Evangelizing Roman Catholics

Well, let's begin at the throne of grace, shall we? Our father what a joy it is to come together on this Lord's Day to worship Your son our Lord Jesus Christ. We pray father that as we look into your word that it would Edify us equip us and encourage us to be faithful witnesses Faithful to the Great Commission.

We ask this in the power of Jesus name. Amen. Well, I was asked to give a message on how to reach Roman Catholics and just as the moon reflects the light of the Sun into darkness so you and I as Children of God are we're also to reflect the light of the Son of God into the darkness of Roman Catholicism.

And if you're not familiar with the Roman Catholic religion, it's made up of 1 .3 billion Precious souls that need to hear the gospel. I was a Catholic for 35 years and very devout Roman Catholic. But I'd never heard the gospel never heard about the substitutionary atonement of Christ.

Jesus Calls Disciples to Become Fishers of Men

So this morning We're going to look at that, but I'd like to begin by asking you to open your scriptures to mark chapter 1 mark chapter 1 verses 14 to 18. And here we see that Jesus was in the wilderness for 40 days and he came into Galilee Proclaiming the gospel of God and saying the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand Repent and believe the gospel.

That was our Lord's first command as he began his earthly ministry Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee. He saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon Casting a net into the sea for they were fishermen.

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Jesus said to them follow me and I will make you become fishers of men and Immediately they left their nets and followed him. So in this passage, we see that Jesus has just begun his earthly ministry and his first priority is what?

Evangelism. From the very beginning of his ministry. His plan was to use disciples to make disciples. So he's calling disciples to follow him so that he can make them fishers of men. Instead of casting their nets into the depths of the sea.

He's now asking them to cast their nets into the depths of fallen humanity. Lord Jesus is giving his disciples a new purpose for living a higher calling. Which with a much more important priority and I don't know about you.

But when the Lord saved me at age 35, he gave me a much higher calling. Rather than trying to gather all the toys of the world into my corner and make lots of money He gave me a new purpose for living to reach into the depths of fallen humanity and share the gospel.

So the Lord's divine calling supersedes what they have been doing in the past. Their new purpose for living now has an eternal perspective to seek and to save the loss for the glory of Christ. Notice their response of verse 20.

They immediately left their nets and followed him. So, please don't miss this. Evangelism was of utmost importance to the Lord Jesus. He began and ended his ministry. With the call to spread the gospel.

So this morning we're going to see how we can become effective witnesses to Roman Catholics. But before we do can I ask you when you first became a Christian? Was there an event in your life that really boosted your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ?

Well, I had such an event. I was still in the corporate world and we were Invited as sales directors up to the salmon capital of the world north of Vancouver British Columbia.

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Before the meetings began we went out one morning to try and catch salmon. And I'll never forget just the beauty and the majesty of God's creation. I was seeing it for the first time Through believing eyes and I just remember just lifting up a prayer of praise and thanksgiving for the privilege of being here.

And at the end of my prayer, I said Lord, I know you're sovereign. I'm here to catch a fish. Will you send one my way? Well immediately after I threw my first lure into the intercoastal waterway I thought jaws to it jumped on the end of my line and this fish starts Swimming out about 500 yards and the fishing guide is barking in my ears saying keep the pole bent.

Otherwise, he'll throw the hook and so I battled this fish for 45 minutes only to hear him say now be ready. When he sees the side of the boat, he's going to get spooked and run again. I laughed and I said if he runs again, he wins cuz I'm done and so immediately we got him into the boat and we Headed back to the fishing village and as we approached the fishing village, he pointed to the number 35.

He said that represents the largest salmon caught in the world so far this year 35 pounds. And when we put the fish the Lord sent on the scale it shattered the world record 446 pounds. I just began trembling.

I said Lord. I just wanted a fish. But Ephesians 320 came to my mind. He does a measurably more than we could ever ask or imagine. Well, that was the last fish I ever caught. Seriously, that was August 8th 1988 ever since then I've been fishing for men and I don't know if you know the difference between fishing for fish and fishing for men, but When you fish for fish, they're alive, but then they die.

When you fish for men, they're dead. They're dead in their sin. But then you see them come alive in Christ as much joy as I have Establishing a world record. There's no greater joy than to see sinners Come alive in Christ.

