Matt Slick Bible Study - Catholicism - Eucharist - 6/21/17

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Hi.

How are you doing?

This is my shirt I got in Hawaii.

And so we don't have a big crowd here anymore because the radio show is not here in the

area.

As I said before, different issue.

We're going to go over to the Roman Catholic Mass and expose its flaming heresy

and expose it for what it is, a false teaching.

And then we'll take questions and answers after the break.

So that's what we're going to do.

And I'm just going to say before, I'll pray, but no Protestants should get involved with working with the

Roman Catholic Church in any doctrinal way, period.

It is an apostate church.

It is not a true church.

And I will stand by that till the day I die.

And the reason I will is because of things like this and things we've been doing lately.

It's a false church.

I believe the word of God and not the traditions of men.

So let's pray.

We'll just jump right in.

Hope everything works fine.

Hope everything's good.

Lord Jesus, we thank you for this time.

And I ask Jesus that you would bless it and that all who would hear it now and later will be blessed

by the teaching of these words.

Lord, I believe we need to be strong.

I believe we need to be firm and stand upon the truth of your word and not compromise.

And Lord, we need that truth.

We need the truth that you have given us.

I ask Lord that you would bless it.

You bless this time, bless this effort, and that you would bring Roman Catholics out of Catholicism

and into a relationship with you that they might find salvation in you.

We ask this Jesus in your precious name.

Amen.

All right.

So what we're going to do is just jump right in to the issue of the Mass.

Do a lot of reading and we'll go through stuff.

This is from a manual I've got in Roman Catholicism.

I shortened it a little bit and we're doing this.

It's nice because people ask me to do that.

After we do this, we're basically done and then we're going to decide what we're going to do if we want to continue or take the summer off or whatever.

We can figure things out.

So here we go.

According to Roman Catholicism, the Mass is an act of worship that centers around the Eucharist, which is the

communion of bread and wine where faithful Catholics go to participate to receive the

Lord's body and blood.

They call it the actual body and blood of Christ.

It's called transubstantiation.

So check this out.

You can see the picture of the priest there and the Eucharist.

During the Liturgy of the Mass, at the point of consecration, the priest is supposed to repeat the words that Christ gave in the last

summer.

And by the authority given him by the church, he transforms the bread and the wine into Christ's

actual body and blood.

This transformation is called transubstantiation and the Roman Catholic Church has a lot to say

about it.

So when the Roman Catholic Church lifts the wafer up and says his thing, then what happens

is it is transformed into the actual body and blood of Christ.

But if you were to take it and look under a microscope, it's still bread and wine.

So the essence of the nature is supposed to be there, but that doesn't make any sense because if something has an essence, then it's going to have an

essence of nature and it's going to have properties.

So this podium, for example, it has the nature of being a podium and

you can hear it's hard and has certain angulation and things like this.

And if we were to do a Microsoft examination and we found out that it was water and cotton, you'd be like, what?

This makes no sense.

And it wouldn't make any sense.

And the same kind of thing with the Eucharist.

It's elevated.

It's spoken over.

I call it a chant that once certain things are said and done, then there is an automatic resultant

physical change.

And we call this sorcery.

What they do in sorcery is they want a spiritual manifestation

and or a physical manifestation.

So they'll say certain words and do a certain thing a certain way.

And each time it's done, a certain spiritual result occurs.

We call that sorcery.

This is what's going on here by the so -called authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

In the most blessed in paragraph, the CCC is Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph

1374.

In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist, the body and blood together with the soul and divinity

of our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore the whole Christ is truly, really and substantially

contained.

I mean, to me, you know, I'm a Bible student.

You read that and you go, what?

Where's that in Scripture?

Now I'm going to show you this can't work from the Bible.

Paragraph 1378.

In the liturgy of the mass, we express our faith in the real presence of Christ and under the species of

the bread and wine.

Now check this out.

This is a Council of Trent, session 13, Canon 2.

If anyone says that in the sacred and most holy and holy sacrament of the Eucharist, there remains

the substance of bread and wine together with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and

denies that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body and of the

entire substance of the wine into the blood, the species of the bread and wine only remaining, a

change which the Catholic Church most fittingly calls transubstantiation, let him be anathema.

