Gospel Protesting Roman Catholic Feast Days on 28 Oct 2024
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Day: Oct 28, 2024 Preacher: Carlos Montijo [https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo] Series: Evangelism [https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/evangelism] Topic: Roman Catholicism [https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/roman-catholicism] Scripture: Romans 1:16 [https://ref.ly/Rom%201.16;nasb95?t=biblia], Isaiah 53:10 [https://ref.ly/Isa%2053.10;nasb95?t=biblia], Hebrews 10:10–14 [https://ref.ly/Heb%2010.10%E2%80%9314;nasb95?t=biblia], 1 Corinthians 15:1–11 [https://ref.ly/1%20Cor%2015.1%E2%80%9311;nasb95?t=biblia]
Open air bilingual preaching and gospel protesting at a local Roman Catholic church that was celebrating the feast day of St. Jude. Many were listening intently. Someone had called the police on me again like the previous year. When the police showed up they assumed I was being rioutous, but when they soon realized that I was just preaching and exercising my 1st amendment right of free speech, they eventually left. Also had good gospel conversations with some of the people who had attended.
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- Good evening ladies and gentlemen My name is Carlos I'm here to share with you a very important message today
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- You see I grew up in this church myself. I may even know some of you here
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- But until I started to read the Bible I started to learn a very different truth
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- You see the Bible tells us That the gospel is the power of God unto salvation and That it is only through the work of Jesus Christ The perfect Savior and Son of God who can save us
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- The priest has no power over your sins They cannot save you they cannot forgive you
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- It doesn't matter how many our fathers and how many Hail Marys you recite only by understanding and believing the gospel
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- Can you be saved? Only by believing in Jesus Christ in him alone
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- Not in Mary Not in the Saints the
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- Saints Cannot hear you when you pray to them They are not omniscient
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- They are not omnipotent They are not omnipresent Only God can hear your prayers
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- You must lift up your prayers to God and to God alone Solamente Cristo los puede escuchar
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- Maria no las puede escuchar Ella no es omnisciente Los Santos no son omnisciente no son omnipresentes
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- No los pueden escuchar Sus oraciones tienen que levantar sus oraciones ante
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- Dios solamente La Biblia nos dice en la primera carta de
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- Timoteo capítulo 2 que hay un solo mediador entre
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- Dios y el hombre se llama Cristo Jesús el hombre Él es el único mediador que
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- Dios nos ha dado Para el perdón de nuestros pecados y solamente por tener fe en él y en el sacrificio que él hizo por nosotros nosotros podemos estar perdonados
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- Eternamente una vez por siempre en el sacrificio que Cristo hizo en la cruz
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- El sacrificio de la Eucaristía no cuenta por nada
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- Porque es ofrecer a Cristo Otra vez y es escupir en la obra completa el sacrificio completo de
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- Cristo Jesús en la cruz porque en la cruz acuérdense si no saben
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- Cristo dijo ya se cumplió todo mi obra el perdón de los pecados se ha cumplido en mi sacrificio
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- Solamente en él y si nos creemos en él y nos arrepentimos y creemos en el verdadero evangelio podemos tener paz eterna con
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- Dios cuando nosotros ponemos nuestra fe en el verdadero evangelio
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- Cristo nos perdona y no podemos perder nuestra salvación no existe la diferencia o la distinción que la iglesia católica hace entre el pecado venial y el pecado mortal todo el pecado es mortal un solo pecado es bastante para condenarnos en el infierno pero el evangelio es el poder de
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- Dios para la salvación eterna y por creer en él y solamente en él y no en nuestras obras nuestras obras son toallas sucias
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- En ojos de Dios no podemos ofrecer nada que puede satisfacer la ira y la justicia de
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- Dios En el libro de Isaías capítulo 53 nos profetiza el evangelio verdadero y nos dice que le dio gusto al
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- Dios Padre a mandar y echar toda su ira en el sacrificio de su hijo para poder pagar la pena de muerte completa en él y solamente en él solamente el sacrificio de
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- Cristo puede ser puede bastar para perdonar todos nuestros pecados nosotros somos pecadores en
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- Adán El bautismo no quita el pecado original solamente la sangre de
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- Cristo nos purga completamente del pecado original solamente su sangre
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- No señor estoy compartiendo la verdad no no es enseñame la documentación por favor y me bajo no es no es no no soy tonto señor esto es esto es público esto es público
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- Está bien está bien Les quiero pedir Yo no estoy aquí para causar problemas o peleas estoy aquí para compartir esta simple verdad del evangelio de
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- Jesucristo los santos no pueden escucharlos la virgen la maría no puede escucharlos maría fue pecadora en el evangelio de lucas el capítulo 1
