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Episode 10: The Authority of the Church Part 5 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. I promised in this episode I would
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continue discussing biblical references to the authority and the teaching authority and governing authority of
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the apostles and the church that they passed on to us, and I will.
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I'll get into that in just one second. But I also promised I
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would tell you when I find a particularly good cause that you might want to
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consider donating to, you know, giving some alms, doing a little penance.
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We all need to do it, I know as certainly do. This
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one is a little personal, actually, and it's not for me. Don't
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don't think I'm leading you down that path. No. I have a very
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good friend, really, one of my very best friends, one of my
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dearest friends, who lives in run. Her name is Alissa Brunelli, and
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you may know that name if you're a foodie. Bernelli's were the first to
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export peccorino romano cheese, a very good, high quality, excellent peccorino romano
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cheese to America. Her grandfather started the business, her father ran the business.
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They were very popular sixteds through nineties, well really even before that.
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It was absolutely excellent cheese. I mean we're talking on the same level as
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like Parmegiano Reggiano. I mean, this is the real deal, good stuff.
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Okay. The apparently the mafia began taking trying to take control of the
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business, profit off of the business. In the early nineties, Analyssa's father
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died under mysterious circumstances. Since that time, she has been fighting for her
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family business, trying to get control of it back. Not just for herself,
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she has nieces and nephews that she wants to pass the business on too.
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She's been fighting the courts, trying to get justice for her family and
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her father. And you know, she's been fighting. They've been fighting back,
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and just before Christmas, they took her house and apparently other family properties.
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She got to notice that, without any any warning, her house had
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been confiscated and sold to someone in New York, her family home, where
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her mother lives but she takes care of and lives with. She has finally
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under uncovered evidence that can swathe the courts. The Italian courts are famously corrupt,
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Okay, she has finally found evidence that she believes she can fight them
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with. And she, you know, she's put everything into this. She's
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a very brave, strong lady, and she's a wonderful person, very devout
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Catholic. She was of course baptized in you know, Saint Peter's Basilica,
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but she goes to all those grand old churches. She's from Umbria originally,
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but she lives and run for the business. She sends me pictures when she
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goes to mass of these beautiful churches, incredible art and everything. But she
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needs some help. She needs some help for her legal fees. Lawyers are
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expensive and she's been paying it all out of her own pocket. And she
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set up a website. Well she set up I guess it's through a website.
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Let me get the exact urel it is bonfire dot com. She's not
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one to ask for charity, okay, She's not just gonna say please send
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me money now. She put together a T shirt. She has a background
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in fashion sign She put together a very attractive T shirt which has the quote
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an Italian justice is the Queen of virtues. It's an old quote from other
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you know, one sixty BC. Ancient Rome was a publius or publist or
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I don't I don't say the names right, which she always reminds me of
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she's a great person, and if you'd like to help out, please go
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to bonfire dot com forward slash Justice dash n I n Dash Rome and look
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for her T shirt and it's a Justice in Rome. Justice is the Queen
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of Virtue. And if you would like to buy the T shirt, she
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gets, you know, some of the money and that would help a lot
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with her legal bills. I'm she's going to be setting up a blog soon
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which shows the whole story. And I'm telling you it's like it's like The
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Godfather. It's like the most fascinating crime novel. If you get into that
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kind of thing, it's gonna be dangerous. She's actually risking her life by
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doing that, so you know, that tells you what she's all about.
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And I just pray for her safety. If you can't buy a T shirt,
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if you can't help her out financially, I understand, of course,
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she understands, of course, but please pray for her safety and play pray
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that we'll she'll get ownership of her home back and control of the family business,
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and that there'll be justice. That's like the quote says, Justice is
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the Queen of virtues. So again that's Bonfire dot com Justice in Rome,
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and her name is Elissa Brunnelli. Anyway, let's get back into the subject
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at hand, which we are now getting into the Acts and the further writings
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of the Apostles after the close of the Gospels. We'll start with Acts four
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thirty two or thirty three. The whole group of believers was united heart and
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soul. No one claimed private ownership of any possessions, as everything they owned
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was held in common. The apostles continue to testify to the resurrection of the
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Lord with great hour, and they were all accorded great respect. The unity
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of the early Church is very important, and we're going to get into a
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lot on that when we start reading the Early Church Fathers Acts nine fifteen through
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twenty. The Lord replied, go, for this man is my chosen instrument
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to bring my name before the gentiles and kings and before the people of the
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israel. I myself will show him how much he must suffer from my name.
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Then Annius went, He entered the house and laid his hands on Saul
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and said, brother, Saul, I have been sent by the Lord Jesus,
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who appeared to you on your way here, so that you may recover
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your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. It was as though scales
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fell away from his eyes, and immediately he was able to see again.
