A very interesting topic.
I speak as a former Roman Catholic.
I was into Mary worship.
I was into this idolatry, Mariolatry, totally demonic, totally against the
scriptures.
And listen carefully ladies and gentlemen, and perhaps you're a Roman Catholic
listening today, I encourage you to search the scriptures for yourself.
Well, we're dealing with the salvation of your soul.
We are going to spend eternity.
Very important that you hear the truth of what the word of God says.
Now, Mary plays a very central part in the life of every Roman Catholic.
From the very beginning of a young Catholic's education, they are taught
about that central role regarding Mary within the church.
So, it's not unusual that you will hear a Roman Catholic say that the Protestant
does not understand the Roman Catholic teaching regarding Mary, and so on.
I'm telling you folks, as a former Roman Catholic, we worship Mary.
Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.
Don't let them get into some type of talk regarding Latria, and all that stuff.
Folks, they worship Mary.
It's heavy duty worship.
You could take a look at the rosary, which is a set of beads, five decades of
prayers.
We're talking entire rosary includes like 53 Hail Mary prayers.
Those are Hail Marys praying to Mary.
So, very important that you see that.
We know that Mary absolutely plays a central part in the life of the Popes.
You know, Pope John Paul II, he had something sewed into his papal robes,
his papal garments, the words totus tuus sum Maria, and that means Mary,
I am totally yours, or Mary, I am all yours.
So, to say that Mary doesn't play a central part, folks, in the Roman Catholic
system is, would be silly.
It's heavy duty Mary worship within that system.
You know, Pope Francis, the current Pope over there in the Vatican, he made a
statement.
Let me quote to you from an article here.
Visiting Naples in March, Pope Francis told priests, nuns, and seminarians that
one way to make sure Jesus is the center of their lives is to ask his mother to
take you to him.
A priest, a brother, a nun who does not love Mary, who does not pray to her,
I would even say one who does not recite the rosary, well, if you don't love the
mother, the mother will not give you the son.
The Pope told the leaders in his very own Roman Catholic Church that Mother Mary
would take them to Jesus, and that was the sure way of their making Jesus the center
of their lives.
Then Pope Francis went on to say that if they did not love Mary and pray to her,
including the rosary, then the mother would not give them the son.
So I found that article online entitled, Mother and Son Pope Francis Has a Personal
Intimate Devotion to Mary.
And I got that from the Catholic News Service, Vatican City folks, heavy duty
stuff.
Here we have Pope Francis telling the Roman Catholic people that if they,
you know, if they don't love Mary, she won't give them this son.
Folks, this is, this is spiritual insanity.
And I thank God that he pulled me out of that system.
Once again, I bring forth this warning as a former Roman Catholic.
And once again, I say, you're not going to hear this in your regular church.
You know, there's so much false counterfeit unity going on today,
folks.
You know, many, many people that are, they brag about revival.
They talk about revival for decades.
You hear all of this talk about the anointing and revival.
And yet you'll see many of those same people joining up, hooking up in his unity
with Rome, especially you'll see with the Pentecostals hooking up with the
Charismatics.
And I went through that charismatic movement of the Roman Catholic church,
folks.
And let me say something to you.
My worship of Mary increased when I was in the charismatic movement.
So little things you're not going to hear in your, in your local church.
And that's why I do these.
So we see that the Roman Catholic Pope Francis, he pushes hard about being
devoted to Mary so much so that he would not give them this son if they did not
pray to her.
And that included the rosary.
So you'll see, you hear a lot of talk about the rosary, the rosary, the rosary.
You know, if you don't know what a rosary is, it's a set of beads.
As I said, there are five decades of five separate things, 10 prayers to Mary,
and you have other prayers in there, and our father, the glory be and so on.
But these are something that are prayed on a regular basis by the everyday Roman
Catholic person.
You could have a Roman Catholic who hasn't been to church perhaps 10, 20,
30 years, but they will know that rosary.
And perhaps they will even carry a rosary around with them.
If you go to the wake or a funeral of a Roman Catholic person who died,
the priest, the local priest will come in, and he will say the rosary, he'll say the
first part, and the Catholics there will respond with the second part.
I know I've done it many, many times.
So that's what we're dealing with, ladies and gentlemen.
And keep in mind, ladies and gentlemen, that people are joining hands with this
Roman Catholic system.
This counterfeit unity has been going on for decades.
1994, you had that agreement signed.
I can't believe it's been so long.
That was 21 years ago, evangelicals and Catholics together.
Incredible.
Very little outcry from what we would call the evangelical church.
Folks, these are the last days.
When you see stuff like this happening, you can be assured you are living in the
last days.
You're talking about a system who murdered, which murdered many people,
the reformers, who came against their false teachings.
And the of the Roman Catholic church have not changed one iota since that time.
So we're dealing with very, very serious truth.
I assure you today, folks, as a former Roman Catholic, I do not have to go
through Mary.
I do not have to pray my rosary.
I know I take God at his word.
Jesus said, John 14 and 6, it says, Jesus saith unto him, I am the way,
the truth, and the life.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Mary's not even found in the equation, ladies and gentlemen.
Hear me today.
Do you see anything in that scripture about the Lord imploring you to go to
Mary?
Absolutely not.
John 16 and 13, how be it when he, the spirit of truth is come, he will guide
you into all truth.
For he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall
he speak, and he will show you things to come.
Folks, it's the Holy Spirit will show you things to come.
I don't need Mary.
I've got the Holy Ghost.
He will show me things to come.
I open up the scriptures.
The Holy Ghost will lead me through the scriptures, and he will teach me.
John 15 and 26, but when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the
Father, even the spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father,
he shall testify of me.
Listen to that.
Jesus says the Holy Spirit's going to testify about him.
Isn't that something?
He's going to testify about Christ, no mention of Mary.
You see, this thing with Mary, folks, it's demonic, it's satanic.
And I'm going to show you later on in this teaching, I'll be quoting some of the
messages, those apparitions of Mary to show you how demonic and satanic they are.
It's not Mary.
Those are demon spirits, demon spirits, hear me now, that are bringing forth
messages contrary, against, opposed the very scriptures.
So when the Holy Spirit comes into a person's life, ladies and gentlemen,
he will always point that person to the person of Jesus Christ.
When I was truly born again of the spirit, I lost all desire to pray to Mary.
I lost all desire to pray the rosary.
