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The Roman Catholic Mass Clarified | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Gospel of Mark Bible Study Series) · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Vests. Making void the word of God by
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  your tradition that you have handed down.
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  And many such things you do thus making void the word of God by
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  your tradition that you have handed down and many such things
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  you do. These are the words of the Lord
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  Jesus Christ found in Mark, chapter 7 verse 13 and they were
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  directed to the spiritual leaders of his day, who
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  questioned him about his disregard for man-made.
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  Addition that dominated his culture back then.
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  And that stinging statement that was made by Jesus Christ.
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  Still has resounded in relevance to our spiritual climate today.
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  Because as you know, there are many customs and there are many
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  rituals that are being honored and handed down in the name of
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  God. And as a result are directing
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  people away from the liberating truths that are found in God's
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  revelation and we have been lingering here in Chapter 7 for
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  some time for the sole purpose of addressing.
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  Some of those prevailing Traditions that we are familiar
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  with in Christendom familiar with my baby, not acquainted
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  with maybe not knowledgeable in and we want to address some of
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  these things in the spirit of Christ.
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  Now, I know that for some, this may seem like an unnecessary or
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  an uncharitable approach, but understand that even the Lord
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  hear you, you have read. With me through this chapter
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  many times, he addressed specific areas from different
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  systems of belief sometimes by name and the apostles followed
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  and those who would occupy the the office of a Preacher.
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  Are required from time to time to also follow the example of
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  Christ. It's not an easy thing.
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  It's not a comfortable thing, but it is a necessary thing.
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  You know, I was reading in the book of Lamentations and my
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  personal reading. And I came across a verse that
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  ministered to me in this area, and I prayed that it would
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  encourage you. So I quoted Mark chapter 7, but
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  if you have your Bibles with you, turn with me to limitations
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  right after Jeremiah Lamentations chapter 2, and look
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  with me at verse 14 for a moment.
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  Limitations to 14. Jeremiah is speaking here.
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  And he says, After the fact after the fact that judgment has
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  come to Judah limitations to 14, your prophets have seen for you,
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  false and deceptive Visions. They have not exposed your
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  iniquity to restore your fortunes, but I've seen for you
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  oracle's that are false and misleading They have not exposed
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  your iniquity to restore your fortunes.
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  Now, depending on your translation, if you have a good
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  solid faithful translation, some would say to turn away, thy
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  captivity, or to turn to bring back your captives or to restore
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  you from captivity, whatever translation you hold.
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  The principle is still the same. The Holy Spirit through the lips
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  of Jeremiah makes a connection between uncovering or
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  undisclosed, engaging, making known the sins of the people and
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  then being liberated from captivity.
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  The Captivity in this context is literal, right?
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  They literally went into captivity but it was the fruit
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  of a spiritual captivity. And so God puts blame on those
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  who are self appointed representatives, in Jeremiah's
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  day, those who are self acclaimed prophets, and they
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  refuse to address the errors of the people of that time.
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  And in refusing to expose the errors, they kept the people
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  bound. They kept the people in
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  darkness, they kept the people in falsehood and that ultimately
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  let to led to their own discipline and their own
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  chastisement. Aunt.
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  And so, what's the, what's the point here, here's the point
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  that if there are things in Christendom, right, that are
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  deterring people hindering people from coming to saving
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  faith Then surely there is some sort of responsibility,
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  especially for those who are leaders in the True Church of
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  Jesus Christ to say something about it, to address it to
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  confront it. And if there's any confusion
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  about what the goal of these messages are, please don't be
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  confused any further. We want to see people set free.
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  We want to see people liberated, we want to see people be
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  restored to their fortunes restored to the true blessings
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  that are in Christ that are only available when the truth is
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  Faithfully presented. And when that same truth is
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  responded to, with repentant faith, So, this is the heart
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  posture behind what have, what has been presented and what will
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  continue to be presented? Now, with that being said, I
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  know that last week you were here.
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  Some of you were here at least and you heard some discussion,
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  some insight concerning the doctrines, the false doctrines
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  pertaining to marry and we did so by examining namely what the
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  Roman Catholic Church teaches about her.
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  And I have to say, we received great encouragement from Last
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  Sunday and one of the common responses from people here and
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  Beyond is I didn't know that. I just I understood that there
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  was differences but I didn't know the depth of the
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  distinctives, I didn't know that this is what people believed and
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  that's what we're trying to do to make people aware of these
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  differences for the sake of Restoring and reaching out to
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  others. Now with the great encouragement
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  with some testimonies, as you can imagine, there's a little
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  bit of pushback, right, and not from here.
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  Thank God, maybe in your heart, I don't know.
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  But Mainly from people who watch Us online who visit our channel
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  from time to time, I guess and there were some Egyptian
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  objections and I'm not going to take the time to address every
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  single one of those objections. But I think I want to make
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  mention of one thing because it will only confirm the main point
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  of all of this. The central idea, the driving
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  desire of what's being communicated here.
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  There is truth in this that some of the reformers Martin Luther
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  Wright, John Calvin, and zwingli and other prominent fingers.
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  I John Wesley. Also affirmed.
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  And hold to the Perpetual virginity of Mary They did
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  believe that and and Colts were provided in response to what was
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  presented yesterday of how they did hold firm to that view of
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  her. Now, I understand why that was
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  brought forward. But here's the thing that I want
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  to say, regardless of the intention regardless of what's,
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  what was trying to be done in presenting these men and what
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  they believe to us I think that attempt missed the whole point
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  of the message. Because you see whether it's
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  Luther or whether it's Calvin. Whether it's Wesley, regardless
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  of who the person is, we don't look to the authority of man, we
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  look to the authority of the Bible.
