Title: The Truth of the Roman Catholic Church Meta: If I trust in Christ's finished work, in His once and for all sacrifice, and that justifies me in the sight of God; then there is no place for purgatory whatsoever. The Catholic teaching of purgatory is self payment, and it is not Christ's payment. It is at odds and diametrically opposed to true Christianity at numerous major points. Tags: catholic,mary,priest,church,purgatory,Richard Bennett 1 00:00:00,130 --> 00:00:03,948 Let's think about the Roman Catholic church for a second. 2 00:00:03,948 --> 00:00:05,773 Roman Catholic church 3 00:00:05,773 --> 00:00:08,173 sets Mary forth 4 00:00:08,173 --> 00:00:10,727 as a mediatrix. 5 00:00:10,727 --> 00:00:13,391 The Roman Catholic Church.. . 6 00:00:13,391 --> 00:00:16,391 This isn't even in question. 7 00:00:16,391 --> 00:00:19,561 I'm a former nominal Catholic. 8 00:00:19,561 --> 00:00:21,245 But it's not even in question, 9 00:00:21,245 --> 00:00:22,760 if you have once 10 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,600 walked in the Catholic ranks, 11 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,761 (Any of you former Catholics?) 12 00:00:28,761 --> 00:00:31,100 that Mary is 13 00:00:31,100 --> 00:00:33,540 honored and worshiped way above Christ. 14 00:00:33,540 --> 00:00:34,540 She is counted 15 00:00:34,540 --> 00:00:36,079 more special, 16 00:00:36,079 --> 00:00:37,548 more worthy of honor. 17 00:00:37,548 --> 00:00:41,518 She's counted as the one who is gracious and merciful 18 00:00:41,518 --> 00:00:43,198 and the tender one 19 00:00:43,198 --> 00:00:44,961 that you can go to. 20 00:00:46,731 --> 00:00:51,638 And that's the way I viewed her. 21 00:00:53,118 --> 00:00:55,297 Mary 22 00:00:55,297 --> 00:00:59,357 is not a co-mediatrix. 23 00:00:59,357 --> 00:01:03,203 Christ alone is our Savior. 24 00:01:03,203 --> 00:01:04,263 And the thing is 25 00:01:04,263 --> 00:01:06,670 the Roman Catholic church does not 26 00:01:06,670 --> 00:01:09,964 teach salvation by grace through faith. 27 00:01:09,964 --> 00:01:11,225 They teach 28 00:01:11,225 --> 00:01:12,565 salvation 29 00:01:12,565 --> 00:01:13,685 by works. 30 00:01:13,685 --> 00:01:15,175 And you do 31 00:01:15,175 --> 00:01:17,417 have to, 32 00:01:17,417 --> 00:01:19,900 you have to do things 33 00:01:19,900 --> 00:01:22,350 to earn your way to heaven. 34 00:01:22,350 --> 00:01:26,921 It is diametrically opposed to the gospel. 35 00:01:26,921 --> 00:01:30,900 The Roman Catholic Church has 36 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:32,210 sought to 37 00:01:32,210 --> 00:01:34,159 take the Bible 38 00:01:34,159 --> 00:01:36,490 throughout history.. . 39 00:01:36,490 --> 00:01:39,318 The Dark Ages were called the Dark Ages 40 00:01:39,318 --> 00:01:41,305 because the Roman Catholic Church 41 00:01:41,305 --> 00:01:44,425 took the Bible out of the common man's hand. 42 00:01:44,425 --> 00:01:48,522 They gladly put everything into Latin, 43 00:01:48,522 --> 00:01:50,972 so the common man could not understand, 44 00:01:50,972 --> 00:01:52,078 could not interpret, 45 00:01:52,078 --> 00:01:54,039 could not read for himself. 46 00:01:54,039 --> 00:01:56,490 Througout history the Roman Catholic Church 47 00:01:56,490 --> 00:02:00,039 has put to death Christians who were found 48 00:02:00,039 --> 00:02:03,778 possessing the Bible in their own language. 49 00:02:04,628 --> 00:02:06,910 I mean if we look at the 50 00:02:06,910 --> 00:02:10,308 the wickedness of the priesthood 51 00:02:10,308 --> 00:02:13,660 even as it's become 52 00:02:13,660 --> 00:02:16,170 clearer just in our own country in these last years. 