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So he got up. It was baptized, and after taking some food,
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he regained strength. After he had spent a few days with the disciples in
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Damascus, he began preaching in the synagogues. Jesus is the Son of God.
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Paul, of course, had you know the experience, were struck blind
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that Jesus said, Paul, while you're persecuting my people. One with authority
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from the apostles, Jesus sold to lay hands on him and he was baptized.
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This is a very important example of the sacraments. The authority of binding
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and losing is what freed him of his sins and brought him into the church.
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And yes, you must be baptized. I don't care what modern Protestants
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say. When the Baptists started saying that baptism is just symbolic and all this
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matters is faith, they're disagreeing with the Bible. And Jesus said, you
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must be born again of water, in the spirit of water, in the
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spirit baptism, the apostles, through the sacrament of Holy orders established the hierarchy
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in Order of the Church, Acts fourteen twenty three. In each of these
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churches they appointed elders, and with prayer and fasting, they commended them to
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the Lord in whom they had come to believe. There is a church hierarchy.
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It was created by Jesus Christ himself, who gave his authority to the
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apostles when he said, as we commemorate just a few days ago, he
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who hears you here me, he rejects you, rejects me. And him
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who sent me they had his full authority, and they appointed officers in the
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Kingdom of God on earth. You have to admit there is an authoritative structure
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in the early Church if you have any understanding of the words of the Bible.
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At the very least Acts fifteen one through twelve and twenty two through twenty
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nine. Then some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, unless
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you have yourself circumcised in the tradition of Moses, you cannot be saved.
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This led to disagreement, and after Paul and Barnabas had quite a large a
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long argument with these men, it was decided that Paul Barnabas and others of
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the Church would go up to Jerusalem and discuss the question with the apostles and
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elders. The members of the church saw them off, and they passed through
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Phoenicia and Samaria and told how the Gentiles had been converted. And this news
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was received a great satisfaction by all the brothers. When they arrived at Jerusalem,
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they were welcomed by the Church and by the apostles and elders, and
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gave an account of all that God had done through them. But certain members
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of the Pharisees party who had become believers. These are the These are the
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Judaizers. These are the same as your tour abs, observe it, your
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seven your seven day administs, and others who say we still have to keep
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the Mosaic law, the very ones absolutely spoken against and condemned in the New
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Testaments, especially by Saint Paul. The Gentiles should be circumcised and instructed to
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keep the Law of Moses. That's exactly what they say. They say that
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the Law of Moses cannot be a change at all, that it applies to
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Christians and not just to Jews, even though the Bible says the exact opposite.
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The apostles and elders meant to look into the matter, and after a
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long discussion, Peter stood up and addressed him again. Peter is the pope.
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He's the leader of all the apostles. He's the one who speaks with
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the authority of Jesus, binding and losing. What he said was law just
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as much as the law of Moses, and actually more so, because the
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Jesus completed the law of Moses. He gave us a new covenant as Christians,
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and that law, in large part and with the full approval. An
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authority of Peter comes from Peter's mouth or those whom he authorized. Peter addressed
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him and said, my brother, He said, you know perfectly well that
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in the early days God made his choice among you. The gentiles were learned
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the good news from me, and so become believers from me. He didn't
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even say from us. There was no doubt, and it was recognized by
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all his authority, and God, who can read everyone's heart, showed his
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approval of them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he had
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to us. God made no distinction between them and us, since he purified
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their hearts by faith Why then do you put God to the test now by
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imposing on disciples the very burden that neither our ancestors nor we were strong enough
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to support. The law was not sufficient. The New Law of Christ perfects
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the old because it's only through the grace of Jesus Christ, only through the
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endwelling of the Holy Spirit, that mere man can uphold the law. We
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are insufficient on our own, and the Jews before Jesus could not uphold the
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law. If you don't believe that, try reading the Old Testament. It
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as just as Jesus chose Peter, the most fallible, the most flawed of
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all the apostles, to be the pope. You know, he raises up
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the weak to confound the strong. He raises up the sinful to confound the
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righteous. I mean, he raises up the what is it, the simple,
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to compound the wise. I may have repeat myself in it. Sure
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he probably chose the Jews, really, because the Jews were the most The
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Jews had the hardest time. I mean, read the Old Testament. They
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couldn't stick with the Law of Moses for more than a few days or a
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few years of the time at most. I mean, I mean I'm not
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criticized that the Jewish peoples of race, but I think most Jewish scholars would
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say God rose up the weakest, perhaps most flawed tribe on the face of
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the earth to be the example of the power of God for everyone else.
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I mean, I Jews are a wonderfully brilliant, intelligent, talented, so
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good at money and music. Probably should have put money first. Some very
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stereotypical, but I mean some of Jewish. My favorite comedians are Jewish.
