The presentation tonight is called The biblical uncovering of the Pope and the papacy. This is not speculation or mere possibility. What we will do in this presentation is to give the exact words of the Lord from the pages of Scripture. And we will give exact documentation from the Roman Catholic official teaching showing that the Pope and the papacy fulfill graphically and in detail the words of Scripture. It is like a silk glove on a person's hand. You will see that it fits exactly So what we are saying is not speculation, it is documented fact. The uncovering of the Pope and the papacy. The first official decree of the Roman Church, I wish to read from her own teaching in the official teaching of the Catholic Church called the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It is paragraph 882, quotation, The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter's successor, is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful. For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ and as Pastor of the entire Church, has full, supreme and universal power over the whole Church. A power which he can always use unhindered. Supreme, universal power over the whole church. A power which he can always exercise. Now, this claim to be Vicar of Christ is most serious. Why? Because Christ Jesus spoke explicitly of who it was who was to be the seeker. And it was not any earthly man. Christ Jesus, taking leave of his disciples and of the church that he had founded, said the following quotation, I will pray the Father and he will give you another helper. that he may abide with you forever, even the spirit of throats." The Gospel of John, chapter 14, verse 16. And he said to his disciples also, it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I depart, I will send him to you. John, chapter 16, verse 7. The helper, the one who was to take the place of Christ, the advocate, is the person of the Holy Spirit. He is the one who has supreme, full, universal power in the care of souls. And this is of utter importance that we see what Christ Jesus said because it is in direct link between the person of the Holy Spirit and the redemption of Christ. The Holy Spirit's office in leading a person to Christ is his universal power across the world. It is full and supreme. He convicts of sin, righteousness and judgment. He it is who is the Spirit of truth, who leads the believer into all truth. He is the one, as you look to the Father for his grace, that gives regeneration as we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. The work of the divine Holy Spirit is not the work of any earthly man. It is his and his alone. So the papacy claims that it has a vicar of Christ who sits in Rome. And we have to see that the apostle spoke about this The Apostle warned that one would come and sit among God's people and who would call themselves the things of God. I would like to read, if you have your Bible you may want to turn to it, 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 3. Let no man deceive you by any means. For that day shall not come except there come a falling away first. And that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, the son of man. would appear as the outworking of the falling away, or the apostasia is the actual Greek word. A word in English apostasy is close to the Greek word apostasia, the falling away. The apostasy took place from the professing through church. It was a falling away from the truth. And then the Son of Man, I beg your pardon, the exact opposite, the Man of Sin, the horrendous Man of Sin was to appear, as the Apostle said, for the mystery of iniquity does already work. In the Apostle's own day, this Man of Sin was already working. He was spoken of as the mystery of iniquity. It is interesting that the Apostle Paul spoke of the mystery of iniquity. Why? Because it was the exact opposite of what he had said to Timothy when he talked about the mystery of godliness, when he talked about Jesus Christ. The mystery of iniquity. is the exact opposite to the person of Jesus Christ. The mystery of iniquity was already at work in the apostles' times, but it was being restrained. And we're told the place of the mystery of iniquity, and this is of utmost importance, verse 4, who opposeth and exalted himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. One who sits among God's people, showing that he is God. Now, the Greek language from which our English text is translated is utterly precise. The Greek word for temple is naos. It is the Greek word signifying the people of God. It is not the Greek word hieron, which means the physical temple in Jerusalem. This is not the physical temple. This is a man sitting, as it were, among God's people saying that he is God. The text is explicitly clear. And so we have to say that there is one to this day who sits claiming to be Christian among God's people, saying that he is God. Who is he? His present name is Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI. He it was who wrote and compiled the Catechism of the Catholic Church that we read, paragraph 882, where he said that the Roman Pontiff is the Vicar of Christ. He claimed to be God as Vicar of Christ. Only the Holy Spirit is God and Vicar of Christ. He sits in the temple of God among God's people saying that he is the Vicar of Christ. He is the one also that constantly insists that he is the Holy Father. What is so serious about that? That is the exact scripture word that Jesus Christ used when praying to his Father in heaven. For example, in John's Gospel chapter 17, Jesus prayed, Holy Father, He prayed to his Father in heaven. There is only one Holy Father