I discarded all of those things, those medals, those rosary beads,
out they went, ladies and gentlemen.
I speak the truth and love to you today.
Now here's an excerpt from an article from January 1st, 2015, concerning the Jesuit
Pope Francis and his extreme devotion to Mother Mary.
This is from an article, as I said, January 1st, 2015.
At one point, the Pope also introduced an impromptu Marian devotion, inviting the
assembly in St. Peter's Basilica to rise, face the statue of Mary, and repeat three
times, Mary, Mother of God.
So let me stop right there.
So here we have the Pope calling this huge crowd, and folks, this guy can draw,
he can draw like a million people at the drop of a hat.
Isn't that incredible?
So here he's telling them, look, face the statue of Mary.
That's demonic in itself.
The second commandment forbids.
Don't make graven images.
God knows what he's talking about, ladies and gentlemen.
So he has them face this statue, and he says, say three times, Mary,
Mother of God.
Mary, Mother of God.
So it goes on to say, the Pope recalled that at the 5th Century Council of
Ephesus, a crowd actually shouted that phrase at the gathered bishops while
waving clubs at them, threatening violence if they did not formally proclaim Mary as
the Mother of God.
This time, Francis jokingly invited people to make the chant without clubs.
He led the crowd in St. Peter's Square in the same chant during his Angelus Address.
Now, you know, as I'm reading that, it makes me think of the Book of Acts when
you had this gathering of people.
Satan is behind this idolatry, folks, this mereolatry.
In the Book of Acts, we had a large multitude worshiping Diana of the
Ephesians, okay?
That was in Ephesus.
And they repeated for two hours, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
And they probably would have killed the Apostle Paul if they let him go in there,
folks, to that building.
And thank God he didn't go in because the Lord protected him.
So when Satan is upon a people, he grabs their mind.
And this has been going on, folks, for centuries regarding this stuff,
Mother Mary.
And so it's very important that you see that.
So this obsession, an absolute obsession with Mary, it's incredible.
Absolutely incredible.
As I said, you know, Pope John Paul II, he had an extreme devotion to Mary.
And he had that saying written within his robes, told us to assume Maria,
Mary, I am totally yours.
So these are things that you need to know, ladies and gentlemen, very important.
And what descriptions tell us about Mary, ladies and gentlemen, was that Mary was a
sinner.
You see, that's not something that is taught in the Roman Catholic Church.
If you look in Luke chapter 1, and I encourage you to read Luke 1,
46-56.
I'll just give you a couple of verses, 46-47.
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God
my Savior.
Only sinners need a Savior, ladies and gentlemen.
Mary knew she needed a Savior.
And if you, as I said, if you read that whole passage, you'll see Mary exalting
God, his mercy upon those who fear him.
He's filled the hungry with good things.
He's helped his servant Israel as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed
forever.
And it goes on constantly exalting the Lord.
So Mary knew she needed a Savior.
You will not find anything about a sinless Mary.
Absolutely not.
You don't find it.
Psalm 14 verses 1 to 3.
The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.
They are corrupt.
They've done abominable works.
There is none that doeth good.
The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any
that did understand and seek God.
They are all gone aside.
They are all together become filthy.
There is none that doeth good.
No, not one.
So we know that, ladies and gentlemen, there are none righteous.
Mary was a sinner just like each and every one of us.
She needed the mercy of God.
And that's why she spoke the way she did.
In fact, if you get a person who's truly been saved, born again of the Spirit,
they're going to tell you, look, I deserve nothing but hell.
You know, when I was truly saved, I'll tell you right now, folks,
I know I deserve nothing but hell.
I really, you know, when the Spirit of God shows you, you're lost, my dear God.
You realize that it's nothing but the blood of Christ that he shed for you upon
the cross that will wash away your sins.
In us dwells no good thing.
Absolutely no good thing.
And that's why, people, you need to know you must be born again.
You need to become a new creation in Jesus Christ.
Romans 3.10, as it is written, there is none righteous, no not one,
for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Now, here's a teaching from the Roman Catholic system.
This is from the Catechism of 1994.
It says here, the fathers of the Eastern tradition call the Mother of God the
All-Holy and celebrate her as free from any stain of sin as though fashioned by
the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature.
By the grace of God, Mary remained free of every personal sin her whole life long.
And that was item number 493 from that Catechism.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's man-made tradition.
You don't find that in the Scriptures.
So here, you must know that the Roman Catholic teaching is their teaching.
It's a man-made tradition, but it's false.
It's not true.
It's against the Scriptures.
You will not find anything about the sinlessness of Mary as they teach anywhere
in the Scriptures.
This is something that they have made up, invented themselves.
Now, if you do search the Scriptures, you will find out the truth about Mary in
Galatians chapter 4, verses 4 to 6.
But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a
woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might
receive the adoption of sons.
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your
heart, crying, Abba, Father.
So, you know, the Lord called this humble Jewish servant, Mary, Miriam, and he was
going to use her.
This was the vessel he chose to use to bring Jesus Christ into the world.
Keep in mind, Jesus came down from above.
But her being sinless, no sir, no ma'am, not to be found in the Word of
God at all.
The prophecy regarding this happening, was Mary a virgin when this took place,
when the Holy Ghost overshadowed her?
Absolutely.
Isaiah 7 and 14, Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign,
behold a virgin, shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
By the way, that word Immanuel, sometimes spelled with an I, sometimes
with an E, it means God with us, glory to God.
So, we have here a prophecy that this prophecy regarding Jesus Christ,
Immanuel, and a virgin who is Mary.
Now, we know that Mary herself needed an atonement for her sins.
Let me read to you from Luke 2.21 and 24 to 24.
And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child,
his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived
in the womb.
And when the days of her purification, according to the law of Moses,
were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord.
As it is written in the law of the Lord, every male that opens the womb shall be
called holy to the Lord, and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said
in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons.
Now, what took place there, ladies and gentlemen, was what the law of God said.
She was born, I mean, Jesus Christ was born of a Jewish virgin.
So, he was fulfilling everything that the law required.
This is what Mary was doing to the T.
So, she was doing what you could find in the book of Leviticus.
Look at this, Leviticus chapter 12 in verse 8.
And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles or two
young pigeons, the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin
offering.
And the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
Now, I'm going to repeat that.
You might not have caught what I want you to see.