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Many of my favorite musicians are Jewish. I have many, many Jewish friends,
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and one thing they will always basically say is, you know, look
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at us, how bad we are, how screwed up we are, and
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if we can do it, why can't everybody else. Well, you know
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that takes actual grace because they can't do it on their own. If they
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could, there would be no need for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Jesus
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Christ, it can come and give his life to save the gentiles. He
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gave his life for everybody Jew and Gentile. Had the Law of Moses been
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sufficient, the sacrifice of Christ would have been unnecessary. If you still believe
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Christians are bound to the Mosaic law, you make a mockery of the crucifixion
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of our Lord. Think about that for a minute, anyway, and you
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know Peter's authority. When he finished his sentence, here is his statement,
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but we believe that we are saved in the same way as they are,
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through the grace of our Lord Jesus. The entire assembly fell silent, and
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they listened to Paul and Barna Barbas and Paul describing all the signs of wonders
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God had worked through them among the Gentiles. When Peter spoke it was the
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last word. Then the apostles and elders in the whole church decided to choose
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delegates from among themselves to send to Antioch with Paul Bartibus. They chose judas
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known as Barsabbas and Silas, both leading men in the brotherhood, and gave
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them this letter to take with them. The apostles and elders, your brothers,
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send greetings to the brother of Gentile Birth and Antioch, Syria and Cilicia.
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We hear that some people are coming from here, but acting without authority
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from ourselves, have disturbed you with their demands and have unsettled your minds.
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And so we have decided unanimously to elect delegates to send them to you,
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with our well beloved Barnabas and Paul, who have committed their lives to the
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name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Accordingly we have sending you Judas and Silas,
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who will confirm by word of mouth what we have written. It has
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been decided by the Holy Spirit and by ourselves not to impose on you any
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burden. Besides these essentials, you are to abstain from food, sacrifice,
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to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from
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illicit marriages. Avoid these and you will do us right farewell. The Apostles
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had the authority to give infallible teaching on matters of morals and doctrine. They
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sent people authorized by them. No one popped up and said, you know
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what, I'm in form my own church. We're gonna have a schism,
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and this is the well You've got the Catholic Church. I'll have the the
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second Catholic Church, the first. You know, like you go into any
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town. I remember one time a friend of mine, he was so funny,
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he said, and he was Baptist, A good friend of mine.
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He said, I've never understood what the differences between the first Baptist church and
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the second Baptist church. He said, And every town I go into,
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you got a first Baptist church, and you got a second Baptist church.
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Then you go out in countryside and you'll see free will Baptist church. And
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he said, but what's the difference between the first and the second Baptist Church?
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I said, I think the first Baptist church was the first one in
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town and the second one was the second one in town. I mean,
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it is so common among Protestants to have schisms, and someone will just go
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off and form a whole new church and say, you know, the last
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one got it wrong. This is a new one. He actually thought that
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the first and second Baptist Church were two different churches. You know that there
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was quite a lustrative the church is as one body, though schism is not
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allowed and it was expressly condemned in the Bible. There should be only one
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denomination. And when our Lord comes again, where we've been assured by the
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blessed Virgin Mary, and many messages to mystics and such Christian mystics, I
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mean, you know, biangels and saints conveying messages that there will be only
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one church. Everyone will come back together. All the Protestants denominations will become
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Catholic again, the Orthodox will become Catholic again. Even the Muslims and Jews
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will convert before the end of time. So you know, I always into
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things with pray, hope and don't worry. Well, you can pray,
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hope and don't worry and believe in the words of our Lord and this Blessed
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Mother, etc. That, as pattis, things are now. We're not
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in the apocalypse. This is not the end time. We still have to
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endure into the end. And that may give you encouragement or it may discourage
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you because a lot of people think things are so bad they're actually hoping this
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is the end. We're nowhere near. I'm sorry, we are nowhere near.
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Remember to God, a days as a thousand years, and a thousand
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years as a day. We're nowhere near the end of time. Even though
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we are always in end times. From the moment Jesus was crucified and resurrected
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we began to be in the end times. We've only gone through two thousand
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years if we were take the Bible literally, we've only gone two days.
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You know, if again, some people that take the Bible very literally,
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and they would say a week, you know, week is seven days.
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We're only two days into that week. We could have another five thousand years
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to go, and frankly we'll probably need it. And things are going to
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get a lot worse for they get better. We are assured of that as
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well. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better,
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all right, Romans twelve fourth through eight. Just as each of us has
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various parts in one body, and the parts do not all have the same
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function in the same way, all of us, though there are so many
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of us, make up one body in Christ, and as different parts we
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are all joined together. Then, since the gifts that we have differ,
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recording the grace that was given to each of us. If it is a
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gift of prophecy, we should prophesies as much as their faith tells us.