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  That's the point that's why we're doing what we're doing,
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  whether it is a pope or it is a reformer, whatever.
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  Any man claims as being Revelation from God, must
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  subject himself and every single one of those statements must be
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  subject to the evaluation the Station or the condemnation of
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  what God has written, that's the truth and I think even some
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  evangelicals have to be careful here because I hear some
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  evangelicals quote. These guys as though they were
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  authoritative What does the Bible say?
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  What does God's word say? What does God's word say through
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  the men that he has placed his hand on for a special purpose of
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  revealing Divine truth? That's the goal here, that's
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  what we're saying. And so this is an evangelicals
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  and Protestants versus Catholics in Eastern Orthodox in the
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  world. This is about claiming what the
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  word of God has to say about itself and then calling people
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  to observe the truth of the scripture as supreme authority.
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  That's the point. So let there be no confusion
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  here again, this is not the denominationalism here.
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  This is not camps. Here, this is the Bible, the
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  word of God that has been preserved and kept by Sovereign,
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  will has been granted to us to know what he desires from us.
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  All right, there's a lot of things I can say, but I won't
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  because this will turn into Mary ology part 2 and we don't have
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  time for that. My desire here is to communicate
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  something else. I want to take the time to
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  examine yet. Another instance sense of what
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  can occur when scripture alone is no longer regarded as
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  absolutely authoritative, when it doesn't have the final say
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  last week, you heard some disturbing things and this week,
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  we're going to look at how some traditions have misinterpreted.
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  The meaning and the practice of the Lord's Supper.
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  Again, for the sake of making this a digestible session.
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  I'm not going to exhaustively teach on this.
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  Nor am I going to pull from what?
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  Every single ancient and traditional Church believes
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  about this. What I'm going to do is stay
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  consistent with what we did last week and that's pulled from the
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  Roman Catholic teaching, and then bring that before your
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  attention. And hopefully, you'll be stirred
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  enough to look deeper and then to look at what other people
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  believe in other traditions and other institutions, hold to
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  concerning this subject. Because the spectrum is quite
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  wide. And over the years, it became
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  apparent to me that some professing Christians, do
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  different things. And and with that, they can
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  find, he's regularly participating in different
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  settings. That offer the bread and the
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  cup. And among those people, you have
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  some who do things like, attend the Roman Catholic church in the
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  morning and then go to a faithful Evangelical Church and
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  that same day and and partake of the mass while also partaking of
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  the communion that's presented in a Evangelical expression.
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  And it doesn't seem to bother them and it doesn't seem to work
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  them. And it doesn't seem to encourage
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  them to think a little bit deeper about if there are
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  differences here. Now, listen, I'm fully aware
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  that some of you might be thinking brother, why again?
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  I said this last week. Why is this really important?
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  Why are you making such a big deal of this?
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  There's enough in our Bible to discover, why are we going this
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  way? And I understand, right?
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  And I understand that some would even say leave people alone I
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  mean can we just not excused them and excuse, what they're
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  doing as simple devotion to the Lord that they want to express
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  in different kind of ways. Why do we have to nitpick this?
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  Why do we have to point these things out?
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  Is it really important? To, which I would respond.
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  Listen, it's not about what's important to you and me.
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  Here's the question isn't important to God.
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  Is it important to the head of the church?
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  It's not enough to say we worship.
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  It's not enough to excuse any kind of practice or engagement
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  as worship. God wants us to know how to
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  worship. Not just if we worship.
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  Okay, more than that. We understand.
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  What do we believe about our spiritual disciplines?
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  What do we believe about our expressions of devotion and
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  adoration? And with that, we have to
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  understand what do we understand to be this massive, Monumental
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  ordinance that Christ has established for his people for
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  all generations until his very return.
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  What truths that we ascribe to that?
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  What is it? That were actually doing when
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  once a month you come forward here and you you engage in this
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  corporate Act of Thanksgiving and recognition.
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  And I hope you have a grasp of that.
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  I hope you yourself are aware of why it is.
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  You do what you do and if you don't then hopefully you'll know
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  it now, you know, that we do this in remembrance of him, we
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  know that we do this in, proclaiming the Lord's death
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  until he comes. But what others believe?
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  What others believe about the table, what others believe about
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  the supper, what other people believe about this ordinance?
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  Well to Roman Catholics according to their own
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  catechism. And my intention here is not to
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  misinterpret anything and so everything I'm going to claim.
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  And I as I said last week, I don't prefer this kind of
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  delivery but my head's going to be down more than might be up,
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  but it's because I want to quote the sources for you so that I
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  would not be labeled as deceptive or misleading.
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  I want you to hear what they have to say for themselves and I
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  want that to stir your heart, stir your heart to have a
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  greater Zeal for God's glory and a greater Zeal to reach out
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  people who might not know what. Or even doing, which is very
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  common, very, very common. Don't catechism.
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  Their own statement of faith. That is binding.
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  That is universal. In the Catholic catechism and
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  paragraph number 132 for the Eucharist which they call it,
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  which really just means Thanksgiving.
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  The Eucharist is the source and Summit of the Christian Life.
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  It is the source and the summit of the Christian Life Source,
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  meaning that all spiritual life flows from the partaking of the
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  Eucharist. And the summit meeting that it
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  is the Pinnacle of the Christian experience.
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  You can't get any higher than partaking in Mass.
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  To claim this is quite astounding.
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  And just from that statement alone, you can make the obvious
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  observation that the Eucharist is absolutely vital and Central
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  to the faith of Rome. There's no question about it,
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  but here's a question to ask, why, why is the mass so primary?
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  Why is it so defended? Why is it so cherished?
