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[music] Thank you, Lord Jesus. Lord, we thank you. We come to you this morning and [music] we give thanks and we give praise. Lord, we know [music] we can't do it on our own or in our own strength. There's no way, God. We look to you, but I just want to say this morning, [music] Lord, that you are enough. Yes, we don't need Mary. We don't need to pray to saints or angels. We don't need a priest. You are our high priest. We don't need saints interceding [music] for us. You are our intercessor. And Lord, we know that there is [music] nothing good in our flesh, Lord. It's only through your righteousness that we [music] can be righteous. We are grateful for that today in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. You may be seated. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Lord. I have I tell you what, I'm just going to tell y'all. I'm not going to go into details, but probably the last five years since 21, I have personally been in one of the darkest, deepest trials of my life that I cannot even explain to you. Okay? And I kind of have not shared that I thought back, you know, in 2001 when I went through a divorce and losing everything, I thought that was bad. I lost my home, my church, my job, my income. Lost everything. I thought that was bad. But I'm going to tell you, the devil has been working against me personally. Like I don't think in all the nearly 40 years of walk with him that I have gone through such a dark period. I I go back to 21 with COVID, my sister dying, health issues that I've had. and I just going to let y'all know, I'm just going to say this plainly. I I am in a fight personally and have been for about 5 years now with death, just so you know.
And some of the darkest just I I don't know, feeling of God being a million miles away that you can walk through. And I just keep getting up and keep going. And so without getting into any details, but it gets ex especially heavy spiritually, the attacks, the oppression of the enemy when I get on a topic like the whore of Babylon, when I start exposing probably the biggest deception in our world, that counterfeit Christianity of Roman Catholicism. man does it just the demons come out of the woodwork. It is truly, you know, it says in Revelation 18 that it Rome, the mystery Babylon, the great whore is the habitation of devils and every unclean and, you know, evil spirit and boy, it does not like you exposing it. but today I just want to tell you this is part two and just let y'all know I need your prayers like never before. but I want us to go to this go to first Timothy. We're going to start here and I've just called this the great whore, part two. You can put the title page up. debated all the way up until church whether I was going to do this or not today. but I feel like I'm supposed to because let me say to you that, you know, Paul made this statement. He didn't want anyone to think more highly of him than they ought to think. And I want to just assure you, I know there are a lot of people that look at me like I'm some super spiritual Christian, and I'm not. I'm just a human being, okay? And I go through the attacks, the darkness, the frustration, the depression, the feelings of, you know, I go through it all. I go through every bit of it. that you do. Nobody, again, we're not, there's no super-Christians, okay? The Pope's not one. The priests aren't one, you know, Mary. No, there's no super-Christians. And Paul even made this statement as I'm going to share this with you and I'm trying to explain before I go into all this, but you know Paul was a dedicated Christian. He was so dedicated to Jesus that he said in first Timothy chapter 1, he said that the Lord had made him a pattern or an example to follow for all Christians. He said follow me as I follow Christ. Right?
we can read a lot about his life in the book of Acts and through his epistles. We see some of the great great things he did. But even Paul, I thank God for his honesty when he said in Romans 7, even though I want to do what I what I ought to do, he said, I don't do that sometimes. Well, I don't do what I should do as a Christian. And he said, and then there are things I don't want to do that I do. And he said, 'I find this war going on in me that with my mind I desire to do the will of God and what pleases God, but the flesh does not want to do that. And then he said this as a Christian, he said, I know that in my flesh dwells no good thing and that when I would do good, evil is present with me. And when we say the scripture, you know, we quote it from the Psalms and then in course of Romans 3 that there is none that doeth good, know not one. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Do you know that when it says all have sinned, do you know it means all are continue to sin and fall short of the glory of God. I sin and fall short of the glory of God. You sin and fall short of the glory of God. and we should hate sin and we should repent and we should try not to live in it. But the fact is even when we hate sin and try to not commit sin and try to live holy and righteous with all of our strength, might and determination, we still fall short. Which is why when we know this, and I tell you, I'm telling you this as a Christian. I know there's Christians out there that think they can become somehow per perfect. No, you can't. You are liars. All right. Paul after years of walking with Jesus said, "I do things I don't want to do. There's things I should do, I don't do. I fall short." He was admitting it. Now, he was saying, he went on to say that was Romans 7. Romans 8, he said, "But I'm not walking after the flesh. I'm not chasing after it. I don't want to live in the carnal nature, the sins of the flesh. And so that's the difference. There's some people that want to live in it and still go to heaven. The rest of us know we are fighting against it, struggling against it, and still trip and fall over it, but we get up and keep fighting against it and hate it and want to be different. And there is none of us Christians that escape this struggle with sin, temptation, addictions, anger, offense. I mean, I had a personally I had a meltdown this week. You ever had a meltdown? Pastor Dean had a meltdown and it was about between me and him. I'm upset about some things.
All I see is sin and evil and death and horrible this horrible world we live in. I get sick of it sometimes. I get sick of it staining my mind. Like it said about Lot that living in Sodom, it says his righteous soul was vexed day to day just because he had to live around it. We are influenced and pushed constantly to give in to thoughts or evil or and I mean in all the forms hatred or bitterness or whatever unforgiveness or divorce I mean we are just pushed all the time to sin sin and so and what's so bad is half of us this part you see wants to do it. And so what I'm going to tell you right now is that you're going to have this struggle with sin and temptation and evil and your yourself wanting to do it and maybe sometimes doing it. You're going to have this struggle. But what you have to decide is what is your faith going to be in? What are you trusting in your ability to live holy and obedient and righteousness or in the blood of Jesus Christ? Or is it in I got to take the wafer then I'm good? Let me tell you something. You can take the wafer. You can drink the grape juice. You can put on a choir robe. You can be baptized 500 times. You can put a veil over your head. You could do all these outward little traps, still be mean, lustful little devils. All this external stuff of Christianity does not make you righteous. One thing, somebody say one thing. faith in the blood of Jesus Christ. I have no righteousness of my own. And if I think I do, it's filthy rags. And so what I have to look to when I am a miserable failure, when I'm trying not to be, is to realize I know I'm supposed to try to do it, but I can't do it no matter how much I try.