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If it is a grace practical service, let us devote ourselves to serving.
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If it is teaching, to teaching, if it is encouraging, to encouraging.
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When you give, you should give generously from your heart. If you're
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put in charge, you must be conscientious. If you do work some mercy
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let it be because you enjoyed doing them. We each have our own roles.
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Just as there are only twelve apostles, the church chooses its bishops,
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it ordains its priests. They alone have the authority to perform the Mass,
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to change bread and wine into the spiritual body and blood of our Lord.
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Again, there's just this movement, this like. Well, on the one
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hand, you've got Anglicans that say, why can't I have Mass and a
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Catholic church? Well, I'm sorry, you're not Catholic. You broke away,
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you don't. That's not your role anymore. If you want to submit
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to the church, if you want to become Catholic, you can absolutely have
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Mass and a Catholic church. There are women who say, why can't women
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be priests? Well, that's not your role. That's not the role given
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to you by God and his apostles and those authorized to speak in his name.
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There are many other roles that you can perform much better than any man
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can, So maybe focus on those. My role is certainly not to be
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a priest. I am I do not have the constitution the personality to be
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a priest. I would be a terrible priest. I'm a writer. I'm
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a speaker, I can do that. I can't be a priest. I
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can't be a monk. I could not submit to the authority of a monastery.
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It's not for me to say, you have to change your rules to
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fit me. No, I have to fit. I have changed my life
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to live as God wants me to. That's that's part of original sin,
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that's part of concupiscence, that's part of free will. It's up to me
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to change, not the church to change. Romans thirteen one through two.
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Everyone is to obey the governing authorities, because there is no authority except from
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God. And so whatever authorities exist have been appointed by God. So anyone
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who disobeys and authorities, rebelling against God's ordinance and rebels must expect to receive
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the condemnation they deserve. Many people will quote that as if it applies to
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government, you know, political authorities, and in some you know, to
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some regard. It does. Of course, had our sisters followed that,
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there would be no America. We did rebel against the church, I mean
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against England and it's apostate church. But I think in this case it certainly
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applies to church authority. When Martin Luther, or King Henry the eighth or
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Calvin, or you know, all those guys said, you know, forget
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it. We don't follow the Catholic Church anymore. We're forming our own church
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based on the Bible. Thows the authority. They just disobeyed the Bible,
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specifically when it said they had to submit to authority. That's the original sin
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of the devil, who said, you know, he would rather rule in
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hell than serve God Romans fifteen twenty through twenty one. And what is more,
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it has been my rule to preach the Gospel only where the name of
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Christ has not already been heard. For I did not build on another's foundation
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in accordance with the scriptures. Those who have never been told about him will
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see him, and those who have never heard about him will understand Harris and
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division. I understand Paul. Here, Saint Paul is saying it was not
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his role. He didn't have the authority to preach or teach in churches that
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were found and ruled by other bishops, by other apostles. There's a very
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strict hierarchy, and each man in his office is given authority over his sphere,
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and he's not to exceed that authority. Harris division have always been condemned
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Romans sixteen seventeen through twenty. I urge you, brothers, be on your
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guard against the people who are out to stir up disagreements and to bring difficulties
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against the teaching which you are learnt. Avoid them. People of that sort
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are not servants of our Lord Christ, but of their own greed, and
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with talk that sounds smooth and reasonable, they deceive minds of the unwary.
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Your obedience has become known to everyone, and I am very pleased by it.
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But I should want you to be learned only in what is good,
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and unsophisticated about all that is evil. The God of Peace will soon crush
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Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
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No schism, no division. So one starts teaching something that is against
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but the apostles taught they're to be absolutely ignored, excluded, turn away from
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them. Later, Saint Paul will say, let them be unto you as
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a heathen. Give that man over to Satan, which is excommunication. That's
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that's pretty pretty harsh again. I mean, Martin Luther had no authority and
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the founders of all Protestant churches are violating that versus the Bible as well.
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Corinthians one, ten, brothers, I urge you, in the name of
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our Lord Jesus Christ, not to have factions among yourself, but all to
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be an agreement in what you profess, so that you are perfectly uniting your
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beliefs and judgments. In this. You know, I have to criticize the
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Catholic Church. We have factions. We certainly have factions, and unfortunately Pope
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Francis is making that worse. You know, there are many Catholics. I
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consider myself sympathetic to the traditional Catholic cause I'm not what they call a set
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of vacantist set. I have trouble pronouncing that one as well, meaning the
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seat is empty, and I don't recognize the authority the current Pope. No,
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I don't. I'm not a follower of that school. But I would
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much rather go to a traditional Latin Mass than the modern Nervis Ordo. I
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don't like the modern nor in many regards. The traditional Latin Mass is well
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as older. It's more traditional, it's certainly more beautiful, it's more reverent,
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it's more profound and you know what we call Catholic calisthenics of nervous hordo
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and all the you know, shaking hands and everything. It's a little um.