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- Maria dijo que mi alma regocija en dios mi salvador ella reconoció que dios es su salvador nosotros tenemos que tener esa misma mismo entendimiento y aceptar la realidad que nosotros somos pecadores y solamente el evangelio nos puede perdonar todo pecado todo nuestro pecado y la pena de muerte que merecemos por nuestros pecados
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- La realidad es que la iglesia católica ha predicado una verdad falsa un evangelio falso que no perdona que no puede ordenar porque cada vez que participan
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- En la caristía están aceptando el sacrificio de cristo que está ofrecido otra vez en el altar eso es falso en la carta de hebreos si leen la carta de hebreos el capítulo 10 nos dice que cristo cumplió el sacrificio de la ira de dios de la pena de muerte una vez por siempre para todos los que creen en él es simplemente por tener fe en él nuestras buenas obras no no hacen nada para nuestro estado eterno solamente la obra perfecta de dios en cristo y aceptar ese sacrificio satisface la ira de dios todos ustedes les quiero avisar estan bajo la ira de dios y la pena de muerte every single one of you who does not accept the gospel is under the wrath and curse of God and Unless and until you believe in christ and in his name
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- You cannot be saved and you will die in your sin Only through believing in him can you be forgiven for all your sins
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- That is what the gospel says and you don't have to take my word for it read the gospel of John Read the letter to the
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- Hebrews Read what God says in his word about his son and the perfection of his work
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- Nothing that we do can earn us good favor and standing with God It is only the finished work of Christ his perfect life and his sacrificial death
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- That can save us and nothing else Nothing else that is why
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- I'm here before you today That is why I'm here before you today so that you can be forgiven
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- Entiendes Si Si señora Estoy predicando el verdadero evangelio
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- Si no me acuerdo Es la iglesia católica
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- Es que tienes que respetarla Dios la bendiga Les estoy diciendo Si no haces caso voy a hablar a la patrullera
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- Está bien le hablaron el año pasado No estoy haciendo nada mal Es que no estés haciendo eso Señora les estoy diciendo la verdad
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- Les estoy diciendo el verdadero evangelio No lo creen por eso estoy aquí Yo crecí en esta iglesia señora
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- Por eso estoy aquí Soy protestante Por eso estoy aquí Para protestar la falsedad
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- Y para predicar la verdad señora Hay que ser zar y luz señora Hay que ser zar y luz
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- Hay que ser zar y luz señora Hay que ser zar y luz Y el que no cree en
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- Cristo Se va a perecer en sus pecados Hay que creer en el verdadero Cristo No en el
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- Cristo de la iglesia católica No en el Cristo de la iglesia mormón Que me vea mal
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- Pero que Cristo se vea bien Que me vea mal Que me vea mal Y no me dijeron nada señor
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- No hice nada mal No estoy haciendo nada mal
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- Les quiero pedir Que solamente No me toques por favor señor
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- Si puedo tocarte No me puedo tocar Les quiero pedir
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- Que solamente en Cristo Puedan estar Only through Christ can you be forgiven.
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- Only if you believe God and his word can you be forgiven for your sins.
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- I urge you today and I plead with you to read the gospel of John. To read the letter to the
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- Hebrews and to come to faith in him and in the true gospel. To examine the teachings of your church against the
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- Bible and against the word of God. I urge you to look what your church truly teaches and compare it to the
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- Bible. Compare it to the scriptures so that you can be forgiven by the true gospel.
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- In the book of Acts chapter 4 verse 12 the
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- Bible says that there is no other name given under heaven by which we might be saved.
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- No other name but Christ alone. He is the only savior for all and anyone.
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- Unless you believe in him and in the right gospel you cannot be saved.
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- And as another example of how your church twists and perverts what the gospel teaches is that you all say and call the priest your father.
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- The Bible says Christ himself said call no man your father for you have one father in heaven.
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- Only he is your father. Only he is your spiritual father. The Bible says in the gospel of Saint Matthew that Christ himself said that you should not call any man your father because you have only one father.
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- He is your eternal father in heaven. That is to deny the reality of what
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- Christ taught. That is why I ask you to read the gospels with your own eyes.
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- To examine what the catholic church teaches. Because what the church teaches is false.