This is what Mary did with Joseph, okay.
I'm going to read it again.
This is the requirement of the law.
And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles or two
young pigeons, the one for the burnt offering.
Now, listen to this, and the other for a sin offering.
What did I say there?
A sin offering.
One more time.
A sin offering.
And the priest shall make an atonement for her.
Who?
Her.
Wait, what did I say?
Her.
So we see it was a sin offering, and it was made for her.
Okay, you're not going to hear this folks in your local church.
This is stuff that you need to know, because we're dealing with souls here.
And I encourage you to take this tape, make copies of it, send it to your lost
relatives.
If you're a Roman Catholic, send it to your friends after you get saved,
because the Lord will move.
If you humble yourself and say, Lord, I want the truth, as you're
listening to this, pray for the truth, I assure you, he's going to show you that
his word is true.
Amen?
So, they fit together folks.
It was an atonement for her.
Mary needed to have her sins atoned for.
It's important that you know also, ladies and gentlemen, God does not have a
mother.
That's true.
God does not have a mother.
Mary, the Jewish virgin, was the mother of Jesus.
She was used to bring Jesus into the world, but she's not deity.
God is God.
Mary is Mary.
A human being just like you and me.
And it's important that you see that God does not have a mother.
Last time you'll see Mary mentioned in the scriptures, you read Acts chapter 1 verses
12 to 14, and you'll see they're all gathered together praying.
It says, these all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the
women and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
Folks, Mary was amongst the believers.
That small group at that time, we're talking about the original followers
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Mary was amongst them.
She was joining in prayer with them.
They were not praying to her.
They were not praying through her.
She was praying with them.
They were praying to God Almighty.
Important that you see that.
So, very, very good that you understand these things, ladies and gentlemen.
You know, there's another interesting passage of scripture where Jesus,
he had just cast a demon out of a person, and the religious crowd insisted that he
did it by the power of Beelzebub, the chief of devils.
Now, Jesus made it clear to the religious crowd that a kingdom cannot be divided
against itself, and that he cast that demon or devil out by the finger of God.
Look at Luke chapter 11 verses 14 to 28.
So, there's great opposition to Jesus Christ, folks.
As I'm speaking here, the enemy is assaulting your mind as I'm speaking.
He doesn't want you to know what I'm telling you.
And he'll do anything he can to distract you, anything, to keep you from listening
to this tape, to keep you from reading the scriptures, to keep you from digging into
the Word of God.
And I encourage you, folks, to open up the scriptures for yourself and say,
Lord, is what this man preaching today, is it true?
And it's not because it's me.
You can listen to other people who are speaking the truth.
You call out to the Lord and say, I want the truth, no matter what.
Watch what he does.
But the more you try to do things like that, hear me, you're going to have an
assault upon your mind like never before, because there's a battle raging for your
soul.
I know, folks, I've been on your side before I came to know the Lord.
Satan hates Jesus Christ.
He will do everything that he can to discredit him and his followers.
So it's no mere coincidence that the Jewish Pharisees reacted so strongly
against Jesus Christ because he was upsetting their religious kingdom.
It wasn't his kingdom, it wasn't the kingdom of God, folks.
It was their religious kingdom.
And that's what we're dealing with, with the religious kingdom of Rome,
the Roman Catholic system, okay?
Very important that you see this.
So that's what was taking place there.
Let me read to you from Luke chapter 11, verses 27 to 28.
And it came to pass, as he spake these things, just speaking about Christ,
a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice and said unto him, Blessed is
the womb that bare thee, and the paps or breast which thou hast sucked.
Talking about nursing a baby.
But he said, Yea, listen to what Jesus said.
This is good.
Yea, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it.
So Satan had just used the Jewish unbelievers to insist that Christ was
working under the dominion of Beelzebub, the chief of devils.
And now a woman raised up her voice just as Jesus was explaining the truth about
his power over demons.
Don't miss this.
This is good stuff, folks.
Here's Jesus explaining about his power over demons.
He has power over every demon power.
And in the middle of this, in the middle of his explanation, here's his lady,
this woman raises up her voice and starts exalting mother, his mother, Mother Mary.
I believe this is one of the first instances of Mary worship, folks.
It was a distraction of Satan.
And the Lord saw that.
And he dealt with it immediately.
What did he say?
He said, Yea, or yes rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep
it.
He will always take the people back to the word of God.
You see that?
He never exalted his physical, his fleshly mother at all.
And very interesting.
We're dealing with this spiritual warfare, folks, this battle for souls.
And you see me talk frequently, you hear me, I should say, talk frequently
about this Roman Catholic system, the deification of man, the Pope
addressing him as Holy Father.
Folks, it's an earthly kingdom.
It's not the kingdom of God.
I'm telling you, folks, when you're born again, only by the spirit of the living
God can you know these things.
I didn't talk this way before I was saved, folks.
When I'm praying my Hail Marys and going to my Catholic Mass, I didn't talk this
way.
But when I was born again, I started talking this way.
And that happened back in 1989, folks.
And I'm here to tell you today, it's getting worse by the moment.
Incredible what is happening.
What amazes me, and I've said this a thousand times, amazes me is the lack of
people, the lack of concern.
There should be an outrage with what is taking place.
I mean, if you remember the martyrs and what they did, they laid down their lives
fighting against that system.
They were tortured, they were burnt at the stake.
One of them, they took the bones decades after they killed him, took his bones and
burnt the bones.
That's wicked.
It's satanic, folks.
And I bring these things forth because the doctrines of Rome are exactly the same as
they were back then when all of that persecution was taking place.
The Inquisition, folks, estimates sometimes into the millions, and we
shouldn't be surprised by that.
So that's why I'm speaking out once again.
So as I said, you know, Jesus knew the deal.
He knew what was going on when this person said, blessed are the breast that you
nursed on.
He saw what the devil was up to.
He saw what was cooking.
So you couldn't put it over on Jesus, thank God, ladies and gentlemen,
and only by his spirit can we know these things.
And I thank God, I thank God that he pulled me out of that darkness.
So, you know, more than likely the woman who interrupted him had no idea what she
was doing.
You know, look at Peter, when basically the Lord said he was going to the cross
and Peter rebuked him and said, no, no, no.
And what did the Lord say to Peter?
He said, get behind me, Satan.
You see, get behind me, Satan.
You're more concerned about the things of man than the things of God, something to
that effect.
