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Episode 17: The Sacraments, part 2 - Baptism · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome to Dave's show today. We were going to get
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into what the Bible says about the sacraments. You know, our Lord said
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repeatedly that mere belief in him was not all they asked. He said that
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we must keep his commandments. We must do what he said. That means
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Christians are obligated to pay part in the sacraments. When he says you must
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be baptized, when he says you must eat my body and drink my blood,
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when he says, you know, marriage is a sacrament that's not to
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be violated. When he told his apostles to forgive sins, and those who
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sends you attain, they're attained. Those who sends you forgive, they're forgiven.
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I said it backwards, but you know what I mean. We are
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obligated, obligated to partaking the sacraments if we believe Jesus to be God and
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we believe the words of the Bible. And if we can't believe the words
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of the Bible, we have really no foundation of knowing what Jesus taught other
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than Catholic tradition, which was taught by the apostles verbally. So you can't
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have it both ways. You can't say the Bible alone and no sacraments,
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because the Bible says take part in the sacraments. And if you invalidate the
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Bible, all you have left is here the Catholic Church, or nothing,
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nothing at all. In Matthew twenty one, Jesus said, it is not
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anyone who says to me, Lord Lord, who will enter the Kingdom of
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Heaven, but the person who does the will of my Father in heaven.
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When the day comes, many will say to me, Lord Lord, did
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we not prophesy in your name, drive out demons in your name, and
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work many miracles in your name? Then I shall say, then I shall
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tell them to their faces, I have never known you. Away from me,
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all evil doers. Therefore, anyone who listens to these words of mine
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and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on
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a rock. Rain came down, flood rose gales blue and hurled themselves against
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that house, and it did not fall. It was founded on rock.
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But everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act on them,
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will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand. Rain
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came down, floods rose gales blue and struck that house and it fell,
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and what a fall it had. Now we know that Jesus said to Peter,
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you are the rock. Thou art Cephas actually is the original Petra in
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Latin petros. I guess anyway, it doesn't matter. He said to Peter,
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you are the rock, and upon this rock I build my church.
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Here he's saying that those who do what he says, what the Father told
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him, and what he tells them, will have faith built on a rock.
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It's not not a coincidence that he's using those same words. When you
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leave the Catholic Church and leave the sacraments, you can believe in Jesus.
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You can love Jesus, and Jesus will love you because he loves God loves
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all his children. Right, but you don't have you're not following his commandments.
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And yes, many many say, did we not prophesy in your name
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and drive out demons in your name? And work many miracles in your name?
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And he said, you know, if you love me, you would
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keep my commandments. People are going to have to figure that out, and
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thank God for purgatory, because they're not held accountable for what they don't understands
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it would be. It's a great consolation for a Catholic to know there is
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purgatory, And if only Protestants knew that and did not make such presumptions.
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Presumption is a sin against the Holy Spirit. Presumption is something they're going to
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have to work out in purgatory. I guess Luke's forty six through forty nine.
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Why do you call me lord lord and not do what I say?
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Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts on them,
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I will show you what such a person is like. Such a person's like
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the man who, when he built a house, dug and dug deep,
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and laid the foundations on rock. But when the river was in flood it
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bore down on that house, but could not shake it. It was so
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well built. But someone who listens and does nothing is like the man who
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built a house on soil with no foundation. As soon as the river bore
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down on it, it collapsed, and what a ruined that house became same
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meaning it's the previous passage John twelve forty seven through fifty. Anyone who hears
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my words but and does not keep them faithfully, it is not I who
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shall judge such a person. Since I have not come to judge the world,
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but to save the world. Anyone who rejects me and refuses my word
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has his judge already. The word itself that I have spoken, will be
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his judge on the last day. For I have not spoken of my own
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accord, but the Father who sent me and commanded me what to say and
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what to speak. And I know that this is that his commandment means eternal
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life. And therefore what the Father has told me is what I speak.
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So you know, when King Henry, the Eighth found of the Anglican Church
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based on divorce, which Jesus expressly condemned in all four Gospels, was he
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hearing the words of Jesus and keeping them faithfully? Was is it a valid
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church? I don't think so. I don't think so at all. I
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think it was absolute apostasy and heresy. And I really think the Anglican Church
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has been one of the greatest sources of evil in this world since it was
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founded. When you know, the core unit of Christianity is the family,
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and they began to tear apart the family by normalizing divorce. That's evil,
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that's the work of the devil. That's not the work of God. John
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fourteen fifteen through twenty four. If you love me, you will keep my
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commandments. Whoever holds my commandments and keeps him as the one who loves me,
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and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall
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love him and reveal myself to him. We'll see, says Judas, not
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Judas Iscariot. Saint Jude basically said to him, Lord, what has happened
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that you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world. Jesus
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replied, anyone who loves me will keep my word, and my Father will
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love him, and we shall come to him and make a home in him.