And I think the Lord left us like this so we would never become prideful, religious, arrogant hypocrites because there people that act like they're so pious. You know, they put on that dog collar and long robes and crowns and they try to look so pious and religious and holy. They're some of the worst evil devils that exist. You know, I had I had a guy, you know, I somebody put out Saurin put my little quote out in a little thing. Somebody I think Jeffrey Dobs is one of our students in ministry school. He shared it. He's up in Michigan with a bunch of Catholics and some Catholic came on there saying if you don't believe Catholic doctrine, you're a heretic. And then put this up if y'all can find it real quick. But he put up the divorce rate among Protestants versus Yeah, this is a little discussion right here. Here's where he said it. If you don't believe Catholic doctrine, dogma, you're a heretic. And then they go back and forth a little bit. And then this same Kyle Lewis guy posted this thing about the divorce rate. Okay, let me tell you what he didn't post. He didn't post the pedophile rate. H between Protestant ministers and Catholic priests. I wonder what that rate is. Well, let me tell you something. Why this number is higher than these others if this is correct. But let's just say it is cuz we are under attack more than they are. You understand? Satan is after us. He ain't after them. He's got them. He's got the Catholics in idolatry. He's got the Jews in unbelief. He's got the Muslims in a false religion. So who is he after? Who's the devil after? The Protestants. The one that just believe the Bible and trust Jesus as their Lord and Savior and that Jesus died on the cross for the sins, rose from the dead, and that he is our righteousness. He is our mediator. He is our intercessor. He is our high priest. Hallelujah. Oh, and we can have a personal relationship with him. Which Pope Francis says, if you say that, you're insane crazy because you can't have that. You got to go through the sacramental system of the Roman Catholic Church. You can't have a personal relationship to if you say something like you're crazy. That's what Pope Francis said. Now, back to First Timothy. I'm sorry. I'm just venting a little bit this morning, but I'm being honest.
I'm not a super Christian. But 1 Timothy chapter 2, he said, 'I exhort therefore that first of all supplication, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our savior. God our savior. Jesus being God our savior. who will or who desires, the word will there means desires, to have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator. Somebody say one. One. One mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time. He says, "Where unto I am ordained a preacher and an apostle, I speak the truth in Christ and lie not." He said, "I'm a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity." Faith and truth. I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting. And we could go. Now, there's one mediator between God and man. One. And somebody say this with me. This is the term I keep hearing the Holy Spirit say to me all morning. Jesus is enough. Jesus is enough. But to the Roman Catholic Church, Jesus is not enough. Because they add all this other stuff. Now put up the start with the co-redeemer and co-mediator picture. I just want to show you a few things here. I'm not even going to deal with all the saints they pray to and angels they pray to. By the way, what does that say right there? Traditional catechism, Mary is co-redemptric. She's a co-redeemer. Now, this is in Catholic doctrine and dogma. But if you Google it, what they try to do now, they try to say, "Well, cat, they don't say that anymore because it causes confusion." Now, what it causes us is to understand what you mean. So, you got to try to rephrase it and explain away. But traditional Latin mass, what'd he say? Mary's come redemption. Now, keep going through this. Go to the next one. Now, here's the question. I can accept most of the church's teaching. This is catholic.com. But I struggle with the church calling Mary Mediatrics of all graces or the mediator of all graces. This seems to be a violation of 1 Timothy 2 5-6, what we
just read, where the scripture states that Jesus through the death on the cross is one mediator between God and man. Answer: Mary's title of mediatrix arises from her cooperation in the incarnation and in the redemption of mankind. through her. Yes, she became the godbearer and the new Eve. She is the mother of all living. So, did they deny that they teach she's the co-mediator? No. Now, why am I bringing this up? And I I know I mentioned it last week because the moment you say that it's she's the mediator. It says it calls her the mediator of all graces. Meaning what is grace? Grace is not some mystical force in the universe. Okay. The Bible in Hebrews chapter 10 calls the Holy Spirit the spirit of grace. He even says in Titus, the grace of God teaches us. Who's the teacher? Holy Spirit. Okay. What is grace? Grace is when God moves upon you and gives you the ability to do what you can't do. It's not it's not undeserved kindness. Y'all y'all need to understand that. Mercy is undeserved kindness. Grace is help from God. It is literally the Holy Spirit's divine influence on your heart and its reflection of that work in your life. So the only time when you do something really righteous and obedient to God is because he has given you grace to do it because in your natural ability you could not do it. You understand? To say that Mary is the co-mediator of all graces to mankind is one of the biggest blasphemies that could ever be spoken. Y'all see this? Here it is. Catholic.com. Mary, the mediatrix of all graces. There is no justification. There is no explaining this away. Mary is an idol set up by the Catholic Church. And it is blasphemy. That's why on mystery Babylon the great whore revelation it says what written upon her what is the word blasphemy