Amen. So there's some principles of effective fishing. I'd like to share with you this morning. Not that I'm an expert, but I want to share with you that the similarities between fishing for fish and fishing for men.

We need to know the nature of what we're trying to catch so when you're fishing for Men we need to know what we're going after the Bible describes Unbelievers this way they're enslaved to sin and held captive by the devil to do his will.

They are spiritually dead and they cannot understand truth. A natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually appraised.

That's Paul's words in 1st Corinthians 2 14. And then in 2nd Corinthians 4 4 we see the God of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers. So they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ.

So knowing all of this, it's no wonder Peter asked the Lord. Well who then can be saved? Remember the Lord's answer with man. This is impossible. But with God all things are possible. So we also need to be properly equipped and that means to be equipped with the Word of God.

I I really don't believe that we should go anywhere without gospel tracts. Because I firmly believe when you give the gospel verbally you should always leave it in written form. So that people can go back over what they've heard you say.

So be equipped with a word of God and gospel tracts. We need to go where the lost are. You know, the fish aren't going to jump out of the water and come to you. You got to go to them and so it is when you're going after the lost.

And that's why Jane and I we go out to Catholic churches on Resurrection Sunday on Christmas Eve. Catholics are Mindful of giving and receiving gifts on Christmas Eve. So we carry our gospel tract the greatest gift ever given and as Catholics come out of their church.

We ask them what is the greatest gift you've ever received and they'll point to their children or their jewelry or their cell phone. We say there's a there's a greater gift than that. It's the gift of eternal everlasting life with Christ.

See Catholics don't have that. They only have conditional life. That's why we have to share the good news of eternal life. We need to use the right lure. What does that mean when you're? Fishing for men.

The only lure is Jesus Christ. He said in John 12 32 when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself. We need to cast our line. What does that mean when you're fishing for men when we need to speak the gospel we need to tell others about Jesus.

Nothing can be caught until you do remember faith comes from hearing and hearing the Word of God. We need to be patient. How many fishermen do you know that give up after five minutes and say the fish aren't biting today?

It's the same way when we're fishing for men as we share the Word of God. We need to allow the Spirit of God to bring conviction and to illuminate the Word of God to their hearts. Remember, there's two things necessary.

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Sinners to come alive in Christ. They need to hear the Word of God and the Spirit of God must be present for conviction and illumination. We need to stay out of sight. Fish could be scared away if they see you.

It's the same way when we share the gospel. It's not about us. We need to decrease and the Lord Jesus needs to increase. Then we need to reel in our catch. We need to call them to repent and believe the gospel.

Urge people to follow Christ. Give them a sense of urgency. Today is the day of salvation. God doesn't promise anyone tomorrow. And then we need to trust God. Just as I prayed to a sovereign Lord to send a fish my way.

Jesus said the fields are white for harvest but the labors are few. If you make yourself available to a sovereign Lord and ask him to send Lost sinners across your path. He will be faithful and do that.

Remember we can only take the message to the human ear. God needs to take it from the ear to the heart, you know all about the sovereignty of God and salvation. Listen to the words of Spurgeon. We long to be successful fishers for Jesus.

But we are tempted to try methods which Jesus would never have tried. Shall we yield to this suggestion? We must follow Jesus to succeed. Can we imagine the Lord Jesus? Using such means as are now commonly used.

Spurgeon goes on to say we must preach our Lord's doctrine and proclaim a full gospel. For this is the net in which souls are taken. We must preach with his gentleness His boldness and love to have success with human hearts.

We must work under divine anointing. Depending upon the Holy Spirit. Then we shall be fishers of men. There's so many different ways of evangelizing today. You know, there's man's way and there's God's way and we need to do it God's way if we expect to.

See people come alive in Christ. I want to share with you the importance of fishing in the depths of fallen humanity. What a contrast between believers and unbelievers. Believers are alive in Christ, but unbelievers are spiritually dead.

Believers are under God's grace. Unbelievers are under God's wrath. Believers are destined for heaven. Unbelievers are destined for hell. Believers stand forgiven and justified by a holy God. Whereas unbelievers stand guilty and condemned.

Believers are empowered by the Spirit. Unbelievers are controlled by the flesh. Believers are children of God and unbelievers are not only enemies of God, but they're also children of Satan. It's hard for me to Realize and come to grips that I was a child of the devil for 35 years of my life.