I don't have a description in front of me, but Peter really didn't know what he was
doing either.
You see, that's the way the enemy works.
He comes upon people they don't see in the spirit.
You see, so very important that you see that the Lord did not exalt his mother.
He did not do that.
Absolutely not.
Luke 8, verses 19 to 21.
Then came to him his mother and his brethren.
It could not come at him for the press or big crowd.
And it was told him by certain which said, thy mother and thy brethren stand without
or outside desiring to see thee.
And he answered and said unto them, my mother and my brethren are these which
hear the word of God and do it.
So once again, the Lord brings it back.
He brings it back to the word of God.
His mother and his brothers and sisters, they were outside.
Okay.
And somebody came up to him and said, you know, they're outside and this is what
we need to do.
You know, obviously they're thinking they're going to, they're going to escort
them in.
But the Lord didn't do that.
He said, here's my family right here.
Those who hear the word of God and do it.
So, so that's what the Lord does.
A spiritual family folks.
And it's a physical family.
Okay.
The spiritual family are those who've been born again of the spirit.
They want to follow the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are not perfect in ourselves.
We are not, uh, holy rollers.
We need, we, we need mercy every day.
Folks hear me now.
And that's, that's the good thing about knowing the Lord.
God is merciful.
So the Lord made that clear right then and there.
I mean, think about today.
If somebody, if somebody was preaching somewhere and I said, your family's
outside, they're probably bringing them out through a side door or something
saying, Hey, we'll go, we'll, we'll sneak you in the back here.
But Jesus didn't do that.
You see?
So, uh, and you find another scripture, the same thing, uh, Matthew 12 verses 46
to 50.
So, uh, in fact, let me read that because it is important.
While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood
without or outside desiring to speak with him.
Then one said unto him, behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without
or outside desiring to speak with thee.
But he answered and said unto them and told him, who is my mother and who are my
brethren?
And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples and said, behold, my mother and
my brethren for whosoever shall do the will of my father, which is in heaven,
the same as my brother and sister and mother.
Clearly, ladies and gentlemen, we, we see he did not exalt his physical
family.
He spoke about the spiritual family.
He says, whoever does the will of my father, the same as my brother and sister
and mother.
If ever there was a scripture that refused the idea of Mary, mother of God and so on,
that's the one right there.
Folks, if you are born again of the spirit, you're part of his family.
Okay.
Mary is not my mother.
Mary is not your mother.
So, you know, very good scripture that you need to know, ladies and gentlemen.
Jesus Christ stands alone when, when it comes to these things,
ladies and gentlemen, there's one mediator between God and men and that's Jesus
Christ.
And Mary is not a mediator.
If you look in Matthew chapter 17, verses one to eight, that's what is known
as the mount of transfiguration.
When the Lord was transfigured, the glory of God shined upon him.
Let me read to you, Matthew 17, one to eight.
And after six days, Jesus taketh Peter, James and John, his brother and bringeth
them up into a high mountain apart and was transfigured before them.
And his face did shine as the sun and his raiment or his clothing was white as the
light.
And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias, that's Elijah, talking with
him.
Then answered Peter and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here.
If thou will, let us make here three tabernacles, meaning like tents,
one for thee, one for Moses and one for Elias or Elijah.
While he had spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them.
And behold, a voice out of the cloud which said, this is my beloved son in whom I am
well pleased.
Hear ye him.
And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face and were sore
afraid.
And Jesus came and touched them and said, arise and be not afraid.
And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man save or accept Jesus only.
So here you have, they're on this mountain, they're privileged to be able to
see the transfiguration of the Lord.
The glory of God was upon him.
Do not miss the fact that there were two people who were talking to him,
Moses and Elijah.
Oh boy.
Moses and Elijah.
Folks, these are Old Testament people, but they're here talking with Jesus in
glory.
Peter realizes what's happening.
He says, let me build three tents.
One for Moses, one for Elijah and one for you, Jesus.
And all of a sudden, a voice comes out of the cloud.
And the next thing you know, the only one there, it's Jesus.
Folks, Jesus stands alone.
He said, this is my beloved son.
Hear ye him.
Don't miss that.
Jesus stands alone, folks.
Do you know Jesus Christ today?
Have you ever been saved?
Do you know Christ?
Do you know this Jesus Christ?
Or are you worshiping a false Jesus Christ?
So, beautiful thing when you realize Moses and Elijah, there they were, alive and in
living color.
Totally awesome.
Should put a hope in your heart, folks.
When you die, if you've been born again, you're going to be with the Lord.
You will meet people.
You're going to meet Moses.
You're going to meet Elijah.
You're going to meet all of these people.
You'll meet Peter.
You will meet the real Mary.
Glory to God.
You're going to meet all of these people.
But more importantly, folks, you're going to see Jesus.
You're going to meet the real Jesus.
Glory to his name, the one who saved your soul, the one who shed his blood,
the one who went to the cross for your sins.
Give him all the glory.
This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
Hear ye him.
So, you know, you know, as I said, folks, I am a former Roman Catholic and I
was into this Mary worship and all of these things.
And it's important.
You got to be aware of Satan's rabbit trails, the devil's rabbit trails,
Satan and the devil, same person, the wicked one, whatever you want to call
it, call him.
It's okay.
But he will take you off and distract you, put you on rabbit trails, ladies and
gentlemen, so that you don't get saved.
That's the deal.
And when you think about all of the stuff that's going on, it's totally mind
boggling.
You know, the Roman Catholic teaching, you know, they have a teaching known as
the Immaculate Conception that Mary, as I said, was conceived without sin.
That is a demonic counterfeit.
It's a demonic imitation, which mimics the sinlessness of Jesus Christ.
Another thing, number two, the Roman Catholic teaching regarding the assumption
of Mary into heaven, Mary being raised into heaven without dying, that is a
demonic counterfeit, a demonic imitation, which mimics the true resurrection and
ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven.
Number three, the Roman Catholic teaching of Mary being the queen of heaven is a
demonic counterfeit, a demonic imitation, which mimics the true exalted one,
Jesus Christ, who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Number four, the Roman Catholic teaching of Mary as a mediator or mediatrix is a
demonic counterfeit, a demonic imitation, which mimics the one and only mediator
that we need, whose name is Jesus Christ.
So I want you to know, folks, there's a demonic work going on regarding the Roman
Catholic version of Mary.