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Anyone who does not love me does not keep my words. And the
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words that you hear, the word that you hear is not my own.
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It is the word of the Father who sent me. The apostles continue to
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teach the same Hebrews three thirteen through fourteen every day, as long as this
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last, keep encouraging one another, so that none of you is hardened by
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the lure of sin, because we have been granted to share with Christ only
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if we keep the grasp of our first confidence firm until the end unchanging.
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You don't just go star another church with another doctrine and doesn't work that way.
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James one, twelve fourteen through sixteen. Blessed is anyone who perseveres when
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trials come. Such a person is proven as a proven worth and will win
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the prize of life, the crown that the Lord has promised to those who
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love him. Everyone is put to the test by being attracted and seduced by
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that person's own wrong desire. Then the desire conceives and gives birth to sin,
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and when sin reaches full growth, it gives birth to death. Make
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no mistake about this, my dear brothers, Second Peter, Chapter two,
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nineteen through twenty two. They may promise freedom, but they are themselves slaves
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to corruption, because if anyone lets himself be dominated by anything, he is
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a slave to it. Anyone who has escaped the pollution of the world by
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coming to know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and who then allows himself
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to be entangled and mastered by it a second time, ends up being worse
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than he was before. It would have been better for him never to have
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learnt the way of uprightness than to have learned it learned it, he used
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it due to two tenses here and then desert the holy commandment that was entrusted
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to him. What they have done is exactly as the proverb Brightley says,
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the dog goes back to its vomit, and as soon as the sow has
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been washed at walls in the mud. So today we have many, many
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Protestant churches that refuse to believe in baptism, in the necessity of baptism.
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They say it is merely symbolic and not necessary. Why did the Bible say,
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Well, Matthew eighteen through twenty, Jesus said, Jesus came up and
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spoke to them. He said, all authority in heaven and earth has been
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given to me. Therefore go make disciples of all nations. Baptize them in
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the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teach
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them to observe all the commandments I gave you. And look and with you
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always yes to the end of time. How could Jesus be with his apostles
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till the end of time? Were they're not apostolic succession. He gave the
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apostles the bility to bind and loose. They made bishops and priests who followed
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them generation to generation, from Saint Peter to the Vatican today to the Holy
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Catholic Church today, in unbroken succession. That is how Jesus is with his
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church until the end of time. It is a shining city set upon a
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hill, visible to all ages until he comes again. He said, specifically,
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here baptized them in the name of the Father and the Son of the
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Holy Spirit. Just a few weeks ago, I was on Twitter and a
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Protestant said, you won't find anywhere in the Bible where it mentions the Trinity.
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And I said, maybe you ought to read that Bible. Here's Matthew
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twenty eighteen through twenty. See, his minister had never taught on that passage
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because probably because it tells the necessity of baptism and actually apostolic succession. If
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you think about it, you got to use a little logic. You got
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to you know, be a linear thinker. You can't just take random passages
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and run with him. That's really where a lot of error comes to.
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I mean, I have been in so many churches where a minister will get
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up and he will preach for over a half hour, forty five minutes on
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one sentence completely out of context, and in the end he ends up teaching
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something that is completely not biblical and not sound doctrine. I could give him
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any examples, but well, I mean, a very a Baptist minister from
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him, I have a lot of respect preach the whole sermon on once Saved,
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always saved, right because Jesus said to I get the example. It
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is the thief on the cross, he will be with me this day in
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heaven. No, it was absent from the body present with the Lord.
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He spent almost an hour preaching against the existence of purgatory, simply because Jesus
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told the thief today you will be with me in the Kingdom of Heaven,
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not once. Of course, he didn't have the Book of Acabees that's been
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stripped from the Protestant Bible, or it says it instructs us to pray for
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the dead. And Jesus, of course was God. I mean he could
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change the rules because he's the rule maker. I mean, he could say
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to that man, your sins are totally forgiven. It doesn't mean it applies
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to every single person. Jesus also said, you know that you would be
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wailing and gnashing of teeth in a place of suffering, and you wouldn't get
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out until you'd paid every penny. Those are two different passages, but you
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know the existence of purgatory in the story of Lazarus and the rich Man.
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We'll get into that later. But the story of Lazarus and the rich Man,
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Lazarus is in a place of suffering, but he can see Abraham,
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I mean the rich Man. I'm sorry. The rich man is in a
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place of suffering, but he can see Abraham and Lazarus and he's talking to
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them. Therefore, he could not be in hell, because hell is a
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place without God and without any holiness. The souls are internally, entirely turned
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in on themselves. He was in a place of purgation. Well, we'll
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get into that another day. Mark sixteen sixteen. Whoever believes and it's baptized
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will be saved. Whoever does not believe will be conduct You have to both
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believe and be baptized. You can't just have a symbolic baptism. Jesus spoke
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of being born again as believing and being baptized. Protestants commit a grave error
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when they teach otherwise. But I say, have you been born again.
