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00:38 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:41 I'm Chris Shelton, 00:42 I want to thank you for joining us. 00:44 Today's message is entitled, 00:46 "Are Popes infallible?" 00:48 If you were to Google the infallibility of the pope, 00:51 this is part of what you would read on Wikipedia. 00:54 Reading: 00:56 "Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church 00:59 which states that 01:00 in virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, 01:03 the pope when appealing 01:05 to his highest authority is preserved 01:07 from the possibility of error on doctrine, 01:11 initially given to the apostolic church 01:14 and handed down in Scripture and tradition." 01:20 I would immediately agree 01:22 that it was handed down through tradition. 01:25 But, is the notion of the pope's infallibility 01:29 supported by Scripture with such an important claim? 01:33 Is it possible that God forewarned us 01:35 that there would be a power on earth 01:37 that would claim infallibility? 01:40 After all, most of us would agree that 01:42 God Himself is infallible. 01:45 Would that not be assuming a divine characteristic 01:49 that pertains to God alone, 01:51 or more clearly pertains to a God on earth? 01:55 These questions are just food for thought 01:58 that I'm throwing out and no doubt, 02:00 Pastor Kenny Shelton will be giving us biblical food 02:04 that we should really chew 02:06 on when assuming or accepting the Catholic teaching 02:10 that the popes are infallible. 02:13 I mean, think about it, 02:14 what other religious figure in our world do you know of 02:18 that every world leader 02:20 bows in reverence to their very presence 02:24 and will open their hearts to His councils 02:27 and that are currently putting into operation his agendas, 02:31 especially now 02:32 that we are dealing with climate change 02:34 and universal unrest. 02:36 But before we join Pastor Kenny Shelton 02:38 for this message entitled, 02:40 "Are Popes Infallible," 02:42 let's visit 3ABN 02:43 and be blessed by Alessandra Sorace, 02:48 as she sings from her heart, 02:49 "The Refiner's Fire." 03:05 There burns a fire With sacred heat 03:10 White hot with holy flame 03:16 And all who dare Pass through its blaze 03:21 Will not emerge the same 03:27 Some as bronze, And some as silver 03:32 Some as gold, Then with great skill 03:38 All are hammered By their sufferings 03:43 On the anvil of His will 03:50 The Refiner's fire 03:55 Has now become My souls desire 04:02 Purged and cleansed And purified 04:08 That the Lord be glorified 04:13 He is consuming my soul 04:18 Refining me, 04:21 Making me whole 04:25 No matter what I may lose 04:30 I choose the Refiner's fire 04:47 I'm learning now To trust His touch 04:52 To crave the fire's embrace 04:58 For though My past with sin was etched 05:03 His mercies did erase 05:08 Each time His purging cleanses deeper 05:14 I'm not sure that I'll survive 05:19 Yet the strength In growing weaker 05:25 Keeps my hungry soul alive 05:31 The Refiner's fire 05:36 Has now become my souls desire 05:43 Purged and cleansed And purified 05:49 That the Lord be glorified 05:55 He is consuming my soul 05:59 Refining me, 06:02 Making me whole 06:07 No matter what I may lose 06:13 I choose the Refiner's fire 06:49 Thank you for joining us once again here 06:51 at Behold the Lamb Ministries. 06:52 And as always, it is a blessed, 06:53 privileged to be able to study the Word of God with you. 06:57 You know, we need to be studying now 06:58 more than ever before 06:59 with all the things that's going on in the world. 07:02 You will need to put God first in everything, 07:04 we need to put Him first not things of this world, 07:07 not our business, not anything here 07:09 but God first 07:10 because there's things that are happening right now. 07:12 I'm telling you, my friends, my brothers and sisters, 07:14 we're going to need Christ more than ever before. 07:17 So again, thank you for your prayers, 07:18 thank you for your support. 07:20 Thank you for your tax deductible gifts 07:22 that you give to Behold the Lamb. 07:24 Some people grimace when I say that, 07:25 but let them grimace 07:27 because you know, I believe right now, 07:29 we say the gospel is free, but it costs to get it out. 07:31 And so, but we want to continue to get it out. 07:34 And we want it to increase, not decrease, 07:37 not just kind of hold the lines. 07:39 We should be ever increasing, right, in the cause of Christ, 07:43 looking for more ways and opportunities 07:45 to get the message into every home. 07:47 And I'm very grateful and thankful for those who are. 07:50 I don't sound to say this in a negative way, 07:52 but there are many who are in prisons, 07:54 many who are in jail, and many of them get 3ABN. 07:58 How wonderful it is as we receive those cards 08:00 and those letters and say how instrumental, 08:04 and we realize the Holy Spirit does all things, 08:06 instrumental in them 08:08 accepting Christ and living the life 08:10 and being baptized. 08:11 And so, one guy, we just got one this week 08:13 and haven't given to anybody yet. 08:16 But I think he's been in prison for 18 years. 08:19 And he just want to praise God for 3ABN 08:21 and for Behold the Lamb. 08:23 And so we praise God for that opportunity in prison, 08:24 isn't that wonderful! 08:26 How would we ever get, 08:27 he's from the California prison? 08:28 We would never be able to talk to him 08:30 except every day. 08:31 He said every week, every week, every week, Behold the Lamb. 08:33 So every week we'll watch these programs. 08:34 Praise God for that. 08:36 Today, we're going to be looking at a subject 08:37 and I'm just impressed, 08:39 I'll just, I'll tell you up front, 08:41 I've fought it all week, 08:44 you know in prayer in the Lord 08:45 because I said, you know, 08:46 how straight is straight, 08:49 you know, as Christians to give the message, 08:52 how straight should it really be? 08:54 It's going to hurt somebody. 08:57 And it's not meant to. 08:58 There's going to be people upset. 09:00 We don't want them upset. 09:02 There's going to be people 09:04 who will rise up against the straight testimony 09:06 and the truth that's going to be presented here. 09:09 In fact, probably the next couple of times 09:10 we meet together. 09:12 Our subject is going to be our, 09:14 you know, think about, are popes infallible. 09:17 Now this can go in a lot of different directions, 09:19 are popes infallible? 09:22 I think it's a legitimate question 09:24 because we want to see 09:26 if they are infallible or if they're not, 09:28 and then we need to look and study from the Word of God, 09:31 to see what's being taught 09:32 to literally millions and millions of people 09:35 around the world. 09:38 And do we just leave things alone 09:39 because we don't want to upset someone? 09:42 If they're preaching and teaching untruths, 09:45 if they got a lot of their teaching 09:47 from paganism, 09:49 and brought over and as we say, baptized into Christianity, 09:53 or can you call a church 09:55 that's not teaching from the Bible, 09:57 a Christian church? 