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  Why is it worshipped? Yes, worshipped.
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  It's an important question because once you understand the
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  attributes, once you understand the implications of what is
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  being taught with the Eucharist, then you'll get why it is so
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  love, cherish and defended. Unfortunately deceiving and here
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  I'm going to make it so easy for you.
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  I hope that's my goal is to break down everything that is
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  learned in the week and to present it to you in a way that
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  you can understand and apply it. All you have to remember is two
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  main aspects, just to two main distinctives that Makes Rome's
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  understanding of the Lord's Supper different than ours.
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  And the first one is this that the mass the Eucharist Rite, the
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  mass is the partaking of the literal body and blood of the
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  son of God. The mass is the partaking of the
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  literal body and blood of the Son of God.
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  Here's a summary from their own documents that leaves a clear
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  foundation and an overview of their belief in this.
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  Be patient with me please, as I read a lot, In their catechism,
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  number 13, 76137 64, you taking notes, the Council of Trent
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  summarizes, the Catholic faith by declaring, because Christ,
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  Our Redeemer said, it was truly his body.
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  That he was offering under the species of bread, it has always
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  been the conviction of the Church of God and this holy
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  Council. Now declares again, pay
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  attention that by the consecration of the Bread and
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  Wine. They're Takes place a change of
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  the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body
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  of Christ, Our Lord, and of the whole substance of the wine into
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  the substance of his blood. This change the Holy Catholic
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  church has fittingly and properly called
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  transubstantiation. You've heard the term
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  transubstantiation that Fant fancy term simply means a change
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  a transformation in substance. It's real, it's literal, it's
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  not metaphorical. It's not spiritual, it's not
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  allegorical, it is material. And this is a miraculous event
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  by their own claim that the actual elements become the
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  physical body of Jesus and the physical blood.
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  This is again something to be understood as real and tangible
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  here. It is from their own catechism.
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  I caught it to you. 1376 here's paragraph, 1374, this is
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  astounding. In The Most Blessed Sacrament of
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  the Eucharist, the body and blood together.
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  So the body and the blood together with the soul and
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  Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And therefore, the whole Christ is truly really substantially
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  contained. You're going to hear me quote
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  later on from Catholic answers. Then the same way.
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  Jesus Christ was here, two thousand years ago.
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  He is with us daily. When the Eucharist is presented.
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  Now before I unpack, what that implies, we have to understand
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  that this notion according to the catechism is a teaching that
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  they believed to be from the very lips of the master.
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  You might be wondering where, where do they get this
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  understanding, right, and you remember how I quoted the first
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  paragraph because Christ Our Redeemer said that it was truly
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  his body that he was offering under the species of bread, he
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  said it. So, the claim is, we didn't get
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  this out of thin air. We didn't even, we didn't
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  attribute this to Sacred, to just soon or to the magisterium
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  our basis for this is Christ. And what's their go to passage?
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  You know, it, John chapter 6 and I want you to turn there to the
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  collection of verses that is often referred to to justify
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  this teaching. In John chapter 6.
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  In verse 53. So Jesus said to them, truly
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  truly, I say to you, unless you eat the Flesh of the son of man
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  and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
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  Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks.
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  My blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last
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  day for my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink.
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  Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks, my blood abides in me
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  and I in him. Seems straightforward.
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  Seems clear, right? Here's the problem.
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  Here's the first problem of going to John chapter 6, to try
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  to justify this. Massive teaching with massive
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  implications and it is catastrophic when you break it
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  down. Was the Lord's Supper even
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  Institute at this point in the ministry of Jesus Christ and
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  sir. No.
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  There is quite some time to go before the institution of the
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  Lord's Supper it even takes place.
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  So what you have here is a teaching that has no connection
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  whatsoever to the ordinance that Christ will establish after he
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  is going to serve his disciples and make and before he makes his
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  way to the Cross, There Is No Illusion here whatsoever.
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  That Jesus is providing some kind of commentary of what takes
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  place at the table. Nothing of the A short.
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  And so, to take a teaching that uses similar terminology, but
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  then to apply it to something that you and I engage with as an
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  ordinance, is a dangerous stretch to make.
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  So then, how do we understand this?
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  How do we make sense of what Jesus is saying?
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  The way you try to understand anything that is being said, in
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  the Bible, you investigate the immediate context.
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  And as you investigate the immediate context without your
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  presuppositions, without any kind of authority telling you,
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  otherwise Eyes. But just with the word of God,
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  in John chapter 6, you have to make the honest, conclusion is
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  in the simple reading and evaluating Jesus, implying that
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  we should not on his body and drink his actual blood.
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  Well let's look forward because thankfully what Jesus says in
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  the very same chapter clarifies, what he meant by this.
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  So I want you to again, look at verse 54, look at the promise
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  associated with eating and drinking him.
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  Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks.
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  My blood has what eternal life has eternal life and I will
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  raise him up on the last day. What a glorious promise you eat
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  of me. You drink of me.
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  You will have eternal life and I will raise you up on the last
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  day. You know what's fascinating
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  about that? That's not the only time in this
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  context, Jesus gives that promise he gives it back here in
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  verse 40. Look at John 640 and what do you
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  read? For this is the will of my
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  father that everyone who looks on the son and believes in Him
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  should have eternal life and I will raise him up on the last
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  day of parallels perfectly. One difference, the precondition
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  is different. The prerequisite is different.
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  Look, back at verse 54. Why was the prerequisite?
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  If you feed on my flesh and if you drink my blood, you have one
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  eternal life and to you have the promise that I will raise you up
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  on the last day. Hold on to that.
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  That's the reward. That's the assurance.