In other words, if you deny that the elements actually become the

body and blood of Christ, if you deny that the actual body, the actual body and

blood of Christ, if you deny that you're cursed.

I deny it.

I guess I'm cursed by the Roman Catholic thing.

This is in Council of Trent, session 13, chapter 5.

Wherefore there is no room left for doubt that all the faithful of Christ may, according to the custom ever

received in the Catholic Church, render in veneration the worship of Latria,

which is due to the true God, to this most holy sacrament.

This is a critical statement.

You've got to understand something.

Let me tell you what this is.

This is the proof of idolatry in the Roman Catholic Church.

This is proof.

Now, what's going on here is this.

Latria is worship given, in Roman Catholic theology, Latria is worship given only

to God.

Hyperdulia is worship that's given to Mary.

Veneration is to the saints.

Mary is given hyperdulia, but Latria is only to God.

Now, they render in veneration the worship of Latria,

that's to God, which is due to the true God right there, to this most holy sacrament.

In other words, because it becomes the actual body and blood of Christ, you're to worship it as God.

That's what it says.

Now, they get into what's called the monstrance.

Let's check this out.

According to Roman Catholicism, the bread and wine contain the body, blood, soul, and divinity

of Jesus.

This is ridiculous.

Now, the wafer is actually Jesus, the whole of Jesus.

And you'd think, what are they going to do?

Are they going to worship it?

Anyway, that Jesus is present under the bread and wine, that if they say there remains bread and wine in the elements, then you are to be

cursed.

That's what they say.

Now, check this out.

The last statement about worshiping the host, the host elements, has given rise to the

monstrance, an exceedingly ornate container which has at its center the Eucharistic

wafer.

The monstrance is often elevated and worshiped during a procession.

I can take that word and out, my bad, typo.

So that monstrance, if you can see what that is, that monstrance right there

is, inside of it is a wafer that has been transformed into the body and the blood of

Christ.

So the soul, the divinity, the body, and the blood are there in that wafer.

So therefore, what they'll do is they take it, they put it in this monstrance, very ornate, gold, all this, and

they will parade it around, and Roman Catholics pray to it, worship it, and bow to it.

There's a word for that in theology.

We call that idolatry.

But, you know, the fact is one error leads to another error.

This is what they do.

This is, there's no way we Protestants could work with the Catholics.

This is idolatry.

And this isn't all of it.

There's more.

Now, the mass is also a means of grace, since it's a sacrament.

Council of Trent, Session 7, Canon 6.

If anyone sayeth that the sacraments of the new law do not contain the

grace which they signify, let it be anathema.

Contain the grace.

Now notice what this means.

Remember, I've talked about this before.

In Catholicism, the sacraments contain grace.

When you participate in the sacraments, what happens is the grace itself is infused into

you, and the more grace you have, the more righteous you are before God.

That's something I would have thought that Mormonism would have come

up with.

I mean, seriously, that could have been something Joseph Smith could have invented, and everybody would have said, that's false.

But because

the

Catholic Church, paragraph 2092, Sunday is to be observed as the foremost holy day of

obligation in the universal church.

On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are bound to participate in the mass.

This ceremony, where they have the Eucharist and the elevation of it by the priest, it's changing it into

blood and wine, the soul and divinity of Jesus actually becomes this wafer.

So what happens?

You take it, you put it in your pocket.

Jesus is in my pocket now.

I mean, seriously, what happens if a crumb falls on the ground and a rat comes and

eats it?

Because that used to happen.

And then they weren't sure what to do about that.

There was big discussions in the Roman Catholic Church.

Now the rat has eaten the body and blood and divinity of Christ.

What do we do?

Seriously.

I'm not making fun of that.

These are real problems that they had to deal with.

And then there's something about it, some arguments about when you eat it, it's dissolved into your body and

then it stops being divine because, you know, you have to go to the bathroom.

Then what happens?

Well, there's some place where it's kind of diffused.

And, you know, I'd be interested in reading up on that just to see what they had to say there.

But this is just, to me, this is just tragically bad.

According to the New Saint Joseph Baltimore Catechism, volume two, page 357, quote,.

The Mass is the sacrifice of the new law in which Christ, through the ministry of the priests, offers himself to

God in an unbloody manner under the appearance of bread and wine.