10:00 And do you want to be a part of that? 10:02 There's a lot of questions and many more 10:04 that we're going to answer as we go 10:05 because some people will say this, 10:07 Brother Jansen, some people are going to say this. 10:09 We need to be real careful of what we say. 10:11 I'm in agreement with that. 10:13 And I say it, you know, to you, and I still, 10:16 I've kind of struggled with it all week long, 10:17 because some of the statements I'm going to read in from Bible 10:20 and Spirit of Prophecy could be hurtful. 10:23 If you're looking for truth, it will not hurt you. 10:26 I always said, my mother said after a sermon, 10:27 sometimes she'll say, 10:29 should give me a hug as she walked out the door, 10:30 she say, 10:32 "Son, you sure stepped on your mother's toes today. 10:34 But thank you." 10:37 See, you stepped on her toes, 10:39 but thank you rather than I'm mad at you. 10:40 And I don't want to hear it anymore. 10:44 This deserves a lot of prayer. 10:47 I prayed about it all week. 10:48 And I just, I feel that it's way past time. 10:53 Way past time to quit, 10:55 you know, merely malling around 10:58 with the message we have to give. 11:00 We always say that the enemy needs to be exposed. 11:03 Sin needs to be called by its right name. 11:06 But sometimes when we do that, 11:08 somebody gets a little bit upset. 11:10 People write in, people call. 11:12 They call you names. 11:13 You know, it's okay with me. 11:15 Because I go back to the, you know, 11:17 when you chop the wood down, 11:19 I go back and I look at the chips, 11:21 and see what the chips say. 11:22 And if it's harmonized with Scripture, 11:23 then so be it. 11:25 We have a job to do. 11:26 I'm going to pray and kneel and pray. 11:27 And I ask that you would do it. 11:29 I know, it's kind of a long opening here 11:30 and never meant to do that. 11:31 But it's still on my heart because this is such a subject, 11:35 such a subject 11:37 that we're going to look at today. 11:38 And we pray the Holy Spirit will be present. 11:41 If not, we're not going to get anywhere. 11:43 But I believe the Holy Spirit is going to be present. 11:44 Shall we pray together? 11:47 Merciful Father in heaven, 11:48 thank You for the privilege of presenting Your Word. 11:51 When I look at my own heart, my own life 11:52 and I see that nothing I can give, 11:54 nothing I can say, nothing I can do 11:56 will bring conviction, 11:57 or bring home the truth as it is in Jesus. 12:00 But I know the Holy Spirit can. 12:02 So I ask that You would help me 12:04 to stand behind the cross of Calvary today. 12:07 May Jesus be seen and felt and may be heard. 12:10 May He be lifted up. 12:13 We realize it's not an easy subject. 12:14 But, Lord, You can make it easy 12:16 on those who are honest in heart. 12:17 Those who are not might rise in opposition, 12:19 but we pray for Your Holy Spirit. 12:22 Take possession of my heart and my mind, 12:24 forgive me of any sin, 12:26 anything my heart and life that needs not be there, 12:28 oh Lord, I need to hear from heaven, 12:29 Your people need to hear from heaven. 12:31 We need to realize the hour in which we live, 12:33 bless us, we pray this thing as we study in Jesus' name, 12:35 amen. 12:39 I want to start off with just reading a quote 12:41 and then we're going to read the passage of scripture 12:43 that we read before. 12:44 But I want to start with a quote 12:46 that found in the book of Testimonies to Ministers. 12:49 And there are several pages, I just love for everybody. 12:51 Some of you don't have the book, 12:53 we can always help with things like that. 12:55 We love to send out books, 12:57 we love to send out Spirit of Prophecy, 12:58 we love to send out Bibles, 12:59 we love to send out The Great Controversy, 13:01 we love to send out the Desire of Ages. 13:04 And I think we should offer that. 13:05 Every program that we have, 13:06 we want to offer books that we can send out 13:09 so that we can have some response 13:10 when people are calling and writing in, 13:12 and they want to know more 13:13 about what's going on in this world. 13:15 And I wanna tell you, if you're one of those 13:16 who want to know more 13:18 of what's going on in the world today, 13:19 you are rare. 13:21 Can I say that? 13:22 You're rare. 13:23 You've difficulty to find somebody 13:25 that wants to talk about Jesus 13:27 that wants to hear these beautiful truths 13:28 in God's word. 13:31 But God has them, doesn't He? He said, go to where? 13:33 The highways and the byways, doesn't He? 13:34 And compel them to come in. 13:37 From the book, Testimonies to Ministers, 13:39 and again, if you take pages 105 to about 119, 13:43 it'll just set you on fire. 13:44 I'm just going to read just one paragraph in that, 13:47 in that area. 13:48 And notice, it says, 13:50 "In the very time in which we live, 13:52 the Lord has called His people 13:55 and has given them a message to bear." 13:57 What happened? Who's called us? 14:00 God has called us to give a specific message. 14:05 "He has called them to expose, 14:08 to expose the wickedness of the man of sin." 14:12 He has called us to do what? 14:14 To expose the wickedness of the man of sin. 14:17 We're going to identify the man of sin quickly 14:19 as we can today and by God's grace, 14:22 going to be uncovered, going to be exposed, 14:24 because that's what it says. 14:26 That's what our scripture is 14:28 and we'll read in just a moment. 14:30 "And the one the man of sin who has made Sunday law, 14:33 a distinctive power," 14:34 we realize that's on the horizon, 14:36 "who has thought to change times and laws," 14:40 identifying mark of the man of sin, isn't it? 14:43 "To oppress the people of God, 14:45 who stand firmly to honor Him 14:47 by keeping the only true Sabbath, 14:50 the Sabbath of creation as holy unto the Lord." 14:54 Just two more lines, notice, 14:56 "The perils of these last days." 14:58 Do you sense it? 14:59 There's perils of these last days. 15:02 God have mercy on us 15:03 if we don't sense that right now. 15:06 We should sense that. 15:08 I know spiritual things are spiritually discerned. 15:10 If we're not sensing it 15:11 is because maybe we're not spiritual. 15:13 Is that okay to think that way? 15:16 There are things 15:17 that are getting ready to erupt right now, 15:20 that will never be put back together again. 15:23 This could be it. 15:25 Only God knows, 15:27 but the things are set up to where it will go, 15:28 it will go very quickly. 15:31 The perils of the last days are upon us. 15:34 And in our work, 15:35 we are to warn the people of the danger 15:38 that they are in. 15:39 What's the council? 15:40 Inspiration says 15:42 we are to warn the people of what? 15:44 Of the danger that they are in. 15:46 So those who are getting up wasting the congregation's time 15:50 or the members of the churches time, 15:52 shame on you if you're doing that. 15:55 We're supposed to be warning. Is that not right? 