you are giving her divine power divine attributes did I send you the one where it says she's the queen of heaven I don't know if I But literally they call her the queen of heaven and earth. Now in Jeremiah, they in Bible study the other night, S and them were going through Jeremiah and found the Israelites, some of them had backsliden, turned on God, and were worshiping what? The Queen of Heaven. Why would a church that claims to follow Jesus Christ say you can pray to and worship and bow down to the queen of heaven? It is idolatry. It is blasphemy. Our only grace comes through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ. Anything say this right here is the is the cross is Calvary is where the blood was shed. Anything that steps in front of that and goes, "No, got to go through me to get to this." See, you can know Jesus without a church, but they say you got to have their church to know Jes. In fact, if you don't, you don't know Jesus. But see, I know a lot of people go to church every week and they do not know Jesus. They are not born again. They do not follow him. But what that church will tell you, guess what? You've been baptized into the Roman Catholic Church. You've been confirmed. You've taken the mass. You're good. As long as you stay right here, you're good. One God, one mediator. Somebody say, "One mediator." One mediator. One mediator through God. Now, I want to show you this. Oh, first, well, let's go to go to Exodus chapter 20 and get ready to put up the pictures of the bowing. Exodus 20. Now the Catholics in their Latin Vulgate Bible, they changed this the passage of the Ten Commandments. They changed it. How convenient. And if I hear another Catholic say that the Bible came from the Catholics, the Bible was around
the New Testament hundreds 300 years before the Catholic Church even started. So that for them to act like they they put the Bible together is hilarious. But they that's what they tell you. And the Latin Vulgate is full of crap. I wouldn't own one. I would burn it. All right. This and then and that's why it's the same text used to translate all these new versions of the Bible. It's the same text they use for the Latin Vulgate. So have fun with that. But here's what the real Bible says about the commandments. So let's read this. This is Exodus 20 verse one. And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me, in front of me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, comma, nor serve them. Do what? Do what they say. For I am the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. Now, I'm not going to read the rest of these. Most of you should know the commandments. These are basic. In fact, all of these things were carried over into the New Testament, and I'm not going to get into the Sabbath issue today, but hear me. Idolatry was spoken of in the New Testament. Paul said, "Flee idolatry." Paul said, "If you are in idolatry, you are fellowshipping with demons." So, literally, idolatry is one of those sins that opens you up immediately to demons. Okay? Now, he says you're not to bow down yourself to them, to any image. Just roll through them. Keep going. Remember, who back up. Just remember this. Kissing the hand right here. this little boy kissing the hand of a statue of Mary. I'm going to show you something in a second. Go. Go ahead.
All right. Now, put up the first definition I sent you of worship. There's two words we're going to look at this morning. Translated New Testament worship. It's two word. The first one is all through the New Testament. Let's see here. It is you got it up there yet? Let's see how if I can remember how to how to say this. Proaniah or something pro whatever. But listen to this. It says meaning of this word worship translated throughout the New Testament meaning to kiss like a dog licking his master's hand. So literally the kissing of the ring of the hand is an act of worship. Lifting your hands is an act of worship. Bowing down, kneeling down, laying down acts of worship. Guess what? Also prayer is an act of worship. But let's go on. It says to kiss the hand towards one in token of reverence among orientals especially the Persians to fall upon the knees and touch the ground with the forehead as an expression of profound reverence. New Testament by kneeling or prostration to do homage. Go to the next. I think the should be one more. Yeah. And it says you can do this to high priest or to God. And it goes on down. It says to demons. Okay. Now, you shall not make any graven images of anything. Somebody say anything. To bow down to. Well, we're not worship. We just we just we're just praying there. You're bowing to it. You're kissing its hand. You're kissing its foot. I mean, we got I got some pictures. I don't know if I I probably didn't send these of some cardinal or bishop taking a a human skull that they say is the skull of one of the saints, like I think it's Agatha, and kissing this skull before they put it into a a statue of this person. like they open the head of the statue and put the human skull in there, close it back up and carry it around for everyone to worship this image of St. Agatha. It's disgusting. They had the petrified foot. The foot I saw this I I screen captured this. I just didn't have time to put it in here.
It might make somebody throw up, but they literally severed foot of some saint and there was a big huge basin of water and the priest came up and took that foot and dipped some of the water in and poured over the foot into that thing and there was a crowd of people around and they were literally fighting each other to get some of that water out of there. I'm like, and I'm the crazy one for saying that this is idolatry. And there are more things than that. But let me tell you something. I went to the island of Mauritius in 2000. The island of Mauritius is a small little island about 1500 miles or so east of Madagascar in the middle of the Indian Ocean. All right. It's the furthest I've ever been away from home. It's a long way. All right. And that island's interesting because it's small, but it's packed with a lot of people. And half of the people at the time at that time 51% of the people were Hindu and then you had about 20% were Roman Catholic and then you had about 10% Muslim and then Christians, Protestant Christians. What I marveled at that I had never seen before except for Catholics to do it. But I've saw Hindu women that, you know, we're talking about poor people take gobs of their food and walk out like they have long platforms out across ponds to statues of Hindu gods where they lay down all this food in front of them that just sit there and rot and they're crying tears. And my I'm going to tell you, my heart was broken watching this. And then yesterday, if you would, sweetheart, would you get out of my satchel in there those books? Just bring me the whole stack, please. I love doing this to my daughter because she hates coming up in front of people. Oh, there it is. Yes, there's there's Now, it may be her skull. It may not be. I don't know if it's a real Agatha skull or not cuz she lived like I don't know if it was 1,200 or a,000 AD whatever it was still kissing the skull and putting it in a in an idol to be worshiped to be reverenced. Look at them. Where in the Bible does it instruct us as Christian leaders to do this?