And it's only when children of the devil repent and believe the gospel that they can become children of God. Believers are set free by Christ. Unbelievers are in bondage to sin and bondage to the flesh.

Believers are reconciled to God and unbelievers remain separated from God. What a contrast, you know, I've often shared this.

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Equip the body of Christ to be faithful witnesses. And if only unbelievers could see a contrast between Who they are in the eyes of God versus what believers are in the eyes of God. Perhaps that might even encourage them to put their faith in Christ.

Obstacles in Reaching Roman Catholics

Well when you witness to Catholics, you need to expect a stubborn resistance.

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Indoctrination is a captivating power that causes a strong resistance to God's Word and I can tell you this from experience. I was a devout Catholic. The Word of God bounced off my heart anytime. Someone started asking me if I wanted to hear the gospel.

The other powerful tool Satan uses to blind people is religious pride. Catholics are so proud of their one true church. That's what they think they belong to. And so how do you get through this stubborn pride?

Well, it's only by prayer. Only God can open the heart of a stubborn sinner. And only God can penetrate their hearts. How many times have you heard this? I? Was born a Catholic. I'm a diacatholic. That's how proud people are to be along to their religion.

Whenever someone tells me this I Respond this way. Not according to the Bible. The Bible says you were born a sinner and you're gonna die a sinner unless you repent and believe the gospel. So we need to look at the obstacles that must be overcome when we witness to Catholics.

Did you know that they're utterly dependent upon their priest not only in this life, but also after they die. They're still dependent upon the priest to offer the sacrifice of a mass to get them out of this fictitious place called purgatory.

Catholics believe baptism put them on the way to heaven. That's the sacrament of regeneration and the sacrament of justification. Catholics believe they belong to the one true church two months ago. You can visit our website to see it, but I did an article on what is the one true church?

Because this is really something we need to communicate to Catholics. Their church started possibly in the fourth century under Constantine when he became the pontificus maximus of the fourth century church and a lot of the pagans came into the church not repenting but Coming in really to try and get ahead in Constantine's political world.

And so the church was a means for them to do that. There's also family pressure to remain Catholic. I Was invited up to preach in the Midwest and there was a member of the church that Had a Catholic husband and the Catholic husband never would join her in church.

But she had the church praying for his salvation for three years and then she found that I was coming to deliver a message conference on the weekend so that Saturday night she begged and pleaded for him to come and listen to a former Catholic and so He finally accepted and came.

Well, I did a message entitled where will you spend eternity at the end of the message? I walked out of the pulpit went down and she introduced me to her husband Peter and I Said Peter based on what you've heard from God's Word this evening.

What is keeping you from trusting Jesus as your all-sufficient Savior right now. He just looked at me like a deer in the headlights didn't say a word. I wasn't gonna speak again until he said something.

Finally after about a minute His wife blurts out. It's your parents. You don't want to offend your parents. He said you know what? She's right. I don't want to offend their parents. So I took him to Matthew 10 and I showed him where Jesus came to divide father against son and mother against daughter.

I said who do you love more God or your parents? And then I gave him a couple of gospel tracts. I said, please read these tonight and come back tomorrow morning and I'll be doing the Sunday morning service.

Well Peter and his wife were the first two people in the church that morning. He said I couldn't sleep at all last night. After I read what you gave me I tossed and turned and finally I I cried out to the Lord to save me and then I couldn't wait for my wife to wake up and we sat on the side of the bed and I Apologized to her for biting her head off every time she invited me to church.

And he told her that he trusted Christ in the middle of the night well clearly Tears of joy were coming down our cheeks as we Recognize the Word of God and the Spirit of God brought forth life and I share this for two reasons number one the importance of praying for lost people.

This faithful wife had prayed for her husband for three years. And the second thing is Make sure that you handle their objections after you give the gospel. Ask people what is keeping you from trusting Christ as your all-sufficient Savior right now.

See, we never would have found out about Peter Had not I asked that question and then we were able to overcome that with gospel tracts. So you need to be aware of some Roman Catholic traditions that distort the gospel.

They reject the supreme authority of Scripture and we'll talk about that in a moment. They deny the sufficiency of Christ. They do that in a number of ways, but one of them is they continue the work of Redemption on their altar the perfect all-sufficient Finished work of Christ on the altar on the on the cross.

