The Gospel vs. The Mass (John 6:46-59 Jeff Kliewer)

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worship worship
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Christ the new born King Shepherds in the field abiding, watching o 'er the flocks by night
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God with men is now residing, yonder shines the infant light come and worship, come and worship, worship
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Christ the new born King Emmanuel, Emmanuel You are the
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God who saves us, worthy of all our praises
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Emmanuel, Emmanuel Come have your way among us, we welcome you here
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Lord Jesus Come have your way among us, we welcome you here
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Lord Jesus We do welcome
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Him this morning, Emmanuel, God with us Let's sing come and worship, come let's worship
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Christ the new born King Come and worship, worship
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Christ the new born King God is with us, even now
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His love is here Come and worship, worship
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Christ the new born King God is with us, even now
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His love is here, love is here Emmanuel, Emmanuel You are the
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God who saves us, worthy of all our praises Emmanuel, Emmanuel Come have your way among us, we welcome you here
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Lord Jesus Come have your way among us, we welcome you here
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Lord Jesus Emmanuel, Emmanuel Emmanuel, Emmanuel Emmanuel Praise the
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Lord that we don't worship just a baby in a manger We worship the maker of heaven and earth
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Who came down to redeem us, to set us free
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The great Messiah came Let's celebrate together, oh come all ye faithful Joyful and triumphant, oh come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem Come and behold
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Him, born the King of angels
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Oh come let us adore Him, oh come let us adore
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Him Oh come let us adore
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Him, Christ the
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Lord Sing choirs of angels, sing in exultation
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Oh sing all ye citizens of heaven above Glory to God, glory in the highest
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Oh come let us adore Him, oh come let us adore
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Him Oh come let us adore
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Him, Christ the Lord We adore
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You, we adore
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You, we adore You Jesus We adore
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You, we adore
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You, we adore You Jesus Let's sing that again, we adore
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You We adore You, we adore
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You, we adore
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You Jesus Lord we are so thankful and grateful that You did come to this earth
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No one on this earth deserves our praise but You Lord We sing songs to You this morning to bring an offering to You An offering to our
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King, an offering to Messiah, the Redeemer of the world Over the skies of Bethlehem appeared a star
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While angels sang to lonely shepherds
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Three wise men seeking truth traveled from afar
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Hoping to find the Child from heaven
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Falling on their knees they bow before the humble
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Prince of Peace I bring an offering of worship to my
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King No one on earth deserves the praises that I sing
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Jesus may you receive the honor that you're due
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Oh Lord I bring an offering to You I bring an offering to You The sun cannot compare to the glory of Your No shadow in Your presence
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Oh Lord no man would dare to stand before Your throne
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Before the Holy One of Heaven It's only by Your blood and it's only through Your mercy
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Lord I come I bring an offering of worship to my
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King No one on earth deserves the praises that I sing
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Jesus may you receive the honor that you're due
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Oh Lord I bring an offering to You Oh Lord I bring an offering to You Oh Lord I bring an offering to You I bring an offering to You You may be seated
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Let's pray Our gracious Heavenly Father We pray that You would grace us this morning
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Display Your love To those who have gathered here this morning
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And to those who listen online In the true preaching of Your word
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Lord we pray that You would make Yourself known That Your gospel would be made plain
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To those who hear That You would open eyes to see Open ears to hear
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Open hearts to believe the gospel of Jesus Christ I pray for Christians Who know the gospel and believe the gospel
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To be encouraged this morning To see the gospel more clearly
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And I pray for those who have been ensnared And taught lies
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That You would bring them to the knowledge of the truth You alone can do this No one can come to Jesus Unless the
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Father draws him And You say You will raise that one up On the last day
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And so Lord we pray that You would draw the listener to Yourself Give me the words to say
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I submit myself to You dear Jesus In Your name I pray Amen Martin Luther was a
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Roman Catholic priest And he as a Roman Catholic priest
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Was tormented by a sense of his own sin and unworthiness
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He sought to obey the ordinances of the
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Roman Catholic church But he never felt saved He never felt secure in the love of God And so he at times would spend as many as four hours per day
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Confessing his sins to a Roman Catholic priest In order to hear that he is absolved
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And in order to feel secure He never could find that security In the sacramental system of the
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Roman Catholic church Which he served faithfully as a priest And then one day when reading the book of Romans He came across those words in Romans 1 17
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The just shall live by faith And as he read the book of Romans And came to understand that justification
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Is not by working to maintain justification before God Justification is a legal declaration by God That one is counted or reckoned just In the sight of God by faith
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He put his trust in the Lord Jesus Christ In the finished work of Christ And so he came to rest
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No longer seeking to earn his salvation He was justified by faith
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And his heart came to find peace And joy
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And so the Protestant Reformation Was sparked in that conversion
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Because he came to believe the gospel What is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ?
