Our Pope, Rick Warren?

I saw another video of rick warren doing obeisance to the papacy recently and i wanted to respond to it uh and i'm going to try to get this done before the electricity goes out again here i'm in ukraine they're having major energy problems here and yesterday it was a blessing.

We only had two hours of energy blackout the day before with six. So i think that's how it works. You you do the six and then everybody's okay with the two. I think that's how it works anyway. Uh i figure i've actually got hopefully about 90 minutes before the first predicted uh blackout uh hits so we'll see.

Um obviously if it hits before then you'll never see this anyways. So i'm wasting my time anyhow. Um a a brief video clip was put up by a ministry. I don't even know the date of this but obviously rick warren is talking to a roman catholic um videographer organization uh sometime in the recent past and he talks about our pope and he talks about how francis is doing everything perfectly.

And once again um i've said many times before the vast majority of non-roman catholics are non-roman catholics of convenience and taste not of conviction. There are actually very few um convictionally um assured and convinced non-catholics today.

That is people who know what the issues are know that it's the very gospel that is at stake and hence do not think about this in an emotional fashion are not impressed by display and pump but instead recognize there are fundamental issues at stake here and so let's take a look at what rick warren said and then let's uh let's respond to it.

Rick Warren’s Praise of Pope Francis and the Appeal of Roman Catholic Symbolism

Authenticity humility. Pope francis is the perfect example of this. He is a he's doing everything right. You see people will listen to what we say if they like what they see. And as as our new pope he was very very symbolic in you know his first mass with people of aids.

Uh his is a kissing of of the disformed man. His loving the children. This authenticity this humility the caring for the poor. This is what the whole world expects us christians to do. And when we when they go.

Oh that's what a christian does. I in fact there's a headline here in orange county and i love the headline. I saved it it said. If you love pope francis you'll love jesus. That was a headline. That was a headline.

It was a headline. I saved it. I showed it to a group of priests. I was uh speaking to a while back.

Why Calling Priests to Faith in Christ Matters

I suppose first thing i would say when you were speaking to that group of priests pastor warren did you call them to faith in christ. Did you rebuke the audacious arrogance of the roman priesthood in claiming to be able to render christ body soul blood and divinity present upon an altar by their sacramental authority.

Did you rebuke their ordination vows in which they are called an altar christus another christ the audacity that they claim to be able to sacramentally forgive sins not through not through the gospel of jesus christ but through their own authority and the authority of the church.

I i have a feeling you didn't didn't address any of those things. Did you. And that's what this is all about. Folks this isn't some personal thing. I had somebody on twitter yesterday saying that i had sinned because i hadn't personally talked to rick warren.

Completely misunderstanding. Matthew 18. The reality is this is a gospel issue. This is a fundamental issue. It's really a question of whether you love people. Because if you love people then you're going to love the gospel because the gospel is their only hope.

And so what did you say to those priests rick. Were you chumming around with them just sort of letting them go their way. Well then that means you don't really believe what you say. You believe as an alleged southern baptist you don't really believe that there's only one way of salvation.

Because they're not walking that path now. Obviously the big issues are what come before he says that our new pope pastor warren not only is that an utter capitulation to an organization and an office that has so much blood on its hands of christian martyrs down the centuries and has yet to confess that it was directly responsible for the murder of god's people.

But you you don't seem to to to understand that by saying that you are giving legitimacy to an office that fundamentally once again compromises the gospel of jesus christ. You're talking about a man who is called holy father.

You've even called him holy father. It's a title of deity. You're talking about a man who's called the the vicar of christ on earth. These are grossly unbiblical perspectives grossly unbiblical claims.

And by using them you're demonstrating that you really don't care what happened in the reformation. You really don't care what the bible has to say about these things. It's all a matter of us all getting along now.

We have higher priorities. We have higher priorities. That is a sellout to of course the heritage that you at least once made claim to. Maybe you don't make claim to it anymore. Maybe maybe you've recognized that.

Uh well we need to we need to do away with reformation. It's it's over with it was a mistake. Let's uh let's get back to mama. Possibly certainly sounds like it. The way you're talking. Anybody who could talk about my pope.

Amazing. But then you said he's he's doing everything just right. You see this is this is the whole reason i respond to this was because of this line specifically he's doing everything right. And you talked about the first mass.

He said with aids victims. You see the world listens to that. And so many people in your church because they follow your lead listen to that. And they go. Oh yeah. That's that's wonderful. No it's not.

Why not. Because the mass is a blasphemy against the finished work of christ. That's why. Oh that's just all that theology stuff. The only hope for an aids victim is the finished perfect complete work of jesus christ.

And so you will rejoice in the blaspheming of their only hope. Just because it makes for a great photo op. I know you represent the majority these days. I know that i'm but a small voice speaking to a small constituency.

But the fact remains that when you really think historically biblically theologically about what you're doing you can't possibly believe that the finished work of jesus christ the once for all sacrifice the whole argument at the end of hebrews 9 the beginning of hebrews 10 the perfection that comes from that one that one time offering not represented over and over again you can't really believe that's all that important.

Because you can celebrate the blaspheming of it for photo ops. I i don't even i don't even know what to say. If you love pope francis you'll love jesus. And you rejoice in that. Um i i simply seek to warn those who have ears to hear.

Uh that these siren voices are going to become more and more prevalent. And if you do not think through what it is the christian faith is actually proclaiming you will end up being deceived by those who well what's the biblical terminology.

Deceiving. And being deceived here is someone who is deceived and is deceiving others. There is one thing i forgot to mention when i first recorded this particular video and i wanted to add it in here as i was putting it together in editing rick warren repeated a a secular pious platitude.

That's the only way i can describe it is it's a it's a pious platitude of secularism. And that is he said people will listen to what you say when they like what they see. Where do you get that. Oh i i know the psychology and advertising and all the rest of that stuff.

But biblically from the bible where do you get that. Um what's the world's what's the world's relationship to those who faithfully proclaim and live out the gospel. Does the world like to see people living out the gospel.

Seriously i mean really have you noticed what's going on recently if you live out the gospel if you um if you dare for example show the appropriateness and supremacy of heterosexual monogamous lifelong marriage oh yeah world's gonna listen.

But you have to say because they like what they see. It's a level of self-deception. That's really really difficult uh to to imagine it really is if any of you are actually have rick warren's ear you might want to try talking to him.

You might want to ask him what are you doing. What are you doing. What how can you say one thing to your people. And then do this. I don't understand it but i can certainly see it when i recognize when i when i see it i recognize it.

Uh this is not something that a christian minister who professes to even believe what the baptist faith and message says on the subject of justification or any of these things. This is a a complete capitulation a complete sellout.

And just as we're seeing a tsunami of capitulation on the bible's teaching on the subject of human sexuality. So too even more so on what it says about how we are made right with god. Thanks for watching.