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  You go back to verse 14, you realize that the rewards are
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  still there, the same ones, but what, what is required before
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  that? He says, it who looks on the son
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  and believes in him, who looks on the son and believes in Him.
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  St. Promise, yes.
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  Different precondition. It seems.
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  So and less Jesus here. When you join these two
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  statements proves that in this parallel, the feeding and
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  drinking. Is not a literal command to
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  Feast on him physically, but it is a metaphor for receiving him
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  and believing in him by faith to Christ eating is believing.
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  That's all it is to eat. Means to receive him by faith.
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  And by receiving and by faith, you receive the nourishment and
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  the sustenance that he provides through that channel of simple
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  trust and who he says to be and this is the emphasis in John
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  chapter 6. So, wait, well, why is he using
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  the language of eating and drinking because why are the
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  people there there? They want actual bread.
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  He just multiplied, bread fed, thousands of people and here
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  they are. Again, they want a refill.
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  So Christ meets them there and he takes their physical desire
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  and he parallels it with a spiritual truth.
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  He's meeting them where they're at and he's challenging them
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  through this metaphor, through this figure of applying.
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  It spiritually. Look at verse 35 of John chapter
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  6, Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life whoever comes to
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  me, shall not hunger. And whoever believes in me,
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  shall never thirst believe, believe verse 29.
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  When the same crowd asked them, what are the works of God that
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  we need to do? How does Jesus respond?
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  This is the work of God that you believe in him whom he sent.
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  Belief. Receive.
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  Comes by faith, not by feasting. Comes by trust, not by
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  transubstantiation. Now if this is not the true
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  meaning of Jesus words, then we have more problems than just
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  transubstantiation we do because I want you to think about it.
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  If we're consistent with Rome's interpretation here, then you
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  also have to understand that when Jesus says you have eternal
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  life and I will raise you up on the line last day, then I'm just
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  by simple equation. Me eating him and drinking and
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  means I will have eternal life. Eating and drinking him is by
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  faith. That's consistent with the whole
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  scripture that's in harmony with the rest of the Bible.
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  But if eating him and drinking and means that after the priest
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  consecrates, the bread and the wine and it transforms it to
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  Christ's body and I am to eat of him then naturally we have to
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  understand that it is the Eucharist that gives me eternal
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  life. It's the mass that ultimately
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  saves me. That's a different gospel.
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  And only is a different gospel, which I'll get to in a moment.
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  It's inconsistent with scripture because we know that the Lord
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  instituted the Lord's Supper, not for people to become
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  Christian. But for people who aren't
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  Christians, So even the very purpose and definition of the
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  Lord's table is is obliterated because we know that it's for
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  the church that we come in remembrance of him, we don't
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  come to the table to be in him or for him to be in us.
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  Know, because we are in and we now can and have the right to
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  partake in that table. So there's a lot of problems
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  here and this is why it can't be according to how our Roman
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  friends claimed it to be in a common objection that that is
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  often given. It's really a foundational
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  objection to what I just said to you is that if Christ really was
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  speaking here metaphorically, then why didn't you make the
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  effort to clarify that he was speaking and figurative language
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  to those that were there because they interpret it literally and
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  they even walked away. Assuming that what was being
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  said was literal Why didn't Jesus say whoa wait, hold on,
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  no, no let me understand. This is actually talking about
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  faith and although he already talked about belief belief
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  belief over and over and over again.
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  So this is what usually brought forth as an obstacle.
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  And here's a simple answer. Apart from the fact that Jesus
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  uses metaphor a lot especially in John, how many I am
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  statements? I am the door.
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  I am the light, right? How many of them there are
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  seven, including this one apart from that is it foreign to us to
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  actually see in Jesus preaching and teaching that he does not
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  elaborate on what he had said to his audience.
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  Keeping them in the dark. It's not a foreign idea.
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  In fact, Jesus did that and we learned that in Mark especially
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  through his Parables that when he discerned the heart of the
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  people, that no matter how many miracles and how many truths
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  were brought forth to their attention, that they were still
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  willing to deny and not apply the truth.
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  That was given to them. He was still willing to engage
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  with them. But in a way that would solidify
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  their darkness and keep them away from the truth, as an act
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  of discipline in judgment. Is it any different here?
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  It's pretty obvious here. You have this people fixated on
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  the fact that Jesus provided them food, and that's all they
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  wanted him for they saw. Saw him as the king that can
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  overthrow Rome that can make their lives a little bit easier.
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  And so they want to Crown Him and Jesus sees right through
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  them. And so every time, if you read
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  that lengthy chapter, every time Christ tries to diverts them to
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  spiritual truth and eternal life, the people became more and
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  more hostile, more and more upset, more and more Disturbed.
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  And when Christ claimed his Heavenly origin, you can just
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  you can tell just by the reading that they're becoming more
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  distant to Christ. Truly is not more attracted.
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  To the point where Jesus makes these very graphic claims about
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  himself and what is required of them and they walk away and
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  guess what? He doesn't chase them.
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  He doesn't run after them. And this isn't the only time
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  that he does that because Christ knows the heart.
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  And that's why in that same chapter, he talks about the
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  father drawing, right? He talks about what needs to
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  happen in the heart. Something needs to happen in
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  that heart. There needs to be disposition of
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  your heart, to receive who crisis and his claims and not to
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  ignore to misinterpret with your fleshly understanding.
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  And so it's clear but tradition as a way of skewing and
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  confusing, what is clear? Have you ever wondered how not
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  the wise, not the what's but how transubstantiation takes place?