15:58 Warning of the perils that we are in 16:00 because we're in the last days. 16:03 If you're one of those 16:04 that kind of pull your pants up a little bit, 16:05 "Well, I've heard that all my life, blah, blah, blah," 16:08 you're in trouble. 16:10 You are in trouble big time. 16:14 You say, "Well, we don't know it." 16:16 You may be on your last leg. 16:19 I may be on my last leg. 16:20 This may be it. 16:21 I get up every day with that thought in my mind. 16:24 This could be it, Kenny for you. 16:26 That's not to go around long faced all the time. 16:28 Here's what, 16:29 we need to do what we're going to do 16:30 and do it 16:32 the way God would have us to do it for that day 16:33 because that may be it. 16:35 I don't have to wait for this and this 16:36 and this to take place. 16:37 I may not be up, I may not wake up. 16:39 How many people die in their sleep? 16:41 Or in accident on the road? 16:42 Lord, have mercy. 16:46 Our scripture reading as we read before 16:48 in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4. 16:52 If you allow me to read it again, 16:53 I may read it again and again before this is over. 16:56 Because it is so powerful, 16:57 we need not go any farther than this. 17:02 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and 4, 17:05 starts out the Bible says, 17:07 don't you love it? 17:08 What is it? Who says it? 17:10 The Bible says, right? 17:13 The Bible says, I love that. 17:15 The Bible says, "Let no man," what? 17:18 "Deceive you by any means." 17:21 Be careful. 17:22 The devil is a great deceiver, is he not? 17:24 "For that day shall not come except there come a," what? 17:29 "A falling away. 17:31 There come a falling away first, 17:33 and that man of sin be revealed." 17:36 God is saying in His Word what? 17:38 We'll talk about this more as we go on. 17:39 So don't say oh, he's repeating 17:41 because I am going to repeat 17:42 because I think it bears repeating 17:44 so that we get it. 17:46 I want to get it and maybe I doesn't, 17:47 you've got it a long time ago, praise God for that. 17:49 It takes me several times to go over it to get it. 17:54 Notice it says right there, 17:56 there come a falling away first 17:57 that the man of sin is going to be revealed. 18:00 I mean, there's going to be come a time 18:02 that the disguise is ripped off. 18:04 And we're going to know exactly who it is. 18:07 And should we not then be sounding an alarm 18:10 in his holy mountain, 18:11 I believe the son of perdition. 18:15 Bible says, verse 4. 18:17 Now notice, this power is going to oppose, right, 18:21 exalted himself above all that is called God. 18:25 So this is a religious power that's going to do what? 18:28 That's going to set himself up above God. 18:30 As it were, he is going to take God out of the temple, 18:32 he's going to try and take God's seat, 18:34 he's going to sit in God's seat. 18:36 And he's going to want your worship. 18:39 And he's going to fool the world. 18:41 The majority of the world is going to be fooled on this 18:42 because we realize the old enemy, 18:44 but remember the devil himself. 18:46 All we're talking about today is the devil first. 18:48 But notice devil uses powers 18:50 and people and whatever might be 18:53 to accomplish His purpose. 18:55 And we have to be aware of that. 18:57 Notice this, so these are identifying marks 18:59 above that is called God or that is worship. 19:01 Notice who we're dealing with, worship again. 19:04 So that as he as God sitteth in the temple of God 19:08 showing himself he is God. 19:10 Wow. How blasphemous can you get? 19:17 Heard one guy say one time, he said, 19:18 "You know, I don't mind to be preached to, 19:20 I just don't want to be preached at." 19:24 Is there a difference? 19:26 I think... 19:28 Yeah. Yeah. 19:31 Yeah, I think that's what it with the individual. 19:33 You see, other words, they don't, 19:34 some things they don't want to hear. 19:36 So that, oh, he's preaching at me, 19:38 instead of to me. 19:41 So if you sense that, please don't sit. 19:42 That's not what I'm about up here, 19:44 but I do feel an urgency. 19:47 I do feel an urgency. 19:49 And I feel a hurting inside some time 19:51 because the world is basically deceived. 19:54 And that's what the Bible said 19:56 the world is going to be deceived 19:57 all the world, right, 19:58 that they wonder after the beast 20:00 and there are those whose names are not written 20:01 in the Lamb's book of life. 20:03 I repeat it over and over, I've got to. 20:04 That's why we're concerned, 20:06 that's why we want to talk about it. 20:07 And that's why it's not something 20:09 you just stand up here and say, 20:10 "Well, you know..." 20:11 No, listen, the enemy is at work. 20:15 And we've got to be at work for our master. 20:19 So this power then is showing himself 20:21 that he is God. 20:23 Now, why do we want to talk about these things, 20:25 and that's why I'm going to follow this. 20:28 So this would be the first, not the first part 20:30 but this would be one sermon in itself. 20:32 But the next one is going to be, 20:33 we're going to call it like Plan B. 20:35 It's going to go right along 20:37 with what I'm talking about right now. 20:38 Because there's too much information, 20:39 try to get out all at once, 20:41 at least, maybe because I'm slow. 20:44 But there's too much information 20:45 and we'll kind of go along with that as we go. 20:48 But remember, we must think with right now, 20:52 I think it was just a few days ago, 20:53 October the 3rd 20:55 that Pope Francis came out with his third encyclical. 20:59 Is that right? We got that in our head. 21:00 He came out with his third book. 21:02 Now remember, why am I worried about. 21:04 Listen, sometime in Adventist we spent a whole lot time, 21:06 eyes focused on the pope, 21:08 when we should be focused on Protestantism. 21:10 And what Protestants are doing? 21:12 Are you still with me, even though you can do both. 21:17 Think about, 21:18 the Catholic Church is waiting for the Protestant 21:19 to turn the power over to them, 21:21 and then they're going to rise up again. 21:23 The wound be healed. 21:27 But I wanna say this nice as I can. 21:29 I don't want you studying his books as it were. 21:31 Is it okay to say that? 21:33 His encyclical. 21:34 But I think it'd be good if we read over those things, 21:36 because he lays out right before your eyes, 21:40 the plan that he has to take over this world. 21:43 He lays it right out before us and most of us, 21:47 we just don't get it sometime. 21:49 But he does it right where he say, 21:51 "Well, surely no one will lay out their plan." 21:52 Yeah, he lays out his plan 21:53 because he knows most of us are not going to say 21:55 or do anything about it. 21:58 But people in high places are listening to the pope. 22:01 May I say that? 22:04 Are popes infallible, 22:05 that's the question we're going to be answering 22:07 and going over right here. 22:08 We have to think about it. 22:10 Remember, He lays out this plan. 22:13 And he knows that if He lays this plan 22:14 out and gets enough people, 22:16 they're going to follow His plan 22:17 and they're going to, 22:18 He's going to be pushing the world 22:20 in His agenda. 