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It's just not my cup of tea. But you know, as past
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the apostle said, Peter has spoken, I just wish our current pope would
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make a different decision and be a little more clear and a little more consistent
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and not seem to show such animosity. But toward Catholic said, believe otherwise,
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because he's actually causing the division. He's not changing the teachings of faith
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and morals, so he's not any way violating the guarantee of the Holy Spirit
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to that the pope would be infallible on teachings of morals and doctrine. But
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he is definitely causing division in the church. And I really really really wish
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he wouldn't. I hope maybe he will. Maybe he will read Corinthians one
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ten, Corinthians three eleven. For nobody can lay down any other foundation than
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the one which sits there already, namely Jesus Christ. And upon which did
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Jesus say his foundation was? It was the rock of Peter and the Catholic
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Church. No one can lay down any other foundation and elsewhere the Bible says
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the church is the pillar and foundation of the truth. The church is the
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foundation that church founded by Jesus Christ, which is the one holy Catholic and
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Apostolic Church. Not to criticize anyone else's faith. Each person will be judged
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on their own faith in actions. But if you're looking for the church with
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authority and the fullness of the truth, there's only one. That the Apostles
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acted with great authority over all Christians is obvious. I mean the Bible,
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the early Church was certainly an organized religion. People today will say, I
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don't believe in organized religion. How can you read the Bible and not understand
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that had the Church of Jesus was the most organized, and that's why it
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stood the test of time through two thousand years. There's still the same Catholic
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Church now as there was. As I keep saying, it's built on the
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very bones of Saint Peter. His grave is under the altar at Saint Peter's
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Basilica Corinthians five one through five. It is widely reported that there's sexual immorality
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among you, immorality of a kind that has not even found among the gentiles.
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I wonder what that might be talked about. Well, they tell you
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that one of you is living with his stepmother, and so and you so,
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and you so filled with your own self importance. It would have been
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better if you had been grieving bitterly, so that that man who had done
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this thing were turned out of the community. For my part, however distant
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I am physically, I am present in spirit and have already condemned the man
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who behaved this way, just as so of a present in person. When
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you have gathered together in the name of our Lord Jesus, with the presence
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of my spirit and in the power of our Lord Jesus, hands such a
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man over to Satan to be destroyed as far as natural life is concerned,
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so that on the day of the Lord, his spirit might be saved.
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That's a strong statement he is saying. Even though he is not present,
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he has ruled this man is to be absolutely rejected, thrown out of the
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church, spurned, scorned, I mean, treated with utter content, given
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over to Satan, so that he might realize the gravity of his misdeeds and
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change his ways and maybe come back to the church. You know, in
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this day and time when we're just like pacifying and trying to be so tolerant
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of everything. I think we know what Saint Paul would say about the transgender
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movement or gay marriage. He would say, hand them over to Satan,
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cutting them out of the church. They have to repent, and then welcome
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them back into the church. But until they realize the wrongness of their lifestyle
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and actions, there's no place. There's no place for that in a Christian
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church of any denomination, especially the Catholic Church. Corinthians six two through three.
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Do you not realize that the Holy People of God are to be the
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judges of the world, And if the world is to be judged by you,
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are you not competent for petty cases? Do you not realize that we
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shall be the judges of angels? Then? Quite certainly ever matters of life.
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Can you imagine when we're talking about the authority of the church, they're
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saying that the saints, especially the apostles and disciples, would not just judge
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humanity, but the angels. That is serious authority, And I mean Corinthians
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seven one through nineteen thirty two through forty. Now for the questions about which
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you wrote, yes, this is a good thing for a man not to
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touch a woman. Yet to avoid immorality, every man should have his own
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wife, and every woman her own husband. The husband must give to his
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wife which she has a right to expect, and so to the wife to
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her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but
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the husband does. And in the same way, the husband does not have
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authority over his body but the wife. You must not deprive each other except
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by mutual consent for a limited time, to leave yourselves free for prayer,
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and to come again together again afterwards. Otherwise Satan may take advantage of any
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lack of self control to put you to the test. I am telling you
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this is a concession, and in order I should still like everyone to be
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as I am myself. Saint Paul was celibate, and he had always said
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it was better for people to be celibate, but that it was also necessary
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for many of us to marry. But everyone has his own gift from God.
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One this kind the next something different. To the unmarried to widows,
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I say it is good for them to stay the same as they are like
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me, But if they cannot exercise self control, let them marry. Since
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it is better to be married than to be burnt up to the married,
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I give this ruling. It is not mine, but the Lord's. A
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wife must not be separated from her husband, or if she has already left
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him, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband.