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  Because it's spelled out in great detail and it's actually
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  very important for you to know and here is from their
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  catechism. Number 1105 1105, The invocation
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  upon. So when the priest makes
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  invocation is the intercession in which the priest begs of the
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  father to send the Holy Spirit the sanctifier so that the
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  offerings may become the body and blood of Christ and at the
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  faithful by receiving them may themselves become a living
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  offering to God, John O'Brien who is a Catholic priest wrote a
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  book called The Faith of millions.
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  The faith of Millions. Is the credentials of Catholic
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  religion and in his work, which is very popular, not just
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  popular. It is often referred to, as a
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  theological guide for serious, Roman Catholics.
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  He expands on what is in the catechism here?
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  He expands on it and he gives us even more specific details of
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  what actually takes place. When the priest, yes, that same
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  priest that's their daily. When the priest is ready to
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  consecrate the elements, what actually takes place.
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  Pay attention. This is disturbing.
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  I'm just giving you a heads-up. It's disturbing.
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  This is in his book, from the 1933 publication date, and it's
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  found on page, 27, T and 271. And this is again, this is not
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  some peripheral thing. I was just kind of scrolling
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  through different websites and apologist from the Roman
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  Catholic faith. And I found John O'Brien being
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  referred to as a reference and one of the arguments this is not
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  the same reference but it just goes to show that he still being
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  referred to Quote, you ready for this?
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  When the priest? Pronounces the tremendous words
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  of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens, brings Christ
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  down from his throne and places them upon are altered to be
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  offered up again as the victim for the sins of man.
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  It is a power greater than that of monarchs and Emperors.
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  It is greater than that, of saints, and Angels, greater than
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  that of seraphim and cherubim. Indeed it is Greater even than
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  the power of the Virgin Mary. For while the Blessed Virgin was
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  the human agency by which Christ became incarnate, a single time,
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  the priest brings Christ down from heaven and renders him
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  present on our altar as the Eternal victim for the sins of
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  men. Not once but a thousand times.
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  And quote. You almost got to take a few
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  breaths before you dissect this. Right?
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  It's jarring. It is jarring because according
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  to O'Brien, the priest is the one who has the authority by his
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  command to bring Jesus Christ, out of heaven and to be in our
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  midst. And so great is the office of
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  the priest. According to Old Brian, that his
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  authority, surpasses the prerogative 's that are uniquely
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  bestowed upon who we learn about.
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  Last week, the Virgin Mary, which is another startling thing
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  because of all the praise and the veneration in the worship.
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  That goes to her. It makes you wonder really,
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  there's something that actually challenges Mary.
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  The inconsistencies in a false system are not surprising.
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  And if you think about a deeper, what you have here is actually
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  an imitation, you have an imitation here of the levitical
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  priesthood so we believe what Christ did on the cross is
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  suffice has, right? It's finished.
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  But what you have with the levitical priesthood was what
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  you had priest. You had an altar, you had daily
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  sacrifices priest, alter daily sacrifices.
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  That is mirrored perfectly with Rome's version.
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  You have priests the front. There is not just a nice table
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  decorated, it's an altar, where sacrifices take place, There is
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  an altar and instead of goats, and instead of oxen you have
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  Christ being sacrificed. And this is not my
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  interpretation that's from his very same book on page, 262.
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  We believe that the sacrificial system of old points to a New
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  Covenant, with a greater sacrifice and a greater high
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  priest. But to Rome it foreshadows their
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  priesthood. And it gives them some kind of
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  License to justify their priesthood, their Altar and
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  they're sacrificing, not of animals, but of the son of God.
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  That's a whole different conversation, but let me
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  continue for my original quote going into page 271, okay?
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  If you thought, what I quoted to you was hard, get ready for
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  this? The priest speaks and low
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  Christ, the Eternal, and omnipotent God, boughs, his
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  head, and humble, obedience to the priest command.
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  Of what Sublime dignity is the office of the Christian priest?
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  Who is this privilege to act as the Ambassador and the
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  vicegerent of Christ on Earth. He continues the essential
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  Ministry of Christ. He teaches the faithful with the
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  authority of Christ. He pardons the penitent sinner
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  with the power of Christ. He offers up again the same
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  sacrifice of adoration and atonement, which Christ offered
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  on Calvary. No wonder that the name which
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  spiritual writers are. Especially fond of applying to
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  the Priestess called, is that of alter Christus?
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  For the priest is and should be another Christ.
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  For the priest is and should be another Christ.
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  Funny. I remember Jesus warning about
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  false Christ that would emerge in the last days.
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  Do you remember That people who claim the authority and the
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  power of Christ would be in our midst.
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  So, what you have in the system is not just a false
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  interpretation of communion. You have false Christ who are
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  offering it. Clergy you actually claim and
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  believe that they have the ability to pull Christ down from
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  heaven and to become elements that can be consumed by others.
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  Which results in what exactly think about it.
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  Think about the order of thought, think about the
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  implications, think about what can happen if you have Christ.
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  Actually literally being here in our very presence in close
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  proximity, then you have the Son of God in your midst and if you
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  have the Son of God in your midst, with people who love God
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  or their God, love their Jesus, then what does that invoke?
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  What does that provoque at least worship?
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  Christ is here. And if Christ is here, we're
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  going to worship Him. Worship God no worship the
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  sacrament. Because the sacrament is God
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  With Us. If you don't believe me, if you
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  think this is exaggeration, let me quote from Catholic answers.
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  And this is not an anxious in text.
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  This is modern apologist. Who clarify what they believe
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  quote, since Christ is present in the Eucharist, God is truly
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  present. This means that we give the
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  Blessed Sacrament the worship and adoration that we give to
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  God Alone. We see this especially in our
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  liturgies. When we kneel and genuflect only
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  before the Blessed Sacrament, these are postures that are due
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  to God and only to God as signs of adoration.