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If I had to direct you to one passage That most clearly summarizes the gospel
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I would point you to 1 Corinthians 15 So let's go there to the first four verses
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And although our passage this morning will be John 6 We begin in 1
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Corinthians 15 As a summary of the gospel 1
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Corinthians 15 verses 1 to 4 Is perhaps the best summary of the gospel
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Because Paul has already addressed many errors That have arisen in the
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Corinthian church But he circles back around to the most important thing
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The thing that matters most And that is the gospel And so he says in verse 1
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Now I would remind you brothers of the gospel I preach to you
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Which you received In which you stand And by which you are being saved
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If you hold fast to the word I preach to you Unless you believed in vain
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For I delivered to you as of first importance What I also received That Christ died for our sins
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In accordance with the scripture And that he was buried And that he was raised on the third day
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In accordance with the scriptures Now there are five elements to this essential truth
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These are non -negotiables of the gospel And the first is the promise of salvation
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We're told you are being saved Salvation is a rescue
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From the penalty of your sin We are owed death
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The wages of sin is death Yet to be rescued is to be saved And that is the good news of the gospel
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That your sins are forgiven And that you are given everlasting life
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That is you are saved Now the second point of the gospel Is in verse 3
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Christ Christ is the gospel The person of Christ If you do not have him
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You have no gospel at all He is God And he is man
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The word was made flesh He is the Christ having come The person of the gospel
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Is none other than Jesus Christ Number three The work of Christ That he died, that he was buried, and that he rose
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And the meaning of his death It was for our sins He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins
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The work of Christ is the third point of the gospel And the fourth is salvation by faith alone
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You'll notice in these verses You have no work to perform To maintain anything before God You bring nothing to the table
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Rather you only believe According to verse 2 And it must be a persisting belief
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A genuine belief that never dies Lest it be called vain faith
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You must only believe Salvation is by faith alone And then lastly, notice the ground of the gospel
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That is the epistemology The way that you know these things It is according to the scripture
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Repeated twice in verses 3 and 4 So the gospel is
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The promise of eternal life Forgiveness of sin
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Complete pardon The washing away of all of your sin That is first Secondly, it is the person of Christ If you don't have him, you have no gospel
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Third, it is the work of Christ His death, burial, resurrection For the forgiveness of sins
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Fourth, it is salvation by faith alone Not by works, lest any could boast And fifth, it is grounded in the scripture
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This is what God himself has clearly revealed As the gospel of Jesus Christ These points of the gospel
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Are essential You lose any of them You have lost the gospel But when
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Martin Luther made this discovery It was only a reaffirmation Of what Paul had written here
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It's also what Peter preached in Acts chapter 2 You'll find those same five elements of the gospel
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You'll find it outlaid in the book of Romans Where the sinfulness of man is first presented
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In chapters 1 to 3 And then at verse 21 of the third chapter Faith is declared as what unites a person to Christ This is the gospel
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All throughout the scripture Martin Luther rediscovered this biblical teaching
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And asserted it But not all bowed the knee To the lordship of Christ Because of the traditions of man
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Which die hard There became a conflict Between the Roman Catholic Church And the
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Protestant Reformation The gospel as preached By Martin Luther And all the reformers
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Ran headlong into Rome The Roman Catholic Church then called a conference
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A council Called the Council of Trent This is in the 16th century Around the year 1545
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They began to convene And out of that convention They came out with a strong statement
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Against The Reformation gospel They wrote during the 6th session on justification
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Canon 9 If anyone says That the sinner is justified by faith alone
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Meaning that nothing else is required to cooperate In order to obtain the grace of justification
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And that it is not in any way necessary That he be prepared and disposed by the action
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Of his own will Let him be anathema Anathema means
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Condemned to hell The Roman Church said If anyone preaches faith alone
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Let him be anathema Now we understand from the book of Galatians That that is strong language
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Galatians 1 6 -9 Paul says let him be anathema Who preaches any gospel
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Other than the one that Paul preached And he'll go on to explain In the book of Galatians That if you add even one thing to faith alone
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For example in that case It was adding circumcision One had to be circumcised
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Before being saved Let him be anathema So here we have a problem
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We're both anathematizing the other Rome is anathematizing the
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Protestants And we're standing with Paul saying When you add sacramentology To the gospel of faith alone
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It's you in fact that are anathema And so we had intense difference
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In the 16th century One named Anne Askew Was a reformed girl 25 years old
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She stood up to the Roman Catholic Church And denounced the sacrifice of the mass
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As Rome called it And as a result She was persecuted by a
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Catholic Bishop For failing to submit to the mass She was tortured This girl even in that torture said
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I have read that God made man But that man can make