53 00:02:16,170 --> 00:02:17,691 But if you study the history. 54 00:02:17,691 --> 00:02:18,943 You look at the Inquisition. 55 00:02:18,943 --> 00:02:20,443 You look at the Christians 56 00:02:20,443 --> 00:02:22,402 that they have put to death 57 00:02:22,402 --> 00:02:23,389 through the years. 58 00:02:23,389 --> 00:02:26,610 If you look at the way they've tampered with the Word of God 59 00:02:26,610 --> 00:02:30,555 and their doctrine of purgatory. 60 00:02:30,555 --> 00:02:33,529 Their doctrine of purgatory says that 61 00:02:33,529 --> 00:02:36,232 even after all the good that you have done in this world, 62 00:02:36,232 --> 00:02:37,232 if you get to the end, 63 00:02:37,232 --> 00:02:39,326 you still have to go into the flames 64 00:02:39,326 --> 00:02:41,369 and pay the remainder. 65 00:02:41,369 --> 00:02:42,809 That is such an attack 66 00:02:42,809 --> 00:02:44,150 on the finished and complete 67 00:02:44,150 --> 00:02:46,431 work of Jesus Christ on the cross. 68 00:02:46,431 --> 00:02:48,305 If I trust in Christ 69 00:02:48,305 --> 00:02:49,677 and it is finished. 70 00:02:49,677 --> 00:02:52,254 And His one sacrifice 71 00:02:52,254 --> 00:02:54,304 has justified me in the sight of God. 72 00:02:54,304 --> 00:02:57,018 There is no place for purgatory whatsoever. 73 00:02:57,018 --> 00:03:00,024 Purgatory is self payment. 74 00:03:00,024 --> 00:03:02,159 It is not Christ payment. 75 00:03:02,159 --> 00:03:03,978 It is at odds 76 00:03:03,978 --> 00:03:06,128 and diametrically opposed 77 00:03:06,128 --> 00:03:07,778 to true Christianity, 78 00:03:07,778 --> 00:03:09,317 Biblical Christianity, 79 00:03:09,317 --> 00:03:13,252 at numerous major points. 80 00:03:13,252 --> 00:03:16,557 Yes they might claim they believe in a trinity. 81 00:03:16,557 --> 00:03:18,498 But they really don't. 82 00:03:18,498 --> 00:03:20,288 I mean they, 83 00:03:20,288 --> 00:03:21,648 they believe in 84 00:03:21,648 --> 00:03:25,698 Father, Mother, Son and Holy Spirit. 85 00:03:25,698 --> 00:03:28,714 And that mother is, 86 00:03:28,714 --> 00:03:31,020 I mean she is worshiped 87 00:03:31,020 --> 00:03:32,548 in the top spot, 88 00:03:32,548 --> 00:03:33,502 in the top place. 89 00:03:33,502 --> 00:03:35,553 She's given preeminence 90 00:03:35,553 --> 00:03:37,517 and she's prayed to. 91 00:03:37,517 --> 00:03:41,220 And they pray to the saints. 92 00:03:43,250 --> 00:03:46,768 They've messed around with the second commandment. 93 00:03:46,768 --> 00:03:49,566 And they would have us to believe that 94 00:03:49,566 --> 00:03:52,666 it is okay to worship graven images. 95 00:03:52,666 --> 00:03:54,520 And they fill their churches full of it. 96 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,691 And that's why Wendy is even in the predicament that's she's in. 97 00:03:57,691 --> 00:04:00,285 Wendy is the same kind of predicament 98 00:04:00,285 --> 00:04:03,569 that you can find they were in in the New Testament 99 00:04:03,569 --> 00:04:04,961 when they were bowing down 100 00:04:04,961 --> 00:04:07,711 before the Greek and the Roman Gods. 101 00:04:07,711 --> 00:04:08,250 Why? 102 00:04:08,250 --> 00:04:10,649 Because you basically have the same thing going on. 103 00:04:10,649 --> 00:04:12,333 You have statues. 104 00:04:12,333 --> 00:04:13,629 Statues that people worship. 105 00:04:13,629 --> 00:04:17,448 Statues that people fall down before. 