You know, very often you'll hear the Catholic teachers saying you have to go
through Mary, you know, go through Mary.
You get to Jesus through Mary.
And they'll even say that Mary plays a part in the salvation of a soul.
But I want you to know, folks, that the truth of the matter is that
everything's been taken care of by Jesus Christ.
Peace has been made through the blood of the cross.
You don't have to go through Mary.
Read chapter five in Romans.
Very good dealing with that.
He paid the price, ladies and gentlemen.
And regarding the salvation of a soul, you don't need Mary.
It's just Jesus Christ.
Let me give you a little excerpt from what they teach in their catechism,
item number 969 from the Roman Catholic Catechism of 94, says this, this
motherhood of Mary and the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent
which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering
beneath the cross until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect.
Taken up to heaven, she did not lay aside the saving office, but by her manifold
intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation.
Therefore, the blessed virgin is invoked in the church under the titles of
advocate, helper, benefactress, and mediatrix.
So it talks about the saving office of salvation.
Once again, man-made tradition, man-made invention of the Roman Catholic
system.
There's no hope, ladies and gentlemen, outside of Jesus Christ.
Listen to these scriptures, Romans 6 and 23, for the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
First John 5, 11, and 12, and this is the record that God hath given to us eternal
life, and this life is in his Son.
He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath
not life.
First John 5 and 20, and we know that the Son of God has come and hath given us an
understanding that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true,
even in his Son, Jesus Christ.
This is the true God and eternal life.
Glory to God.
Do you find an inkling of anything dealing with Mother Mary in there?
Absolutely not, folks.
Eternal life is found in Jesus Christ.
Eternal life is in his Son.
He who has the Son has life.
This is where you find it, folks, is the gift of God.
You do not have to go through Mary.
It's not about going to confession and doing penance.
It's not about hurting yourself, flagellation as some people do,
even in the priesthood, hurting themselves, penance.
No, I'm telling you, folks, salvation is a gift.
It comes by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ in him alone, not by works of
righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy.
He saves us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost.
You'll find that in Titus 3.5.
So, very important that you see all of these things, ladies and gentlemen.
You remember when the Lord spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well and he
revealed himself as the Messiah to that woman.
Now, this was a woman that was married many times and the Lord was testing her.
He says, go tell your husband.
And she says, I don't have a husband.
And the Lord said, that's good you answered that way because the man you're
living with is not your husband.
But you know something?
The Lord exposed her sin, but the Lord saved her soul.
Let me read to you.
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the
woman which testified, he told me all that ever I did.
So, when the Samaritans would come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry
with them and he abode there two days.
And many more believed because of his own word and said unto the woman, now we
believe, not because of thy saying, for we have heard him ourselves and know
that this is indeed the Christ or Messiah, the Savior of the world.
Now, that's powerful folks.
Here you have this lady, probably so burdened down.
I mean, she was married so many times before.
She's at the well doing her probably daily duty.
She's getting water and Jesus starts ministering to her.
And she got so excited after that, she ran back to town and told everybody
and says, I want you to come and meet somebody who just told me everything I
did.
I mean, think about that.
This woman was blown away by what Jesus said to her.
And they come back and he says, okay, we're going to go check it out for
ourselves.
And that's exactly what they did.
And they said, look, we heard him for ourself.
And we believe because of his word, not your word.
And we know, listen to this, that this is indeed the Christ, the Messiah,
the Savior of the world.
That's where you got to come to folks.
I don't care if you're Jewish, Gentile, does not matter.
You must come to the place where you know for yourself, not by the word of somebody
else.
They had to find out for themselves.
And that's exactly what they did.
They said, we know, not because of your word, because of his word, that this is
the Christ.
This is the Messiah, the Savior of the world.
You know, there's a teaching out there that the Jewish people, they're God's
chosen people.
Folks, this is what they need.
They need to know that Jesus Christ is the Savior that they need.
You can't get saved without Christ.
You cannot get saved because you are of the Jewish race.
Impossible.
You must be born again.
That's another teaching you don't hear folks.
You must be born again.
Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creation.
The old things have passed away.
Behold, all things are become new.
Jewish or Gentile, the word for you today, you must be born again.
In fact, there was a famous preacher, I think it was John Wesley.
He was near death.
And somebody came to interview him and said, you know, Mr. Wesley, I just have
one question for you.
Why is it that you're always preaching the same thing about being born again?
You must be born again.
You know what Mr. Wesley said?
Because you must be born again.
You start preaching that folks, you watch what happens.
All of these things, these truths, will totally destroy the satanic teachings
folks.
That's why the Lord tells you to study the word of God.
The truth shall make you free.
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
Hallelujah.
So they had to find out for themselves.
I'm going to take a look at some of the Marian apparitions.
These things have been going on for many decades all over the world.
What I'm going to do, I'm going to take a look at a few of these.
I'll start with La Salette.
Okay.
The appearance of La Salette and very interesting, very well known apparition.
Our Lady of La Salette, France.
Listen to this folks.
This is a, by the way, this has been approved by Pope Pius IX, Pope Leo XIII,
that this, they believe this thing is real.
And this is the message that basically came forth from that apparition.
So now you have these appearances of what Rome believes is Mother Mary.
But I'm here to tell you, as a former Roman Catholic, that it is not Mother Mary
at all.
I'm here to tell you that these are demon spirits masquerading under the name of
Mother Mary, and ensnaring souls by the millions.
And I was one of them folks.
I wasn't into La Salette, but you know, I knew of the others, Fatima, Lourdes,
Medjugorje.
As I said, when I was in that charismatic movement, my Mary worship increased even
more.
So that's another deception, the Roman Catholic charismatic movement.
Don't go tell it to the people who are into that, Pentecostals folks,
they don't want to hear it.
You know, they'll talk about the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
But hear me now folks, when the spirit of truth comes, he will reveal to you that
these things are not true.
That's what he did to me.
So be careful about stuff like that.
I know I came through that charismatic movement.
Here is the message that came forth at La Salette.
If my people do not obey, I shall be compelled to lose my son's arm.
It is so heavy that I can no longer hold it.
How long have I suffered for you?
If my son is not to abandon you, I am obliged to entreat him without
ceasing, but you take no heed of that.
No matter how well you pray in the future, no matter how well you act, you will never
be able to make up what I have endured on your behalf.