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God I have never read that And so rejecting the
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Catholic Mass She was taken out And burned at the stake Anne Askew 25 years old
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These are serious differences Now be sure That Rome has not maintained
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That aggressive posture towards Protestantism The next council after Trent Was the first Vatican council
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Where the Pope was declared to be infallible And then shortly after The Popes who are now declared infallible
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Began to announce the Marian dogmas That Mary supposedly was conceived without sin
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And that she did not die But was assumed to heaven These dogmas
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Came from the Roman Catholic Church And anathemas were attached to those Who deny such things
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At least in the case of Papal infallibility In Vatican I But the church met again in the 1960s
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For Vatican II And at Vatican II The church took a very different posture
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It was no longer hostile to Protestants In fact it went beyond Conciliatory tone
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To the point of welcoming Other religions as Elements of truth toward the same
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God Since Vatican II The Roman Catholic posture Has been that there are many roads
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To the same God Through the various religions And so Mother Teresa When she's working as A minister to the poor
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She is not seeking to convert people To believe in Christ And to come and take
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Christ by faith Rather she will explicitly say That she teaches Muslims To be better Muslims And Hindus to be better Hindus And Jews to be better Jews And Christians better Christians You see
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Rome since Vatican II Is no longer preaching that one must Put their faith in Christ Or else be lost
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Rather it has become Very welcoming to the point Of no longer requiring the new birth
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For salvation In the words of Pope Francis In his magnum opus
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The joy of the gospel Written in 2013 Which really gives a window Into his thinking He writes this of Muslims Together with us
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They adore the one and merciful God And quite opposite John chapter 6
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Where we're told that you must Eat and drink Which means you must come and believe The Pope says of non -believers
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They are justified by the grace of God And are associated to the
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Paschal mystery Of Jesus Christ The Pope, Francis Who exposes his folly
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And his fruitless lack of Christianity By every leftist cause that he supports
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Likewise exposes his folly By declaring that the grace of God Is given apart from faith in Christ He is a false prophet in that Now, I desire to speak
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To you gathered here this morning As Christians with love in my heart In order that you see
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Christ more clearly And understand the gospel Without compromise I also know that there's probably
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Roman Catholics in this room And certainly listening online There will be many
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Roman Catholics And I want to say to the Roman Catholic I love you And I am going to tell you
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What the scripture says Because of love Love tells the truth
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And the very words that Jesus will back up with Truly, truly, I say to you
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These words that he gives Are life to you And it is essential that we believe
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The Lord Jesus Christ And take him at his word Because let God be true
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And every man a liar It is love to tell the truth And so now, turn with me to John chapter 6
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To the most disputed passage, surely In the history of Christianity As I preach this morning
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There are a billion Roman Catholics in the world Who interpret these verses differently
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Than the plain meaning of the text Let God's word speak this morning
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With perspicuity, that is, clarity As the doctrine of Sola Scriptura Rests upon the clarity of God's word
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We can read the word And believe the clear truth as presented
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Today we're going to read John 6, 46 -59
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And what I'd like to do Is preach the truth
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Preach what's clearly said And give illustrations Of how the Roman Catholic Church Teaches differently than what's being said here
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Now the point in doing that is contrast We who see the truth of God's word here
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Will see it more clearly When set against the contrast of a counterfeit
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And those who have believed What the Roman Catholic Church has taught Are better able to see the truth
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When it's set side by side with the truth And so the point is not to attack
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It's rather lovingly To use only primary sources This is what
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Rome says And set that against what the Bible says In order that we would clearly believe
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What Christ himself would say to us this morning So look with me at verse 35
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Because you cannot dive into a passage of Scripture Apart from context The linchpin of the 6th chapter of John Is the 35th verse
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Here you have that I am statement Ego eimi, I am Says the Lord Jesus, the bread of life
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This claim, like his other ego eimi statements I am the light of the world
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I am the resurrection and the life Or in John 8, 58, I am Meaning the name of God, Yahweh The tetragrammatron from Exodus chapter 3
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It is a declaration of his divinity That he is Yahweh And to claim to be the bread of life
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Is to claim to be Jehovah Jireh The provider, your sustainer He is making that claim of himself
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The person Christ But notice the key phrase that follows Whoever comes to me
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Shall not hunger And parallel to that Whoever believes in me
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Shall never thirst So by Jesus' own literal definition
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In order to follow his train of thought And not to import our own We must take his word
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And his definition of what it means To come and to believe
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Clearly coming is believing Believing, this is to have faith So what does it then mean to eat
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And to drink According to verse 35 To not hunger, you're now eating
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That is to come And to not thirst To no longer thirst
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Never thirst in fact That's to believe To drink is to believe
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This is the very contextual teaching Of what it means to eat and drink