Show me. Let's lift up the dead the skull of a dead Christian and make sure y'all reverence it and venerate it. But we're not going to call it worship. Thank you, God. Here's a few books you should read. The Two Babylons, The Secret History of the Jesuits by Edmund Paris, The Priest The woman in the confessional by Charles Chiniki who was 25 years a Catholic priest and left it. His book 50 years in the church of Rome and the Jesuit conspiracy the secret plan of the order. Just a little light reading for you. This book right here 50 years in the church of Rome. the conversion of a Roman Catholic priest, Charles Chiniki, French Canadian. just the first I I hadn't read it since I was probably 20 years old, but I'm like I opened it back up yesterday and started reading and I had just forgotten how [snorts] sad and horrible his description of being a Roman Catholic from a child. What they did to him in the confessional. what they did the priest did in the town to the little girls. In fact, the priest was so bad that the men of the town got together, put on mask, caught him leaving the house of these little girls that he was messing with, and they whipped him nearly to death, hoping that he would it would be an example to th those who would come after him. But he tells the story and it's it's one of the saddest things. He talks about as a child going to his first confession and he said it wasn't the confessing of my sins that was so bad to the priest. He said it was what the priest kept asking me questions and suggesting did you do this? Did you do this? Did you do this? Have you ever done this? describing acts like sodomy and all kinds of things to a child who never even heard of these things, defiling and demoralizing this child. And then he goes and he is so disturbed as I don't know 10 11 12 whatever I think he was whatever at the time somewhere in there he goes and asks some of his friends after they go did he say such things and all the kids said they heard the most horrid vile just every sexual perversion and evil you can imagine the priest suggested and it described to these children in the
confessional asking them basically if they had ever done anything because their first confession had to be the big stuff or they couldn't be saved what they told them. So let me just go and tell y'all something. I hate Yes. the vile evil counterfeit impostor called the church of Rome. It is not Christianity. It never has been Christianity and we should not try to live at peace with it. One of the things he talked about the men in this town there in Canada were furious about was their wives going to the priest and confessing all of their problems between them and their husbands and getting into all kinds of sexual discussions that should only be between a man and his wife. And through that, many of the priests seduced the wives into adultery. because they talked more to the priest they did to their own husbands. That Yeah. Yeah. Get ready for a woo with the priest, the woman in the confessional. It's a It's a system designed to trap and to lure people into a system where they feel like there is no other way. I have to go through this system to get to Jesus. I got to go through Mary or I got to go through angels or I got to go through saints. And I'm like, no, Jesus is enough. That's why the Bible makes it clear. Paul made it clear by the Holy Spirit. He said there is one mediator within the triune nature of God. You pray to the father in Jesus name. And that's all you pray to. Yeah. Somebody give the Lord praise right there. [applause] anything else. Praying to any person living or dead, to an angel, and especially to Mary.
It's blasphemy. It's idolatry. And remember last week I covered this when he says you shall not make any graven images and bow down to them, serve them. If you go over to go back with me to 1 Corinthians 5. I'm gonna read it again even though I read it last week. He says in verse 11, "But now have I written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner? With such a one know not to eat? For what have I to do to judge them that also are without? Do not ye judge them that are within?" But them that are without, God judges. Therefore, put away from among yourselves that wicked person. So, he said, "You're not even supposed to eat with somebody who is an idolater." Then he goes down and look at this. He says verse 9, chapter 6, verse 9, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, that means catamite, that means boy lovers, pedophiles, which the Roman Catholic Church is full of, abusers of themselves with mankind is sodomy. nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. Somebody say were. Were. Such were some of you, but ye are washed. But ye are sanctified, but you are justified by Mary, by the saints, by the Lord's supper, no, by the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God. Amen. Amen. Now go to Romans chapter 3. Y'all okay with this morning? He says this here. We're going to go down to verse 21 because Paul was having to explain that we have moved into a new covenant. Therefore, we're not under the same requirements of the ceremonies and rituals of the old covenant law. There
were things, moral law that was carried over into the New Testament, but the ceremonial law, the civil law of the Old Testament was not carried over into the New Testament. Paul's trying to explain this to them. And as Peter said, some of the things Paul wrote was hard to be understood, and that certain people who were unstable and unlearned would twist them to their own destruction. But listen to this as we read this. I'm going to read it from verse 21. He says, "But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe. For there is no difference. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by his grace." Whose grace? Mary's grace or his grace? His grace. And his grace alone. being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation. That means an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood. Somebody say through faith in his blood. Oh, that wasn't loud enough. Say, through faith in his blood. Come on. Not through Mary. Not through saints. through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins. Somebody say his righteousness for the remission of sins. That's how you're forgiven. Not saying 15 Hail Marys. That's not how you get forgiveness. You get forgiveness through faith in his blood that gives the remission, the washing, the cleansing, the removal of the stain of sin off of your spirit, soul, and body. Think about that. the blood of Jesus. He says, "For the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God to declare, I say at this time, his righteousness, that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." Where is boasting then? It is excluded by what law? Of works? Nay, but by the law of faith. Therefore, we conclude that man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Is he the God of the Jews only? Is not he the God also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also. Now, let's go over to chapter 5 verse chapter 5 verse one. He says, "Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we also
we have access." How? By faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope and of the glory of God. We have access by our faith. Right? Let's keep reading this. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation workketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given to us, which here he's talking about again, even the love of God in you that's going to work through you to love people is what? shed abroad in you by the Holy Spirit because you have faith in the blood of Jesus, not in yourself. And then he goes on, let's keep reading. He says, "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die. Yet per adventure for a good man, some would even dare to die. But God commended his love toward us and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more than being now justified, somebody say justified. By his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Mary, through him. For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life, and not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. I have received the atonement. What was the whole Old Testament teaching us? That sin required death, blood, a sacrifice, and it was preparing us that whole several thousand years until one came and took on a human body. And the only reason he did that was to be the atonement for our sins. He is the redeemer. He is the savior. He is the only way that your sins are even possibly forgiven. And for a church or what claims to be a church
to say to you, you got to go to a priest to get your sins forgiven, or you got to pray these prayers to marry to get your sins forgiven, or you got to follow this little system we've worked out. What blasphemy? It is a blasphemy against the holiest thing ever done. Let's go to one more passage. Let's say one more passage, God willing. Colossians 2. Yes. You won't hear this passage read very much in church, but let's read it. We're going to start at verse one. He said, "For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you and for them at Laodicea." We know that Laodicea eventually what? Backslid into lukewarmness. So, he had a conflict. He had a great burden in his heart. He knew there were problems coming. He says, "For as many as have not seen my face in the flesh," Paul warning here. He says, "That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. For though I be absent in flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, joying and beholding your order and steadfastness of your faith in Christ. And as you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. Now, let me stop right there. That is an important verse. As you receive Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. How were you saved? You heard the word of the gospel that he died for your sins and that it's his blood that washes away sins and that he rose from the dead and that if you would believe in him and call upon him from the heart, then what? You're saved, right? You're cleansed. You're washed. You're born again. You repent and you say, "I'm going to I'm going to become a disciple of Jesus." And then the Holy Spirit bears witness and you know you're born again. Now he says, "As you received Christ Jesus," now let me ask something. When you the day you received Christ Jesus, did you think you were perfect? Did you think you were holy? Did you think you had it all figured out? Huh? As you received him, so walk in him.