The Mass is the sacrifice of Christ offered in a sacramental manner.

The reality is the same, but the appearances differ.

So each time the Mass occurs, there's a sacrifice of Christ.

Each time the Mass occurs, there's a sacrifice of Christ.

So each time they have a Mass, it's a sacrifice of Christ all over again.

I mean, this kind of stuff just makes me mad because it's a lie.

But wait, there's more.

The Roman Catholic Church also states regarding the Eucharist presented in the Mass that, quote, from

paragraph 1068 of the Catechism, it is a divine sacrifice, for it is in the liturgy,

especially in the divine sacrifice of the Eucharist, that the work of our redemption is

accomplished.

Paragraph 1367, the

sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice.

The victim is one and the same.

The same now offers through the ministry of priests who then offered himself on the cross only the manner of

offering is different.

And since in this divine sacrifice, which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody

manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner.

This sacrifice is truly propitiatory.

Propitiation is the sacrifice that turns away wrath.

So this Mass that they go through, which is a Roman Catholic ceremony where they

reenact, in a sense, the sacrifice of Christ, and it's a real sacrifice, a real propitiatory sacrifice

that's offered over and over and over and over and over again.

Every Sunday, all over the world, Roman Catholic Church, heresy fest.

This is out of paragraph 1369.

The sacrifice of Christ, the only mediator, which in the Eucharist is offered through the priest's hands.

It's paragraph 1414.

As sacrifice, the Eucharist is also offered in reparation for the sins of the living and the dead.

If anyone says that the sacrifice of the Mass is only a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, or

that it is a bare commemoration of the sacrifice consummated on the cross, but not a propitiatory sacrifice, let it be

anathema.

Trent on the sacrifice of the Mass, Canon 3.

And this is Catholic Encyclopedia topic, Sacrifice of the Mass.

It says this, the Church intends the Mass to be regarded as a true and proper sacrifice.

Now, is it a sacrifice according to the Roman Catholic Church?

It's a sacrifice.

There's a re -sacrificing Christ over and over and over again.

Look at this verse here, the bottom here.

By this, by this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus

Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10 .10.

Once for all it was offered.

Once for all the sacrifice was offered.

Once for all.

Once.

The Roman Catholic Church and its blasphemy of the Mass re -sacrifices Christ, even though it doesn't really

happen, but they believe it happens.

They lift the monstrance up and it's prayed to and adored and worshiped.

This is flat out idolatry.

It is idolatrous.

You know, you can, if you've been following me through these, you know that I get a little bit agitated about these things,

and rightly so.

I get agitated about Joseph Smith from Mormonism saying God came from another planet and has a goddess wife and they have sex and make

spirit babies.

That's false?

False.

Or the Muslims who say there is no trinity and that Jesus didn't die on the cross, but someone was made to look like

Jesus.

It's stupidity, idiocy.

This is no different than those kind of lies.

And it's even worse because it's inside the guise, inside the guise of what appears to be Christianity.

What's interesting is since I have been studying Catholicism now for a few years and writing about it here and there,

I've seen old movies from the 30s, 40s, 50s, where Roman Catholic priests are actually portrayed as

being decent people.

You know, Hollywood does now.

They're pedophile, rapist, murderer, serial killer, bank robbers who are into drugs and porno, you

know, as all ministers basically are.

That's what Hollywood is doing and it's going to pay for that before God.

But nevertheless, back in the day, the priests were regarded, the Catholic Church was regarded as halfway decent.

And I would watch these things and as I learned, I know what you really teach.

And I would think, you heretics.

And it reminds me, Apollo 13, Tom Hank movie, Apollo 13, I was watching

it a few weeks ago, rerun of course.

And, you know, things go bad.

And so the reporters are outside Tom Hank's character's house.

The wife is there and there's a priest on the couch with them.

He has a collar.

I'm assuming he's a priest, Catholic priest.

You know, I was just thinking, I was just thinking, my son is out on the moon and something

happens and they come over and a priest comes over.

I go, you get out of here.

You're out.

You know, I don't want you near me.

I don't want your blasphemy near me.

I'd rather have an atheist in than a Roman Catholic priest.

Gosh, at least an atheist, you know, they're an atheist.