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Okay. No divorce and remarriage. Okay, he is saying, if they
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separate, no can't remarry. That's pretty stern right. And a husband must
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not divorce his wife. Again, divorce is not allowed in Christianity. Jesus
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said it in all four Gospels. No divorce, sorry, none anyway.
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Let everyone you can separate. I mean, if someone you can hear abusive
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relationship separations. Okay, But Saint Paul's saying, if you separate, you
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can't be remarried. Only the Church is the authority to a null a marriage,
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which frees the people to the marry again, because the Church was given
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the power to bind and loose. No civil authority has that power. Civil
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divorce is absolutely immoral and has destroyed our society. Anyway, Let every man
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continue in his part which the Lord has allotted to him, as he was
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when God called him. This is the rule that I give to all churches
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to be circumcises of no importance, to be uncircumcises of no importance. What
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is important is the keeping of God's commandments. I should like for you to
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have your minds free from all worry. The unmarried man gives his mind to
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the Lord's affairs and how he can please the Lord. But the man who
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is married gives his mind to the affairs of the world and how he can
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please his wife, and he has divided in mind. So too the unmarried
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woman and the virgin gives her mind to the Lord's affairs and to being holy
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embody and spirit. But the married woman gives her mind to the affairs of
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the world and how she can please her husband. I am saying this only
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to help you, and not to put a bridle on you, so that
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everything is as it should be, and you're able to give your undivided attention
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to the Lord. If someone with strong passion thinks that he is behaving badly
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towards his fiancee and the things should take their due course, he should follow
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his desires. There is no sin in it. They should marry. But
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if he stands firm in his resolution without any compulsion, but with full control
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of his will, and decides to let her remain as his fiancee. Then
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he is acting well. In other words, he who marries his fiance is
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doing well, but he is not still better. A wife is tied as
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long as her husband is alive, but if the husband dies, she is
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free to marry anybody she likes, only it must be in the Lord,
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must be a Christian marriage. Other words, she would be happier if she
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says, as she is to my way of thinking, and I believe that
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I too have the spirit of God. So what is Saint Paul saying?
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Wow? Imagine if you turned you went into your church on Sunday morning,
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or let's say you turned on a preacher on television, and this presumably Protestant
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minister is saying, it's better for you to remain celibate. If you're tempted
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and can't remain celibate, it's better for you to marry. We don't allow
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fornication, we don't allow adultery. God will not allow divorce, and we
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don't allow divorce. We don't know birth control. We have the authority over
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what is right and moral, and we think that birth control is immoral,
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and that abortion is immortal sin and one of the most abominable, abominable practices
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known to man, and must be outlawed. That is not going to happen
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in a Protestant church. Only the Catholic Church has the authority to decide on
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matters of morals and doctrines. Only a Catholic priest can get up and say
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that, and everyone who is a Christian should actually submit to that rule,
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whether the Catholic or not, because it's in accord with the scriptures Corinthians twelve
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fourth through thirty. Not all Christians held the same office. There are many
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different gifts, but is always the same spirit. There are many different ways
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of serving, but is always the same Lord. There are many different forms
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of forms, forms of activity, but in everybody it is the same God
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who is at work in them all. The particular manifestation of the spirit granted
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to each one is to be used for the general good. To one is
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given the spirit of the gift of utterance, of expressing wisdom, to another
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the gift of utterances, expressing knowledge in accordance with the same spirit, to
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another faith in the same spirit, and to another the gifts of healing,
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through this one spirit, to another the works of miracles, and to another
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prophecy, and to another the power of distinguishing spirits, and to another the
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gift of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongue. But all but
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at work, and all of these is one of the same spirit, distributing
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them at will to each individual. For as with the human body, which
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is a unity, although it has many parts, all the parts of the
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body, though many, still make a single body, so it is with
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Christ. We are all baptized into one body in a single spirit, Jews
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as well as Greek Slays, as well as free men, and we are
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all given the same spirit to drink. And indeed the body consists not of
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one member, but of many. If the foot, we'll say, I
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am not a hand, and so I'm not belong to the body, it
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does not belong to the body a less For that, if the ear were
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to say, I am not an eye, and so I'm not belong to
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the body, it would not stop it's blowing to the body. If the
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whole body were just an eye, how would there be any hearing? If
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the whole body we're hearing, how would there be smelling? As it is.
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God has put all the separate parts of the body as he chose.