See, I knew when I was a baby Christian that I was going to mess up and even though I was trying not to, but I'd get up and that's why the Bible says what? If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. All he wants is to be honest with him. He wants us to hate sin, love him, and if we fall, he wants us to get up, ask him to forgive us and wash us, and we to try to walk on and not do it anymore. That's all he asked. So, as you receive Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. Did you need Mary the day you got saved, Pastor Troy? Did you need the angel Michael to come help you? The foolishness of the Roman Catholic Church is again boggles my mind. But let's keep reading. So verse six, as you have therefore received Christ Jesus Lord, so walk ye in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. So what you started in with him through faith in his blood, you stay in that. And then he says, beware. He wants you to stay with the faith of a child. But he says, "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy, theology, Mariology, vain deceit after the traditions of men." That means things not in the Bible like kissing the skull of some Saint Agatha. That is not in the Bible for us to do. Therefore, it is a tradition of men. It's added. And he says, "Don't let these things what? Spoil you, destroy you, take you away from your singleminded devotion and faith in Jesus Christ in his atoning blood and his resurrection." And then he goes on, he goes on to say that he says, "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world." That means the physical things like the cookie, the physical things don't save you. He says, "But after the physical, the rudiments of the world, the elements, they actually call them the elements." Oh god. after the elements of the world and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the godhead bodily and ye are complete in him. Meaning he is enough for you.
Jesus is enough. You do not need Mary or Michael or Gabriel or Joseph or Dominic or what's the other ones? Oh, but I need that one for protection. Really? Where's your faith in Jesus? When is the name of the Lord the high tower we run into in our safe? He says you are complete in him which is the head of all principality and power in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in the putting off of the body of sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. So he's literally talking about it is Jesus who cuts off helps us cut off the flesh that pulls us into these things, not Mary. And then he says, "Buried with him in baptism, wherein you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who raised him from the dead." Again, through what? Faith. And you being dead in your sins, and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses, man. Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. Oh, isn't it good that through him the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us? You could never keep the law. So Jesus had to come and keep it and only through him, abiding in him, living in him, dwelling in him, faith in him. And then he says verse 13, "And you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, and he hath quickened together, forgiven you all trespasses, blotting out the handwriting words." Let's go down and he says, "And having verse 15, having spoiled principalities and powers and made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it." Then he says this again where he said, "Beware a minute ago, he says again, let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink." Oh, meet and drink. Whether I believe the wine is this and that or the cookies this or that. No, no, you ain't judging me, son. Cuz my faith not in those things. Actually, the Lord's supper is only an outward demonstration. It's like a skit to show the world the Lord's death till he comes. But he says this, "Let no man therefore judge you in meat and drink or in respect of a holy day or new moon or Sabbath days, which are a shadow of
things to come. But the body is of Christ. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary, meaning you choose." That's a choosing of the will. Humility. I'm going to act humble. I love when people choose to act humble. I'm just going to be meek and holy. Watch me be lowly as I put upon this robe and walks down the street with a sad countenance. Look at that poor monk. He's so meek and holy and lowly. He's a pedophile probably in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels. Who? Who does that? So they'll swear, oh, we don't worship angels. You pray to them? You venerate them, right? Worshippping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind. Meaning this is all created in the minds of men. And he says, "And not holding the head," Jesus, he's the head of the body, from which all the body by joints and bands have nourishment, ministered together, and knit together with increase with the increase of God. He says, "Wherefore, if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments or elements of the world, why is living in the world are you subject to ordinances? Touch not, taste not, handle not, which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men, which things have indeed a show of wisdom. They have an outward appearance [snorts] in will worship, will worship and humility. And it in they even have a neglecting of the body. Look at that. Oh, they they live celibate. So, they're denying the flesh. They even whip themselves to try to pay for their sins. Penance. They where they whip themselves to pay for their own sins. It is a system. It is a religion. of idolatry, legalism, and death. And he said, "If you follow a religion that's full of the commandments of men, you will perish." This is what Paul warned of. Beware of this. See, this is why I tell I I don't I don't tell you church attendance makes you right with God or communion or baptism.