They're not deceiving the way the Catholic church is.

Oh, you know, I'm really hard -nosed about this kind of stuff.

I do not like the Roman Catholic church.

I do not.

Because I know what it is.

And I know that people here, I've seen it in Europe.

I've seen it in Europe.

I've seen that the, what's it called, man, indulgences.

I've been to churches there.

And I've seen in France, for example, where I could read enough French, Spanish, Greek, they're kind of, you know,

intermixed.

I could read what's going on.

I don't speak French.

And it was like souls, you put money in this one little area and souls get out of purgatory.

This is present day.

Actually, it was 20 years ago when I was, when I went there.

And, you know, when I was on a cruise a couple, three years ago doing a apologetic cruise, spoke nine times in

eight days.

Yeah, some cruise.

And I went to, no, that was a different one.

At any rate, I went there, whatever.

I was in Mexico and I went to a Catholic church and the same thing is going on.

The same idolatry, the same misrepresentation of the truth is going on.

The Roman Catholic church, if it's not the great whore of Babylon, is sure a good candidate.

In response, Roman Catholicism says the mass is a re -presentation of the sacrifice.

We may ask, how is it possible for the mass,

for the mass not to be a re -sacrifice of Christ when, you know, typo in there, when the mass is called a divine

sacrifice that is done over and over again?

It's a re -sacrifice.

Well, they call it a re -presentation, but it's actually a re -sacrifice.

But they'll say, well, it's not a real sacrifice.

What it is is a re -presentation.

Yeah, we're not really worshiping Mary.

We just pray to her, believe she can hear all her prayers just like God does.

You know, she crushed the head of the serpent.

She made atonement for it.

We're not worshiping her.

Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.

Then shoot it, then eat it, right?

That's my redneck buddy.

All right.

So when Jesus instituted the Last Supper, did he intend for people to believe that the bread and wine he

held in his hands were literally his body and blood?

We find this difficult to accept when you look at the scriptures.

Check this out.

Matthew 26, 26 -28.

While they were eating, Jesus took some bread and after a blessing, he broke it and gave it to the

disciples and said, take, eat, this is my body.

And when he had taken a cup and given thanks, he gave it to them saying, drink from it, all of you, for this is my

blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

All right.

So let's review.

The Roman Catholics tell me, they'll say, you don't believe Jesus' own words.

I go, yes, I do.

You don't believe what he said.

This is his body.

It's his body.

I go, well, he said he's a door, so he's a door, you know.

Come on, think.

So to review, the Roman Catholic Church clearly teaches that the Eucharist, the bread and the wine, are the body and

blood of Christ.

But it isn't just any body and blood.

It is the crucified body and blood of Christ.

Now, this is important.

Paragraph 1367, the sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single

sacrifice.

Okay.

The victim is one in the same.

The same now offers through the ministry of priests who then offered himself on the cross.

Only the manner of offering is different.

I already went over this earlier.

And since in this divine sacrifice, such as celebrated in the mass, the same Christ who offered himself

once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner.

This sacrifice is truly propitiatory.

All right.

Now, does that not say that what's really going on is that this is the

actual body and blood of Christ?

It is an actual sacrifice?

It is.

It's recrucified body and blood.

You know, I'm blown away that I shouldn't be.

After studying for almost 40 years this stuff, what people can do as far as believe lies,

I shouldn't be surprised.

But nevertheless.

So how is it possible that Jesus offered up his crucified body and blood at the Last Supper

when he hadn't yet been crucified?

I think it's a fair question.

It is his crucified body and blood he offered, but he hadn't yet been crucified.

It doesn't make sense, especially if the Roman Catholic Church says that the elements are one single sacrifice.

Okay.

Second, there is no indication at all that the disciples thought Jesus was being literal.

Not a single indication.

None of the gospel accounts that cover Jesus instituting the Lord's Supper show the disciples suspecting a literal meaning

to Christ's words.

It's not there.

Okay, but to be thorough, there is a set of verses we need to look at, at which which are often

used by the Roman Catholics to support their view.

It's found in John 6, where Jesus says this, I am the living bread that came down from out of heaven.

If anyone eats this bread, he shall live forever.

And the bread also, which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.