They continue on the altar and They reject the promise of the gospel eternal life. So these are the things we need to address when we witness to Roman Catholics. So quickly I'll go through What we're going to cover on the principles of effective witnessing and then we will look at them in more detail.

We need to use the Word of God as the supreme authority for knowing truth. We need to proclaim the gospel and its promise. What's the promise of the gospel? Eternal everlasting life. We need to declare the sufficiency of Christ and Catholics will be unwilling to let go of what they're doing to save themselves until they know that Christ has done it all.

We need to teach antithetically not only what is the truth, but what opposes the truth? We need to pray. We need to declare that all sins are mortal and you'll see in a moment why that's important. And finally we need to point Catholics to the narrow way that leads to life.

So the first principle. Use the supreme authority of God's Word. I think if you had to look at just one scripture to prove this it would be 2nd Timothy 316. All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching.

For reproof, what does the word reproof mean? It exposes error and once the error has been exposed guess what? Then you use scripture to correct the error that you just exposed with the Word of God and then for training and righteousness.

When you look at Catholic authority They have three different authorities. They're all said to be equal, but in actual practice it is the bishops of the church. That said above scripture and tradition.

The magisterium is another name for the bishops of the church whenever they speak with one voice. They are said to be infallible and they dare to say that their bishops are the only authentic interpreters of God's Word.

Whenever I mentioned or whenever I witnessed to a priest, you know what they say. You don't have the right to interpret the Word of God. You need to come back to Holy Mother the church. Let the bishops interpret it for you.

The magisterium sits above God's Holy Word scripture and the ungodly traditions of the Catholic Church and they twist and distort Scripture so that it conforms to their ungodly tradition. Peter had an answer for that didn't he those who twist and distort scripture.

It's to their own destruction. So we need to establish Scripture as the supreme authority. Over the teachings of men and the traditions of religion. I've been traveling quite a bit over the last 50 years of my life and some of you that I'm sure any of you that traveled In the old Hartsfield Airport.

Remember that you had to walk out onto the tarmac and then up the stairs on the plane. Well one particular weekend I did that and as I Sat down and fastened my seatbelt. I turned to the guy next to me and I said, so what are you gonna be doing in?

Boston today. He said I'm not going to Boston. I'm going to Milwaukee. I say well this planes going to Boston. He said no, it's going to Milwaukee. I Said I know for sure. I got on the plane to Boston.

He said I know for sure. I got on the plane to Milwaukee. So what do you do to settle the disagreement you go to a higher authority, right? So I pressed the flight attendant button she came back. I said, where is this plane going?

She said it's going to Milwaukee. And so he asked me what are you going to be doing in Milwaukee today? The importance of establishing God's Word as the supreme authority over the teachings of men and sacred tradition now act 1711 I think is the perfect verse to take Catholics to.

Here you have Paul teaching in the synagogues of Berea as he's teaching. He notices that they're searching the scriptures to test the veracity of an apostle. So shouldn't your Pope and your bishop and your priest?

Shouldn't I and any other one that teaches the Bible come under the same scrutiny? Shouldn't we all be tested by the supreme authority of God's Word? And then you have the tradition religious tradition.

The Gospel and Its Promise of Eternal Life

Mark chapter 7 the apostate Jews were nullifying the Word of God for the sake of their tradition. So Jesus soundly rebuked them because scripture must be our supreme authority. So the second principle when we witness is to proclaim the gospel and its promise.

The gospel is eternal. It's the same message for every generation. First announced in the garden it will go throughout the world and then the end will come. Everybody in heaven will be there because they believe the one and only eternal gospel of Christ.

The gospel is exclusive the dare is to say that all other faiths and all other religions are false. It's exclusive because of the person of Christ in John 14 6. He said I am the way the truth in the life.

No one comes to the Father except through me. He is the way for those who are lost. He's the truth for those who are deceived and he's the very life for those who are dead in their sin. The Gospels according to Scripture alone and this is so important as we witness to Catholics.

Paul defines the gospel in 1st Corinthians 15 verses 1 to 4. It is the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ according to what? Scripture. Doesn't point us to any other authority doesn't point us to the bishops of the church or to sacred tradition.

If you want to know how to get to heaven, it's fully contained in Scripture. The gospel has divine power to save those who believe it. Romans 1 16 is the theme verse of our ministry. The gospel is the power of God for the salvation of all who believe.