22:21 He has an agenda 22:22 and He's going to be pushing that agenda. 22:24 He wants to change the world. 22:28 And the Bible indicates that He will change the world. 22:32 Catholicism and Protestantism as it were joining together, 22:35 it will change the world the way that we know it. 22:40 Someone complained several, someone's 22:43 complaining sometime 22:44 because I said, boy, I'd like for it to be 22:46 like it used to be. 22:48 Oh, they just got so mad. 22:49 They could hardly stand it. 22:50 Well, you haven't lived in my shoes. 22:52 I'm not trying to live in your shoes. 22:54 I'm just referring back to my own life. 22:55 It wasn't perfect and we were poor 22:57 and we didn't have very much, 22:58 but I'm talking about the joy and the peace 23:00 and the quietness and not like crime 23:02 and all the lawlessness is going on in the world today. 23:04 It was just a different world, 23:05 and for those who live in a different place 23:07 of their country and so on 23:09 and it's been bad for you, 23:10 I feel bad about that. 23:11 But I'd like to be able to relate, 23:13 wouldn't you? 23:15 I think it's a freedom of speech 23:16 to be able to relate. 23:17 I'm just saying, I wish I could go in like we used to 23:19 and sleep in front of the screen door. 23:23 All we had was a window fan. 23:24 Is somebody's still with me? 23:25 We had a window fan and it's too hot in the house, 23:28 no such thing as air condition. 23:31 And we turn that window fan on and two or three of us guys 23:33 as it were we'd lay right on the floor. 23:37 I mean, it doesn't, come on somebody. 23:38 It doesn't do any good to lock screen door, does it? 23:43 What goes into... 23:45 You know, we didn't, 23:46 but we didn't have to worry about, 23:47 didn't even lock it. 23:49 Didn't worry about it. 23:50 Windows were open here, 23:52 the bathroom window 23:53 and other windows over here in the house. 23:54 Nobody's stood guard over the windows at night. 23:58 We slept sound. 24:00 Let me enjoy that. 24:04 You enjoy those thoughts 24:06 that God has given you in your life. 24:08 It's okay. 24:12 But the pope says the world's going to change to his agenda 24:16 and he says we're going to make it a Catholic world. 24:22 And when it's made, 24:23 when it's made a Catholic world, 24:25 remember your religious freedom is gone. 24:27 Is somebody with me? 24:28 Lights make my nose run, is that okay? 24:36 It's going to take away your religious freedom. 24:39 I like my religious freedom. 24:42 I believe we should have religious freedom. 24:44 I think you should have. 24:45 Why can't we be open enough to say to one another, 24:49 you can say, 24:51 "I don't love God, 24:52 and I'm not going to serve Him." 24:54 I don't want to hear that. 24:55 But I will listen and I respect that. 24:57 That's your decision. 25:00 We should be able to say we love God, 25:01 we want to serve God. 25:03 We want to have that freedom to or not to, 25:07 as God has given us, but that's not going to happen. 25:09 His new encyclical, 25:13 I guess it's Fratelli tutti. 25:18 Is somebody still with me? 25:20 Fratelli 25:22 that's in his native language there, Italian, 25:27 tutti simply means and I understand this better, 25:30 brothers and sisters, all. 25:33 So the papacy is saying, he wants us to all be what? 25:36 Brothers and sisters. 25:39 It covers social, it covers political, 25:42 and, it covers the economics. 25:45 The obligation, he says of all of us. 25:49 If we want to continue in the world that we live in, 25:52 he says we're going to have to join together. 25:55 The document indicates 25:57 and again, you can go through it, 25:58 it's out, you can get the book. 26:02 He lays out the future of this, what he calls this world, 26:06 the church and the people. 26:09 And he said people of goodwill and of common goals. 26:14 The responsibility of building it together. 26:18 So he said if we all join together, 26:19 and we all kind of believe alike, 26:20 and we let all the differences just go, 26:22 we'll all build this world together 26:24 and he focuses on many things, 26:26 but five I picked out quickly. 26:28 He picked out, notice it, equal dignity of all people. 26:32 If you look at all of them, 26:34 they all sound good on the surface, 26:35 but the way he uses them is incredible. 26:39 Equal dignity of all people. 26:41 And then he focused on number two, 26:43 he focuses in on the poor, it's good. 26:45 Three, universal destination of goods. 26:49 What was that? 26:51 Universal destination of goods? 26:53 What is he saying? 26:55 You know what he's saying right there? 26:56 Brother Jan, you have a... 26:57 Not that you do, you have a whole lot of goods, 26:59 Kenny doesn't have any, 27:01 so I'm going to take what you have, 27:02 and I'm going to distribute equally to everybody. 27:06 And it's okay. 27:07 Really, if you look at it, it's real, 27:09 it's really gorgeous to a certain extent, 27:11 is if the person doesn't want to give that up 27:13 and put it all in the hat as it were, 27:15 it's okay to go and steal it from him 27:17 because you're not for the common good. 27:20 We know stealing is not right. 27:22 In other words, 27:23 take from the rich and give to the what? 27:25 Poor. 27:28 Now the poor, it says sound pretty good. 27:29 But listen, 27:31 that's not very Christian like at all. 27:32 I don't see, there's some problems there. 27:34 And then he's going to focus on the environment. 27:37 He's going to focus on climate change 27:39 that we've talked about for months, 27:40 as you well know, 27:42 that will bring about a Sunday law. 27:44 Please. 27:46 You can't say it enough, 27:47 even though he said well, you said that before. 27:48 I'm going to say it again. I have to. 27:50 You should be saying it. 27:53 It's going to bring about and it could be 27:54 everything stacked to where it will be that 27:56 most things will shut down one day a week. 27:58 We know it's going to be on Sunday, 28:01 climate change, Sunday laws. 28:04 Then he wants to focus on peacemaking. 28:07 Make peace around the world. 28:08 Ain't that interesting? Yeah. 28:10 Everybody's hollering peace and safety sudden what? 28:12 Destruction comes. 28:14 It seems to me 28:15 that we are living in the days of Noah and Sodom. 28:21 We're living in those days, there's no doubt. 28:25 Full of evil and crime and lawlessness, 28:29 it's filled the whole earth. It's running over. 28:31 And as it were working its way up into heaven. 28:34 And God's cup is just about full. 28:38 And you can tell it by talking to people. 28:41 You can tell that there's fear. 28:44 They have not the Word of God evidently 28:45 or they don't know it. 28:47 And they're just fearful. 28:48 And they're saying that I'm afraid, 28:50 I'm afraid the world's coming to an end. 28:53 And then they say and then what? 28:56 Maybe some of us who've been Christian 28:57 that's sitting in the pew 28:59 for many, many years ought to say, 29:00 hey, there's a little bit of fear here. 29:02 There's a little bit, we realize, concern 29:04 that Jesus is coming and is everything well. 29:07 If it's not well, then what is it? 29:09 I mean, why waste your time? 29:11 Why waste my time? 29:12 If we're not serious about God, 29:14 then maybe we should find something else to do. 29:17 It's time to get serious. 