That's why we call them false, 38:19 because they're man made ideas and commandments. 38:22 Again today's teaching, 38:23 upon the rock, I will build my church. 38:25 Let me say this, the Roman Catholic Church claims that 38:28 Peter was the first pope. 38:30 Is that true? 38:31 Huh? 38:33 The Roman Catholic Church 38:34 claims that Peter was the first pope. 38:37 Think it through. 38:39 Well, we know that's a lie, but they did teach it. 38:40 Isn't that right, John? 38:42 Yeah. Okay. 38:43 Well, now I'll ask an ex-Catholic. 38:46 Sure. 38:47 The Roman Church claims that Peter was the first pope. 38:51 No, he wasn't the successor of Christ they say. 38:55 Interesting. 38:56 Now, let's not miss this. 38:59 Pope Leo I. 39:01 This was in AD 445. 39:04 AD, what? 39:05 445 was the first pope. 39:09 What happened all those other hundreds of years 39:11 kinda interesting? 39:12 Now again, claiming the title. 39:15 He's the first one that interpreted Matthew 16:18, 39:20 to mean that Peter was the rock 39:24 that Christ would build His church upon. 39:28 Why did he want this? 39:30 Why did he not only wanted this Pope Leo 445 AD, 39:36 he insisted that this position, his seat, his power, 39:40 and being the pope came from the Word of God. 39:44 Interesting when they didn't care 39:46 about the Word of God, 39:47 establishing any other point of doctrine 39:49 that he wanted his position, and he called himself as pope, 39:54 the successor of Jesus Christ. 39:55 He said, "I wanted to come from the Word of God. 39:59 I'm Peter's successor." 40:02 Question: Why then did it take 400 years more than that 40:08 to discover the so-called truth? 40:12 Think about it. Don't let it go too deep. 40:15 Why didn't they question 400 years earlier? 40:17 No one thought. 40:18 This is the first guy first called pope that said, 40:21 "You know what? Hey, why am I a pope?" 40:24 Oh, I can get it from the Word of God 40:26 but most generally, 40:27 they don't really care from the Word of God, 40:29 and I'll approve in just a moment 40:30 is because they don't think 40:31 the Word of God has any importance. 40:33 They said in Council of Trent 1545 simply says, 40:36 "We value the word," what? 40:37 " Of men as it were, tradition above the Bible." 40:43 Did you get it, above the Bible? 40:45 And so, therefore, is he saying now, 40:47 well, I want to go back on this point. 40:48 And so the Protestants and everybody else can say, 40:50 "Ah, that came from the Word of God." 40:53 Does that really so? 40:55 Why did it take 400 years? 41:01 Something doesn't sound right here. 41:04 Because they took the Bible, 41:06 as you well know, and they hid it 41:07 and they condemned people for reading it 41:08 for many, many years. 41:10 Now the question is this. 41:13 Question boils down 41:14 on which to and we're going to talk about 41:17 explain in just a moment. 41:18 Was the church built upon? 41:20 Was it built upon Petros or Petra? 41:24 Did Christ establish His church? 41:26 Let's look what he built it on. Number one, Peter. 41:31 Isn't that what the Catholic Church says Peter, 41:33 the church built upon Peter. 41:35 Yeah. Peter in the Greek is Petros. 41:39 Now notice what Petros means? 41:42 It means a little piece of rock. 41:45 Do you want your church built on a little piece of rock? 41:49 No, it means a single little stone. 41:53 It means something that's movable. 41:57 It means something that's insecure. 41:59 That means something 42:01 that would be shifting 42:03 that would, that would mean something that's... 42:05 Oh my! Rolling. 42:07 And I don't want to say the rolling stones. 42:11 Okay, I wake some of you up. 42:13 But really that's what it says 42:15 if you use those words rolling stone. 42:17 I don't want my church to be a rolling stone 42:19 that it just turns over and rolls every time 42:21 somebody dreams up a new teaching and doctrine. 42:23 We're gonna just roll it around and find out 42:25 and change it but you know what? 42:27 The majority of the churches go with this meaning, 42:30 just like the Catholic Church does. 42:33 Okay, that's the first. 42:35 Now, let's look at the word rock 42:36 because there's two words here right 42:38 that will settle the whole issue. 42:40 We're looking at, remember, Peter 42:42 and we're looking at the rock. 42:45 Who is the rock? 42:46 The word rock is Petra 42:48 in the Greek which means a rock. 42:51 Huh. It means a cleft. 42:54 It means a massive rock, 42:57 huge rock, 42:59 a solid formation fixed. 43:02 You know that's fixed, immovable, enduring. 