The Jews therefore began to argue with one another saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat?

Jesus therefore said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no

life in yourselves.

Many therefore of when they heard this said, this is a difficult statement who can listen to it.

But Jesus conscious that the disciples grumbled at this said to them, does this cause you to stumble?

What then if you should behold the son of man ascending where he was before?

It is the spirit who gives life.

The flesh profits nothing.

The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.

Are they literal words he's speaking of the literal thing or the spirit and life?

That's the issue.

John 6, 63, I've quoted this many times to Roman Catholics.

Jesus himself said they're spiritual words.

Third, Jesus is speaking figuratively when he says that he's living the living bread and the bread is his flesh.

Jesus then tells his disciples that they must eat his flesh and drink his blood.

Verse 53, the disciples have a problem with this in verse 60.

There's a reason they would.

I'll tell you, we'll get to that.

And Jesus speaks of how his words cause him to stumble.

Verse 61, he then says the words he's speaking are spiritual words.

That is, they're meant to be understood spiritually.

We don't see Jesus saying they were literally here or when he

instituted the supper.

But let's continue that his body and blood was literally there in the elements.

Check this out.

If Jesus was teaching the bread and wine were his literal body and blood, it would violate the biblical warning against

drinking blood.

Leviticus 17, 14, for as for the life of all the flesh, its blood is identified with his life.

And notice what it says, life of all flesh.

Because what they like to do is like to say this is only in reference to the animal sacrifices.

It says all flesh.

Its blood is identified with his life.

Therefore, I said to the sons of Israel, you are not to eat the blood of any flesh.

For the life of all flesh is its blood.

Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

Now, that's Leviticus 17, 14.

Do you think the disciples knew about this?

Yes.

Yeah, they knew about it.

And Jesus is saying, drink my blood.

A lot of them left.

Because it can't be that he was meaning literal blood.

It can't be that.

Because they would be, Jesus would have been asking them to violate

Levitical law.

Check this out in Acts 15, 28, 29.

Now, this is after the new covenant sin.

For it seemed, because a lot of times what the Catholics will do is they'll say, that's old covenant.

Jesus instituted a supper.

Now it's a new covenant, different rules.

So now you can drink the blood.

Acts 15, 28 to 29.

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these

essentials, that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled,

and from fornication.

If you keep yourselves free from these things, you'll do well.

Farewell.

So, the disciples still said, keep yourself away from the blood.

If it's okay, then why they say that?

Fifth, after Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper, he quickly referred to the wine as the fruit of

the vine, not his blood.

Check this out in Mark 14, 23 to 25.

And when he had taken a cup and given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

And he said to them, this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

So it's a covenant sign, is what it is.

Truly I say to you, I shall never again drink of the fruit of the vine, until the day when I drink it new in the kingdom of

God.

He called it the vine.

He called it wine.

He called it the fruit of the vine.

He didn't call it his blood.

He said, I won't ever drink again of this fruit of the vine.

That's what he's saying.

Jesus is saying this.

To me, this is so simple.

This is easy stuff.

Sixth, in Mark 13, 25, Jesus said he would not again drink the fruit of the vine.

I think I already went over that.

This would mean that if the Lord's Supper was literally his body and blood, then Jesus would have been drinking his own blood.

And that would be ridiculous.

Seventh, it denies a true incarnation.

This is important.

See, Jesus is God in flesh.

That is, in the one person of Christ are two distinct natures, divine and human.

I go over this a lot.

Jesus, the word, was made flesh.

Okay, one of the attributes of being a man is being in one place at a time.

Jesus' physical body was only at one place at a time when he instituted the supper.

The Roman Catholic view would have us believe that Jesus' physical body could be in more than one place at a time

in the element, given and broken, distributed.

This violates the very nature of the incarnation and what it means to be a man.

Now, we went over this basically quickly.

This refutes the Roman Catholic idea of the mass.

Not only is it idolatrous, but it's against Scripture.

I mean, idolatrous is against Scripture, but it's really against Scripture.

So let me just summarize this stuff.

This is a shorter section.

First, we can see that it could not be Jesus' crucified body and blood when he said, this is my body and this is my blood,

because he had not yet been crucified.

Now, I'm going to give you a response that Roman Catholics will tell me.