Yeah, God wants us to do those things so that we show publicly we are not ashamed of Jesus Christ and his word, but they don't save us. They're not part of regeneration. You can do all those things, all those outward trappings of Christianity and still go to hell. Oh, and by the way, there is no purgatory either. Look, I typed in I I just Googled. I wanted to see what Google said because I know and Google lies some, but I just want to see if they if it would admit the truth. So I said I said, "Do Catholics still pay the priests money for masses to get their relatives out of purgatory?" And Google said, "Yes, but usually it's a suggested donation." Now, and I there's a lot I found on that, too. So, you know, purgatory is one of the things I think they the Catholic church is. It's not in the Bible at all. In fact, they admit where they get the doctrine is from the book of the Apocrypha book of Maccabees. So, they get it from the Jews, right? And let's just know the Jews fell away from God. So, we don't follow Jewish religion doctrines of men. We don't. Okay. Maccabees is where that comes from. the whole thing of purgatory. So, it's not even it's nowhere in the Bible per there is a hell and if you go there, you don't get out. So, there number of prayers or whatever. If you end up there, you're there for all eternity. Nobody's praying you out. No popes doing hokeookie do over some cookies and getting you out. I mean, what a scam. You want to talk about the biggest scam ever done is purgatory and paying to you got to have so many masses to get your and if he was really wicked he you got to pay more to get him out of that flames of and you're they would tell grieving wives and little children that are their father that passed away is down in the flames of purgatory and they've got to pay money to get him out. And in the in this book that I told you to read, the one the 50 years in the church of Rome, when this man's father dies, I'm going to this is spoiler. When his father dies at when he's like 12 years old and they are poor and in debt and have nothing, the local Roman Catholic priest comes demanding payment for the masses to get their poor dear father out of purgatory. She has no money. And this priest who was rich takes their only cow by which
they had milk and butter which was one of the few things they had to eat for him and his two younger siblings. So, you want to talk about evil, history of nothing but evil from this counterfeit, demonic, devil-led thing that calls itself a church. So, yes, I am nothing but a mere man. And you know what? My job, I can't be perfect. But my job is to point you to the one who is and it's not the pope and it's not Mary. You understand? It is Jesus and Jesus alone. And you know what? That's all. That's that's my responsibility. That's it. That's all. You know, he called me to do this. I try to do it the best I can. And I know this as long as I point you to his blood, to his resurrection, to his redemption, to follow Jesus with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, to love him, obey him, and walk with him. If I never see you again, if you never attend another church service, if you never I never see you, I hope I see you in heaven because you followed him. Not a man, not a church, not a denomination, not a pope, potentate. He says, "Touch not, taste not, handle not, which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men. I want no part of it." So, the great whore mystery Babylon, she's out there, man. She probably fried our computers through her people in high places. We had our computer brand new. the most expensive computer we have up there, Pride, to stop us from broadcasting the live streaming today, but we still were able to record and this will go up soon.
Now, here's what we're going to do today. I want you to stand. We're going to play some music. Here's what we're going to do. And I feel this very strongly. I'm gonna call my wife up here. We're going to pray for some people. If you need prayer this morning, we're going to lay hands on you and just pray for you. And the only reason we're doing this, why is this a tradition of men? Nope. Jesus said, "If there's any sick among you, let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray. Anointed with oil and the prayer face, you'll save the sick. The Lord will heal him, raise him up." So, we're going to do that. We're we're the elders of the church here. I guess a woman can be an elder and a pastor. I'm gonna deal with that too again. Obviously, obviously we've got there's so much stupid confusion in the world. I love what the Lord said. He said, "When you come together, you may all prophesy one by." Oh, wait a minute. That means women, right? When you come together, 1 Corinthians 14 said, "When you come together, let every one of you have something, a psalm, a teaching, a revelation." Oh, that means women, too. Oh, God said in last days he's going to pour out his spirit on all flesh and my son, your sons and daughters will prophesy. What is prophecy for? Oh, it's for the edification of the church. That means men and women. So, a woman would be edifying, teaching men and women. So, you know, I'm tired of these attacks on my wife because people want to be stupid and cling to the traditions and doctrines of men and not correctly divide the word of truth when it comes to women. Women said I mean there's there's neither male nor female. We are all one in Christ Jesus. So, yes, my wife is an elder in this church and a pastor. Not because I appointed her. So God called her to do that. What's interesting is when the prophet, the true New Testament prophet, Gene May, has been here over the years, 2009 again in 2020, two times specifically prophesied over my wife, that she was called to the five-fold ministry, not only me, that she would preach and teach. And that means men and women. And so I know y'all y'all pull your little verse out of out of one place and then just ignore everything else like Andronicus and Junia and all the others and Phoebe and all these other women. And in fact, it was a whole group of women that went and told the apostles that Jesus was risen and they didn't believe him. So, huh, how is it that women got to be the first evangelist to men, right? who didn't believe even though they had already been told, "Hey, by the way, I'm going to die and rise from the dead." They still didn't believe it. And then they have women, "We were at the grave. He's risen. Angels told us, "Ah, I won't believe until I see it." So, women constantly trying to get us to believe stuff, right? Come here, babe.
I don't know why, but I had I had to deal with that today. I mean, it's amazing. I mean, I I just it's part of my disturbing week that I had. So, that was one of the issues. but we're going to pray for you today if you need prayer. The Bible says also that believers shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. And listen, that doesn't just mean in your body if you're sick. Your soul, which is your mind, will, and emotions can be wounded, hurt, sick. Your heart can be broken, wounded, sick, and you know, when you come up today, you don't even have to tell us. Don't even tell. I don't even want to even appear like I'm I'm your priest or something. We're just going to lay hands. If you want hands laid on you for healing for anything, a broken heart, a tormented mind, or a sick body, we're just going to pray and ask Jesus to touch you and to heal you. We have no power. I have nothing. All I can do is agree with you and ask God to touch you. So this morning or afternoon, whatever it is, if you need prayer, we're just going to pull out the oil. We're going to anoint you with oil. We're just going to lay hands on you. We're just going to pray simple prayer for healing for you. So if you need that this morning, come on. Put us on something good up there. Some good worship song. Amen. I had a feeling we [music] Thank you, Jesus. Let's Let's pray right here. Anybody else? Come on. We're not in a hurry. It's only 12:18. I usually preach at 1:00, so y'all are good. Lord, we've come in Jesus name today. And I just pray for your presence. [music] [singing] Lord, it's when your presence manifest that there is healing. You're the healer as well as the savior. You went about doing good, healing all that were oppressed of the devil. You came to heal the brokenhearted. You healed every manner of sickness and disease. Nothing is too hard. You raised the dead. You healed the crippled, the blind, the lame, those with leprosy. Lord, you made You didn't just heal people, but you made people whole. Lord, limbs that had rotted and fallen off, you brought back. You're the creator, the mighty God. the healer, the deliverer, our only savior,
[singing] Jesus Christ of Nazareth. We call upon you today for these up here as we lay hands upon them [music] for your healing to flow in Jesus name. [Extended worship and altar ministry. Third-party song lyrics are omitted. The congregation worships while ministers pray for healing, deliverance, wounded hearts, and renewed devotion to Jesus.]