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  So what do you have here? You don't have the elements
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  before in which we give thanks to God for what he has done.
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  You have the worship of the actual elements because they're
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  no longer Bread and Wine. It's the body and blood of
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  Christ here with us. And how does that happen?
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  When a man was been ordained in. The priesthood makes the command
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  Christ. Humbles his head in obedience
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  that command and makes his way down.
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  This happens every single day all across how do they explain
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  it? Well, they say it's a miracle,
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  it's a miracle. Only the only the Holy Spirit
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  can make Christ, physically appear in thousands of thousands
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  of their churches or thousands, thousands of wherever they
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  celebrate this at the same time and it's just as real.
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  As you was here, 2,000 years ago.
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  Now here's what they say, the main reason Catholic answers for
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  so great, a confidence resides in the meaning of the Eucharist.
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  Jesus Christ is here on Earth again in the Eucharist just as
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  he was 2,000 years ago. He's not just present in memory,
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  he is not just spiritually present, he is on Earth, body,
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  and blood, soul, and divinity. But is that the only reason why
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  is that the only reason why Catholics believe that bread and
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  wine become the actual presence of Jesus Christ?
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  No, that's not the only reason why it's not so that they can
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  worship Him in closer. Proximity.
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  It's not so that they can have some euphoric, you know,
• 38:56
  experience this mystical kind of thing.
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  It's more than that. Here's a simple question.
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  If Christ is being brought down, not just to make a show, not
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  just to make some kind of dramatic demonstration.
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  But if he is coming down as a sacrifice, the question is a
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  sacrifice for what? Which is the second Point
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  member. All of that was under the first
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  point, the point that the mass is the literal body, and blood
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  of Jesus Christ. It's the partaking of him
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  physically. Secondly, and lastly, the mass
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  is recognized. As an actual sacrifice.
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  Perhaps some here, you haven't heard that.
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  Maybe this is you hearing it again, but it's very important
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  to understand here. When Christ comes down in the
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  Eucharist, it's not so that he can be merely worship or doored.
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  It's so that a real sacrifice can take place.
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  That something can actually take place in your life as a result
• 39:52
  of you participating. That sacrifice.
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  And you and I understand the Lord's table to be an act of
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  remembrance. We reflect on what he has done.
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  We even in some measure look forward to what will come to
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  pass when he does return and feast with us.
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  And we reflect as we enjoy, and we rehearse to one another of
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  his saving faith of his grace. That's what we do.
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  But Rome cannot accept the Simplicity of this to them.
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  It's much more. It's, there's something else
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  happening in mass and we have no intention to misrepresent them.
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  So, again, forgive me, I must read what they say and I hope
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  you understand what they're saying.
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  So this isn't their catechism. I did brought the book last
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  time, but you can look this up. This is recorded.
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  You can you can, you can look this up yourself.
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  It's free on a pdf online and number 1367 of the catechism of
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  the Catholic Church. Here's what it says the
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  sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are
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  one single sacrifice, very, very important, the Eucharist and
• 40:57
  what happened on Calvary is one single sacrifice the victim.
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  Christ is a victim, right? The victim is one and the same,
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  the same. Now offers through the ministry
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  of priests who then offered himself on the cross only in a
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  manner of the offering is different and since in this
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  Divine sacrifice, which is celebrated in the mass, the same
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  Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner, on the altar
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  of the Cross is contained in his offered and an unbloody manner.
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  The sacrifice is truly propitiatory.
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  So, let's break that down. It's one sacrifice.
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  So, when the mass is taking place, this is an additional
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  sacrifices that are happening. The claim is what happened on
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  the cross. Through the mass is being
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  repeated again and again, and again and again, over and over
• 41:53
  and over and over. And so what happened?
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  2,000 years ago, it's happening every single day by the power of
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  the priesthood commands Christ by to come down and for a
• 42:03
  sacrifice to take place. Now what's the difference and
• 42:07
  they highlight the difference, the only difference is 2000
• 42:09
  years ago, it was a bloody sacrifice and what happens daily
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  is an unbloody sacrifice. What does that mean?
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  Here's what it means. The bloody sacrifice means that
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  we don't see the mass as what they saw that day when Jesus
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  Christ died. We don't see the the gruesome
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  bloody bruised, Jesus know. It's the same sacrifice, but
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  it's under the appearance of bread and wine.
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  It's unbloody same sacrifice though.
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  Just different appearance. And that's why a number 136 sis
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  of the catechism. We are told that the Eucharist
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  makes present, they use the word re present but then they they
• 42:53
  clarify it represent, meaning that they make present, not
• 42:58
  symbolically they make what happened, then is now happening
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  before your very eyes. I'm sure you can sense, the
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  troubling, realities of this. And it sounds strange, but it's
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  more than strange. It's blasphemous.
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  Blasphemy there's no other way to put it.
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  Call me what you want, kill me if you want.
• 43:24
  I say it as it is, it's blasphemy.
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  And all you have to do is read the book of Hebrews to
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  understand and know how off this all is and ironically in the
• 43:37
  theme of the book of Hebrews. What is the author doing by the
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  spirit? He is promoting crisis being so
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  much greater than the levitical system which includes their
• 43:45
  priests and their sacrifices Christ is better.
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  Don't go back to it. He's better, don't go back to
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  it. He sufficient and know you know
• 43:54
  the verses I'm sure there's so many of them I'm just going to
• 43:56
  pull out a collection of to and I'm Going to read it.
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  I don't even need to expound upon it for it to absolutely
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  obliterate. What you just heard.
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  I'll turn with me in your Bibles.