I have given you six days to work, the seventh I reserved for myself,
yet no one will give it to me.
This is what causes the weight of my son's arm to be so heavy.
The car drivers cannot swear without bringing in my son's name.
These are the two things that make my son's arm so heavy.
Now, folks, that's what they believe to be Mother Mary.
So she's saying, look, I'm holding back.
Basically, she says, I'm holding back the wrath of my son.
I'm doing everything I can.
Folks, it's demonic.
It's not Mary.
That's Satan disguising himself as Mother Mary so that you do what this Mother Mary
wants you to do.
But folks, it's not Mother Mary.
It's the enemy.
That's why I tell you, go straight to Christ.
His arm's not against you.
He says, come to me, all you that labor and heavy laden.
I'll give you rest.
He wants to give you rest.
He will give you the rest.
He will give you the peace that you want inside your heart, folks.
And it's in Jesus Christ.
That's why dig into the Word of God for yourself.
Another apparition or appearance, very well known, Fatima, Our Lady of
Fatima, formerly known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fatima.
And you can look in Wikipedia, you know, a lot of this info.
This is where I'm getting it from.
Very concise, very clear, because there are a trillion different websites with all
this stuff on it, folks.
So I want you to see what the teaching is regarding that.
So, Division, as I said, also referred to Our Lady of the Rosary.
And Division called herself the Lady of the Rosary.
And she appeared holding a rosary.
Pope Pius XII granted a canonical canonical coronation to the venerated
image enshrined at the chapel of the apparitions on 13 May of 1946.
Okay.
The reported apparitions at Fatima were officially declared worthy of belief by
the Catholic Church, which commemorates the event on the same date.
So, and it goes on to say the events at Fatima gained fame due to elements of
secrets, prophecy, and eschatology, particularly with regard to the Second
World War, possibly more global wars in the future.
Chief among these is also the alleged urgent need for the consecration of Russia
to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Okay.
So that's another famous apparition of Fatima.
Another one is Lourdes.
Okay.
Our Lady of Lourdes, France.
So, now this, I'll give you, this was also approved.
Pope Pius IX, 1862, on 3 July 1876, Pope Pius IX formally granted a canonical
coronation to the image that used to be in a courtyard of what is now part of the
Rosary Basilica.
So, a simple 14-year-old peasant girl of no significant educational experience
reported a vision that a woman in white spoke to her.
Okay.
That was 1858.
Bernadette Sobertus reported a vision of Our Lady of Lourdes.
She claimed she saw a miraculous lady in white with a golden rosary and blue belt
fastened around her waist and two golden roses at her feet on a hill who asked her
to request that the local priest build a chapel at the site of the vision.
After church investigations confirmed the visions, a large church was built at the
site.
So, basically it goes on to say, what took place and this Bernadette,
she heard two gusts of winds.
Okay.
And she noticed that the trees in the bushes nearby, they did not move.
And it goes on to say, Bernadette tried to make the sign of the cross, but she could
not because her hands were trembling.
The white lady smiled and invited Bernadette to pray the Holy Rosary with
her.
Bernadette tried to keep this a secret, but Toinette told her mother.
After parental course examination, she and her sister received corporal
punishment for their story.
Okay.
Three days later, 14th of February, Bernadette returned to the grotto.
She had brought holy water as a test that the apparition was not of evil provenance.
The second time was the following Sunday.
Then I started to throw holy water in her direction.
And at the same time I said that if she came from God, she was to stay,
but if not, she must go.
She started to smile and bowed.
This was the second time.
Now I want you to see something.
This is very interesting folks.
So here you have this girl.
She wants to know if this apparition is true.
So she brings holy water.
Now you don't find this stuff in the scriptures, anything about testing the
spirits by holy water.
So this is something she learned in the Catholic church, holy water.
So she, she takes some holy water, what they call holy water and throws it at
this apparition and says that if you're from God, you can stay.
But if you're not, then go.
This is, this was how she was discerning whether this was a real or not a demon.
And, and, and this apparition, which was a demon spirit, smiled.
Okay.
So you know how you, you, you, you discern whether something's from God
or not folks, through the scriptures, that's what you need to know.
So let me take a look now at some of the messages from Medjugorje.
Now I became involved in this sort of stuff.
I was never to Medjugorje, but I did know people who were there.
And they came back with stories about how the chain on their rosary beads that used
to be silver changed into a gold color while they were there.
Another one told us a story.
They, they, they would look at the sun and she said, she saw all rainbow,
this most beautiful rainbow things coming out of the sun and all sorts of stuff like
this.
And we would have people over our house to pray.
And we, we were intrigued, my wife, Kathy, we were intrigued by this stuff
like, wow, really?
You know, so we, we, we were totally into this thing.
This was shortly before I got saved.
Thank God the Lord brought us out.
And let me tell you something, when you're coming out of that darkness,
you know, these precious souls, we were part of a prayer group in this
charismatic movement.
When you're coming out, Satan will, will raise up his ugly head against you
folks.
And people were trying to get us to stay, you see.
And I'm telling you, a lot of these people, they read their Bible,
but, but, but this Mary thing that they, they refused to let go of it.
I'm telling you folks.
And, and you know, when, when I got saved and my wife got saved, we came out of this
darkness and, and, and one of the ladies, and I know they mean well, they sent us an
article in a paper about the Eucharist, how it, how it turned to real flesh.
And me and Kathy were like, whoa, you know, so, so, so there was,
there's a battle folks, it's a battle for the soul, a battle for the soul.
And I'm, as I say, I bring these teachings folks, because you're not going to hear
it.
Nobody's telling you these things.
And people are joining hands with that system.
And I've said before, you know, the Council of Trent, which was upheld by
Vatican II, contains over 100 curses, incredible, against people who believe
like I believe, who don't believe in their teaching on the Eucharist, who don't
believe all their other teachings, the Catholic Mass, and all of that.
There's a curse upon me, as a former Roman Catholic, because I obviously don't agree
with that.
They say, let you be a curse, let you be anathema.
So it's amazing that people will join hands with that.
And I recently heard the Cardinal Dolan from New York City, that's that big
church, St. Patrick Cathedral in New York, he did a podcast where he was talking
about how great that Council of Trent was.
So here's a man, he's boasting about Trent.
Meanwhile, the evangelicals are being sucked in like a giant, like they're being
sucked into it by a giant vacuum cleaner into this counterfeit unity.