They'll say, well, he's God.

He can do whatever he wants.

That's what they say.

He can make it his sacrificed body.

He's God.

And I'll say, do you really want to go there?

And they go, yeah, that's the answer.

He can do whatever he wants.

I've had Roman Catholics tell me this more than one on several occasions, which really

demonstrates how weak their arguments are.

And I'll say, so that's what you got.

Can you show me that in Scripture?

Well, he's God, isn't he?

Yeah.

Okay.

He can do whatever he wants, right?

Yeah.

That's right.

Except he doesn't.

What do you mean he doesn't?

Jesus doesn't do what he wants.

You go to John 5 .19 and John 14 .10, he only does what he sees the Father do.

And he only speaks what the Father gives him to speak.

That's a whole other thing.

So the point I want to make here to focus on, however, is that what Jesus is doing is

literally walking from one place to another place.

He literally is spending, you know, time at his mother's breast.

He's spending time in his father's carpenter shop.

He's spending time becoming, you know, he gets baptized and going about Israel for three and a

half years doing his work.

One day after another.

If at the breaking of the bread, it becomes his body, and because Jesus can do anything he wants, then why couldn't he have done

anything else he wants?

Why is it his entire life is sequenced from our perspective one day at a

time, one sequenced event after time, but suddenly it's changed here?

Where now the crucified body and blood of Christ, which would occur later, becomes that now.

But we don't see that any place else in scripture.

So their argument doesn't work.

Second, at the institution of the supper, there is no indication that the disciples thought Jesus was to get, literally.

I'm going to actually work on that one because it looks like in John 6, some of them left that it may have been the case that they were thinking that and he had to correct them.

So we'll see.

Third, Jesus spoke figuratively about his body and blood in John 6 when he taught the disciples about partaking of his body and

blood.

And the, okay, we'll get into that.

Fourth, it is a violation of the biblical warning against drinking blood, Leviticus 17, 14.

Fifth, after Jesus instituted the Lord's supper, he quickly referred to the wine as the fruit of the vine, not

his blood.

Sixth, Jesus would, Jesus said he would not again drink of the fruit of the vine, which

would mean that Jesus would not have been drinking his own blood and eating his own body.

Seventh, it denies a true incarnation.

These are the reasons, can't be true.

But according to Roman Catholicism, the mass is where the faithful Catholics gather to receive the actual body and blood

of Christ in the form of the bread and wine in the communion supper.

At the point of consecration, the priest transforms the bread and wine into the actual body and blood of Christ.

The Eucharist, the bread and the wine are said to contain the soul and divinity of Jesus.

Roman Catholicism pronounces a curse upon anyone who would say the Eucharist retains any substance of bread and wine after it's

consecrated.

So check this out.

So you take the wafer and when they take the wafer and dip it in the wine, it's called intinction.

So there's like a blending there.

And if you were to take this and put it under a microscope, it has the elements of

bread and wine.

And you say, well, it looks like bread and wine, you're cursed.

You're looking at a microscope, bread and wine, what it is, you're cursed for that.

It doesn't make any sense.

The mass is the sacrifice of the new law in which Christ through the ministry of the priest offers himself to

God in an unbloody manner.

So their sacrifice is continuing in violation of Hebrews 10 .10.

The Eucharist in the mass is called a divine sacrifice the same sacrifice of Christ who offered himself on

the cross is capable of making reparation of sins and is to be considered a true and proper

sacrifice.

The Roman Catholic view of the mass would mean that since Jesus ate of the supper after he

consecrated it, he was eating his own body and blood.

Ridiculous.

And the Eucharist violates the Old and New Testament law against consuming blood spoken of in

Leviticus and Acts.

So it should be clear that this is unbiblical, it's ungodly.

The Roman Catholic Church is false.

Now, before we get to the next slide, what I want to do is, you know, we'll talk about something

and then we'll get to some witnessing tips, very basic witnessing tips to Catholics.

Because we're basically done with a series, people ask me to do this and been doing this.

I just want to say that the Roman Catholic Church is a false church.

It adds works to salvation.

It teaches you keep your salvation by your goodness in participation of the authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

It teaches that through the sacramental system, grace is like a substance infused into you.

And the more you have, the more righteous you are.