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- That is why the protestant reform happened. That is why Martin Luther the reformist put the 95 theses on the wall.
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- This Thursday 15 -17 protesting the doctrine of indulgences.
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- Because it is an abomination to believe that buying an indulgence from the catholic church can forgive your sins.
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- That is false ladies and gentlemen. That is false. The only one who can forgive our sins is
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- Christ. The only one who has the power to forgive our sins is
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- Christ and his gospel. This gospel is the gospel that I am preaching to you today.
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- And if you listen and receive this word and believe it and accept it as truth.
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- You can have the forgiveness of your sins. All your sins.
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- You don't have to keep on confessing to the priest. There is no need for that.
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- That is spitting in the fulfilled work. Of the fulfilled sacrifice that Christ did on the cross.
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- Once and for all. Read the bible for yourselves.
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- Confirm these things in the bible. Read the bible for yourselves.
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- Look at what it says. And you will find just like I did that it contradicts the teachings of Rome.
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- The teachings of the pope. There is no such thing as a pope in the bible.
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- Yet another example. There is one head. The church has one head.
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- The church of God. The church of Christ has one single head. In 1
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- Corinthians 11 which tells us that Christ is the head of his church.
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- That Christ is our spiritual head. And his father is our father if we believe in him.
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- No one else. No one else is our spiritual father. That is to take away and rob
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- God of his glory and of his title of eternal father. God alone is our spiritual father.
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- He alone can save us. He alone can forgive us.
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- Your saints, the saints have no power to hear you. Listen to me.
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- I'm not telling you this to start a fight. I'm not telling you this to cause any problems.
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- I'm telling you this out of love. And for you all to receive the truth and hear it.
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- That is why I'm telling you to read the scriptures for yourself. And to examine what your church teaches.
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- To look at what the bible says. You will discover that it teaches contrary to Christ and his teaching.
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- It teaches contrary to Christ and his word.
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- It does not teach you the true saving gospel of God, of Christ.
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- There are many different Christ's today. There are many different Christ's that are false.
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- There are many different Christ's. There is the good Christ of Islam. There is the
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- Christ of the Mormon church. There is the Christ of Jehovah's Witnesses. There is the
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- Christ of all these different false religions. That Jesus cannot save you.
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- That Jesus cannot save you. Only the Jesus of the bible can truly save you.
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- There were many opinions of Christ back in his day. Yes, I know.
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- I know. It's not private. It's public. Show me the documentation, please.
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- Show it to me. Show me that it's public. Show it to me, please.
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- I'm not going to let you go until you show it to me. The other man, the lawyer, threatened me again.
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- He spoke to the police and he wasn't doing anything wrong. This is public. I'm not trying to cause problems,
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- I promise. I'm not trying to cause problems. And if I need to step down, I will, but I need proof. This is why
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- I stand before you all today. So that you all can be forgiven through the gospel of God.
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- The true gospel and his word. No other
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- Jesus can save you. The Jesus of Rome cannot save you.
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- My dear people, that is why I plead with you today. This is why I plead with you all today.
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- So that you all can be forgiven. Good day. What's the matter?
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- What are you doing, man? I'm just exercising my First Amendment right. Okay, well, no, not on this church, okay?
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- But it's not on this church. This is my assent to public property. Do you have an ID on you? The wall? Yes, yeah. The wall's not public property.
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- Where's your ID? Well, can I see documentation of that? I didn't think that was...
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- I didn't think this was private. It is. It's a wall on somebody's property. It's a shared wall. But it's part of the property.
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- It's church property. Do you live in this apartment? Yeah, I live right here. I'm just preaching the gospel.
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- Yeah, I've told them I've taken off from the documentation. They're sorry that I was there. I would...
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- I'm not trying to start anything. I promise. Regardless, I know you're not trying to...
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- But, I mean, how long have you lived in this church? Many years. So then you know what kind of people... I grew up in this church.
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- Yeah, so I know a lot of the people here. Yeah, I'm not... I'm not trying to... No, no, no, that's fine.
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- As long as you understand. I know.
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- Yeah. What the person in the community said. I'm not...
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- I'm simply trying to... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Last time they hit one of the members here with a gun because of harassment and threatening.
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- I wasn't allowed to... I was on the sidewalk here. And I followed them for a little bit. No, you're perfectly right.
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- As long as you're on the sidewalk. Yeah. No, if I could just...
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- If I could just get documentation. Because I just didn't know. I thought this was...
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- Because this was a... I thought this was like a public thing. Because they were fixing the wall over here.