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If you miss this in verse 35 You may well jump into verse 46
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And following and be confused Because you haven't listened to Jesus In the key that unlocks the passage
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To come and believe is the issue In the person of Christ That is to eat, that is to drink
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Now notice the issue following Is the unbelief of those who hear him speak
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They've seen the miracle Where he multiplied the bread And what they want is physical bread And so they follow him
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Across the sea of Galilee They come to him And he points out that Though they ate of the bread
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They do not believe Verse 36 But I said to you that you have seen me
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And yet do not believe So the issue then
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In this chapter is unbelief And the teaching about that unbelief
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Is that God himself, the Father Is sovereign even over unbelief Because the answer
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Jesus gives To their unbelief Is not to fret Not to just abort the mission
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Hey, nobody's really listening No, he knows the sovereignty of the Father And so in verse 37
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He says that all who are given by the Father Will come to me God the
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Father gives to the Son And then in verses 38 and 39 He asserts the free will of God The will of God is free
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To give to the Son And Jesus says he will hold those So given to him
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And then of course they grumble Verses 42 And so they don't believe And in verse 44
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What does he say? Parallel to that No one can come
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Unless the Father who sent me Draws him Now this drawing of the
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Father Is the same as being given This is now the work of the Spirit And the Father drawing a person
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As they hear the word preached They're drawn to it This inward drawing here
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Is effectual How do I know that it will accomplish The work for which it's sent?
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Because the second half of verse 44 says And I will raise him up On the last day
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So unless the hymn in the second half of the verse Is a different hymn than the first half We know that the drawn one
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Will come God is sovereign over salvation
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He'll draw the ones that he's given To the Son And in case you don't believe me yet Verse 45
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With the new covenant ministry of the Spirit The teaching ministry that comes from above Those who are taught of the
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Father Referencing Jeremiah 31 And Isaiah 54 verse 13
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The new covenant ministry of God Is to teach
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The inner man That is to enlighten the inner man It is to give a heart that believes
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Eyes that see, ears that hear The person is taught by God And so they come
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And that brings us now to the passage at hand Verse 44
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No one can come Let your eyes jump ahead to verse 65 And he said
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This is why I told you That no one can come You see the connection between 44 and 65?
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Notice this There has not been a change of subject That's very important Jesus has not randomly jumped to the introduction
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Of a teaching on the Eucharist Rather he is teaching the same thing
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This is the very theme of the book of John It was given as the fourth gospel Last of all
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For a very specific reason Which is consistent throughout the book These things are written so that you may
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Believe And believing have life in his name John 20 31
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That's what's happening in John 6 Words are written for belief in the
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Son In order that you would have life Let's read them Not that anyone has seen the
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Father Verse 46 Except he who is from God He has seen the
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Father Truly, truly I say to you Whoever believes Has eternal life
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I am the bread of life Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness And they died
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This is the bread that comes down from heaven So that one may eat of it And not die
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I am the living bread that came down from heaven If anyone eats of this bread He will live forever
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And the bread that I will give For the life of the world Is my flesh
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The Jews then disputed among themselves Saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat?
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So Jesus said to them Truly, truly I say to you Unless you eat the flesh of the
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Son of Man And drink his blood You have no life in you Whoever feeds on my flesh
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And drinks my blood Has eternal life And I will raise him up on the last day
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For my flesh is true food And my blood is true drink Whoever feeds on my flesh
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And drinks my blood Abides in me And I in him As the living
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Father sent me And I live because of the Father So whoever feeds on me He also will live because of me
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This is the bread that came down from heaven Not like the bread The fathers ate and died
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Whoever feeds on this bread Will live forever Jesus said these things in the synagogue
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As he taught at Capernaum The graphic imagery
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Of eating Christ's flesh And drinking Christ's blood
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Is a stark presentation of the gospel Not a dark presentation
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Of the Roman Catholic Mass First The gospel having five principles
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The first is a promise It is a promise Of complete pardon of all sin
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And the gift of eternal life So something is taken away in this promise That is your sin
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The guilt of it You're forgiven And you are granted eternal life
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Notice in verse 47 Following a truly truly
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Where Jesus says Whoever believes has eternal life
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Key word has It is a settled final reality
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And notice that that life that one has By believing Is not a life that he must maintain
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Rather it is eternal life That is a life that cannot die
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The promise of the gospel Is that you will not die Do you see it in verses 46 to 51
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Verse 47 has eternal life
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Contrast that in verse 49 With those who ate physical bread In the wilderness
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The manna from Moses But they died In verse 50