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  I don't want to quote the catechism more than the Bible.
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  Hebrews 7:26. May this refresh your soul, may
• 44:23
  this bless you, may the secure you met, this create a praise in
• 44:28
  your heart. This afternoon, Hebrews 7:26 for
• 44:31
  it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest,
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  wholly, innocent, unstained, separated, from Sinners, and
• 44:40
  exalted above the heavens. He has no need like those High
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  priests who offer sacrifices daily first for his own sins.
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  And then, for those of the people since he did, This once
• 44:52
  for all when he offered up himself once for all amen.
• 44:58
  Indeed I'm glad you're awake this afternoon.
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  Hebrews 10 term with me, Hebrews 10:10.
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  What a lovely sound. And by that will we have been
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  Sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
• 45:22
  for all I apologize. I said I want to comment on it
• 45:25
  but I must buy that. We will have we have been past
• 45:29
  tense we have been Sanctified through the offering of the body
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  of Jesus went every single day. When the priest commands it?
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  No, once for all verse 11 and every priest stands daily at his
• 45:42
  service offering Repeatedly. The same sacrifices which can
• 45:46
  never take away sins but when Christ had offered for all time,
• 45:51
  a single sacrifice for sins. He sat down at the right hand of
• 45:55
  God waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a
• 45:59
  footstool for his feet. Hallelujah indeed.
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  Yes, amen. Now, can you confidently?
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  And honestly say that as you read these scriptures, can you
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  reconcile them with What the catechism teaches can you.
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  Can you truly? Look at these and say we need an
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  altar. And we need priests and we need
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  repeated sacrifices and the priest has the ability to pull
• 46:29
  Christ now from Heaven, onto Earth again.
• 46:32
  We are told here that he sat down at the right hand of God
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  waiting from that time until his enemies should be made his
• 46:38
  footstool. Are these the same?
• 46:42
  They're not. They're not the same.
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  Because it's a different version of the Lord's table.
• 46:52
  It's a different Christ. It's a different gospel.
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  Whoa, brother, you got me saying, amen.
• 47:01
  And Hallelujah, few moments ago, but I understand there's
• 47:05
  differences brother but for you to make a claim that it's a
• 47:07
  different gospel. That's a very, very serious
• 47:10
  statement and I stand by it. I do stand by it.
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  Because, although it is one offering, you have to ask the
• 47:20
  question. Why?
• 47:22
  Why is it being offered again? Why is what Christ did 2000
• 47:25
  years ago? Being re presented made present
• 47:28
  over and over and over. I won't tell you, I'll let them
• 47:32
  tell you from their own catechism, did you hear the
• 47:36
  final words of 1367? This sacrifice is truly
• 47:41
  propitiatory. It appeases it satisfies it
• 47:49
  accomplishes something. What does it accomplish while in
• 47:53
  paragraph number 1366, it's salutary power be applied to the
• 47:58
  Forgiveness of the sins. We daily commit, That's not
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  clear enough. Let me read to you paragraph
• 48:07
  1414. As sacrifice, the Eucharist is
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  also offered and reparation for the sins of the living.
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  Pay attention in reparation for the sins of the living and the
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  dead. And to obtain spiritual and
• 48:27
  temporal benefits from God. You heard that, right?
• 48:31
  So I'm not just approaching the mass to receive forgiveness for
• 48:33
  my sins. Now, I can actually partake of
• 48:36
  the mass on behalf of somebody who has died so that they can be
• 48:39
  forgiven for their sins. Is this the Bible is this?
• 48:47
  What Christ taught? You heard this correctly?
• 48:52
  And forgive me because I'm going to give you a now, just and
• 48:53
  bullet bullet fashion quotes, because I know where this is
• 48:57
  going to go, and I want to be no mistakes.
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  In the 22nd session of the Council of Trent.
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  In the second chapter under that the title is the sacrifice of
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  the mass is propitiatory both for the living and the dead.
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  And I'm just going to read some of it.
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  Here's what it says for appeased, by the sacrifice, the
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  Lord, grants the grace and gift of penitence.
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  And pardons even for the gravest crimes and sins.
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  For the victim is one in the same.
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  Whenever they say, victim, they mean Jesus.
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  So in their view, Jesus is in Eternal victim.
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  Because he's continually being sacrificed.
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  For the victim is one in the same.
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  The same. Now offering by the ministry of
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  priests who then offered himself on the cross, the manor alone of
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  offering being different, the fruits of that Bloody sacrifice.
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  It is, Well, understood our received, most abundantly
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  through this unbloody one. The fruits of that.
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  Bloody sacrifice are applied and experienced in this unbloody
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  one. I received most abundantly
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  through this unbloody ones so far, it is the latter from
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  derogating anyway, from the former where.
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  For, according to the tradition of the Apostles.
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  This is where I want you to pay attention.
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  It is rightly offered, not only for the sins punishment,
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  satisfactions and other necessities of the faithful who
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  are living, but also for those departed in Christ, but are not
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  yet fully purified. So if you want to come to the
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  table and you know, loved one that claimed to believe in God
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  but didn't really live a Christian Life, didn't really
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  love God, where they go, they go to purgatory and so they're in
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  purgatory, there are being purged, and if you want to
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  accelerate that process, you can take the mass on their behalf
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  and it would be applied to them. And you want to be upset with
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  me. Here is the one of the Cannons
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  under that same session. The twenty second session of the
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  Council of Trent Cannon three. What does this mean for you?
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  What does this mean for you? I'm almost done here.
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  What does this mean? For those who don't believe
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  this, if you do believe this, I hope that you come to the truth
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  of the scriptures. If you don't believe this, What
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  does that mean for you? I'll tell you what they say.