Which means that the Roman Catholic Church dispenses it.

The Roman Catholic Church is in charge of your salvation, not Christ.

Whenever anybody or any organization is in charge of your salvation, you're an occult.

Need to leave.

It elevates Mary to such a high degree that

it's actually fascinating to talk to Roman Catholics who believe what the Catholic Church says

about Mary.

It's fascinating in that they can't see, they won't see, not able to see the idolatry

that they're committing.

They elevate her, pray to her, seek her will, ask her to intercede

instead of going straight to Christ.

Mary said to even atone for our sins.

No better way than to look to Mary.

She's the one who crushed the serpent's head.

All this stuff which belongs to God said to be of her.

The apparitions of Mary are demonic.

As they progress through history, they become more and more centered on themselves with the

statements that the apparitions themselves can bring salvation and that they need to be exalted.

Those apparitions have to have temples built, medallions for them.

People come and worship and do things.

Obviously, it's demonic.

If you're Christian, you'll recognize this.

If you're not, you don't.

And we get to the issue of the mass and there's a lot more to cover, but this will do.

We haven't got, we did tradition stuff and they misapply their tradition verses, but

the mass is obviously a blasphemous violation of scripture

and in in toto, the Roman Catholic Church cannot be considered a true

church, true Christian church.

It's apostate.

I don't know when it went apostate, but it did.

I think by the 500s, anywhere from the four to six, 700s.

That's my opinion.

I'm not a historian.

I think they were apostate by then, but we

Protestants have no business getting in bed with the Roman Catholic Church.

We can't have any union and fellowship with the whore.

We cannot do that.

The Roman Catholic Church is leading people to eternal damnation.

And we can know that because we know what the scripture says.

This is a serious issue.

And Protestants need to stand up and say, no, we'll have nothing to do with that false harlot

of a church.

And his priests need to repent.

They're hirelings.

And the Pope, I believe each Pope just goes to hell.

I'm not judging them, but if they hold to official Roman Catholic theology, they can't be Christian.

And I don't want them to go there, but we have got to stand on the word of truth.

And what official Roman Catholic theology teaches is blasphemy.

Someone's got to say it.

I'm saying it and it's blasphemy.

And it needs to be proclaimed as such from Protestant pulpits as a

blasphemous apostate false church.

It needs to be done properly with documentation to teach the people of God what the truth is,

so they will not fall victim to that false church.

Now, having said all those hard stern words, which are making Roman Catholics mad at me,

am I breaking my own advice to come when we talk about

witnessing to Roman Catholics?

Let's go through a few.

Speak of the Bible as the authority by which we judge spiritual truth.

Now, they won't necessarily agree.

Do it anyway.

I think I got a new, someone taught me a new verse, Psalm 12, 6 through 7, 8.

I got it today about God preserving his word and 1 Timothy 6, 16

about the authority and sufficiency of the word.

But, so that's why you should quote scripture whenever possible.

It's the word of God, it's power.

Focus on their works and ask if they're being good enough to merit their place with God.

Now, this has to do with a section earlier about soteriology.

Number four, focus on the works of Jesus on the cross as the answer to their inability to do enough good works.

Be respectful of Mary, but still focus on Christ.

Now, when I'm teaching like this, I will say the truth because I'm speaking

to a large group of people and I'm going to tell it as it is, authoritatively from the

word of God, their documentation and say what it is.

They've exalted Mary to a place she should not be in.

Now, a lot of Roman Catholics consider Mary similarly the way they would consider their mothers.

You speak bad about their mothers, they don't listen anymore.

When you talk about Mary, you got to be careful because they will close off because they're so entrenched in their

idolatry.

So, do it respectfully with Mary and it's true, you know, she's a great woman and she's blessed and it's true,

but she can't hear all her prayers and stuff like that.

Also, listen to what they're saying.

You know, nothing wrong with that.

Just listen.

Listen to what the Roman Catholics offer and ask questions to clarify and make sure you are understanding.

I always like to tell people, ask questions, more detailed questions.

Don't assume anything.

Ask clarifying questions and if you don't know something, admit it.

That's all right.

I was on the radio show yesterday and someone called me up and said, what about such and such?

And I said, I don't know.

Kind of got a chuckle out of that.