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This is the bread that comes down from heaven So that one may eat it And not die
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You believe, you come, you eat And the promise is You will not die
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In other words This is a sure and steady promise Like an anchor behind the veil
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That cannot lose its grip On you It is a sure promise
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Of life And we're told in verse 51 He will
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Just as has eternal life He will live forever
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The promise of the gospel Is a settled and certain promise
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That cannot be broken Now I say In contrast to that The Roman Catholic system
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Of justification Is unsettled And uncertain
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First of all Consider The means of justification In the
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Roman Catholic system According to the Apostle Paul Justification is to be declared righteous
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One is counted righteous Romans 4 -5 Credited with righteousness
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As David Blessed is the one whose sins Are forgiven Whose sins are not counted against him
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It is accrediting This is imputed righteousness But according to the Roman Catholic church
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In justification Righteousness is infused Into a person
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Generally that happens at baptism They would understand But this infusion of righteousness
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Because grace is being poured into a person Like a substance Rather than a legal declaration
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You are forgiven You are credited with righteousness Since it's reckoned that a person is
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Infused with righteousness That is something that must be maintained And as grace is poured into the heart
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It is evident From the Roman system That that grace can be lost
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By the commission of a mortal sin What is a mortal sin? A sin that kills
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What does it kill? It kills the grace That was infused into the person
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And the person is no longer reckoned as righteous And so for having committed a sin
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That they classify as mortal Now the person is no longer justified
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In other words, the promise is unsure And unfounded Because you have not maintained Your justification
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And so the remedy In the Roman Catholic system Is to go to another priest
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And this priest will hear your confession And say, Te absolvo I absolve you
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And prescribe works By which that justification
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Can be reestablished Reinvigorated And so the second plank of justification
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According to Rome Is penance The priest will give certain work
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That the person It might just be Saying a certain number of Our Fathers Or Hail Marys But by accomplishing this
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Justification is reestablished Do you see the difference Between a certain promise
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Where Jesus says the person believing Has life And he will live forever Versus the
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Roman system Of so -called justification Which in this case
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Comes after sanctification Because you have to be holy In order to be righteous It's an analytical view
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Where you must really be holy Be made righteous
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In your own behavior In order to maintain justification Where does the mass come into play
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Well the mass is part Of this sacramental system Where the person
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Maintains their justification To not go to mass It might only be a venial sin But persistent
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Missing of the mass Could eventually be a mortal sin According to some priests Here is how the mass is described
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By John O 'Brien Who is a Catholic priest So this is a primary source
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John O 'Brien, a Catholic priest Says when the priest Pronounces the tremendous words
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Of consecration He reaches up into the heavens Brings Christ down from his throne
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And places him upon our altar To be offered up again As the victim for the sins of man
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It is a power greater than that Of monarchs and emperors It is greater than that Of saints and angels
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Greater than that of seraphim And cherubim Indeed it is greater
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Even than the power Of the Virgin Mary While the Blessed Virgin Was the human agency
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By which Christ became incarnate A single time The priest brings Christ Down from heaven
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And renders him present On our altar As the eternal victim
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For the sins of man Not once but a thousand times The priest speaks in low
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Christ, the eternal And omnipotent God Bows his head in humble obedience
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To the priest's command The Roman Catholic Church Presents the mass
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As the source and summit Of the Christian life Move on in the text with me
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Halfway through verse 51 It says, and the bread that I give That I will give For the life of the world
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Is my flesh Not only does the
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Roman Catholic Church Miss the promise of the gospel Which is full pardon of sin
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The gift of eternal life That can never die It also misses the person of Christ Because the person of Christ Cannot be contained
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In physical bread Spread out around the world
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Do you know That in the sacrifice of the mass Priests render
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Christ really present Body, blood, soul and divinity They say 200 ,000 times per day
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All around the world This sacrament is performed And in each case
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It is taught That Jesus is their Body, blood, soul and divinity
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Look with me at our text Let God's word stand It says in verse 51
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And the bread that I will give For the life of the world Is my flesh
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The word flesh here In the Greek is sarx And that word
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Is never used Regarding the Lord's table It's never used for communion
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Matthew, Mark and Luke All record the institution
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Of the Lord's table John does not John's gospel is given for belief
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It's for faith alone Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Use the word soma
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Which means body Never the word sarx Moreover in 1 Corinthians Where it's twice mentioned
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The 10th chapter, the 11th chapter In both cases there The word is soma Here the word is sarx
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It is not referring To the Eucharist In John 6, 51