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- Because the owner of this property was. So I thought this was like not their property. Regardless, I don't know who owns this wall.
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- If this wall is on their property. Or if the property line for the church is here.
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- Okay? Okay. And maybe it would help to get some clarification. Yeah. Okay, yeah, that's fine.
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- Yeah, I won't cause problems. No, thank you. I appreciate you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you.
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- How do you get up here? You want me to get a chair?
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- Sabina, hold on a second. Hold on. I want to continue to share with you all the truth of the gospel of the power of God unto salvation.
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- That is why I'm here before you today. Please understand. I'm not here to cause problems.
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- I'm not here to cause any problems. I'm here to share with you the truth of God's word. So that you all might be saved.
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- So that you all might be saved. And receive the forgiveness of sin. So that by faith in Him alone we may be forgiven, completely, for His work and not for ours.
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- The Bible says that all our good works are like the tires in the eyes of God.
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- They are not acceptable in God's eyes. solamente
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- Cristo es aceptable en los ojos de Dios y por eso les pido, por eso les pido que sean perdonados solamente por fe en él.
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- Es entender este evangelio que les estoy compartiendo y recibir ese perdón por sus pecados.
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- That is why I am here before you all today to plead with you to believe the gospel, the true gospel, the only gospel that saves.
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- There is only one gospel and that gospel is that Christ who was
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- God, who is God, became a man to live a perfect life, to satisfy the death penalty that we all deserve in Adam because Adam failed on our behalf.
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- That is why we are born sinners and unless we believe in Christ we cannot be forgiven and Jesus said if you do not believe that I am he you will die in your sin.
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- That is why I'm calling you all today to trust in Christ alone only that Jesus can save you.
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- No other Jesus can save you. Only the Jesus of the Bible can save you.
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- Not the Mormon Jesus, not the Jehovah's Witness Jesus, not the Roman Catholic Jesus.
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- That is a different gospel and only the gospel of Christ in his word in the
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- Word of God can save. That is why I plead with you all today. I ask you all to take a honest look at what your church teaches and what the
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- Bible teaches. Look at it for your own eyes. Examine those things for yourself.
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- Trust in God in his word. Ask him to show you the truth. Do not let false religion to deceive you.
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- Allow God to speak to you but God only speaks through his means and that is why he has given us his
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- Bible. That is why he has given us his word. That is why we have the
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- Bible so every one of us can look at it and read it with our own eyes.
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- That is how we can be forgiven for all of our sins by understanding the gospel and by accepting what he taught in his word as true.
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- Jesus said, I came here to give my life as a ransom for many.
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- Those many are every single one of you that believes the true gospel that Christ died for sinners like 1st
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- Corinthians 15 tells us. He died for sinners and only by trusting in him like the book of Acts tells us in chapter 4 verse 12.
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- Look at it for yourself in your own eyes. There is no other name given under heaven by which we might be saved.
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- The only name is the name above every name that can forgive us and that is the name of Jesus Christ alone.
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- But do not be deceived because there are many Christ's and there are many false
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- Christ's and the Bible warns us about those false
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- Christ's. The Bible warns us about them and who they are.
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- The false Christ's are everyone that does not bring to you the Jesus of the
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- Bible is false and is of the Antichrist is of the Antichrist and only through him can we receive forgiveness of sins but it must be the true
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- Jesus of the Bible. No other Jesus can save. No no other
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- Jesus can save. Only the Christ of the Bible.
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- Read these Gospels for yourself. Read the Gospel of John, the
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- Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of Luke, the Gospel of Mark.
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- Read the book of Hebrews. The book of Hebrews was written precisely for the types of teachings that the
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- Catholic Church teaches that says are false. I pray that God would open your eyes to see the
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- Gospel, the true Gospel, the what it really and truly is.
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- Do not let, do not put your trust in religion from the priests or from saints or from what your church tells you.
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- You need to confirm these things like the Bereans did. You see in the book of Acts the
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- Apostles, the very Apostles themselves were preaching the
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- Gospel to the Bereans and the Bereans they said the
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- Bible says that they were more noble because they searched the Scriptures daily to see if what the
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- Apostles themselves were teaching was true and they did and then so they believed because they checked with the
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- Scriptures what the Apostles were preaching, what the Apostle Paul was preaching and they saw that what they were preaching agreed with the
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- Word of God, with the Old Testament. That is what we have a responsibility to do because the
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- Bible says let God be true but every man a liar.