And it is of grace those who add anything to it stand condemned and we're going to look at this in the Sunday morning message. And finally, it promises eternal life. Not conditional life as the Catholic Church offers.

I Love to take Catholics to 1st John 5 13 Where Jesus writes to those who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. God wants us to have that joy right now in our possession.

We have eternal everlasting life. Well in Hebrews 11 1 we read that faith is the assurance of things hoped for. The conviction of things not seen. What does every person hope for that when they die, they'll go to heaven.

Catholics don't have that faith. So by definition they have a false faith. Assurance can only be realized when the object of faith is Christ alone. Because he did everything necessary to save sinners completely and forever.

Anybody that adds anything to his perfect finished all-sufficient work has not only nullified God's grace. They have insulted the Savior. Because they believe he didn't do enough. We must get the gospel, right?

And before the Lord saved me I was a rocket scientist at Cape Kennedy, Florida. One of the first things I learned when astronauts re-enter the atmosphere. They must get the true angle of re-entry precisely, correct.

Because if an astronaut comes into light He will skip off the earth's atmosphere into outer space. If he comes in too heavy He'll burn up in the earth's atmosphere. You're probably thinking what's this got to do with the gospel?

We got to get the gospel precisely correct. If you take anything away from the gospel and you believe that you'll skip off into outer darkness. Where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth if you add anything to the gospel.

You'll burn up in the eternal lake of fire. We must get the gospel precisely, correct. As I mentioned Paul defines it in 1st Corinthians 15. It is about one person. The eternal God incarnate his virgin birth and his perfect life.

And it's about two events the unique historical. Unrepeatable atoning and substitutionary death of Jesus Christ and his glorious resurrection from the dead. Now you're probably saying Mike. Why do you have to define the death of Jesus Christ that way?

Because the Catholic Church denies it. They deny the substitutionary death of Christ. They deny that it's unrepeatable because they repeat it every day during the sacrifice of the mass remember. Catholics don't know of the substitutionary death of Christ.

The Catholic Church taught me that Jesus died for the sins of the world. That's history. When I found out he died for me that was salvation. Well Catholics have a different gospel the first part of the Catholic Gospel.

It is by baptism. That's how you're saved paragraph 1256 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. That is the sacrament of regeneration. That's the sacrament of justification.

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You're probably thinking well, the Bible says justification is by faith and Infants don't have the capacity to believe anything. So how can they be justified? The Catholic Church gets around that by saying it's the faith of the parents or it's the faith of the church.

That's how the Catholic infant is justified. After baptized you have to have faith then you have to receive sacraments. They are utterly necessary for Catholics to attain eternal life. And again, these numbers are Paragraph numbers of their catechism.

They must attend the sacrifice of the mass. They must believe purgatory will purge away their sins. They must believe indulgences can remit temporal punishment for sin. They must do good works in order to be justified.

They must keep the law as part of the requirements for getting into heaven. Well, what did Paul say in Galatians 1 verse 9 if any man is preaching to you a gospel. Contrary to what you received he is to be accursed.

Please don't miss this. Every Roman Catholic clergy member. Every priest every bishop every monsignor every cardinal every Pope every Roman Catholic nun is under a divine condemnation because they teach a different gospel.

That's why we need to rescue these precious souls out from a religion that is condemned by Almighty God. By the way, I don't know why. This is such a secret in the evangelical church. Why aren't our pastor is telling us that the Roman Catholic clergy is under divine condemnation.

Weren't they telling us they're the modern-day Judaizers that came in distorting the gospel. Why are we so fearful of man? Lives are at stake. We need to tell the truth. The gospel is good news because it promises the complete forgiveness of sin.

Catholics don't have that. The promise is a permanent right standing before God every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus and the assurance of eternal life. Catholics reject or deny all of these promises.

The Sufficiency of Christ

Because they embrace a false and fatal gospel. The third principle of effective evangelism to Catholics. We must declare the sufficiency of Christ. When Jesus cried out it is finished. He had accomplished everything necessary to save sinners completely and forever.

He died once for all sin for all time. There are no more offerings for sin. Hebrews 10 totally destroys the Roman Catholic Mass. He died once for all sin for all time. There are no more offerings for sin and yet the Catholic Mass is said to be that an offering for sin.

That's why Catholics have to come back week after week. Because the sins they committed in the previous week Are paid for during the Roman Catholic Mass. It is said to be a propitiatory sacrifice. Well, it is finished.