43:07 That's what I want the church to built upon, 43:09 how about you? 43:10 It's enduring, right, it's immovable, it's massive. 43:13 Nothing can change it. Nothing can move it. 43:16 Huh. 43:19 Now who upon did the Christ build His church, His decision? 43:23 Well, we have to let the Bible then, right, 43:25 clarify this quickly. 43:27 We got 13 minutes, 43:28 we can take our time in doing it, 43:29 and make sure that we get it right 43:31 because there again 43:32 we have many by the millions teaching error here. 43:38 Now remember if the other way is right, 43:39 that's okay with me. 43:42 But I can look at, I can look at it, 43:44 was it built upon Peter 43:46 or was it built upon the Rock which is Jesus Christ? 43:51 Which you want, you want one immovable. 43:53 You want, whoo, will my, will your anchor hold 43:56 in the storm of life. 43:59 That's why when we sing it, 44:01 sometimes it brings tears to your eyes. 44:04 Sometimes it gets you excited that you want to stand up. 44:07 Sometime you want to shout, 44:09 well, your anchor hold in the storms of life. 44:17 It's just. Let me look. 44:21 1 Corinthians 10:4, quickly jot it down. 44:23 1 Corinthians 10:4, 44:24 very simple passage of scripture. 44:28 The Bible says do you like that? 44:30 Come on church, 44:32 church needs to look at the Bible said 44:33 somebody needs to be looking it up. 44:34 Somebody needs to say, 44:36 "No, Pastor, that's a lie. 44:37 You're not telling me the truth." 44:39 Or you say, "That's the truth. 44:40 That's what the Word of God says." 44:41 And if you say that, 44:43 then that means by the grace of God 44:44 that we're going to embrace this as a truth 44:46 and we're going to expose the other 44:47 because it is an error. 44:49 I do not want a church 44:51 that I attend to be built upon man 44:53 or have anything to do with man to be honest. 44:55 I want to build upon that solid rock. 44:57 I want to build upon Jesus Christ, right? 44:59 The Lamb of God 45:00 that taketh away the sin of the world. 45:02 I want to build upon the one 45:03 I know that love me with an everlasting love. 45:05 I want to build upon the solid rock that said, 45:07 "I love you so much. 45:09 I'll go to Calvary, you deserve to die. 45:10 You're rotten. You're no good, Kenny, you're dirty. 45:12 There's none good." 45:14 The Bible said, "No, not one. 45:15 But I love you, and I'll die for you." 45:17 And He did. 45:18 So the heaven would be my home 45:20 covered by the blood of the Lamb. 45:22 See, that's exciting to me to think about that. 45:25 That's what I want. 45:26 That's the church that I want to attend 45:28 to know that He is leading out 45:30 because He is truth. 45:31 And if He is the truth, 45:33 and I want to know what the Bible says is truth. 45:36 I've got to know that. 45:39 1 Corinthians 10:4 the Bible said, 45:41 "They drank of that spiritual rock 45:46 that followed them." 45:47 Huh! They drank of what? 45:50 The spiritual rock that followed them. 45:52 Oh, look 45:54 and that Rock was Christ. 45:59 We're looking at right Peter, man, 46:02 or we're looking at Rock 46:03 on which one you want your church built upon. 46:05 I want to hear where it says, I want to build upon that Rock. 46:09 1 Corinthians 10:4, said, "That Rock was Christ." 46:13 Remember, when you study the Word of God, 46:15 you build up evidence, right? 46:17 Evidence, evidence. 46:19 I mean, they do that in the court of law, 46:21 do they not? 46:22 They do that. Give me some evidence. 46:24 Now cases are being thrown out all the time, 46:26 because people doing an awful lot of talking, 46:27 but they can't come up with any evidence. 46:29 Should I get off of that real quick? 46:33 It's just an illustration. You see what I'm saying? 46:35 People can talk and talk and talk 46:37 and you hear one group over say, 46:39 it's gonna go to court, 46:40 everything's gonna be changed around, 46:42 everything's gonna be different. 46:43 And next people get there 46:44 and say there is nothing to this. 46:47 There's nothing to this. 46:49 But this is evidence based upon the Word of God. 46:51 So right quick, I'm looking at what? 46:53 Rock and Peter 46:54 and Rock the Bible said is Jesus Christ. 46:57 You want some more evidence? I do. 46:59 That sounds good. 47:01 And I think it's clear but that's how about some more. 47:06 Petra, rock, refers to Christ, 47:10 not to Peter. 47:11 Ephesians 2:20, 47:13 "Jesus himself being the chief Cornerstone." 47:18 Who's the chief Cornerstone? 47:20 Who is the Rock? 47:22 You know how important cornerstones are. 47:25 Herb knows, anybody, Bill, you know, 47:26 how important to get our corners, right? 