and he is in heaven. The Roman Pontiff consistently uses this term, that he is the Holy Father. He sits in the temple of God, calling himself God, the Holy Father. And he insists that when people go to visit him and talk to him, he is addressed as his holiness. There's only one who is holiness by nature. There is one, and that is the all-holy God. There is none holy as the Lord. There is none like unto thee. The scripture says. And so he insists that he be called His Holiness. And not only does he insist on being called these things, he insists and makes a decree that his teaching is infallible teaching. Infallibility is a divine attribute. This is in another official Vatican book called the Code of Canon Law. I'm reading the exact official words of the Catholic Church. Canon 749 quotation. The supreme pontiff, in virtue of his office, possesses infallible teaching authority when, as supreme pastor and teacher of all the faithful, he proclaims with a definitive act that the doctrine of faith and morals is to be held as such. The same pontiff claims to have the divine attribute of infallibility. In the secular world, people often say about a man who is an adulterer or a lady who is an adulteress, how many extramarital affairs does it take before this person is called an adulterer or an adulteress? How many extramarital affairs does it take? In a similar way, how many times does the Pope have to say he is the Vicar of Christ, he is supreme authority universally over the care of souls that he can always exercise, he is the Holy Father and he is to be addressed as His Holiness. How many times has he got to tell you that he has infallible teaching authority before you say Before our eyes is the man of sin, the Antichrist, because he fulfills to the letter what it says in 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 4, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he as God, seated in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. explicitly clear. Christ Jesus said that all power on heaven and earth has been given to him and we know that he handed over and that the Holy Spirit also has all power in heaven and earth as he acts as Vicar of Christ. But this man who claims to be the Vicar of Christ says, as we already read, that he is supreme, full, immediate, universal power in the care of souls. that all over the world at any moment of time he has care for all souls. That is a claim to only a power that only the divine person of the Holy Spirit has. So it is extravagantly clear that the papacy is the Antichrist, the man of sin. Now that word Antichrist in Greek is most interesting when you get a Greek lectionary and study the word Antichrist. Antichrist means not simply substituting for Christ, but it means substituting in order to take the place of. And that is explicitly what we have seen in reading these official decrees. He pretends to be the Vicar of Christ so that he can substitute and have universal and supreme power. That is the exact definition of what the Antichrist is. Under the pretense of serving Christ, He takes on to himself the very offices of Christ and the very offices of the Holy Spirit. Now it's not simply that he demands that you accept that he has infallible teaching authority, but he goes even further. He demands submission of intellect and will. Now all the cults from the way international to the Mormons to the Jehovah Witnesses, they all demand submission of intellect and will. People say in a popular way, you know, when you join a cult, you check out your mind and your will at the door. I mean, that's a common parlance. But the cults don't tell you directly that you have to submit your intellect and will, but the Catholic Church does. I'd like you to hear the exact words. Code of Canon Law, Official Teaching, paragraph 752, quotation. A religious respect of intellect and will, even if not the assent of faith, is to be paid to the teaching which the Supreme Pontiff or the College of Bishops enunciate on faith and morals. So you are to check out your mind and will to the pontiff and to the college of bishops. It is demanded of you. It's not only demanded, they have other canons which tell you that if you don't, you can be punished with just penalties. For example, in Canon 1371, just penalties are to be imposed upon one who does not accept the teachings of the Roman Pontiff. The text from 2 Thessalonians 2, it is frighteningly real. You may ask the who and the what that restrain this power. In your Bible you will see that the apostle is very clear. He explains you know what restrains him, who it is. And you know what it is. This is in verse 6 and 7. He explains the restraining power that was holding back the revelation of the man of sin as a who and a what in verses 6 and 7. How did the Thessalonians know this? Because they were quite evident, it is quite evident if you read 2nd Acts of the Apostles, you will see that in chapter 17, that when Paul went to the Thessalonica, to the Thessalonians, there was an uproar. And in verse 7, they were accused of speaking against the decrees of Caesar. Caesar was the one and the mind of those in Thessalonica. And so they understood what was withholding. It was the Caesar and his empire. And that's why in verses 6 and 7 it's a who and it's a what. It's both a person, the emperor, and the empire that he ruled. And it's quite interesting In the year 330, when the Emperor moved to Constantinople, it was then that the man of sin began to show his colors. And as the years went by, it was on the 8th century that officially for the first time that they declared that the Pope was the Vicar of Christ. But they began to show their