That's it right there. That's [music] the song. Somebody say amen to that. Pastor Troy wants to say something. Y'all hang on real quick. Pastor Troy feels wants to share something. when you started the service today, you were very transparent about some things you were going through. And I felt the Lord wanted me to do this today. And I said, "Lord, if you want me to do this, then impress it upon my spirit again at the end of service." And Pastor Dean, you are a leader. And the Lord had me see Moses during battle and he was holding out his arms. And he had to have those that were around him to come and hold up his arms. And I believe there's one more person that needs prayer today and it's you. Amen. And if you let me be obedient to the Lord, I want to pray for you. But the Lord told me some other men in here to call up. We're going to lay hands on you and pray. We got to hold your hands up right now. Can we do that? Okay. So, S Bobby, Donnie, come on up. I want you guys to lay hands on Pastor Dean. Come on over on this side. Where's the oil?
Okay. [snorts] Hold this for me just a second. Anoint him. I'm going to do it just the way I believe the Lord showed me. I'm God told me I'm gonna pray and then every one of us is going to pray one minute. Don't not a long prayer. Just whatever the spirit puts on your heart, but he's got to get some things broken off of him. Praise God. And the enemy has to be pushed back. Amen. Amen. Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord, we lift up this man of God, this apostle before your people. And father, the enemy always goes after the head. And he is our leader, not only of this church, but even of our church. He is the apostolic covering and anointing over these ministries. Father, he is exposing the things the enemy does not want to be exposed. And father, we now as men of God, those that love him and those that are his inner circle. Father, we intercede. We now lift up his hands like Moses' hands were lifted up. His arms were lifted up. And Father, I pray right now, I bind every spirit of heaviness in the name of Jesus. And I command you to go lift off of him right now in the name of Jesus. And Father, you told me to specifically pray this. Father, I pray that you restore the joy of his salvation. Release joy right now in the name of Jesus. The joy of the Lord is his strength from this day forth. Hallelujah. Joy, it is a fruit of the spirit. joy. Lord, release your joy upon them. I pray in the name of Jesus, Johnny. And then Pastor Mike. Okay. Father, we thank you for our pastor. Yes. Pastor Dean. Lord, we just give you praise for him. Lord, we thank you, Lord, that we see truth and we see light in him. And Lord, we thank you, Lord, for a last days minister, Lord God, to stand up in the face of this world and proclaim the blood of Jesus and the truth to this world. And Lord, we just thank you for him. And we just pray, Lord, that you let your Holy Spirit just saturate him today, Lord. Yes. And Father, you said that he watered and he will be watered. And Lord, we thank you for that, Lord.
We thank you that you are that you are. And Lord, I just pray for my brother here, Lord, that you would strengthen him, Lord. We've all been under heavy attack here, Lord. But Lord, we just thank you that you are no weapon shall for be formed against be formed no weapon shall prosper. Yes. Against us. And we thank you, Father, in the name of Jesus. And Father, we just thank you for Pastor Dean. We bless his bless him, Lord. I pray that you'd go before him, that you'd go with him, that you'd be his real gu rear guard, and that you would remind him, Lord, that you're doing this. And in the name of Jesus, we bind all principalities and powers and rulers of darkness, thrones and dominions. We bind from coming against Pastor Dean. In the name of Jesus, the lamb, we rebuke you. We bind you in the name of the most high Jesus. And father in heaven, I just thank you, Lord. Thank you for where you brought us from. Thank you for where you're taken us to. All of us, Lord. Thank you for strengthening us all, Lord. And helping us to remember, Lord, that our pastor, he needs prayer cover, Lord. Help us to remember, Lord, that we need to strengthen them. Yes. And Lord, in the in the brotherhood, Lord, we give you praise, Father, in Jesus name. Jesus name. Father, I thank you for Pastor Dean. I thank you for his ministry. I thank you for his leadership. Lord, I ask you to strengthen him, Lord, as he has stood in the gap. Lord, I ask you to bless him, revive him, renew him, restore him, Lord. Lord, as Pastor Troy said, restore him to the joy of his salvation, Lord. Heal him. Heal his body. In the name of Jesus, I pray as he continues to lead us in the way we should go, Father, in the truth that the world does not want to hear, Lord. But it is your truth, Lord. And we just thank you and praise you for him, his boldness, his leadership, his guidance, and just heal him in the name of Jesus. Amen. Heavenly Father, Lord, I just thank you for Pastor Dean, Lord. And I thank you for Pastor Nancy as well, Lord. God, I just thank you for them, Lord. I thank you for Pastor Dean's boldness to speak against the Roman Catholic Church, Lord. God, and I just I just feel like, Lord, this is going to bless a lot of people, Lord. God, I know that all these teachings, Lord, you've impressed it on Pastor Dean, Lord, to share with us, Lord. And God, these are serious things, Lord. And God, I just thank you for your Holy Spirit, Lord, being poured on Pastor Dean, Lord. And I just pray, Lord, that the gifts, Lord, that you've you've bestowed upon the church, Lord, that you continue to bestow upon Pastor Dean, Lord, and that