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You should say, yes, I've been born again. I'm baptized, confirmed
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and confirmed into the Catholic Church, and I eat the body and blood of
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Jesus Christ and am filled with his grace for that very reason, because I
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do what he said. You do the opposite. You do what your preacher
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says, you do what he was taught. You don't do what Jesus said.
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John three five. Jesus replied, in all truth, I tell you,
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no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born through water and
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the spirit. No one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born through
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water and the Spirit. Acts two thirty seven through forty one. Hearing this,
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they were cut to the heart, and Peter said to the other apostles,
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what are we to do? Brothers, you must repent, Peter answered,
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and every one of you must be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
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for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the
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Holy Spirit. The promise that was made is for you and your children,
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and for all of those who are far away, for all those whom the
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Lord our God is calling to himself. He spoke to them for a long
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time, using many other arguments, and he urged him, save yourself from
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this perverse generation. They accepted what he said, and we're baptized that very
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day. About three thousand were added to their number. That's after Pentecost,
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when this spirit came upon the Apostles, and they went and told the Jews,
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you just killed God, you just killed the Messiah. And they repented
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and were baptized. They had to be baptized, And one of the most
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interesting chapters that really refutes the Protestant idea that the Bible owners the sole authority
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and anyone who can read it will be guided into full understanding by the Holy
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Spirit. Of course, if that were true, there wouldn't be fifty thousand
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denominations, each of which that disagrees with the other, because there's only one
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truth. Well, Act six twenty six through forty, the Angel of the
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Lord spoke to Philip, saying, set out at noon and go along the
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road that leads from Jerusalem down to Gaza, the desert road. So he
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set off on his journey. Now, an Ethiopian had been on pilgrimage to
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Jerusalem. He was in Unich and an officer at the court of the I
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don't know. Can Dake Kentocky I don't know, or Queen of Ethiopia he
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was her chief treasurer. He was now on his way home, and as
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he said, in the chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. The
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Spirit said to Philip, go up and join the chariot. When Philip ran
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up, he heard him reading Isaiah the Prophet and ask do you understand what
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you're reading? He replied, how can I unless someone, unless I have
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someone to guide me. So he urged Philip to get in and sit by
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his side. Now that the passage of scripture he was reading was this,
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like a lamb led to his slaughterhouse, like a sheep dumb in front of
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its shearers. He never opens his mouth, and his humiliations, fair judgment
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was denied him. Who will ever talk about his descendants? Since his life
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on earth has been cut short? The Unuch addressed Philip and said, tell
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me, is this prophet referring to himself or someone else? Starting therefore with
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his tasks of scripture, Philip proceeded to explain the good news of Jesus to
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him. Further along the road that came to some water and the eunuch said,
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look, there is some water. Is there anything to prevent me from
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being baptized? He or the chariot stopped. Then Philip and the eunuch both
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went down to the water and he was baptized. But after he had come
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up out of the water, Philip was taken away by the spirit of the
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Lord, and the unuch never saw him again, but went on his way
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of rejoicing. Philip appeared in Azotus and continued on his journey, proclaiming the
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good news in every town as far as cesarea. Not only did he have
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to be baptized, he needed someone with apostolic authority to explain the scriptures to
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him. You see, had the Jews understood the scriptures, they would have
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recognized Jesus system Messiah. Everyone needs that safeguard, that guarantee. Without the
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authority given to the apostles to teach, which we talked about so much last
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week, with authority, you know, guaranteed to be prevented from error.
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You can't believe the Bible, and you can't understand the Bible, assuming you
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have a good translation of the Bible Acts ten forty three forty eight. Yet
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on the third Day, God raised himself to life and allowed him to be
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seen not by the whole people, but only certain witnesses that God had chosen
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beforehand. Now we are those witnesses. We have eaten and drunk with him
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after his resurrection from the dead, and he has orders to proclaim to his
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people and to bear witness that God has appointed him to judge everyone alive or
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dead. Jewish believers who had accompanied Peter were all astonished that the gift of
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the Holy Spirit should be poured out on gentiles too, So say, could
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hear them speaking and strange languages and proclaiming the greatness of God. Peter himself
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then said, can anyone refuse the water of baptism to these people? Now
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that they have received the Holy Spirit just as we have. He then gave
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orders to them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Afterwards,
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they begged him to stay for some days Acts sixteen thirty three. He called
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for lights. Then he rushed in, threw himself at the feet of Paul
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and Silas, and escorted them out, saying, sirs, what must I
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do to be saved? They told him, become a believer in the Lord
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Jesus and you will be saved, and your household too. They then preach
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the word of the Lord to him and all his household. Late, as
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it was, he took them to wash their wounds and baptize them then and
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there with all his household. About several proestant denominations Baptists could particularly work about
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this say that, well, while many of them maintain that baptism is symbolic,
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they also say you shouldn't baptize infants because they're not of age. Yet
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they can't understand what's going on. Well, here he baptized all his household.