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I'm going to skip ahead. Is a little bits, a very well in
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passage. Now Christ's body is as yourselves, each of you the part to
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play in the whole. And those whom God is appointed the church our first
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apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, after them, miraculous powers, then
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gifts of healing, helpful acts, guidance, various kinds of tongues. Are
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all them apostles, or all prophets, or all teachers, or all miracle
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workers? Do all of them have the gifts of healing? Do all of
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them speaking tongues and interpret them? No, no one was recognized as an
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apostle, but an apostle. No one was a bishop or a priest,
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but a bishop or a priest. Each of us have our roles. Some
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of us must submit to the authority of others if we're going to do the
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will of God Again. All these female ministers and all these feminists who think
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they should be priests, they don't. It's not acceptable. That's not their
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role. They can be teachers, they can be writers, they can be
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speakers, just like I'm doing. But to be a priest is not in
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the design of Jesus Christ, as taught through his apostles. Apostles all those
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who think they have a better understanding of the Bible and a better understanding of
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the Word of God than the Catholic Church, who thinks they should start a
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new church, they don't have that authority. Only the apostles and those given
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that authority to them through them. Those who prophesy at like Joseph Smith or
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is somebody else a different prophecy, are not of God. That's not their
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role. It says at the end of the Book of Revelations there will be
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no further prophecy. No one was recognized as having the authority to form a
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new church, to teach a new doctrine other than that held universally by the
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One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I'm gonna see I'm in Corinthians. Let
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me see how I can wrap up Corinthians, and we'll pick up tomorrow after
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that Corinthians fourteen thirty three, thirty six or thirty eight. For God is
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a god not of disorder, but of peace, as in all the churches
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of God's Holy people. Do you think that you are the source of God,
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of the Word of God, or that you are the only people to
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whom it has come. Anyone who claims to be a prophet or to have
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any spiritual powers must recognize that I am writing to you as what I am
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writing to you is a commandment from the Lord. If anyone does not recognized,
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this is because that person has not recognized himself. Again, Saint Paul
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is saying God is a God of unity and of order. This is an
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organized religion. Yes, Christianity is organized religion. If you think you can
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be a Christian without a church urch, you're not following the words of the
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Bible or the will of God. And what does he say about his authority?
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What I am writing to you as a commandment of the Lord Second Corinthians
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two six through nine seventeen. The punishments already imposed by the majority was quite
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enough for such a person. And now, by contrast, you should forgive
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and encourage him all the more, or he may be overwhelmed the extent of
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his distress. That is why I urge you to give your love toward him
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with death and an expression. This was in fact my reason for writing to
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test your quality and whether you're completely obedient. At least we do not adulterate
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the word of God, as so many do. But it is in all
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purity, as envoys of God and in God's presence that we speak in Christ.
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Remember I told you first Corinthians. He talks about the man who had
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married his stepmother and he was to be cast out of the church. Well,
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apparently he had repented and was coming back, and Saint Paul was saying,
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now forgive him bringing back in the church. But what does he say,
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very clearly, I'm wanting to make sure you're obedient to what I'm saying.
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This is authority, authority given to God. And he says, even
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in the time of Saint Paul, other people were adulterating the word of God.
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There were so many heresies in the early Church. There were so many
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false teachings, and Saint Irenaeus and others condemned them and put them down.
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Only wish, only wish someone had done the same. You know, when
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Martin Luther and King Henry the eighth and those got away with it, telling
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an illiterate population that they knew what was best and that the Catholic Church was
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wrong, and they had to follow them, because they have led millions astray.
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Second Corinthians, chapter eight, seventh through eight. More, as you
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were rich in everything, faith elk would understanding concerned everything, and love for
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us too, then make sure that you excel in this work of generosity too.
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I'm not saying this is an order, but test you the genus of
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your love against the concern of others. He was essentially saying, I'm telling
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you to give homes to the poor. If you obey it, that you're
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obediate. But I'm not going to force you. Second Corinthians, chapter ten,
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four through nine. The weapons with which we do battle or not those
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of human nature, but they have the power in God's cause to demolish fortresses.