Speaks volumes. Righteousness was perfected. So that Christ could give it as a gift to those who repent and believe. Divine justice was satisfied so that believers will never ever be condemned. Redemption was paid and finished.

Sins were forgiven and the debt was nailed to the cross Colossians 2 13 and 14. And Reconciliation was achieved so that believers will never ever again be separated from God. Jesus did it all. What an insult.

To say that you must add to his perfect finish all sufficient work. Death was conquered and salvation was secured. But the Catholic Church denies this by saying that the work of redemption continues every day on Catholic altars.

Paragraph 1405. Every time this mystery is celebrated the work of our redemption is carried on. If anyone says the sacrifice of the mass is not a propitiatory one, let him be anathema. See the New Testament condemns the Roman Catholic religion with an anathema.

The Catholic Church condemns born-again Christians with over 100 anathemas. Because we don't believe their false and fatal gospel and yet we have evangelicals calling for unity with this apostate religion.

This is a very troubling quote. But yet, this is what Roman Catholics believe. This is what they believe takes place every time the mass is celebrated. When the priest announces the words of consecration he reaches up into the heavens and brings Christ down from his throne and Places him upon our altar to be offered up again as the victim for the sins of man.

It is a power greater than that of saints and angels. The priest speaks and lo Christ the eternal Omnipotent God bows his head and humble obedience to the priest command. This has the official imprimatur of the Catholic Church.

This is what they officially believe takes place. Every time the mass is offered. This is heartbreaking and yet Evangelicals are signing unity accords with this religion. Rome denies the sufficiency of Jesus to his grace.

They add works which are necessary for Justification to his purifying blood. They add purgatory to his righteousness. They add their own works of righteousness To his finished work. They add the mass to his word.

They add their tradition To his his unique headship. They add a Pope who is said to be head of the church. To his unique role as sinless mediator. They have another sinless mediator and her name is Mary.

And to his high priestly office. They add the confessional box again, I was invited up to equip a church up in Emporia, Kansas and After equipping the Church all afternoon all morning Saturday we went out to a Catholic Mass.

It's Saturday afternoon to practice what they had learned. The Catholic Mass was going to start at five o 'clock. So we went out about four o 'clock and we walked in and normally when I travel to a city I try and have a meeting with the priest.

This priest was too busy. But as we walked into the church, there was a red light on over the confessional. That told me that he's inside hearing confession. So I told my wife and the elder of the church to pray for me.

I'm going to confession. I was gonna go talk to the priest and share the gospel. So I walked in. I said, I don't even know where to begin. It's been over 30 years since my last confession. He said don't you worry when you leave here.

I'll forgive all your sins. And then he said why has it been 30 years? I said, well, I've been reading the Bible. He said how has that kept you from the confessional? I said well what I've been reading in the Bible goes against what I was taught as a Catholic.

He said give me an example. So I said well in John 19 30 Jesus cried out in victory it is finished. So why do you continue on an altar with Jesus finished on the cross? He said give me another example.

It said well in 1st John 1 7 it says the blood of Jesus Purifies us from all sin. So why do we need purgatory? He said I can say this is going to take longer than I thought. Why don't you call me on Monday and we'll continue the conversation.

So I did. I flew back to Dallas and called him by by then. He knew why we were there. He said why were you proselytizing? Proselytizing us said I told you in the confessional because You have a different gospel and then I started sharing the gospel with him and about five minutes in he said You know what?

Nothing, you can say is going to change my mind. I was born a Catholic and I'm gonna die a Catholic. Said no not according to the Bible. You were born a sinner and you're gonna die a sinner. Unless you repent and believe the gospel.

Well, then he hung up he hung up on me, but You know what? I was successful and that I got a chance to give him the Word of God. And then I just prayed Lord don't give this man any peace until he comes to the prince of peace.

Teaching Antithetically and Praying for the Blinded

Well, then we need to teach antithetically and that simply means as we give the truth. We must also teach what opposes the truth. And I think you'll see that as you read the scriptures a classic example is Ephesians 2 8 9.

Listen to Paul teaching antithetically for by grace you have been saved through faith not of yourselves. It's the gift of God not of works so that no man may boast Paul's sharing what the truth is as well as what opposes the truth so people can repent Of their dead works of their false teaching and believe the truth.