47:27 Isn't it? 47:29 When you're laying out a building, 47:30 how you get square, how you get your corners, 47:31 you lay them out first right there, 47:33 and you square your building, and she comes up square. 47:35 Everything's going to be square, 47:36 it's all going to be right. 47:38 It's going to be level, it's going to be good. 47:39 It's going to be solid. 47:40 Windows will fit right, the doors will fit right, 47:42 the floors will be right. 47:45 We need that cornerstone, 47:46 the chief that holds the weight together. 47:49 And that is Jesus Christ is what the Bible said. 47:51 Now, let's use a what if. 47:54 Anybody like to think what if? 47:57 I hear no, then I hear yes, I hear like, I don't care. 48:00 We're gonna do it anyway. 48:01 Now on to us is going to have what if? 48:04 What if Peter is the rock 48:07 on which Christ has built the church? 48:11 It would mean this. 48:13 It would mean that Peter could not, 48:15 notice this, could not be overcome, 48:18 and the gates of hell could not prevail against him. 48:22 Oh, if he really is, isn't that right? 48:26 Then that means he couldn't be overcome. 48:28 But it's very interesting. But what's the facts? 48:30 Does the Word of God give the fact? 48:32 Peter was overcome, 48:34 and the gates of hell did prevail against him. 48:37 And we can just go back to one thing, 48:38 the gates of hell prevailed against him because what? 48:40 Did he did not deny his Lord? 48:43 He denied his Lord. 48:46 He went down as it were. 48:49 Remember, the more proof Matthew 16:23. 48:54 Here's Jesus talking to Peter. 48:56 Now you remember, you remember this well, 48:57 Jesus speaking to Peter. 49:01 And He said to Peter, 49:02 because of a conversation they were having, 49:04 and he said, Peter, 49:06 "Get behind Me, Satan: 49:10 thou art an offense to me." 49:14 Wow! 49:17 If he had been the first pope, 49:19 or if he because they call them infallible 49:24 or if the church had been built, 49:27 had to be built on something that right the solid 49:30 that would not fall apart, a big rock. 49:35 But Jesus said, "You're an offense to Me." 49:38 And then Peter turns around and he says, 49:40 tells who the rock is. 49:43 He never claimed he was the rock. 49:44 He told us who the rock is. 49:47 That's 1 Peter 2:7 jot it down, read it, notice what it said. 49:50 "This is the stone 49:52 in which was setteth not for of the builders 49:54 or you said the builders, what, rejected or disallowed." 49:58 Jesus is what? The stone. 50:00 Jesus is the Rock that they disallowed, 50:03 they didn't want in there. 50:04 They tried to throw out, they throw it out, 50:05 they crucified Him. 50:07 Christ is the Cornerstone of His church. 50:10 Christ is the Rock. 50:14 And this church that He has today built upon Him. 50:18 Here you have Peter and here you have Paul, 50:22 both in agreement, and of course many others, 50:25 that Christ is the Rock. 50:27 Remember, the Catholic Church says not so, 50:29 they say the pope is. 50:32 It's either true or it's not. 50:34 If it's not truth, it's a lie. 50:36 If it's not from God, it's from the devil. 50:38 Hmm. 50:41 So they both agree that Christ is the Rock 50:43 that the church would be built on. 50:45 But we have a problem. 50:48 The pope claims the title for himself. 50:53 So we have an issue, 50:54 the pope comes up and say, title, 50:56 that, that's me here now. 50:59 The church is built upon Peter and I've taken his place. 51:06 So we have to make a choice here, 51:08 all of us will have to make a choice. 51:10 And I believe this passage will come into play 51:13 in Romans 3:4. 51:16 It's very short, it's very final. 51:18 It's very powerful. 51:20 And it just really cuts to the chase. 51:22 It said, "Let God be true, but every man a liar." 51:29 Wow. Boy! 51:34 Because we know in studying the Word of God, 51:37 Peter was not the head of the church in his day. 51:42 Is that true? 51:43 You're gonna have to make a decision 51:45 because the pope says he is. 51:48 He's the head of the church. He's the successor of Peter. 51:51 The church is built on him. 51:53 We have the Mother Church, he says. 51:55 But yet we look at the Word of God. 51:57 But Peter himself 51:58 was not the head of the church in his day. 52:00 He was never called Pope Peter. 52:03 Is somebody still there? 52:06 As far as I know, 52:07 he was never called Father Peter, was he? 52:11 He was never called Holy Father Peter. 52:15 In fact, the Bible says, 52:17 "Call no man Father on earth, " 52:20 how are we going to handle this? 52:22 "For one is your Father which is in heaven." 