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- All of us have lied. All of us are sinners. All of us will perish and die in our sins unless and until we believe the
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- Gospel, the true Gospel. But I am standing before you today to warn you that the
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- Gospel that your church teaches is false and the true
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- Gospel was condemned by your own church in the
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- Council of Trent because the Council of Trent which happened as a response to the
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- Reformation teaches that if anyone believes that we are justified, that we are made right before God by faith alone then he is accursed to hell and that my friends is what the
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- Bible says is the true Gospel. Nothing that you do can earn your forgiveness before God.
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- That is why Christ came. To think that we can do anything to earn God's justice or favor or right standing is a mockery of what
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- Christ has done on the cross and on our behalf because that is why
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- Christ came. That is why the Gospel of Mark says why Jesus himself said that I have come that you may have life and to give my life as a ransom for many.
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- Why a ransom? Why did Jesus have to give his life as a ransom for many, for those who would believe in him?
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- Because apart from Christ and what he did for us on the cross we can have no forgiveness of sins.
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- That is why Jesus said unless you believe that I am who
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- I say I am, that I am the Messiah, that I have come to be your
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- Savior, you will die in your sins. You will perish in your sins.
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- That is why Jesus revealed his word in his Bible to confirm and examine what the man says.
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- That is why it is so important to discern and compare what the
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- Bible says against what the priest or any other person says.
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- Even I, the only way we can know the truth, is by the
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- Holy Spirit in the word of God. That is why in the
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- Gospel of Matthew, Christ asked
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- Peter, who tells people who I am? And Peter said to Christ, believe in different things.
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- There are people who say that you are a man, that you are a prophet. And Christ then asked
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- Peter, who do you think I am? And Peter said, you are the
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- Christ, the Son of God. And Christ answered him, you are blessed,
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- Peter, because the flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but the
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- Holy Spirit has revealed it to you. You see, that is because truth and belief in God comes only by his
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- Spirit, his Holy Spirit. But how do we know, how do we know if we have the
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- Spirit of God? That is what the Bible is for. That is what the
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- Bible is for, to confirm the truth of God in his word and in his
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- Gospel. Only Christ forgives. This statue is an idol, and the true
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- Judas Taddeus would be in horror to see this.
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- He would be provoked by idolatry. He does not hear them.
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- I am sorry to tell you that this saint who is in heaven is not omniscient and does not hear them.
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- The prayers they offer to Judas Taddeus, they do not hear them.
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- Only Christ hears them. They offer prayers to Christ.
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- Only in Christ. It does not matter.
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- The truth is in the word. Only God can save you.
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- Only God can hear you. I offer you this to plead with you so that you can know the truth and so that the truth can set you free.
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- Only God can hear you. Jude cannot hear you. He is not omniscient.
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- Mary is not omniscient. These are not omnipresent. They are mere men and women like you and I.
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- They cannot hear you. Only God can hear you.
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- Pray to God and Him alone. The Bible says that there is one
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- God and one mediator between God and men. The man,
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- Christ Jesus. That is why I appeal to you today. That is why
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- I come before you today. To tell you that only Christ can save you and only
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- Christ can hear you. No one else can hear you, my dear friends. That is why
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- I come before you. That is why I am out here. To tell you the truth and to share with you these things.
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- Because only Jesus can hear you. If you pray to anybody else, it is in vain.
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- Only God can hear us. Only God is omniscient. And I know deep down inside that you know these things and you understand them.
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- Because what you believe is a contradiction. Man cannot hear you.
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- Man cannot save you. Only God can hear you and only
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- God can save you. Trust in Him and in Him alone.
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- Only He can save you and only His gospel can save you. Remember, you may not want to hear me now, but go home today and check 1
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- Timothy 2 .5 with your own eyes and your own Bible that there is one
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- God and only one mediator between God and men.
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- The man, Christ Jesus. Only Christ can hear you.
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- No other saint can hear you. No other person can hear you.
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- No other person can forgive you. The only one, the only one who can hear you and forgive you is
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- Jesus Christ. You don't need a priest to offer your sins to.
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- That is what Christ is for. That is why Christ came. Jesus said,
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- Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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- The priest cannot give you rest. The saints cannot give you rest.
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- Because the saints did not die for you. Mary did not die for you. Only Jesus died for our sins.
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- And unless you believe in Christ and in Him alone, you cannot be forgiven.
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- That is why I plead with you. Do not take your sins to the priests.
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- Do not take your sins to Mary. Do not take your sins to saints because they cannot hear you.