And I'm telling you, folks, the end is, it's got to be close, because it's amazing
what is happening in the land.
Let me get back, I didn't mean to get off here.
Medjugorje, listen to this, folks.
One of the messages from Medjugorje, November 8th, 1981.
This apparition of Mary, this demon spirit, appears embracing and kissing a
picture of Pope John Paul II.
Wow.
This is what that apparition said, he is your father, the spiritual father of
all.
It is necessary to pray for him.
Now, this is the same John Paul II that visited Brazil and, you know, many of the
people down in South America were getting saved.
And this Pope John Paul II referred to those Pentecostals as rapacious wolves.
Think about that for a couple of seconds.
Here we have Pope John Paul II calling true born again believers rapacious
wolves.
And now here this apparition, this demon spirit, says he's your father,
the spiritual father of all.
Keep in mind the titles of the Pope, holy father, his holiness.
When Jesus himself said, call no man your father on this earth, for one is your
father in heaven.
Don't ever forget that.
Here's another message, July 18th, 1985.
Dear children, today I call you to place more blessed objects in your homes and
that everyone put some blessed objects on their person.
Bless all the objects and thus Satan will attack you less because you will have
armor against him.
Thank you for having responded to my call.
Whoa.
So here we have this apparition of Mary, who's really a demon spirit.
Put these blessed objects, put metals, that's what it's talking about.
Put these things on you and this is what's going to keep Satan away.
You know what that is, folks?
That's Satan telling you what to do because he knows it's absolutely worthless
against him.
You can find and read about the spiritual arm of God yourself, Ephesians chapter 6,
verses 10 to 18, written by the apostle Paul.
He was a man that was deceased and he will give you instruction regarding that.
He talks about having your loins girt with truth, the breastplate of righteousness,
the gospel shoes of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation,
the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God and prayer.
Don't ever forget that.
There's nothing mentioned about putting holy blessed objects upon your person,
folks.
That's straight from the pit of hell.
I know, folks, I did these things.
I don't look down upon people.
I'm shouting out the warning once again, shouting out the word of God.
Very important that you see that.
Here's another one, February 25th, 1988.
This message from this apparition at Medjugorje.
Dear children, today I'm calling you to prayer, to complete surrender to God.
You know that I love you and I'm coming here out of love so I could show you the
path to peace and salvation for your souls.
Let me stop right there.
We don't need this apparition of Mary as a demon spirit telling us, I'm going to show
you the path to peace and salvation.
You can find that out in the scriptures.
You read the Bible, you'll find out the path to salvation.
Here's the path, folks.
You're a sinner.
The wages of your sin is death.
You're going to die in your sins without Jesus Christ.
The good news is that God commended his love toward us and that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through him.
You put your faith in him, you will be saved.
That's the truth.
That's the path to salvation.
It's through Jesus Christ.
This is a demon spirit that is speaking here, folks.
I'll continue with what this message said.
I want you to obey me and not permit Satan to seduce you.
So hear this apparition saying, obey me.
No, we obey the Lord.
We don't obey this apparition.
So it says, I want you to obey me and not permit Satan to seduce you.
This is Satan.
This is a demon spirit, folks.
This is all him, okay?
Once again, a satanic rabbit trail.
You see, it's to keep your eyes off of the one who can save your soul.
Dear children, Satan is very strong and therefore I ask you to dedicate your
prayers to me so that those who are under his influence can be saved.
Give witness by your life.
Sacrifice your life for the salvation of the world.
Siren time.
Sacrifice your life for the salvation of the world.
Jesus sacrifices life on the cross.
He shed his blood so that we might be saved.
It goes on, I am with you and I'm grateful to you, but in heaven you shall receive
the Father's reward which he has promised to you.
Therefore, dear children, do not be afraid.
If you pray, Satan cannot injure you even a little bit because you are God's
children and he's watching over you.
Pray and let the rosary always be in your hand as a sign to Satan that you belong to
me.
Thank you for having responded to my call.
So now this apparition says, make sure you have a rosary in your hand.
That's the rosary beads I spoke about earlier.
Make sure you have them.
This way, Satan knows you belong to me.
To who?
To Mary.
But it's a fake Mary and it's Satan.
You see, folks, this is what I came out of.
And it grabs your mind.
Satan will grab your mind, folks.
And many people, I hate to say it, breaks my heart by the millions have died
in their sins, holding on to teachings like this.
And that's why it's an absolute disgrace to see what is happening in the land today
regarding this unity with Rome.
Absolutely disgraceful.
So you don't need this apparition to give you the path and the plan of salvation
that's found in the word of God.
You open the scriptures, folks, read the book of Romans, read the gospel
of John, read the Bible.
Hallelujah.
And you're going to see.
Second Corinthians 11 and three, very important.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtleties, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in
Christ.
So Satan's been around for a long time, ladies and gentlemen.
And he works to corrupt the mind so that people will not seek or understand the
truth about Jesus Christ.
That's what it's about, folks.
So the Mary of these messages commands obedience to herself when in reality,
as I said, it's Satan.
Satan desires worship.
I'll never forget that.
Satan desires worship.
He's slick.
He's crafty.
And how crafty he even came to the point where he wanted Jesus Christ himself to
bow down and worship him.
Matthew 4, 8 to 11.
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain and showeth him
all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, and saith unto him,
All these things will I give thee, if thou will fall down and worship me.
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan.
For it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou
serve.
Then the devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
So don't miss this, folks.
Satan wanted Christ himself to fall down and worship him.
What did the Lord do?
Look what the Lord did.
Did he turn around and say to the devil, all right, that's it.
Do you know who I am?
That's it.
I can't take it.
No, he didn't do that.
He went to the word and he said, It is written.
It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Keep that in mind as you listen to this demonic apparition commanding obedience to
herself, a fake Mary, that's a demon spirit, meant to take you away from the
worship of the true and only God.
So not only does Satan seek to distract a person from turning to Jesus Christ for
salvation, he desires people to worship him.
Satan is the grand deceiver.
He's deceived countless billions of souls for many centuries.
And when you think about, you know, the billions of souls that are alive
today, and you look back over the centuries, folks, we are talking billions
of souls who have been deceived.
And obviously not only by the Roman Catholic system, folks, it's all sorts of
pagan religions, folks out there.