People, you know, you don't know.

Lots of stuff you don't know.

If you don't know, just say you don't know.

Go find out if you can.

Pray for the direction from the Holy Spirit according to God's word.

That's very important.

You want to be guided by what Christ has done and the Holy Spirit's work in you.

And of course, pray for their salvation.

Pray for their salvation.

It's a spiritual issue.

The Roman Catholics need Christ.

They are like the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.

They're lost.

They need Jesus.

They need the real gospel.

They need the true gospel.

That's what they need.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first

and also to the Greek.

The gospel is that Jesus died for our sins on the cross, rose from the dead three days later, 1 Corinthians 15

1 -4.

That we do not have to keep the law in order to be saved from our sins, Romans 3 28, Romans 4 5,

Romans 4 1 -5, Romans 5 1, Galatians 2 16, 2 21.

We do not have to keep the law.

Jesus did it.

1 Peter 2 22.

And he bore our sin in his body.

All of it, not part of it.

That's 1 Peter 2 24.

And because of this, we can put our trust and our faith in Christ.

If you're a Roman Catholic, I got a suggestion for you.

Ask Jesus to forgive you of all of your sins.

He's God, has all authority.

And he said to pray to him, why don't you just ask Jesus to forgive you of everything?

Turn to Christ.

And if you can't do it, you're probably not a Christian.

Because a Christian has a Holy Spirit in him.

And according to Jesus' own words, John 14 26, John 15 26, the Holy Spirit bears witness of Christ.

If the Holy Spirit's truly in you and you're regenerate, you're born again, John 3 3 -8.

If that's the case, then the Holy Spirit will bear witness of Jesus.

Not of a church, not of a priest, not anything, but of Jesus.

That's his job.

And so if you don't want to pray to Christ, maybe the Holy Spirit's not in you.

Maybe what's in you is tradition and loyalty to a church

and submission to authority and all the other things that sound and appear

spiritual, but are not.

Just as Jesus condemned the Pharisees as whitewashed sepulchers,

whose father was a devil, who looked good on the outside, but inside were rotting bones.

If you can't go to Christ and you can't ask him to forgive you of your sins, you don't have him.

And to do that means you don't need Mary, you don't need the priest, you don't need the authority of the church, you don't need the sacraments.

And that's what it comes down to.

It's either Jesus or your church.

You can't have both.

Because Jesus said, come to me, all who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 11, 28.

He said in John 14, 14, to ask him anything and he'll do it.

He forgives sins, Luke 5, 20, 7, 48.

He has all authority in heaven and earth, Matthew 28, 18.

So if he has all authority and he's asked you to pray to him and seek him and he forgives sins, then shouldn't

you obey him and go to the one who has the authority to forgive you of all of your sins and ask him to do so?

If you ask him anything in my name, I will do it.

John 14, 14, Jesus said.

Ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins.

Trust in him alone.

But to do that, you have to, in your heart, not rely on your Roman Catholic church.

Can you do that?

If you can't, you're not a Christian.

If you can, the Holy Spirit is in you.

But if you can't because you're loyal to Christ, excuse me, because you're loyal to the Roman Catholic church,

it's authority, it's rituals, it's tradition, it's apparitions, it's everything.

And that's what you identify with.

Then you're not identifying with Jesus himself.

That would mean you're lost.

So I'm going to pray in closing and then we'll take a break and do some Q &A.

I'm going to pray to Christ.

Lord Jesus, I come before you and I thank you, Lord, for your great mercy and your grace.

And I ask, Lord, that you would forgive me of my sins.

I come to you.

My sins are many and varied and they seem unending.

Though I struggle against them and I fail so frequently, the only thing I can do is

look to you.

And so I put all my hope and all my trust, put everything I have and that I

am in you and your sacrifice that you have done everything I need.

And Lord, so I just come before you and ask for you to cleanse me

and others who will be praying this also, that we would look to you and you alone for our

salvation.

Nothing man -made, nothing tradition, just you.

So Jesus, I come before you and lay myself there and ask that you would forgive me and cleanse me

and use me, as well as all who would pray the same thing,

that they would appeal to you and nothing else and no one else for the forgiveness of their sins.

We ask this, Jesus, in your precious name.

Amen.