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- I know deep down you understand these things and you cannot deny them because they are the truth.
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- Only God can hear you. Only God is omniscient.
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- Only God is savior. Only God can hear your prayers and forgive you.
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- No one else can. No one else can. That is why
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- I plead with you to hear God and His word.
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- To read the Bible for yourself. To trust in Him alone because only
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- He can hear you and only He can forgive you. Only He can save you and only through Jesus Christ can
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- He hear you and receive you. You see, in the
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- Gospel of John, chapter 14, verse 6, look this up in your own
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- Bible. The Gospel of John, chapter 14, verse 6,
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- Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
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- No one comes to the Father but by Me. No one can come to the
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- Father, my friends, but through Christ and Him alone.
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- Jesus is saying to come to Me, not to men, not to a priest, not to a saint who cannot hear you.
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- They are not omniscient. They are not omnipresent. They cannot hear you.
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- Only Jesus Christ can hear you. He is God. He alone is the true
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- God -man, the one mediator that God has given us.
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- So take advantage of the Savior, of the mediator.
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- Take advantage of what He has done for you. Listen to Him in His Word.
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- Check these things in your own Bible. You will see that everything that I am telling you is true.
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- May the Lord open your eyes to see His Word and the truth of His Gospel.
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- Because only the Gospel of grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, by the grace and glory of God alone, on the authority of His Word, of His Bible alone, can we be forgiven, only through Him and His Word may we be forgiven.
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- He is the only mediator between God and men, the man
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- Christ Jesus. So I plead with you today to turn to Christ and Him alone, not to saints who cannot hear you, not to Mary who cannot hear you.
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- None of these people can hear you. No one but Jesus Christ can save you and receive you.
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- That is why Jesus Himself said, Come to Me, come to Me, not to saints and not to Mary and not to your priest, but come to Me, to Jesus Christ, and I will give you rest.
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- I will give you salvation. I will give you forgiveness of sins.
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- Only Christ can save you. Only Christ can receive you into eternity.
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- Only Christ and His Word and His Spirit can receive you. Only the
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- Spirit of God can grant you the faith to believe the truth of His Word and His Gospel.
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- It is by faith alone in Christ. There is nothing that you can do for yourself, not even confessing your sins to the priest.
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- That cannot save you. Jesus said that the
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- Pharisees pray in vain, in repetition. They offer vain prayers of repetition before God.
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- And God says, Jesus said that He does not hear them because they pray in vain, because they do not believe in Christ and they do not turn to Christ alone.
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- Only Jesus Christ can hear you. The saints and Mary cannot hear you.
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- They are not omniscient. They are not omnipresent. God alone is omnipresent.
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- Only He can hear you. That is why I plead with you to turn to Him and Him alone, so He can receive you and forgive you truly.
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- Only check for yourself.
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- You can look at your own Bible and see that these things are what
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- God has said in His Word. I urge all of you to check the
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- Scriptures yourself, to read the Gospel of John, the four
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- Gospels. You will find that Jesus said,
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- I am the way, the truth and the life, and that no one, none of you and none of us can come to the
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- Father except through Christ alone. That is why
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- He came to live and die for us, for those of us who believe in Him. But it is only through His sacrifice and His life and death, and because of who
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- He is, because He Himself is God, and He Himself is the only mediator between God and men.
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- Read for yourself these things. In John chapter 14, verse 6, no one can come to Jesus except through Christ alone.
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- No one can come to the Father except through Christ alone. No one can come to the one true
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- God except through Christ alone. Because the Bible says in Acts chapter 4, verse 12, that there is no other name given under heaven by which we must be saved but Christ alone.
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- Because His name is the name that is above every other name.
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- He alone can save us. That's why I urge you to examine these things today, to check the
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- Bible for yourself, check the Gospel of John, check the letter to the
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- Hebrews. The letter to the Hebrews says that the sacrifice of Christ was finished once for all.
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- There is no longer a need to offer up Christ in the sacrifice of the mass.
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- That is an abomination in God's eyes. That is to spit upon the finished work of Christ.
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- That is to deny what Jesus Christ has done for us. I'm perfectly sober, sir.
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- I'm not on any drugs. Never have been. The only thing
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- I come before you to tell you is that you need to listen to the God of the Bible and that He alone can save you.
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- He alone can save you. I urge you and plead with you to trust in God, in His Word, and in Jesus Christ Himself who said,
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- No one can come to the Father except through me. Not through Mary.