colors. of the man of sin, just as Paul had said in the second letter to the Thessalonians that the man of sin would be revealed. The who and the what. The details are explicit And the early believers, even like Jerome, Tertullian and others, were emphatic. So were the Valdois. The Valdois saw who the man of sin was. And the great Christian writers, right through history, and as we will see later on, right up to Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones, have seen who the man of sin is. It is really sad that the people boast that they know who Christ is and they say, well, they do not know who the Antichrist is. Well, you're not like believers of old. They all knew who the Christ was and who the Antichrist was. And the pages of Scripture tell you explicitly. It becomes even more clear as we turn to Revelation chapter 17. The Apostle John beheld the ten-horned beast carrying the woman dressed in scarlet and purple, decked with gold, precious stones, pearls, a harlot and the mother of harlots and abominations, the paramour of kings, merciless, cruel, intoxicated with the blood of the saints and the martyrs of Jesus. And the symbols are brilliantly portrayed in Revelation 17. Verse 9, the seven heads are the seven mountains on which the woman sitted. The Holy Spirit clarifies by proclaiming, the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth. Verse 18. Indisputably, the city is Rome. The name on the harlot's brow is mystery. Now there was no mystery about pagan Rome. What pagan Rome did under the different emperors to persecute believers, there was no mystery. It was horrendous and totally evil. It wasn't mysterious. They were not pretending to be something else. They were who they were and they persecuted the saints of God. There's no mystery about pagan Rome. But this woman, there is mystery about her because she pretends to be Christian. It is quite interesting that she is called Babylon. Babylon in the book of Revelation is a woman and the woman is a harlot and she's also a city. She's contrasted to Jerusalem, the city of Jerusalem, the new Jerusalem, which is a city and it is also a woman. And the woman is the bride of Christ, the pure bride of Christ. Babylon is the harlot the immoral lover of the kings of the earth. So the contrast is stark in the book of Revelation. And where does the woman sit? She sits upon the scarlet-coloured beast. The woman rides the beast. The Roman Catholic system is the only religious system that is also equally at the same time a civil system. She has civil authority and power. And so the woman, the religious system, sits on the beast, the civil system. She in actual fact has concordance with many nations of the world and she has ambassadors going to 174 nations of the world including the United States of America since 1984 when Ronald Reagan reinstituted civil relationships between the Vatican and the United States of America. So she is literally the woman that rides the beast. Did the woman always ride the beast? We find that it was fairly early on in her history, in the 8th century, that she got territory and the Pope became a civil ruler from the 8th century onwards. At the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of his generals, entered Rome, and the Vatican in particular, and took the Pope off the throne, and took away from him his civil power. The system was wounded, as the Scripture had already proclaimed would be, but it was healed in the year 1929. The Catholic Mussolini made a treaty, a concordat, with the Pope at the time Pope Pius XI and conceded to him the Seven Hills. At the hand of Mussolini there sprung up again a civil power so that the woman again was riding the beast. She is the smallest civil state in the world, comprising what would be a large 18-hole golf course, 108 acres. But she is, in the words of the famous Roman Catholic historian Lord Acton, the fiend skulking behind the crucifix. because she uses civil power behind her religious power. Concordats are interesting. When I was in Slovakia in the year 2000, the believers were really fearful because it was that year that the official Concordat was made between Slovakia and the Vatican. are concorded as a legal agreement between a nation as a civil power and the Roman Catholic Church as a civil power, giving certain privileges to the Vatican. These privileges are the right of freedom of religious worship, the right to decree who truly are Christians, the right to define doctrine, the right to establish religious property, the right to negotiate property, the right to appoint bishops, the right to have accepted in civil law Catholic annulments, and the right in civil law that different nations would recognize the Vatican's economic policies. Now when you study the nations of the world like Argentina, When you study like Venezuela and other nations where Concordats have been in position for many years and see how evangelical, true Bible-believing churches have been persecuted and how the Roman Church has controlled nations, you will see how serious it is for the woman to ride the beast. Because she has power, civil power in nations. and they boast that it is now about 28 nations a year that sign on. Some even from Islamic nations will sign on to concord us with the Vatican. The present Pope Ratzinger, soon after he became Pope, had an audience with diplomats He was trying to persuade the diplomats that Saudi Arabia and Vietnam would have concordance with the Vatican. Some of the nations that do not yet have concordance with the Vatican. So if you want a literal fulfillment, look at the Vatican. If you go to zenith.org the Catholic news source, you will