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It is the ideas that we demolish every presumptuous notion that is set up
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against the knowledge of God, and we bring every thought into captivity and obedience
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to Christ. Once you have given your complete obedience, we are prepared to
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punish any disobedience. Look at the evidence of your eyes. Anyone who has
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convinced that he belongs to Christ should go on and reflect that we belong to
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Christ no less than he does. Maybe I have rather taken too much pride
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in our authority. But our Lord gave us that for the building, for
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building you up, not for knocking you down. And I'm not going to
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be shamed and letting you think that I can put fear into you only by
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letter. Again, he's saying he has full authority over this church, given
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by God for the building up of the church. Second Corinthians, chapter eleven,
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two through five, twelfth through fifteen. The jealousy that I feel for
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you is you see God's own jealousy. I gave you all in marriage to
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a single husband of virgin pure for presentation of Christ. But I am afraid
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that, just as a snake with his cunning seduced eve, your minds may
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be led astray from single minded devotion to Christ, because any chance comer has
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only to preach of Jesus other than the one we preached. Or you have
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only to receive a spirit different from the one you received, or a gospel
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different from the one you accepted, and you put up with that only too
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willingly. Now I consider that I am not the least inferior to the super
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apostle. Okay, he is warning them that they are falling. They're going
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astray, following false teachings, schisms, people causing division, and he says
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he's not the least inferior to the apostles, and he has authority over them,
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and he's telling them, do what I tell you. I will go
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on acting as I do to present, to cut the ground. I will
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go on acting as I do at present, to cut the ground from under
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the feet of those who are looking for a chance to be proved my equals
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and grounds for boasting. These people are counterfeit apostles, dishonest workers, disguising
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themselves as apostles of Christ. There's nothing astonishing about this. Even Satan disguises
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themselves as an angel of light. It is nothing extraordinary. Then when his
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servants disguise themselves as a servant of unrighteousness, of uprighteousness, as the servants
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of uprighteousness, they will come to the end appropriate for what they have done.
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Even the time of Saint Paul, there are people coming up saying they
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knew better what the Catholic churchs taught, and we're saying, follow me,
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I am holier than the Catholics, And he's warning them that those are agents
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of Satan, not of God. He was absolutely forceful in his governance andconfident
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in his authority. Second Corinthians, Chapter thirteen one through two, ten through
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eleven. This will be the third time I have confronted you. That's going
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to get your attention right. Whatever the misdemeanor, the evidence of two or
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three witnesses was required to sustain a charge. I gave you notice once,
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and now though I am not with you, I give you notice again,
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just as I was with you for a second time, for those who send
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before and to all others. And as to this effect, when I do
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come next time, I shall have no mercy. That is why i'm this
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one still far away, so that when I am with you, I shall
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not have to be harsh with the authority that the Lord has given me.
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And authority is as for building up and not for breaking down. To this
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end, then, brothers, we wish you joy. Try to grow perfect,
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encourage one another, have a common mind, and live in peace,
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and the God of love and peace shall be with you. I think,
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ask where we're in it for the day we just got through Corinthians. There's
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a lot to go. We'll start regulations tomorrow. But think about what he's
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saying. I have told you three times, and you don't want me to
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come down there. I mean, it's like you know the kids of the
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back seat, don't maybe come back there. He is saying, and what
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he say with the authority that God gave him, with the authority that the
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Lord has given me, No one else said authority of that church. Saint
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Paul had authority for that church, the authority of the apostles, admonishing,
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erecting, teaching. Authority of the apostles was given by God, and it
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still resides as guaranteed by God in the church today. That pope, being
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the head of the church, a flawed man. Justice was Saint Peter,
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in communion with the cardinals and the bishops, has the full authority to say
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what is right and wrong. If you believe abortions okay, and the Church
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says it's wrong, you're wrong. If you believe homosexuality is natural and normal
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and gay marriage is okay, and the church says it's wrong, you're wrong.
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The Church speaks for Jesus Christ himself, who said he had all authority
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in heaven and earth. He who hears you, hears me, who rejects
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you, rejects me, And he who sent me. If the Catholic Church
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says the Eucharist the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ, the you Christ
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is the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ. If the Catholic Church says
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it has the fullness of the truth, the Catholic Church is the fullness of
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the truth. The Bible itself tells you the authority given to the apostles by
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God. Nowhere does the Bible say the Bible is the sole authority soul of
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fide. That's the foundational tenet of Protestant belief. It says the Church is
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the filler pillar and foundation of the truth, and there would be no division,
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no disagreement, one in unity, one in mind and spirit. That's
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what Jesus said, That's what the apostle said. And tomorrow we will continue
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this. I think we may continue on it for several days. Yeah,
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I know, I need to get back into some politics pretty soon. We'll
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take a break for a day or two. Politics and culture and everything else
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that I'm not going to be censored, as the title the name of this,
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as the name of this podcast would indicate. But this is very important.
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This is extremely important important because if I say my beliefs are based on
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sound Christian doctrine. Upon what do I base those beliefs? If I say
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that the transgender movement is evil, the transhumanist movement is essentially the Antichrist upon
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What do I base my beliefs? I base it on the one true secure
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thing, not my interpretation of what was written in the Bible two thousand years
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ago, but the continuous and authority teaching authority ability the commission would be a
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better word of the cat. The Church, the only entity on earth that
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can tell you what the Bible, the words of the Bible actually means,
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with absolute accuracy, as guaranteed by Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in all
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matters of faith and doctrine and morals. All right, y'all, in the
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words of Saint Padre Pia, pray, hope and don't worry, and I
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will talk to you tomorrow.