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- Not through saints who cannot hear you. None of those people who were sinners can hear you.
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- My friends, only Christ can hear you.
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- Only Christ can receive you and give you the full forgiveness of sins. That is what the
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- Reformation was all about. That is what the
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- Reformation was all about. That is why the
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- Reformer Martin Luther, who was a monk, nailed 95 theses to the
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- Catholic Church door to protest the indulgences of Rome, which still teaches us today that you can forgive people's sins in purgatory if you buy an indulgence in their name.
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- That is a lie from the pit of hell. Only the blood of Christ can forgive you.
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- And if you do not receive Christ and His Gospel and His Word, you cannot and will not be forgiven.
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- That is why Jesus said, Unless you believe that I am who
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- I say I am, you will die in your sins. That is why
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- I am here today. That is why
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- I plead with you today, so that you can hear the true
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- Gospel. I don't want you to die in your sins. I want you to have eternal life.
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- I don't want you to die in your sins. That is why I plead with you today.
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- Only Jesus Christ can save you from your sins.
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- You see, because your church teaches, the Catholic Church teaches, that baptism wipes the stain of original sin.
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- But I'm afraid the Bible teaches that that's a lie. There is only one thing that wipes away our sins.
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- And it is not your baptism. It is the blood of Jesus Christ alone that wipes your sin away.
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- Ephesians chapter 1, Colossians, tells us these things. That only the blood of Jesus wipes away all our sin.
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- Not your baptism. That is a lie. The blood of Christ alone is sufficient to wipe our sins away.
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- All of them. And unless you believe in Him and in His work, and in the blood of His sacrifice on the cross, you cannot be saved and you will die in your sins.
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- And the Bible does not teach that there is purgatory. The Bible teaches that there is hell and that there is heaven.
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- And unless you receive Christ now in this life, Jesus Himself said in Luke chapter 13, verse 3, that God will have you perish eternally unless you believe in His gospel.
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- Unless you believe in Him, you will perish forever.
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- That is why I'm here before you all today. I don't want any of you to perish.
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- Jesus Christ said that I come to give you life. But the only way that you can have life is by believing that He alone is sufficient to wipe away all your sins.
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- That is why I tell you today, do not take your sins to the priest.
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- He can do nothing about them. Take your sins to Christ because only
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- His blood can forgive them away and wipe them away for good forever.
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- Only the blood of Christ can wipe them away. That is what Hebrews chapter 10, verse 10 tells us, that His sacrifice has satisfied and His blood has wiped away our sin once for all.
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- But if you do not believe these things and if you continue to take your prayers and your sins to Mary and the saints and the priests, that is denying what
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- Jesus Christ has done for you. Only Christ can forgive you.
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- Only Jesus Christ can save you. Only He can hear you.
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- He alone has the power to hear you and save you.
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- I plead with you all today for this reason to read the
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- Gospels for yourself. Read the Gospel of John. Read the letter to the
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- Hebrews. Read the Gospel of Matthew where Jesus Christ Himself said,
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- Do not call anyone Father because you only have one
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- Father in Heaven. That is if you believe in Him. No man on earth is your spiritual
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- Father. Only God is your Father if you believe in Him and His Word. Jesus said to call no man your
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- Father. Read the
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- Gospel of Matthew. Do not call no man your
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- Father because you only have one Father in Heaven. The only spiritual
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- Father is God the Father. That is what Jesus said in the
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- Gospel of Matthew. Do not call no man your
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- Father. The only Father is God the Father in Heaven.
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- That is what Jesus said. Jesus also said that if you do not believe that I am the only perfect sacrifice for the forgiveness of your sins, you do not have the forgiveness of Christ.
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- The Bible tells us that there is only one name that can hear us.
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- There is only one mediator. In the first letter of Timothy, chapter 2, verse 5.
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- That mediator is Christ Jesus, the man. Christ is the only mediator.
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- Christ is the only salvation that exists for the forgiveness of our sins.
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- Only Christ hears us. The forgiveness of our sins.
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- That is why I ask you today not to confess your sins to the priest.
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- Confess your sins to Christ. Christ is just to receive and forgive all your sins.
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- The priest cannot forgive your sins. Only Christ can forgive your sins.
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- Take away your sins. Give away your sins. All your sins to Christ.
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- And he will receive them and forgive them. Christ said that you cannot.
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- There is only one mediator. Only I.
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- No one can reach the true God except through Christ.
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- Not through the saints. Not through Mary. Not through any other man.