we may receive it, God. And Lord, I just pray for healing over Pastor Dean, Lord. And I just thank you so much, Lord, that you've given him to us as a teacher, Lord. God, and God, that you're using him in a mighty way, Lord. God, I'm just I'm grateful, Lord, that you use him to open my eyes and my wife's eyes, Lord. God, and I just pray I pray that the same thing goes for the church here, the congregation, Lord God. And I just thank you, Lord. I thank you so much Lord that you've given us courageous teachers Lord in Jesus name Lord and God I just break off any demonic attacks Lord coming to Pastor Dean Pastor Nancy Lord from Roman Catholics Lord God from Jesuits Lord I break off the power Lord of the demonic attacks coming towards them Lord in Jesus mighty name Lord God and we rebuke them in Jesus' name Lord and we pray that they get saved Lord in Jesus name. And I thank you, Lord. Amen. Father God, I just thank you so much for Pastor Dean and what he does and brings to the to your ministry. He's a man of faith, a man of truth for most, Lord. He brings what you want him to bring in his messages, Lord. And I just praise you and thank you, Lord. I ask that you just fill him up, renew him, fill up his oil, Lord, his lamp, Lord, that is full, bright, and continues to bless this congregation and also to those that are here online and whatnot. Lord, I just praise you. Praise you, Lord. And I just praise this church as well. and for allowing us to grow and to know you closer and that we're able to just be in your word and truth from Genesis to Revelation, Lord. All of it, Lord, that he's not afraid to speak on anything that you have him to speak, Lord. And I just praise and thank you, Lord, for this man, Lord. And I just pray that you heal his body and that you continue to just give him a joy and a renewing of his spirit to lead this church and to just to be what you want him to be Lord and just praise you and thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you. Lord Jesus, I just lift up this ministry, Fire and Grace Church, both Pastor Dean, Pastor Nancy, all these the the church itself that goes out and ministers all over this central Alabama and all over the world. Lord, we just Lord, we just thank you for him. I thank you for follow finding Pastor Dean back in 2016. That just opened my eyes to all the truths that we talk about here, Lord. and how he rebukes and defends the word of God [laughter] and all the things that you're saying that all the lies, deceptions that are out there trying to infiltrate your
church. Lord, we just thank you for his boldness that he is a man's pastor that he's a woman's pastor, too. But he really influences us men to do the things that your word tells us to do. He convicts us, shows us conviction. And Lord, we just pray for him right now, Lord. That you would put a hedge of protection around him and his family, Lord, just that we would that you would just help him to have the strength to go on, Lord. Just we thank you for all that he's doing in this church, Lord, in Jesus name. Yes, Jesus. Father God, Jesus, I thank you so much for bringing Pastor Dean not just into my life, not just into my wife's life, but into all of our lives. Jesus, I'm in agreement with every single prayer that has been spoken thus far. Jesus, I do agree, Jesus. to bring back that original joy of salvation into his life. Bring that same joy back into his wife's life, Jesus. But I also pray, Jesus, that you continue to uplift him, Jesus. It's it's true. I was thinking back about it earlier this week, Jesus, his message, the tip of the spear. And he is the tip of the spear, Jesus. And at least in this church, he's out there waring, Jesus. And I know he spends a lot of time praying for us, Father God. And he's always in the battle. And I just ask Jesus that you resharpen that tip. I ask Jesus that you repolish that tip, Jesus. Jesus, I thank you so much for everything that you are doing for him and everything that you will do for him and everything that you would do for all of us and the body and those that will eventually watch through him, Jesus. Thank you for that boldness, Jesus. And I just pray Jesus that the fruit, the oil, the what drips off of him in boldness would also drip onto all of us, Jesus, that we would have the same exact boldness as our leader in this church, Jesus. I thank you. I bless him in your mighty name, Jesus. Amen. Thank y'all. Thank you. I needed that. [applause] You know, the Apostle Paul begged, pleaded with people to pray for him because of he talked about the weight of the churches, just all the problems. You think about all the problems he had to deal with. I got it easy compared to him. He had a bunch of churches to deal with. I can't even imagine. but thank y'all. I love y'all. And together we're going to follow Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. According to the Bible, we go to follow Jesus. [applause] And that's what we're about. And I I I already I'm tell you the truth, I feel
refreshed already. I do feel lighter and refreshed. I needed that. I'm telling you, I told my wife this week in the middle of my meltdown that I know I have been fighting for several years. Like literally, it's the spirit of death. It's been things like trying to kill me. And my wife even saw it one night. She saw this spirit that was like intershed with my face and it was like death. And the devil's just been trying in different ways just to I just can't even put into words, y'all. I mean you know a year ago I had a heart attack and all that. I should be dead. So, playing 18 holes of golf. Yeah, playing 18 holes of golf in the heat, too. just reminding everybody here, I hope you I hope that you plan to stay at 4:00 for Dr. Frank. I know we're going to have visitors from different parts of the state are going to be here. I want a good I want us to represent Fire and Grace Church good. So, I hope as many of you if you don't have to be somewhere, please. If you have to go home and do some stuff, come back. But be here tonight for Dr. Frank. It's going to be good. And you know, I'll tell you this too about him. He is a born again Christian. He used to be a a music minister. And I mean, he's a he's a brilliant man, Nobel Prize nominated scientist. And but he's going to bring the receipts tonight and you need to know what's going on. And really to tell you the truth, I think it's the last gasp of trying to save our country. This is it. So, but that's at 4:00. So, go get you something to eat. You want to come back here, eat it with us downstairs, you want to hang out until 4, whatever you got to do. But, hug some necks before you leave. All right. God bless. [music]