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Different word is used Moreover If this was referring to communion
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It would say too much It would say that anyone Who takes communion Has eternal life
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And that person will live forever But we all know Many, probably a majority
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Go to take The so called sacrament From the Roman Catholic Church And do so without even believing
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In the words of scripture And in the death of Jesus So notice the word sarx
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Flesh here is not referring To a future Lord's supper
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Which hasn't even been instituted yet How could those listening to Jesus Be expected to understand something
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That had not yet been instituted Rather follow the flow of the text Sarx here is with reference
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To the person of Christ John 1, 14 The word was made sarx
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The word was made flesh It refers to God In a human body
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As Jesus stands before them Now Ligonier Ministries Points out
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This is R .C. Sproul Who's since gone to be with the Lord Wrote very effectively
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About what the doctrine Of transubstantiation would do Regarding the body of Christ If it's considered that The bread on the altar
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Is the body of Christ You have a Christological problem Ligonier writes
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In transubstantiation The essence of the elements
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Allegedly become our Lord's actual Body and blood But the accidents of bread and wine remain
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The elements look, taste, touch and feel Like bread and wine Even though they are in essence
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The physical body and blood Of Christ Therefore Transubstantiation ultimately locates
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Jesus' body and blood In more than one place at a time His physical body
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Ends up literally distributed All around the world Every Lord's day This cannot be
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For Jesus has a true human nature And his physical body
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Can only be in one place at a time According to his humanity Jesus cannot be
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In two different places at a time This would confuse
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The divine and human natures of Jesus Giving his human body The ability to be In more than one place at a time
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This is an attribute That only the divine nature possesses In confusing
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Christ's two natures We get a savior Who is neither truly human Nor truly divine But rather heretofore
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Unknown combination Of creator and creature A Jesus who is not truly human
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And truly divine Cannot save us What we believe about the Lord's Supper Truly matters
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When relevantcatholicmass .com Says the whole of Catholic life And Catholic identity
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Is wrapped up in the understanding That the Holy Eucharist is God They confuse
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The divine and human nature His body cannot be Divided 200 ,000 places
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At the same time His spirit can His divinity can As God he can
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But to say that his body is there Is to confuse the person Christ, it's a theological problem
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Continuing though With verses 53 to 56 We see now The true affront
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Of the Roman Catholic Mass And the glory Of the offer
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Of the body and blood of Jesus To those who would believe It says in verse 53 to 56
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So Jesus said to them Truly, truly, I say to you Unless you eat the flesh
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Of the Son of Man And drink his blood You have no life in you Notice Those listening
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Were not believing They didn't believe in his person He has said so far
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That he is bred from heaven And they've grumbled How can you say that you come from heaven
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And we know who your parents are Joseph and Mary, we know your brothers Who do you think you are?
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And they're grumbling About him calling his flesh Food to eat His identity as being
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The provider, Jehovah Jireh In verse 52 They're disputing among themselves
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And then the Bible says in verse 53 So Jesus does not
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Back down From his claim Instead He introduces
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His future Work And this church is essential to the gospel
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It's not enough For you to believe That Jesus is the
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Christ Who came From heaven
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Sent by God God in flesh It's not enough Unless you also believe
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That he came To die a bloody death At Calvary Without the shedding of blood
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There is no forgiveness of sin You must believe in the person of Christ But it is also essential in the gospel
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To believe in the work Of Christ That he died on the cross
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That he was buried and that he rose from the dead And so Jesus turns to them and says Truly, truly
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I say to you Unless you eat the flesh He doesn't back down Unless you eat the flesh of the son of man
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And drink his Blood You have no life
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He points to the blood Wherever you hear
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Blood in the Bible Think back to Leviticus 17 11 Life is in the blood
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And I have given the blood On the altar to make atonement for sin Rome Will say that in these 200 ,000
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Offerings Sacrifices Of the mass It is an unbloody
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Or a non -bloody Sacrifice But according to Hebrews chapter 9
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Verse 22 Without the shedding of blood There is no Remission A non -bloody sacrifice is no sacrifice
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And so Jesus says in 53 Drink his blood Again in 54
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Whoever feeds on my flesh And drinks my blood Has eternal life And I will raise him up on the last day
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Is he saying something different? Excuse me
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Look at verse 39 40 and 44 The same thing he said in 39
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I will raise it up on the last day Verse 40 I will raise him up on the last day Verse 44
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I will raise him up on the last day Here again verse 54 You cannot miss the parallel I will raise him up on the last day
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He's speaking of the one who comes The one who believes That's the one who eats and drinks
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That one will be raised up on the last day Whoever feeds on my flesh
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And drinks my blood In verse 53
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Notice it says Truly, truly I say to you Unless you eat the flesh of the son of man And drink his blood