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- Not through the priests. Only Christ can hear his help for the forgiveness of all his sins.
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- Take away your sins to Christ. And Christ will receive them and hear you and forgive you.
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- But you have to go to him. And only to him. Not to any other person.
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- Not to any other saint. Not to any other man.
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- Not to any priest. Only Christ can receive you.
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- That is why I ask you. That is why I ask you today to listen and read the
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- Bible for yourselves. Because Mary and the saints do not hear their prayers.
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- They are praying in vain. They cannot hear them.
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- Mary and the saints are not omniscient. They are not omnipresent.
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- Only God can hear their prayers. Only God is omniscient and omnipresent.
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- The Pope is not the head of the Church. That is denying the first letter of Corinthians in chapter 11 where the
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- Bible says that there is only one head of man and that head is
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- Christ. The only head of the Church is Christ, not the
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- Pope and not the priests. Christ alone is the head of His Church, not the
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- Pope. According to 1 Corinthians chapter 11, read this with your own eyes, where the
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- Bible says that the head of every man is Christ alone, not the
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- Pope. The Pope is not the head of the true Church.
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- Christ alone is the head of the true Church of God. Christ is the head of the
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- Church and Christ alone can hear your prayers.
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- Pray to Christ instead. Turn to Christ for your sins.
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- Don't turn to Mary and the saints because they cannot hear you.
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- They are not omniscient. They are not omnipresent. They cannot hear you today or any day.
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- Only Christ and God can hear you because the
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- Bible says that the only mediator between God and man is
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- Christ alone, the man Christ Jesus, the
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- God -man Christ Jesus. That is why
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- He came. That is why He died on the cross.
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- Not so that you would take your sins to a priest and have to confess them over and over again, but so that you can confess your sins to Christ and be forgiven once for all and always be forgiven because Christ Himself said that everyone who comes to Me shall not perish but have eternal life and no one will snatch them from out of My hands.
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- No one else can hear you in heaven. I plead with you.
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- The only person who can hear you in heaven is
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- God alone, is Christ alone, is the Holy Spirit alone.
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- Mary in heaven cannot hear you. The saints in heaven cannot hear you.
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- Only God can hear you. Pray to God for the forgiveness of your sins.
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- Pray to Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Only Jesus Christ can hear you and save you.
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- Do not be deceived. Do not be deceived.
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- I grew up in this church. I grew up in your church.
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- I used to go to this church. I used to follow the sacraments of the church.
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- I received my first communion and my baptism in this church. But when
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- I began to read the Bible, I discovered the word of God that contradicts what this church teaches.
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- And the Catholic Church, that is why now
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- I am a Protestant. That is why now
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- I understand that the Bible teaches us that Christ is the only mediator before man and God.
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- The only bridge that God has given us, the only way that God has given us to access
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- God is Christ Himself. I appreciate it.
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- Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. No, thank you. I'm good. That is why
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- I am offering this to you so that you may think for yourselves.
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- I simply want you to receive these things and to start thinking, to read the
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- Bible for yourselves, so that you may see the truth of God in the word that I am sharing with you today.
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- The only one who can hear you in heaven are not the saints.
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- It is not Mary. None of those people can be heard in heaven because they are not
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- God. They are not omniscient. They are not omnipresent. The only one who can hear them, all those prayers offered to those people are in vain.
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- The only prayer that God hears is the prayer directly to Him, to God the
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- Father, to God the Son, to God the Holy Spirit, because Christ is the only mediator between God and man, the man
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- Christ Jesus. Read for yourselves the Bible, the first letter of Timothy, chapter 2, verse 5.
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- This true word of God is what I am sharing with you today.
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- Only God can hear you and forgive you, confess your sins to the priest.
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- It is in vain because only the blood of Christ forgives sins once and for all, as the letter of Hebrews says, chapter 10, verse 10.
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- Read it for yourselves. That is why you must confess your sins only to Christ, and He will receive you and forgive you.
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- Do not be deceived by man. Do not be deceived by false religion.
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- Read the Bible with your own eyes. Read the
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- Bible for yourselves to see what God says so that you may receive the eternal truth of God and the gospel of God, because only
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- Christ can receive you and hear your prayers.
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- Mary does not hear you. The saints do not hear you. If you are looking for a church in the
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- El Paso, Texas area, or for more information about our church, sermons, and ministries, such as Semper Ephraim on the radio, and Thorn Crown Network podcasts, please contact us at thorncrownministries .com.