52:26 Matthew 23:9. 52:27 This is a passage of scripture we're gonna have to deal with, 52:30 we're gonna have to have an answer 52:31 to every man that asks us a question. 52:34 Well, we can't call any man, Father, 52:36 what is this saying here? 52:38 Bible does say, 52:39 does not call no man Father upon the earth. 52:44 It could not. I'm underlining. 52:46 It could not refer to an earthly parent. 52:50 Listen to me. 52:52 It could not refer to an earthly parent 52:54 the way some people want to interpret this scripture. 52:56 And I'll tell you why. 52:58 But we go to here. 53:00 But it goes back to the spiritual fathers. 53:04 That means some of the spiritual leaders 53:06 of the church, 53:08 we're not to call them father, 53:10 the pastor or the priest. 53:13 We're not to call them father. 53:16 Huh. 53:18 Or any or you talk about the popes. 53:21 Oh, we're not supposed to put Reverend, Pastor, Reverend. 53:25 I see that in the paper sometime 53:26 when I do a funeral 53:28 and I just about to go to pieces. 53:30 Reverend Kenny Shelton. 53:33 That means most holy, there's no one, 53:34 only the Father in heaven, isn't right, is most holy. 53:37 Any man that would take that on his 53:39 put in front of his name or behind it. 53:43 It needs to be some changes take place 53:44 because that means most holy. 53:46 Who has the audacity to stand up today and say, 53:48 "I'm most holy?" 53:50 Well, there's some that do. 53:51 That's what the Bible said. 53:53 Now, let me give you a quick illustration 53:54 before our time runs out, 53:55 two and a half minutes, somebody stay with me. 53:57 Spiritual leaders knows it. 53:58 Jesus said, you say, 54:00 "Yeah, but I'm not sure 54:01 if that's what he's talking about here." 54:02 Jesus said, 54:04 "We are to respect 54:05 our earthly mothers and fathers. 54:07 Is that right? 54:09 And then notice, and then Jesus quoted, 54:11 Jesus quoted there in Mark 7:10. 54:15 He said, "Honor thy father and thy mother." 54:20 Do you see a difference? 54:21 Jesus said, "Father, and mother, " 54:24 when talking about the spiritual aspect. 54:26 Oh, friend, how we need to be studying 54:28 and reading the Word of God. 54:32 Jesus chose Peter to head the church. 54:36 Why in this world did the rest of the disciples 54:39 keep fussing about who's going to be the greatest? 54:42 Come on, church. 54:43 That makes sense? 54:45 If he was appointed, Jesus pointed and said, 54:46 "Peter, you are the rock." 54:48 He said, "I'm gonna build My church on you." 54:49 I don't want a church built upon a man. 54:52 There's too much of that foolishness 54:53 going on anyway, nowadays, as you know that. 54:58 Read that in Mark 9:34. 55:00 They fussed among themselves who's going to be the greatest? 55:03 No such appointment was ever made by Christ. 55:05 Paul explains in 1 Corinthians 11:3, 55:08 he said, "The head of every man is," what? 55:11 "The head of every man is Christ." 55:13 Ephesians 1:22 says, 55:15 "God gave him to be the head over all things," 55:18 to what? talking about Christ, 55:20 "all things to Christ." 55:22 Long before Jesus was ever born on this earth, 55:25 He was considered the Rock." 55:27 Isaiah 28:16, one minute left, come on, 55:29 "Therefore saith the Lord God, Behold, 55:31 I will lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, 55:34 a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, 55:37 a sure foundation." 55:39 He said, "A tried stone is so beautiful." 55:41 He said, "I'm gonna put a tested stone down there. 55:43 I'm gonna put a stone 55:44 that's been examined down through there. 55:45 I'm gonna put a stone that's been proved. 55:47 I'm gonna built stone down there 55:49 that's been tempted at all points, 55:50 Hebrews 4:15, like we yet without sin. 55:55 David said, Psalm 61:2, 55:57 "Lord, lead me to the rock that's higher than I." 56:00 Let's pray, shall we? 56:02 loving Father in heaven, 56:03 we thank You for Your precious Word. 56:04 Thank You that You reveal truth in Your Word. 56:06 And now that we're to accept that 56:08 by Your grace and Your strength to say, there it is. 56:10 It's all in line. I accept it. 56:12 And I thank you in Jesus' name, amen. 56:14 Wanna just say 56:16 just a quick note on those again, 56:17 we thank you for your love, and for your cards, 56:19 your letters and your support. 56:20 And we just, we're going to be praying for you. 56:22 And we want you to pray for us. 56:23 Pray for us as we continue by the grace of God, 56:26 to be able to expose error and to present truth. 56:29 We love you. 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