29:21 Isaiah 28:15. 29:22 The Bible tells of decisions that many have made 29:25 and this is some of the part 29:27 where attacking are popes infallible 29:29 because of the lies and because of the, 29:31 you know, the hiding, 29:33 and we call the truth, 29:35 the cover ups that need to be exposed. 29:39 Isaiah 28:15 says, 29:41 "We have made a covenant with death," 29:43 and you know this one, 29:44 "and with hell. 29:46 We are at agreement, 29:48 when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, 29:51 it shall not come unto us, 29:53 for we have made lies our refuge." 29:57 We've what? 29:58 Listen carefully, come on church. 30:00 "We have made lies our refuge and under falsehood, 30:03 we have hid ourselves." 30:05 See they're some professing Christianity today 30:08 and their doctrines and their belief, 30:09 they hid today their falsehoods. 30:14 And they're not telling the truth 30:15 and none of us really want to get involved with that. 30:19 This passage fits our subject like a glove. 30:23 We must unmask the enemy. 30:25 There's no doubt about it. 30:28 Because the enemy is dressed, my brothers and sisters, 30:30 he's dressed in Christianity. 30:33 And most people don't want to, you know, 30:36 they don't want to be involved with that. 30:39 I'm going to take from the... 30:41 It's called the little pamphlet here, 30:43 the Catholic World, 30:45 a Roman Catholic periodical, 30:47 right, they're saying it about themselves. 30:49 June, listen, June 1871, 30:52 page 422 and 423. 30:56 This is written in what? 30:57 1871. 31:00 It says, 31:01 "All dogmatic decrees of the pope 31:04 made with or without his general counsel 31:08 are infallible." 31:10 Did we get it? 31:12 All the things that he's said that they're all infallible. 31:15 That means, listen, 31:16 that word means incapable of error. 31:20 I didn't know anyone here. 31:24 That means never wrong. 31:27 He says he's never wrong. 31:29 Once made, no pope, no council can reverse them. 31:33 This is the Catholic principle 31:35 that the church cannot error in faith. 31:38 Well, something's went haywire. 31:41 He's saying the church, 31:43 the Catholic Church cannot error in faith, 31:45 then I think we have an obligation to go and say, 31:47 "Well, let's look at this 31:48 have they erred according to Scripture." 31:51 Less the faith means scripture. That means they're doctrines. 31:55 Dogmatic means it like, 31:57 like a dog gets a hold of something, 31:58 he is not going to let go 31:59 because he doesn't have to let go. 32:02 Sometime we're dogmatic about things, isn't that right? 32:05 Would get hold on. 32:07 Maybe you're not but I am. 32:12 Great Controversy, 602, time's moving on. 32:15 "When the testing time shall come, 32:17 those who have made God's word 32:18 their rule of life will be revealed." 32:22 When the testing time comes what? 32:23 Those who have made God's word right. 32:25 You've been studying, you've been praying, 32:27 you've been letting in your heart 32:28 and in your mind and living it out in your life. 32:31 Notice this, what's going to happen, 32:33 it's going to be revealed. 32:35 The time is just upon us, 32:37 when the difference will be apparent. 32:39 The true Christian will stand firm as a rock. 32:44 Come on church, think about standing firm as what? 32:47 As a rock. 32:48 That doesn't mean know by every wind of doctrine, 32:50 back and forth. 32:52 Well, we think today this is way it is. 32:54 Tomorrow, we think it might be something else. 32:56 Man, get into the Word of God. 32:58 God's Word is sure. 32:59 God's Word is strong. 33:01 God's Word is clear. 33:02 We can stand on the solid rock which is Jesus Christ, 33:06 not be wafting back and forth. 33:07 You realize what? 33:08 May I say this, 33:10 what a pitiful example that we are 33:11 when we're wafting back and forth 33:13 when someone else is maybe looking to us for help 33:15 and we're going to, may I help or I don't? 33:19 Okay, somebody said amen, will there be two? 33:22 Thank you. 33:24 I think you know what I'm talking about. 33:25 This is very important for any of us 33:28 to be wafting around like 33:29 we just don't know 33:30 we're not going to light anywhere. 33:32 God wants you to, to light. 33:33 In fact, He says He's the rock. 33:35 He wants us to anchor steadfast and sure right in Him. 33:38 We've got to be anchored down right now. 33:39 If we don't, we're going to be blown away, 33:41 we're going to be overwhelmed 33:43 as the waves of life come in around us. 33:47 Lord, have mercy on us. 33:50 The true Christian needs to be firm as a rock. 33:52 Review and Herald 7-26-1898. 33:57 Review and Herald 7-26-1898. 34:00 It says, notice this, 34:02 "The time has come..." 34:06 The what? 34:11 The time has come. 34:16 Any of you have been up to the hospital 34:19 when mom was getting ready to deliver? 34:22 Oh, well, I might as well leave that, Brother Mark. 34:23 They're not going to get it. 34:27 And the doctor comes in, he says, 34:29 "It's time." 34:32 Everybody in the family jumps, don't they? 34:34 It's time. 34:36 I know you go out to the waiting room. 34:37 "It's time." 34:39 I'm just saying right now what about this? 34:40 It's time. 34:42 The time has come 34:43 when the truth is to be proclaimed 34:45 against falsehood and error. 34:48 This is why we're approaching this. 34:51 The time is past due. 34:54 We have to stand up against what? 34:56 Falsehood and error. 34:59 Don't jump in with falsehood, don't jump in with error. 35:03 You come apart and be separate and touch not the unclean. 35:07 Some of us dilly-dally around, jumping back and forth 35:10 like it doesn't make a difference. 35:11 God's word says it does. 35:13 See, if it didn't, 35:14 that would be all right with me. 35:16 But God's word says it makes it difference. 35:20 Our texts that we read, 35:23 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and 4 35:26 identifies a power and I want to... 35:27 We've got to do this in this hour. 35:30 Identifies a power that must be revealed. 35:34 That means it must be unmasked. 35:37 And that is the man of what? 35:39 The man of sin. 35:42 The man of sin is used by the enemy, 35:46 by the devil to set up, 35:48 listen, is to set up his church. 35:51 Oh somebody. 35:52 Man, if we could, 35:54 you know, I want to understand this 35:55 better myself and I'm not just saying to you, 35:57 I just want to make sure 35:58 you're there with me on the same page. 36:00 The devil has his church. 36:04 Remember, he's a copycat. 36:06 He's never come up with the original yet. 36:08 If God has a church and I believe He does, 36:11 Revelation 12:17, they're to do what? 36:13 They keep the commandments of God, right? 36:14 The devil is wroth with the woman 36:16 and went to make war with what? 36:18 The remnant of her seed, 36:19 those who keep the commandments of God. 36:21 If you say, we don't have to keep the commandments of God, 36:23 then you're not part of the remnant. 