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  If anyone says in Cannon, three of the second twenty second
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  session of the Council of Trent. If anyone says that the
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  sacrifice of the mass is only of praise and thanksgiving or that
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  it is a mere commemoration of the sacrifice consummated on the
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  cross, but not a propitiatory one or that it profits, him only
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  who receives and not be offered for the living and the dead for
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  sins, punishment, satisfactions, and other necessities.
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  Let him be anathema. Your excommunicated, you're not
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  part of the true church. You're not a real Christian if
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  you don't believe that this is more than just remembering.
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  If you don't believe that this is more than just a reason to
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  give, thanks to God. If you don't believe that, it
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  actually can forgive Sins, Not Just for the living but for the
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  dead, you are anathematized. You want to get angry at me?
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  You want to think I'm divisive? Here's the 13th session of the
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  Council of Trent Cannon one. If anyone denies that in the
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  sacrament of the most holy Eucharist are contained, truly
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  really, as substantially the body and blood together with the
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  soul and Divinity of our Lord. Jesus Christ and consequently
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  the whole Christ but says that he is only as in a sign.
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  If you believe that it's just the sign and you don't think
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  it's body, blood soul and Divinity of Christ here on Earth
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  if you don't believe that. If you only believe it's a sign
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  of figure or Force, let him be anathema.
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  So there's condemnation here, condemnation for those who don't
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  believe what is being taught by the system.
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  I can end it here but I don't want to end it with you being
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  condemned. I don't want to end up with you
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  leaving with that. I've quoted this verse many
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  times and I can't help it, so forgive me.
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  And when I was thinking about what's a way that we can end
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  this with a final exclamation mark, that would hopefully boost
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  your heart and rejoicing in the truth that you're in.
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  How can you move forward from Hebrews?
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  And maybe you have a more accurate way of ending this but
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  I can't think of anything else other than Hebrews 10:14. for
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  buying single Sacrifice by single offering, he has
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  perfected for all time, those who are being sanctified For by
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  single not, a repeated, not a nun.
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  Bloody Not by the authority of any priest.
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  Now, by Christ coming to this Earth again, and again and again
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  now by taking what he did 2000 years ago and Performing that
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  sacrifice again and again, for by single offering, We have been
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  made perfect. Amen.
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  I appreciate your applauses, this afternoon.
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  I appreciate your amens, I appreciate your attention.
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  I want us to pray and how I want us to pray.
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  I want you to join me in sincerity of your heart.
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  Maybe you have a Roman Catholic mother father, brother, sister
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  friend and maybe I'm sure you love them very much.
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  Maybe this Disturbed you because in my presentation, you are
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  thinking of them and you might have Associated what I'm saying
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  as an attack on people that, you know, and that you see who
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  supposedly love God and serve him.
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  And again I'm not pointing out. People I'm pointing out this
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  system and I'm fully aware that there are people who are in that
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  system, even priests who don't really know what they're doing,
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  who don't really know what the church teaches their Church
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  teaches. I want us to pray for our
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  family. This afternoon I this is not
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  just some lesson to provide shock value.
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  We want to hear this and then we want to bring our prayers to God
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  through the mediator Christ Jesus.
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  That God would give us an opportunity to share what we've
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  learned in the spirit of love. And that God would Open the Eyes
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  of those that we know and those that we don't even know to come
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  to the truth and to embrace the Simplicity of the Gospel.
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  Let's pray. And let's really Posh our hearts
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  seriously and attentively. Father, we are shaken.
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  Perhaps, we even feel a righteous indignation.
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  But again Lord we acknowledge in your presence.
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  We too were once lost. And we too have done and said
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  and maybe even believe things that are contrary to your word.
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  And so Lord, we do not sit on the high seat.
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  Of self-righteousness this afternoon.
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  If there's any anger, it is towards the evil one.
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  Who is deceived many? Who seeks to viciously veiled
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  the glory of Christ to minimize the sufficiency of the cross.
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  To make less of what you have already done.
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  And we thank you that your word is clear.
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  We thank you. That we are in the truth.
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  We pray for those who are not. We pray for those who might be
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  uneducated unaware and even worse who are aware but believe
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  what Rome has to say to be true. And for those who might not be a
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  part of the Roman Catholic church, but different
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  traditional churches that have very similar views of the
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  Eucharist. What have mercy on them?
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  Give us opportunity to speak kindly to them but without fear
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  of what is true. We pray that you would convict
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  those who are actively participating and something that
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  you do not approve of, we pray for those, even those who claim
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  to be Evangelical. Who don't see the differences,
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  who don't care to see the differences.
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  You don't see the significance of what participating in a
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  different table actually means. Lord, we are humbled.
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  We have much to think about but for now Lord we are humbled and
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  grateful for all that we heard all that was accessed.
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  Thank you, that we live in an age where these things can be
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  accessed. So freely and quickly.
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  Surely you are coming soon. Where your gospel is being
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  proclaimed to the nation's, At a rate that we've never seen
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  before. Lord, use us until you do come
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  help us, honor you and everything, the Lord's supper
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  and our baptism and are preaching in our daily lives,
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  help us honor you. And again, with all that, we
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  learn may not puff us up. May not make us.
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  Arrogant may not make us abusive or unnecessarily offensive.
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  Miss often us or may break us. Make me and make us more loving
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  and compassionate and yearning for people to be saved.
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  Lord, we say, Amen in a moment and we pray that you would
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  receive worship even through a heavy session like this may you
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  receive pure. Holy clean, faithful Worship in
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  Jesus name. Amen.
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  Amen, amen Saints, let's stand and Worship the Lord.