106 00:04:20,958 --> 00:04:23,486 You know Richard Bennett, 107 00:04:23,486 --> 00:04:24,657 is a friend of mine, 108 00:04:24,657 --> 00:04:26,604 converted Catholic priest. 109 00:04:26,604 --> 00:04:28,578 He said 110 00:04:28,578 --> 00:04:31,728 he and a bunch of other priests and nuns 111 00:04:31,728 --> 00:04:33,618 were at Madri Gras 112 00:04:33,618 --> 00:04:35,614 in New Orleans. 113 00:04:37,294 --> 00:04:39,088 And they were getting drunk 114 00:04:39,088 --> 00:04:40,838 in a strip club 115 00:04:40,838 --> 00:04:42,225 when it hit him, 116 00:04:42,225 --> 00:04:46,860 "I think something's wrong with Catholicism." 117 00:04:46,860 --> 00:04:49,360 It's like, " You think so?" 118 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:53,741 But that's not a fluke situation. 119 00:04:53,741 --> 00:04:55,951 That is Catholicism. 120 00:04:55,951 --> 00:04:57,778 Catholicism is all about 121 00:04:57,778 --> 00:04:59,395 living in your sin 122 00:04:59,395 --> 00:05:02,503 and then coming to certain times of the year 123 00:05:02,503 --> 00:05:04,730 and abstaining from certain things 124 00:05:04,730 --> 00:05:06,458 and trying to pay your way 125 00:05:06,458 --> 00:05:08,708 and do your abstinence 126 00:05:08,708 --> 00:05:10,779 so as to get credit with God 127 00:05:10,779 --> 00:05:12,119 so that in the end 128 00:05:12,119 --> 00:05:14,487 your time in purgatory is reduced 129 00:05:14,487 --> 00:05:18,574 to the greatest minimum. 130 00:05:22,054 --> 00:05:26,029 And it's horrible. 131 00:05:26,029 --> 00:05:28,449 We have a truth 132 00:05:28,449 --> 00:05:31,719 that is given to us. 133 00:05:32,149 --> 00:05:35,480 That Jesus Christ, 134 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:40,910 He earned our lawkeeping. 135 00:05:40,918 --> 00:05:43,508 He earned our righteousness. 136 00:05:43,508 --> 00:05:46,121 By the obedience of one. 137 00:05:46,121 --> 00:05:47,369 And He obeyed His Father. 138 00:05:47,369 --> 00:05:50,603 And He obeyed Him without blemish and without spot. 139 00:05:50,603 --> 00:05:52,011 Without defect. 140 00:05:52,011 --> 00:05:53,801 Without sin. 141 00:05:53,801 --> 00:05:56,856 He kept the law in our place. 142 00:05:56,856 --> 00:06:00,423 "This is my Son in Whom I'm well pleased." 143 00:06:00,423 --> 00:06:03,273 He was pleasing. 144 00:06:03,273 --> 00:06:06,950 There was no defect in Him. 145 00:06:06,950 --> 00:06:09,090 He obeyed the Father. 146 00:06:09,090 --> 00:06:11,649 He prepared a body for Him. 147 00:06:11,649 --> 00:06:13,249 And He came 148 00:06:13,249 --> 00:06:14,929 and took upon Himself 149 00:06:14,929 --> 00:06:16,889 humanity. 150 00:06:16,889 --> 00:06:18,705 And He walked in sin. 151 00:06:18,705 --> 00:06:23,613 "He who knew no sin," scripture says. 152 00:06:23,613 --> 00:06:25,220 And He 153 00:06:25,220 --> 00:06:27,210 came under the law. 154 00:06:27,210 --> 00:06:30,446 And the law had nothing on Him. 155 00:06:30,446 --> 00:06:33,267 The law had nothing on Him. 156 00:06:33,267 --> 00:06:35,171 By His obedience. 157 00:06:35,171 --> 00:06:37,693 By His righteousness. 158 00:06:37,693 --> 00:06:40,372 God declares us, by faith in Him 159 00:06:40,372 --> 00:06:43,538 God declares us 160 00:06:43,538 --> 00:06:44,178 righteous. 161 00:06:44,178 --> 00:06:45,668 God declares us 162 00:06:45,668 --> 00:06:46,818 perfect. 163 00:06:46,818 --> 00:06:49,651 God forgives all of our sin. 164 00:06:49,651 --> 00:06:51,571 His shed blood is payment. 165 00:06:51,571 --> 00:06:52,500 His death. 166 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:54,023 What He did on that cross. 