36:25 You may not know any better, God knows all that. 36:27 So I'm not trying to criticize or condemn 36:28 but since you know better, 36:30 since I know better, 36:33 and that includes the Spirit of Prophecy 36:34 as you well know, testimony of Jesus, 36:36 the life of Christ, 36:37 the way Christ lived, what He taught. 36:43 So the enemy is setting up his church. 36:46 You realize Jesus said when My people, right, 36:48 when their character, right, 36:50 is fully reproduced, right, in us 36:52 when His character is fully reproduced in us, 36:55 He will come. 36:58 It's interesting that the image, right, 37:00 we're to be the image of God, the devil also says what? 37:04 I'm going to re... 37:06 I'm going to reproduce my image in my people. 37:12 Their characteristics in what they do is after me, 37:15 not after Jesus. 37:16 You see, everything is a counterfeit, 37:18 is it true and counterfeit. 37:21 Unmask the man of sin, set up his church. 37:24 And his church will not be founded 37:25 upon the Word of God, 37:27 but will be founded upon tradition 37:29 and the commandments of men. 37:31 Then Matthew, what is it? 37:33 15:9, he said, 37:34 "In vain do they worship Me." 37:36 Teaching for doctrines, the commandments of men. 37:38 So I say to each one today, 37:40 again ever trying to be ugly about it. 37:42 Man, it's just like it's so, 37:44 so hurtful when we see people say, 37:45 well I know what it says, but you know, 37:47 this is what our church has always taught. 37:49 Well, where is it in the Word of God? 37:50 Well, it's not really there but it's what we've... 37:52 Come on, we got to let go those things. 37:55 We must. 37:57 Because God doesn't say, He says in vain. 37:59 Go to church all you want, pay all the tithe you want to, 38:02 be there every week if you want to, 38:03 do the mid-week service if you want to. 38:05 It'll do no good. 38:06 "Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. 38:08 I don't know you." 38:10 He's making it plain to us now. 38:14 I mean, this, you think about this, too. 38:17 If you talk about a church, a church then would be you. 38:21 You've got one guidebook. 38:23 You've got one standard of righteousness here, right? 38:26 You've got the Bible here, one rule of faith. 38:29 And by God's grace, 38:31 the church and his teachings 38:33 should follow certainly the examples, 38:35 certainly of Jesus 38:36 how he lived it out in his life. 38:40 But it can't be a Christian Church 38:43 if it doesn't follow Christ, 38:45 and the Word of God and His teachings. 38:47 Does that make sense? 38:49 So I say to you, how bold should a person get? 38:54 None of us want to hurt anyone. 38:56 Let's identify the man of sin rather quickly. 39:00 As we read there 39:02 in our passage of scripture in 2 Thessalonians, 39:04 the man, notice this, 39:05 a man of sins that means 39:07 a man whose distinguishing marks, 39:10 distinguishing characteristics is sin. 39:13 You expose the man of sin, his characteristics is of what? 39:16 Is sin, 39:18 or the man of lawlessness. 39:21 This indicates a definite person, or power. 39:26 Or get, oh, well, well think it might be this, 39:28 it may be this over here. 39:30 Definite person, definite power here. 39:34 And he's supposed to be uncovered. 39:36 Who's going to uncover? 39:39 Who? 39:40 Yeah, if you don't, and if I don't, 39:42 who's going to do it, 39:43 or are you going to just sit idly by like 39:45 I did for many, many years 39:46 and never really exposed the man of sin? 39:48 And let millions go to Christ-less graves 39:50 that we'll have to give account for, 39:52 or would it be better 39:54 by the grace of God and the power of God 39:55 to put the word out? 39:56 Oh, you may have family and friends. 39:58 Oh, I don't want to talk to you all. 39:59 You guys are reading on, I'll shoot you this or that? 40:01 That's what the Bible says here. 40:03 He's going to be unmasked. 40:05 Hmm. 40:06 It says he's going to be uncovered. 40:08 He's going to be made known. 40:11 He's going to be disclosed, 40:12 notice, at a certain period of time. 40:15 Could this be the period of time 40:17 or part of it, 40:19 that his true nature is going to be revealed? 40:23 It says, he's going to be opposed to God. 40:25 It's interesting. 40:26 How can you be opposed to God 40:28 when maybe you're dressed in a religious garb? 40:31 And you seem to be religious 40:32 and everything you talk about is religious 40:34 and we all say, well, it must be religious. 40:35 If it's religious, 40:36 it must harmonize with Scripture. 40:38 Isn't that right? 40:40 If you don't, where does it come from? 40:41 Just from man? 40:43 Yeah, we set back idly for thousands of years 40:45 and said and done nothing, 40:47 because we're afraid 40:49 it might wound or offend someone. 40:51 Hmm. 40:55 That means he opposes God. 40:58 He says, I'm going to rise what? 41:00 I'm going to rise above God, this tells you to identify, 41:04 against God. 41:06 And then this power opposes any other religion, 41:10 you know, that claims worship. 41:12 He says, I want it all. 41:14 Did you get it? 41:15 This power says, I want it all, 41:17 have the world is to worship me. 41:20 That's exactly what he says. 41:22 And the world is to follow my teachings. 41:26 Listen, he's already before we get too much more, 41:28 he's already got the majority of the world to follow Sunday. 41:32 Has he not? 41:33 Yes, he has. 41:37 Sunday is the child of the papacy. 41:43 I mean, I don't know how much clearer 41:44 you can make this child of the papacy. 41:48 He comes into the temple, 41:49 may I say that the enemy comes into the temple 41:52 or he comes into the church as it were. 41:55 And he sits in the place of God, 41:59 calls himself God. 42:01 He's going to pretend to be Christ 42:03 when he comes on this earth 42:04 and we know that, 42:05 and we realize again 42:07 the enemy working through powers working, 42:09 I'd say working through, may I say the Roman Church, 42:11 there's no doubt about it. 42:13 If we compare quickly as we can, 42:15 if we compare the Book of Daniel, 42:18 the prophesying talking about blaspheming power. 42:23 They follow after, you know, pagan Rome. 42:26 Read that in Daniel 7:8 and 19-26. 42:32 John picture as, 42:35 remember, he pictures the leopard like beast, 42:38 Revelation 13, you do it 1-18. 42:40 Read all those verses when you can. 42:42 There are some real similarities there. 42:46 As you read them, 42:47 you'll see there's some similarities there. 42:48 Here's our conclusion 42:50 without going into a lot of detail, 42:51 conclusion, 42:53 Daniel, and Paul talking about the man of sin, 42:55 it would, right? 42:56 Daniel, Paul and John 42:57 are speaking of the same power, 42:59 they're warning of the same power here, 43:01 and it is the papacy. 43:03 The Great Controversy backs it up, page 44 to 54. 43:06 That's just currently just one of them. 43:08 We're talking about what? 43:10 The papacy 43:12 and in a larger sense, 43:13 this power we may be identified, 43:15 this power is identified with Satan. 