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You have no life in you Unless There's no other way
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To find life, to have life In John 3, 3 We're told Unless a man is born again
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He cannot see the kingdom of God Or in John 6, 44 No one can come
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Unless the father draws him It's speaking One and the same
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Unless you eat And drink You have no life In you
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The canon of the mass Is the rule that must be followed To offer up the unbloody sacrifice
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And consecrate bread and wine Into the body and blood Of Jesus Christ This is the most solemn, silent, and mysterious part
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Of the mass The catechism of the Catholic Church Written in the 1990s
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Says communion with the body and blood Of Christ Increases the communicant's union with the
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Lord Forgives his venial sins That's in the CCC That's what the primary source says
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Forgives his venial sins And preserves him from grave sin The view of the
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Roman Catholic Church Of the Eucharist Is that time and again
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And again And again Day after day A sacrifice
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An unbloody sacrifice Is made on the altar In order to preserve the justification
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Of God's people Of those who would come and take And physically eat of it But the scripture says
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This in Hebrews 9 25 and 26 Nor did he
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Enter into heaven To offer himself Again and again As the high priest enters
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The most holy place every year With blood that is not his own Otherwise Christ would have
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Had to suffer repeatedly Since the foundation of the world But now he has appeared
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Once for all At the end of the ages To do away with sin
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By the sacrifice Of himself That is to say that there is really only one
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Great high priest According to Hebrews Chapter 7
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This one priest Verses 23 to 25
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There have been many other priests since death Prevented them from continuing in office But because Jesus lives forever
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He has a permanent priesthood Therefore he is able to save Completely those who draw
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Near to God through him Since he always lives To intercede for them
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He is a permanent priest Not one To be replaced
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And it tells us In Romans chapter 6 Verses 8 to 10 If we have died with Christ We believe that we
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Shall also live with him Knowing that Christ Having been raised from the dead
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Listen Is never To die again
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Death No longer is master over him For the death that he died He died to sin once for all
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But the life that he lives He lives to God Do you see the issue here?
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Without the shedding of blood There is no forgiveness What we needed Was a sacrifice that actually
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Takes away sin And so when Jesus hung on the cross And he bowed his head
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And he dismissed his spirit Breathing his last Father into my hands Into your hands
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I commit my spirit What did he finally say Just before he died Tetelestai It is finished
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Meaning this death was Accomplished once and for all In blood And he hung bloody on the cross
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Just as Abel's blood Was given By murder
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Taken from him by murder forcefully And so his blood cries out from the ground Saying Essentially God avenge me
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Avenge me against My killer Cain In the same way
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The blood speaks a better message Than the blood of Abel The blood of Jesus speaks a better Message crying out from the ground
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Father forgive them They know not what they do And that blood speaks
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To the father and guess what It does so effectually He was given
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Once and for all to atone for sin And that bloody sacrifice Actually paid the price of sin
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Lastly We've already Seen that the promise must
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Be sure and not Dependent on the maintenance By the one who would commit
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Mortal sin and do penances But it is a sure promise Of everlasting life
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We've seen that the person of Christ must be united In a body And we've seen that the sacrifice
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Must be once And for all in blood Lastly Salvation The gospel must be by Faith alone
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Says in verse 57 As the living father
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Sent me And I live because of the father So whoever feeds
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On me he also Will live Because of me
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Consider that as As the living Father Sent me and I live
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Because of the father This is the son speaking of his Unbreakable relationship
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With the father It's impossible to separate Father and son
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For truly in the trinity there is But one God One being, one essence of God You cannot separate him
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And he says I live because of the father As That Intimate Unbreakable love exists
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In the trinity What does that make of our Faith? What does it say?
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Verse 57 So Whoever feeds on me He also
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Will live because Of me Faith actually unites
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A person with the son Of God You are united with Christ by faith
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Union with Christ As that union Between father and son is unbreakable
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It's so intimate It's indestructible So when a person puts faith in Christ And trust in Christ A union
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Between the son of God And the believer is established And I want to tell you that Like the father and son
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Is unbreakable That's the point of verse 57 When a person is born again
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They're made alive The old is gone All things have become new
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You are dead in your sins But God made you alive
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The spirit of the living God Came and brought you to life Resurrected you
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Uniting you to Christ And so the point Being here Your faith in Christ Is not
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Something that can be broken Your faith has united You to the living
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Christ And that is an unbreakable bond That's the gospel Doesn't it correspond with the promise?
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The promise of eternal life That you can't lose it, you will not die You live forever How can that be so sure?