see that they give lists and lists of the nations where Catholics have civil agreements with civil nations. This is the woman riding the beast and it is explicitly clear. The place or resident of the papal church is not in doubt You read in verse 9, the seven heads or the seven mountains on which the woman sits. The seven heads or the seven mountains. The Vatican tells you exactly what her territory is and where she sits. I'd like to read from you from the Catholic Encyclopedia, quotations. It is within the city of Rome, called the City of the Seven Hills, that the entire area of the Vatican State is now confined." End of quotation. They tell you that the Seven Hills is the place where they sit. Actually, the Pope's main cathedral is not St. Peter's, it's the Lateran Cathedral. That is his main place where he is bishop, or pretends to be bishop. Her color, scarlet and purple, are evident. I remember explicitly when I was a Catholic priest, I was just a few months ordained and I was sent to Rome to study at the Angelicum University of St. Thomas Aquinas. And one day I had the opportunity to go to the Vatican and to look down on the square where the prelates were coming out from Vatican Council too, 3,000 of them. They were the Archbishops, the Metropolitan Bishops, the Patriarchs, the cardinals and the different bishops, 3,000 of them, and the colors were scarlet and purple. I was frightened as a Catholic priest. I was wondering, am I seeing the fulfillment of what John saw in Revelation 17? As a priest, I was wondering, and I put these thoughts to my mind, this could not be. This could not be Holy Mother Church. This could not be. But it came to my mind. I said, this is not Hollywood. This is real and is before my eyes. It's all scarlet and purple. It was 21 years after that when I left the Church of Rome that I finally really did see that it still fits precisely as the Apostle John wrote it. Now it is that the cardinals wear scarlet and the metropolitan bishops and archbishops wear purple. and all the cardinals and all the archbishops and ordinary bishops all have pectoral crosses hanging down, whether it's scarlet or purple, there's a pectoral cross. What is in the pectoral cross? Gems, pearls, gems. Just as John saw, that is the way it is. They have relics and bones of the saints also in those pectoral crosses. They also have each one of them, at the Roman Catholic Mass, the golden cup in their hand. It's by decree of the official Catholic Church teaching that the chalice must always be a golden cup, or at least golden plated. So they all have in their hand the golden cup. and full of abominations of fornication and filthiness. Now I do not want to go into detail here because it's too graphic and I do not want to get into this horrendous thing. But I must say something about the fornication and the filthiness. It was here in the United States that it was first of all exposed in the 1990s and it was from a Catholic city The Boston Globe. The Boston Globe was the first newspaper in the world in the 90s to start to show the inner life of priests and the filthiness and fornications, not just adultery and fornication, but explicitly pedophilia, the abuse of young men and young girls. It was really horrendous. The Dallas Morning News took it up and then newspapers across the world, in my own Ireland, in Poland, in Australia, right across the world, the filthiness and the abominations have been exposed. I don't like to say these things, but it is interesting that the Roman Catholic Church webpages, it's mostly Catholic sites to this day, will continue to show you the filthiness. and the pictures of those who've been abused, and the pictures on the internet of those men who have abused them. And sometimes it's really sad to show you the abuse that has gone on in nuns' convents. I know it's so horrendous that I will not look at some of it that happened in my own Ireland. I just do not want to see it. But these are the filthiness and the fornications that the Apostle John saw. And so, she is the woman. And she is the woman that demands intellect and will. And she is the woman that tells you that you are to have communication with the dead. Now this is quite horrendous. The official teaching of the Catholic Church In the same catechism that I quoted to you, I'd like to read her words. Communion with the dead. In full consciousness of this communion of the whole mystical body of Jesus Christ, the Church and its pilgrim members from the earliest days of the Christian religion is honoured with great respect the memory of the dead. Our prayer for them is capable not only of helping them, but also making their intercession for us effective. A two-way street. You are to commune with the dead and they will help you also. Communion with the dead is the occult. That's what this mother teaches you. We are not to call up the dead. The Catholic Church officially tells you that you are to call up the dead. And then she has the audacity to say that if you do not believe in her, the woman, You cannot have God as your Father. I would like you to read the exact words of De Calix from the Catholic Church, paragraph 181. Believing is an ecclesial act. The Church's faith precedes, engenders, supports, and nourishes our faith. The Church is the mother of all believers. No one can have God as Father who does not have the Church as Mother. The harlot that John saw is so bold But she says that you cannot have God as father if you do not have her as mother. How audacious and arrogant can you get? But this is the woman that John saw and is so clear as we read the words of Scripture. It is not only that John saw it, but he saw