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Are we to assume he had a household that had no children in it?
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No, No, you baptize a child so that child is protected from
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satanic influences and open to the Holy Spirit from the earliest possible time. Confirmation
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is where one joins the church with full understanding of what's going on. But
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of course most projestant churches don't have confirmation. Therein lies the problem. You
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stop listening to the people with authorities, start following those that have none,
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and you wander into error. Ephesians four three six. Take every care to
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preserve the unity of the spirit by the peace that binds you together. There
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is one body, one spirit, just as one hope is the goal of
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your calling by God. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
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and one God, the Father of all, overall, through all,
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and within all. That's there's a lot in that passage, isn't it the
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unity that binds you together, one body. There's only one church, and
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baptism is essential, and it's what brings us into the body of the Lord.
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You can call yourself the body of Christ. But if you're not baptized,
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you're not following Jesus's commandments. And I hope he doesn't say I never
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knew you, you know, even though you say I believed and I did
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this in your name, and he says, be gone, I don't know
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who you are because you're not part of me. You're not part of my
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church. I hope again. I have place must much hope. I pay
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a place full hope in purgatory where such people Protestant and Catholic and otherwise may
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have an opportunity to get things right so they can go to heaven. Because
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you know, there are a lot of really good Protestants out there, and
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they just don't have the fullness of the truth. It's a great mercy that
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God gives a set gift, and it's not to be despised. You know
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again, that Baptist minister that went on and on and on about how there
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was no purgatory, based it on nothing but his own opinion and a verse
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out of context from the Bible. You know, hopefully, Well, he
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just passed away a couple of weeks ago. Very good man, very good
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man. But I hope and pray. I prayed for the repose of his
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soul immediately upon the hearing of his passing, and I hope he gets to
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figure things out in purgatory. Because Jesus said, nothing unclean can enter heaven.
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You have to be purged anyway. We'll wrap it up with First Peter
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three twenty one through twenty two. It is the baptism corresponding to this water
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which saves you now, not the washing off of physical dirt, but the
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pledge of a good conscience given to God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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who has entered heaven and is at God's right hand with angels, ruling forces,
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and power subject to him. It is the baptism which saves you now.
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Think about that. I do not know how anyone can read the Bible
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and not understand the absolute, utter necessity of baptism. And if they understand
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it and then reject it, that is that's rejecting the commandments of Jesus knowingly.
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That's making yourself your own God. That's saying I know better and I
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have more authority than Jesus Christ and his Holy apostles. If you under read
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it and understand it, you must do it. As I said yesterday,
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just do what Jesus said. Do if Jesus said, do it, do
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it. I mean, it's it's that simple, it's it doesn't even need
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to be complicated. But people, I always say, people make their own
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trouble. You know, you can be in the most peaceful, idyllic,
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pastoral countryside community and if there's more than two or three people there, they're
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going to be arguing and fighting, and they're gonna be cheating on each other
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and stealing, and people make their own trouble. And you know that this
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is a prime example. If you can read what the Bible actually sets about
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baptism, I don't know how you could ever deny the necessity of baptism.
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But you know, that's just me. I happen to be logical. I
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happen to be a linear thinker. Apparently most of the world is not these
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days, at least most of America. If they were, they wouldn't have
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just voted to increase the national debt by at least three to five trillion dollars
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with no spending cap over a two year period and be out there claiming they
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had just cut spen. You know, if you believe that, you know
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I got a oceanfront property in Arizona to sell you. And that little weasel
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Patrick McHenry unfortunately calls himself Catholic. Yeah, anyway, and if I'm not
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mistaken, McCarthy does too. They should know it's a sin to bare false
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witness. They shouldn't be lying, and they are blatantly, openly, absolutely
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lying to the American people. And man, I tell you, if I
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have an opportunity to support a primary challenge or to any of anyone who voted
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for that budget compromise last night, you better believe I will. That's worth
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walking the district and knocking on doors for I would actually rather have an honest
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liberal Democrat in those offices than a lying Rhino Republican a name only Liberal Democrats
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are pure evil, but at least they're honest about it anyway. In the
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words, Oh Saint potre Po, pray, hope and don't worry, and
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I'll talk to you tomorrow