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How can you say that he who began a good work And you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus It's because You are united with Christ By faith
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And so in that instant That you believe You are counted as righteous
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Genesis 15 Abraham believed God And it was credited to him
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As righteousness It's a point of Romans 4 Church I lost my voice there because I was
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Choking The word
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Can never be broken The reason I'm so passionate about this subject
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Is because this is The very gospel If you lose any of the elements
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Whether the promise The person of Christ The finished work of Christ Or the unity of faith
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With the son of God You've lost the gospel And the mass
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Has lost all four of those points It is a deception
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That has carried A billion people away And since the reformation
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There are almost a billion Protestants In the world Where the Roman Catholic Church has remained about The same
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For all of that time About 16 % of the world But to the
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Catholic listening This is the gospel Of the Lord Jesus Christ That if you believe
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If you come, if you eat It is not enough To go to a priest
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And eat consecrated bread No, you must eat You must believe
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And unless you believe Unless you're born again You have no life in you You must come and believe in Christ And that applies just as much
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To everybody in this room Who maybe has no Catholic background Many of you do It applies to me
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Growing up in an evangelical home Unless I myself Turn from sin
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And believe to put my trust in Christ There is no life in me But if I believe
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In Jesus Christ I have the promise of eternal life It's built on the person of Christ And his finished work
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For me, once and for all He took my sin and removed it As far as the east is from the west
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He died Once and for all And by faith I stand forgiven
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That offer Is to you listening to this sermon And there is no other way
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By the end of John 6 There's only 11 standing with him Because these words are hard These words are hard And that's why they said
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This is a hard saying Who can listen to it? But it's built
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On the very words of Christ Truly, truly And that is the ultimate issue
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The fifth point of the gospel According to the scripture Has God spoken clearly?
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Can we understand and follow his train of thought? Or do we need Not sola scriptura
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But sola ecclesia Do we need a church And a priest in authority To interpret for us
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We need the word of God And we have the word of God We have sola scriptura
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We have scripture alone To be our teacher And those who come
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Taught by the father Taught by the spirit Taught by these very words of Christ Will have life
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These are the words of life And there is no other way Do not be deceived brothers
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There are many deceivers in the world And in these last times First Timothy chapter 4
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The spirit expressly says Many will depart Paying attention to doctrines of demons
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Forbidding men to marry Which is what the Roman Catholic priesthood Does Resulting in many problems
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Forbidding eating Certain foods Which God has created to be enjoyed With thanksgiving
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We must take the word of God Over the word of men I'll summarize with the words of John MacArthur He obviously
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You guys know MacArthur, he doesn't pull any punches Right? But these are loving words
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As harsh as this Will sound, these are loving words Because they're offering truth
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And truth spoken In love is what sets a person Free The mass has nothing
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To do with the Christian Gospel I'm going to pause right there The mass and the gospel
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Are at odds They cannot co -exist MacArthur says nothing to do with The Christian life, nothing to do
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With the Christian church It rejects the true Biblical nature of God, Christ Sin, salvation, atonement
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Forgiveness It robs the cross Of its meaning
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And replaces it with superficial Man -centered Idolatry It's a lie
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A fraud And a damning fabrication That enslaves hearts and ushers people
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To hell Church, there is a deception afoot
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And a billion people believe That it comes from John chapter 6 Not taking the very key of John 6, 35 to follow
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The train of thought That eating and drinking is coming, believing But rather Introducing man -made traditions
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Of self -justification And works Which oppose the Christian gospel
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I call you Church, to believe Christ And share
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This gospel With those who are deceived Will you do that? Share this sermon
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On YouTube Pass it around Ask people to write and ask questions
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Let's keep talking because The truth will set people free The Lord will use you
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In preaching this gospel Even as he has brought this gospel To the ends of the earth
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Let's pray Father God, I thank you for giving me Enough grace to make it through The sermon
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Although my frail voice Choked Your word can never be
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Stifled Your word is unchained Your word is truth
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And I pray that you would take This truth of your word And plant it deep in the hearts
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Of those who have heard That they would believe the essential Elements of the gospel
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The promise Of eternal, everlasting Life The person of Christ The work of Christ Once and for all
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Sacrificed on the cross And the necessity
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Of appropriating this gift By genuine faith
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The just shall live By faith So I pray for those listening that they would believe
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The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and so Be saved, in Jesus name
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I pray Amen Joy has dawned
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Upon the World Promise from Creation God's Salvation Now on earth
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Hope For every Nation Not With benefits
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From above Not With scenes of Glory But a heart
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Gift of Love Jesus Born of Mary Shepherd Thou be
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For the Lamb Gazing At the glory
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Gifts Of men From distant Lands Prophesy A story
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Though The Born today
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God Is With us
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Birds That will Make a way
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By His Blood He'll Win us Son of Heaven Son of Give it
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As a Reward Desiring God and Man mighty
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Champions What a Savior What a
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Friend What a Glorious Mystery Once A baby
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Bethlehem Now a Lord of History What a
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Savior What a Friend What a
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Glorious History Once A baby
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Bethlehem Now A Lord of History Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but has now been disclosed through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations according to the command of the eternal
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God to bring about the obedience of faith to the only wise