43:18 Oh, it's heavy duty. 43:19 It's not every individual, 43:21 God knows every heart and every place 43:22 wherever they're at, 43:23 but I'm saying this power here 43:25 and the way that it's going out in the world, 43:26 you can identify it with Satan, who says he will be like what? 43:29 Isaiah 14:14. 43:31 He says, I will be like the most what? 43:34 Most High. 43:36 Man, the identifying mark is simple here. 43:38 6 Testimonies 14. 43:39 There're just 10-12 minutes left. 43:41 Come on, stay with me, church. 43:44 6 Testimonies 14 says, 43:45 "Satan is working to the utmost, 43:47 making himself God, 43:50 destroying all who oppose his power." 43:53 And notice this, 43:55 "And today the world is bowing before him." 43:59 The world, Revelation 13:3, 44:03 it says that the world wandered after the beast, 44:06 the world is bowing after the beast, 44:08 and let me just say this, 44:10 we have no business presenting the beast as it were, 44:12 or there's power anything or bowing before him 44:15 or kissing his ring or kissing his feet. 44:21 Why? You say why? 44:23 Well, it only makes sense. 44:25 Hmm. 44:31 His power is received as the power of God. 44:37 When it is the power of Satan, is the power of the dragon. 44:42 Revelation 13:2, there's no doubt about it, 44:44 because it says the dragon gave him his what? 44:48 The dragon gave him his power, his seat and great authority. 44:52 Why can't we say that? 44:55 We did. Thank you. 44:57 It's the truth. 44:59 The power, right, the dragon, Revelation 12:9, 45:04 dragon the old enemy, right? 45:05 It talks about who the devil is, 45:07 gave the papacy, its power, 45:09 its seat and great authority, just the way it comes up, 45:11 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, pagan Rome, 45:13 and then papal Rome, 45:14 was just so simple to figure out in Scripture. 45:18 So now, 45:21 the man of sin 45:22 then is going to try to carry out his plan. 45:26 Hmm. 45:29 Scripture is playing 45:31 on who this man of sin, is the papacy, 45:34 and the world is falling after. 45:36 How about the Spirit of Prophecy? 45:37 Let me just give you a couple of things quickly. 45:39 Spirit of Prophecy says, 45:40 oh, it might be hurtful to someone 45:42 I'm not trying to be, but notice what it says. 45:45 Somebody buckle your seat. 45:51 SDA Bible Commentary 1910 says this. 45:54 "The man of sin is a representative of Satan." 46:00 I mean that, remember what is it? 46:03 What did the enemy say? 46:04 He said he gave him his what? 46:07 This is this power that came up 46:08 after right pagan Rome was papal Rome, 46:10 there's no doubt about it, history... 46:12 I mean, it's so clear. 46:15 So therefore it is, 46:17 we have to look at it is a representative of Satan, 46:19 oh, that's tough. 46:22 This power claims only supreme and infallible authority 46:26 over church and state. 46:31 The pope claims to, 46:33 and notice this, when it's come down, 46:35 it's clear cut here. 46:36 He's the vice general of Satan, Great Controversy 53. 46:43 This power of the papacy was denounced by Martin Luther 46:46 as you well know, 46:48 Great Controversy 142 and 3. 46:51 Now listen carefully. 46:52 We talked about bowing before the pope 46:53 or kissing the pope's ring, 46:55 or presenting him anything, my lands of love. 47:00 Persons who bow to the popes worship Satan, 47:05 not talking about the individual as it were, 47:07 but what he represents, 47:08 who gave him his power and seat and great authority. 47:11 You see how, this is heavy duty. 47:13 People don't want to hear that. 47:16 It's about worship. Absolutely. 47:18 You bow down, you worship there, 47:19 you're worshipping Satan. 47:24 Satan exercises his power through the papacy. 47:30 Satan working through what? The papacy. 47:33 The Jesuit order 47:35 devoted to reestablishment of the papacy. 47:40 Even the title of Lord's Day conferred on Sunday 47:44 is by the pope. 47:46 Story of Redemption, page 328. 47:50 Oh, heavy duty. Oh, absolutely. 47:52 Now, I mentioned before, 47:54 the Bible is our foundation on which we should what? 47:57 Build our beliefs. 47:58 Are we in agreement? 47:59 This is, this has to be. 48:02 And so the whys and the what we believe. 48:05 We need some whys and what. 48:07 What do we believe? 48:08 Here's what Nehemiah said, 48:09 here's some of the problems we're having today. 48:11 Nehemiah 4:10, says this. 48:14 It says, "The strength of the burden bearers," 48:16 you should be a burden bearer. 48:19 I should be a burden bearer. 48:21 This says, notice this, "they are decayed." 48:23 Why are they decayed? 48:24 "Because there's so much rubbish, 48:28 so that we cannot build." 48:30 There's so much rubbish 48:31 that's covered the truth of God's Word 48:33 that we can't build on any more 48:34 unless we clean the rubbish off. 48:36 Does that make sense? 48:37 You've got to clean the rubbish off. 48:40 So we could build. 48:41 Let me just mention a few as quickly as I can. 48:44 I believe that the Catholic Church 48:46 not found in the Word of God. 48:49 But they're found in paganism. 48:52 And people are just not saying anything about it. 48:55 See, many people are left 48:57 to believe that it's true that we don't, 48:59 if you don't expose. 49:03 Where most of all their beliefs came from, by the way, 49:06 the Catholic Church 49:07 and I stand here and I can't say anymore. 49:09 It's not individual people. 49:11 There are beliefs that they have 49:13 almost every one if not all, come from paganism. 49:16 Are you still there? 49:18 It's not founded in the Word of God, 49:20 and yet we call it a church. 49:22 We call it a Christian. 49:27 Let me give you quickly, five, six minutes. 49:30 Remember, we're warned in Scripture, 49:31 that we become what? 49:33 A falling away first, 49:34 the man of sin will be revealed. 49:36 We read that, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4. 49:39 Daniel 7:25. 49:40 "And he shall think to change times and laws." 49:42 Matthew 24:9, just jot them down. 49:44 Acts 20:28-31. Read it. 49:47 Matthew 24:21 and 20, 49:50 and also Revelation 13:5. 49:54 These are just a few of it says they're going to. 49:56 Now some of these things that they hold true 49:57 as their doctrine 49:59 that they want the world to embrace and grab, 50:01 the veneration of angels and death and the death saints. 50:07 And dead saints. 50:08 Is that in Scripture? 50:13 Prayers for the dead. 50:15 And these are what they hold and say these are just truth 50:20 that came about round 300 AD, making the sign of the cross. 50:25 Is that scriptural? No. 50:28 The use of images? 50:30 No. 50:31 Mass as the daily celebration? 50:34 No, that's close to about 400 AD 50:36 when that came into being. 50:39 The doctrine of purgatory, is that a truth? 50:42 Absolutely not. 50:44 Prayers to Mary for the dead saints and angels? 50:47 Absolutely not. 50:49 Holy Water. 50:51 Is that a truth out of the Bible? 50:53 Absolutely not. 50:56 Brother John, fasting on Friday, 50:58 and during event? 51:05 Are we getting what I'm saying? 