Revelation 12 and 9, and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the
devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.
He was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him.
So he's called the great dragon, he's called the old serpent, called the
devil, and Satan, listen to this, which deceiveth the whole world.
Powerful, powerful stuff.
Another message, August 8, 1985, Dear children, today I call you especially
now to advance against Satan by means of prayer.
Satan wants to work still more now that you know he's at work.
Dear children, put on the armor for battle, and with the rosary in your hand,
defeat him.
Thank you for having responded to my call.
So once again, we see the rosary is brought up by this apparition,
this demonic spirit.
Monday, January 10, 1983, Confidences from Majana to Father Thomas Lev Vlasic.
During the 18 months that I saw the gospel, a great intimacy, gospel meaning
Mary, a great intimacy was established between us.
I felt her maternal love.
I could ask her all kinds of questions.
Thus I asked her why God was so merciless in sending sinners to hell for eternity.
Men who go to hell no longer want to receive any benefit from God.
This is the answer.
They do not repent, nor do they cease to swear into blaspheme.
They make up their mind to live in hell and do not at all contemplate leaving it.
Man's refusal is an irreversible choice.
Question on the subject of purgatory.
This apparition, the Blessed Virgin says, there are different levels of which the
lowest are close to hell and the highest gradually draw near to heaven.
It is not on all souls day, but at Christmas, that the greatest number of
souls leave purgatory.
Those in purgatory are the souls who pray ardently to God, but for whom no relative
or friend prays for them on earth.
God makes them benefit from the prayers of other people.
It happens that God permits them to manifest themselves in different ways,
close to their relatives on earth, in order to remind men of the existence of
purgatory and to solicit their prayers close to God who is just but good.
The majority go to purgatory.
Many go to hell.
A small number go directly to heaven.
So isn't that interesting?
You have this apparition talking about purgatory, which I've spoken about before.
The place does not exist.
I mean, when you think about it, folks, think about perhaps somebody
selling a piece of real estate down in Florida.
I mean, a beautiful, beautiful house in Florida on the water and they put it up
for sale and you don't want to miss the deal and you buy that house sight unseen.
And then, you know, you make a deposit, you do it online and you're so happy and
you send a check, you wire the check, $250,000 and you're getting a house that's
worth $2,000,000.
You can't believe the deal you get.
Then you find out you were taken, that there is no house and that somebody
pulled a quick one on you.
Think of how you would feel.
You're at a quarter million dollars and there is no house and there never was a
house.
Now, what about purgatory?
This place does not exist, folks.
And yet, to this day, people are still praying for their relatives that died
decades ago or years ago or weeks ago or months ago.
They'll make a donation for a mass card and have masses set for their dead
relatives because they believe they're in purgatory so that they can get out sooner.
Folks, this stuff has been going on for a long time.
This is what Martin Luther revolted against, when that man, Johannes Tetzel,
would go around with his chest and people would put money into the chest making
donations and because they'd be promised they would get their dead relatives out of
purgatory.
And St. Peter's over there in Rome was built upon that money.
Folks, incredible.
To this day, purgatory is taught.
To this day, evangelicals by the millions are joining hands with the Church of Rome.
And keep in mind, they're going to stand before God one day.
So, this apparition says, you know, it's not all Souls Day that most souls are
released from purgatory.
It's Christmas.
And think about that, the pagan holiday of Christmas.
I mean, if you somehow could take the original followers, the disciples of
Christ, and bring them here and say, you know, and he said, what are you doing?
We're celebrating Christmas.
They would have no idea what you're talking about.
It's a pagan holiday.
I used to do services in a nursing home in Queens and they would have little things
up on a bulletin board, different stories, interesting stuff.
I would read it.
And around Christmas time, they had a thing on Christmas.
And it was a very interesting article.
And it basically said, it showed the roots of Christmas, how it was all pagan.
And I said to Kathy, I said, look at this.
Even the world has more discernment than a church.
They'll speak out against these things.
Even the world, there it was laid out plain about what a pagan holiday.
It has nothing to do with Jesus.
And now, hey, everybody's up in arms because Starbucks took a Christmas tree
off their little cup and it's only red.
Folks, I don't care about it.
You can take the... in fact, I encourage you to take the... who cares about a tree?
It has nothing to do with Jesus Christ, folks.
He said, remember my death till I come.
He's not a little goo-goo baby.
And you see, this all fits with this Mary thing, folks.
It's big mother Mary.
You look at the Christmas cards.
How many Christmas cards have you received and possibly even sent?
There's the big Mary with a little baby Jesus, goo-goo baby.
Folks, no, he's not a goo-goo baby.
He's the King of Kings.
He's the Lord of Lords.
He's the great I Am.
He's the Alpha and Omega.
He's the first and the last.
Oh yes, folks, he is the Almighty.
You read Revelation chapter one, you'll see many things in it speaking
about the deity of Jesus Christ.
My, oh my.
And yet, once a year, this holiday called Christmas, which by the way, is a holy day
of obligation for the Roman Catholic people.
Oh yes, it is.
Christmas.
That's what it's about, folks.
So I poured my heart out to you once again, folks, regarding mereolatry.
It's idolatry.
It's the inventions of Rome.
And I speak as a former Roman Catholic delivered from that system.
I confess to you today, it's nothing but the blood of Jesus Christ that saved me,
folks, that washed me clean, folks.
He can save your soul like everybody else, folks.
There's only one way to come in.
There's only one door.
The door, folks, is Christ himself.
He is the door.
He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No man cometh unto the Father but by me.
Christ died for the ungodly, folks.
You must come to the place where you realize in you there's nothing good,
folks.
You're spiritually dead without the life of Christ, okay?
You can do all the good deeds you want until you're purple.
That won't get you into heaven.
You cannot earn heaven.
You cannot donate yourself into heaven.
You could donate millions of dollars to good causes and still die in your sins and
go to hell.
Here's the deal, folks.
Here's how you get right with God.
As I said, it's the cross.
Go to the cross.
Jesus paid it all.
God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
He offers you everlasting life.
Romans 5, 8, and 9.
Once again, but God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through him.
Keep that in mind.
Justified how?
By his blood.
Saved from what?
From wrath.
Folks, he offers you that peace.
Saved from wrath.
Keep connected to the Lord.
Put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
I'm going to end it right there.
Once again, be blessed in the Lord Jesus Christ.