167 00:06:54,023 --> 00:06:56,158 He was forsaken. 168 00:06:56,158 --> 00:06:57,968 God bruised Him. 169 00:06:57,968 --> 00:06:59,239 God smote Him. 170 00:06:59,239 --> 00:07:01,610 God afflicted Him. 171 00:07:01,610 --> 00:07:03,369 In our place. 172 00:07:03,369 --> 00:07:05,087 Our chastisement 173 00:07:05,087 --> 00:07:06,679 He bore. 174 00:07:09,009 --> 00:07:12,130 And by that one offering, 175 00:07:12,130 --> 00:07:14,826 by His suffering, 176 00:07:14,826 --> 00:07:17,150 we've been reconciled to God. 177 00:07:19,650 --> 00:07:23,370 And that's the beauty. 178 00:07:23,370 --> 00:07:25,234 If there's any purgatory 179 00:07:25,234 --> 00:07:27,404 then Christ failed. 180 00:07:27,404 --> 00:07:30,231 Christ failed to do what Christ came to do. 181 00:07:30,231 --> 00:07:31,641 And what did He do? 182 00:07:31,641 --> 00:07:32,880 What did He come to do? 183 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:34,330 He came to save 184 00:07:34,330 --> 00:07:36,060 sinners. 185 00:07:36,060 --> 00:07:37,657 And no sinner 186 00:07:37,657 --> 00:07:38,707 is saved 187 00:07:38,707 --> 00:07:39,707 by Christ 188 00:07:39,707 --> 00:07:42,257 who goes to purgatory. 189 00:07:42,257 --> 00:07:44,291 Because that's 190 00:07:46,521 --> 00:07:48,381 saying that Christ's payment 191 00:07:48,381 --> 00:07:49,701 is not sufficient 192 00:07:49,701 --> 00:07:52,250 and I have to pay more. 193 00:07:52,250 --> 00:07:58,311 And so we reject Catholicism as damnable error. 194 00:08:03,441 --> 00:08:04,380 When I got saved 195 00:08:04,380 --> 00:08:05,620 I got saved 196 00:08:05,620 --> 00:08:07,730 out of Catholicism. 197 00:08:07,730 --> 00:08:10,818 I got saved from Mary worship. 198 00:08:10,818 --> 00:08:14,394 I got saved from my own works, 199 00:08:16,014 --> 00:08:17,929 which were only "filthy rags", 200 00:08:17,929 --> 00:08:19,344 is what scripture said. 201 00:08:19,344 --> 00:08:22,019 I got saved from that. 202 00:08:22,019 --> 00:08:22,925 I was rescued. 203 00:08:22,925 --> 00:08:24,523 That's God's salvation. 204 00:08:24,523 --> 00:08:25,583 Saves us. 205 00:08:25,583 --> 00:08:28,738 Every false religion can be known by this, 206 00:08:28,738 --> 00:08:30,952 it's a work's based. 207 00:08:30,952 --> 00:08:33,601 Christianity is the only thing that says 208 00:08:33,601 --> 00:08:36,311 its not by works of righteousness that we've done. 209 00:08:39,930 --> 00:08:42,044 And so 210 00:08:45,664 --> 00:08:48,224 the Mass 211 00:08:48,224 --> 00:08:50,234 has been considered through the centuries, 212 00:08:50,234 --> 00:08:53,695 the Mass has been considered an abomination 213 00:08:53,695 --> 00:08:56,871 by our brethren who have gone before us. 214 00:08:56,871 --> 00:08:59,113 And do you know why it has? 215 00:08:59,113 --> 00:09:02,356 You know what happens in the Mass? 216 00:09:04,946 --> 00:09:07,780 They re-sacrifice Christ 217 00:09:07,780 --> 00:09:08,940 all over again. 218 00:09:08,940 --> 00:09:10,710 They don't deny that. 219 00:09:10,710 --> 00:09:14,169 They lift up their wafer 220 00:09:14,169 --> 00:09:16,881 and they claim that it becomes Christ 221 00:09:16,881 --> 00:09:18,701 and the sacrifice all over. 222 00:09:18,701 --> 00:09:21,552 Scripture repeatedly says, 223 00:09:21,552 --> 00:09:23,646 "once" 224 00:09:23,646 --> 00:09:25,321 One sacrifice. 225 00:09:28,131 --> 00:09:30,434 He suffered once. 226 00:09:30,434 --> 00:09:33,197 There is no repeat sacrifice. 227 00:09:33,197 --> 00:09:37,897 What the Catholics do in their Mass is an abomination.