51:06 These are some of the major doctrines 51:08 and I left out many, many others. 51:09 So the major teachings and doctrines of the church 51:12 that's not found it in Scripture. 51:15 Man, notice, the rope praying to the rosary. 51:21 Is that in the Bible? No. 51:22 The praying of the rosary was we call it invented 51:25 in about 1090 AD, almost 1100. 51:28 I mean, that many, 51:30 why it takes so long if it was the truth? 51:31 Hmm. 51:34 The sale of indulgences? 51:36 Not at all. 51:38 Confession of sins to a priest. 51:42 Is that in Scripture? It's not. 51:44 I'm just saying I'm trying to identify, 51:45 these are untruths. 51:47 And yet we say nothing or very little about them 51:49 because somebody is going to get upset. 51:51 These are untruths. Why? 51:53 Because the devil gave him his power, 51:54 his seat and great authority, they're man-made, notice it, 51:57 that Jesuit order was founded. 51:59 Is that in Scripture? 52:01 Absolutely not. 52:04 And even their tradition is equal 52:06 with the Bible they say, 52:08 are you still there? 52:10 That was in about 1545. 52:13 Interesting, because you know what? 52:14 They couldn't again say, thus saith the Lord. 52:17 They couldn't find it in Scripture. 52:18 So they had to make up some things as they did. 52:20 All these other things are made up 52:22 and straight from paganism. 52:24 The immaculate conception of Mary, 52:27 not in Scripture, the way they teach it. 52:29 It's just not there. 52:31 Absolute infallibility of the pope. 52:34 Hmm. 52:36 That it's not there in Scripture 52:38 that came from, you know, Vatican I in about 1870. 52:41 We'll talk more about that. 52:42 Why did it take so long? 52:45 Huh? 52:47 Few more quick, oh my. 52:48 William Keller said this in The Ancient Church, page 16, 52:52 "Rites and ceremonies 52:53 of which neither Paul or Peter ever heard, 52:55 crept silently into use, 52:57 then claim the rank of divine institutions." 53:01 A few other things quickly. 53:03 Isn't it strange that Sunday is almost universally observed 53:06 when the sacred writers do not endorse it? 53:10 False, untruth Sunday. 53:15 We know that it's false, the man of sin is instituted. 53:18 But let me tell you, you say well, the false Sunday, 53:19 let me tell you 53:21 what stands right along beside it 53:22 is Ash Wednesday. 53:24 It's for Palm Sunday. 53:27 Good Friday, Easter Sunday. 53:31 All Souls Day, is somebody still with me? 53:33 Christmas Day, 53:35 many of the feast days, to many dimension. 53:39 They were all manmade. 53:41 None of them bears the divine credentials 53:44 of the author of inspired Word of God. 53:47 None of this stuff that I've read, 53:49 it all came from paganism. 53:51 And the world says it's okay. 53:52 And it's just a church. 53:54 And we need not say anything about it 53:55 when God's Word condemns it all. 53:59 The man of sin will be what? Revealed. 54:01 He's going to be uncovered. 54:05 Now, is it easy? 54:06 Is it something easy? Like oh, it's no big thing? 54:09 No. 54:10 It's pretty heavy duty as far as I'm concerned. 54:13 But all we have to do is look at it, 54:15 all these teachings and doctrines 54:17 where they said what? 54:19 We don't err. We're infallible. 54:20 We're going to prove next time in another study 54:22 when we come together. 54:24 We're going to set it up and walk right through 54:26 about infallibility. 54:28 When did that come about? 54:29 Or are they, you know, are they fallible? 54:31 Can they make mistakes? 54:33 Did they always teach these things? 54:35 Next time we come together, 54:37 we're going to see beyond a shadow of doubt 54:38 what God's Word says. 54:40 Paul said apostasy would do what? 54:42 Would come. 54:45 And a man would arise 54:47 that would exalt himself as God's place, 54:49 saying that he's God in the temple of God, 54:52 saying he is God. 54:55 May God help us to see the message and the work 54:58 that He's given us to do, 54:59 it's not going to be very easy. 55:02 We need the unction of the Spirit of the Living God 55:05 to bring conviction. 55:06 Because what's been said here and in many other places, 55:08 I'm sure is enough 55:10 that people want to get rid of you for. 55:13 It either is God's church or it's not God's church. 55:16 See they're founded on Scripture or it's not. 55:18 There's no use of just bicker round about, 55:19 we need to pray so as we close right now. 55:21 How about kneeling with me where it's possible. 55:22 We'll just pray, our loving Father in heaven, 55:24 thank You for Your precious Word. 55:25 Thank You that 55:27 You don't want us to be deceived. 55:28 You're presenting these truth, 55:29 You're opening them up and say, 55:31 Oh, my, that's not founded in the Word of God at all. 55:32 I don't want to follow after this man of sin. 55:34 Thank you, Lord, for those who have made that decision 55:35 right now in Jesus name. 55:37 Amen. 55:38 Thank you for joining us. God bless you. 55:39 We look forward to seeing you next time. 55:44 Welcome back, friends. 55:46 Could we denounce this teaching 55:47 as another drink of Babylon's wine? 55:50 I know I would. 55:52 And I hope that 55:53 you have now gained enough biblical information 55:56 to conclude along with me the very same. 56:00 How important is it 56:01 that we follow biblical principle 56:03 in this area? 56:04 Hosea 4:6 gives the answer very clearly. 56:08 "My people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge." 56:12 Once again, 56:14 we find that God is laying before us 56:15 a road to choose. 56:17 Should we follow the wide road 56:19 as so many are joyfully just waltzing their way down? 56:23 Or do we choose the straight and narrow road 56:27 that but fewer on, 56:29 but which will lead us to the pearly gates of heaven? 56:33 Our desire for you is to choose the later, 56:37 the straight and narrow road 56:39 as laid before us through the Word of God. 56:41 And to help you, 56:43 we are offering this message entitled, 56:45 "Are Popes Infallible" 56:47 to you for a love gift of just $8 or more. 56:50 We look forward to receiving your call with your donation 56:54 that will also help to enable us 56:56 to continue to work in this field for the Lord. 57:01 Please call us here in the United States 57:02 at (618)-942-5044, 57:06 Central Time, 57:08 or you may write to us at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:11 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:16 You may also visit our website at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com 57:21 and if you want, send us an email at 57:23 BeholdTheLambMinistries@yahoo.c om 57:26 I also want to take just a moment to encourage you 57:29 to visit our Behold the Lamb Ministries YouTube channel. 57:32 There you'll find many other sermons 57:34 from Pastor Kenny 57:36 that are not aired on these channels. 57:38 Also, we encourage you to join our Facebook page. 57:41 We'd love to have you there. 57:43 Until next time, 57:44 may our precious Lord continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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