that she drunk the blood of the saints. Horrendous this is. It was from 1203, under the name of Pope Innocent III, that the Inquisition began. And it was to be 605 years of bloodshed, of torture, and a burning at the stake. This is not six years or sixty years, it's 605 years of horrendous suffering. Eighty popes in a row, according to Peter de Rosa, a Roman Catholic writer, gave the instruction of how this was to be done and how it was to be implemented. This is the Vatican's work The woman sitting on civil authority. It was through civil authority she got the state in every case in all those nations in Europe to put people to death. Even though it was her inquisitors were bishops and priests. Horrendous evil stuff. She has drunk the blood of the saints. How more graphic can you get in fulfilment of Revelation chapter 17 and what the Apostle John saw? Yes, there is a woman and yes, she does ride the beast. And yes, her colours are scarlet and purple and on her forehead is written Babylon Mystery Religion. mysterious because she claims to be Christian while she attempts to deceive people. This is quite horrendous and it is difficult for me to say these things, but they have got to be said because of how New Evangelicals are running to the woman running into the arms of the harlots. And this is not only said by true evangelicals, that people are running towards the harlot, it was proclaimed under a headline in a secular newspaper in 2004. It was the New York Times carried a headline and they declared the following. I'm reading from the New York Times, May the 30th, 2004, quotation. In 1960, the last time a Roman Catholic ran for President on the Democratic ticket, Evangelical Protestant leaders warned their flocks that electing John F. Kennedy would be handing the Oval Office to the Antichrist. Forty-four years later, evangelicals and conservative Catholics have forged an alliance that is reshaping American politics and culture. Exactly ten years ago, a group of evangelical and Catholic leaders and scholars released a document called Evangelicals and Catholics Together. It was the result of a dialogue started by two men, the Reverend Richard John Newhouse, a Catholic priest in New York, who edits the journal First Things, and Charles Coulson. The two men convened a group of prominent theologians and religious leaders. The evangelical side included the late Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, the religious broadcaster Pat Robertson, and theologians like James I. Packer. The Catholic side included the late Cardinal John O'Connor of New York and the theologian Avery Dulles, now a Cardinal. Their manifesto was primarily theological, but it included overt political pledges to work together on issues like abortion, government aid for religious schools, the strengthening of traditional family. The document shook the evangelical world. By 2000, Mr. Coulson and James Dobson The broadcaster who founded Focus on the Family were invited to the Vatican. Evangelical institutions like Wheaton College in Illinois and Gordon College in Massachusetts began inviting Catholics to speak on campus. End of quotation from the New York Times, May 30, 2004. depicting clearly that New Evangelicals have joined hands in the dark with the woman. Now it's not only these New Evangelicals and those who signed Evangelicals and Catholics together, but it is worse. It gets worse and worse. We have the new perspective That is a new way of looking at the theology of St. Paul. It's called a new perspective of many of what were sound Presbyterian churches who have now embraced that a person can become a Christian by just being united to the covenant and by infant baptism. and they are on a highway towards the woman accepting of papal Rome. They've had major conferences in which Catholic priests have been invited and Greek Orthodox priests. An offshoot from your perspective is Auburn Theology or Auburn Theology Movement. with Doug Wilson really the main man, influencing homeschooling in the United States and in many other places, bringing people to accept papal Rome and emphatically declaring that infant baptism is regenerative, makes a person a Christian. Heading towards papal Rome, We have about 15 or 16 former Presbyterians who become Roman Catholic apologists, such as Scott Hahn, the infamous Scott Hahn. They are heading up a movement with Marcus Grody in charge called the Coming Home Movement, with many television shows across the United States and DVDs and programs run in different American cities. This is just a sample of huge organizations that are running to join themselves to the harlot, the woman that sits on the seven hills. Babylon mystery religion. It is quite serious. The present Pope was famous ever before he became Pope. He still is often known by his name before he became Pope, Ratzinger. People speak about Ratzinger and they know that they're talking about Pope Benedict XVI. Ratzinger was famous particularly in the year 2000 when as Cardinal Ratzinger he published under the authority of the previous Pope a decree which was official Roman Catholic teaching called Dominus Isus. It was on the 5th of September the year 2000. In that decree he said emphatically, paragraph 22, that the only instrument for salvation for all humanity is the Roman Catholic Church. And he declared that evangelical churches are not churches in the proper sense. Quotation, the ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery are not churches in the proper sense. That is paragraph 17 of that decree. And then in footnote 51, he approved of what a previous pope in the 14th century had said, Pope Boniface VIII. Unum Sanctum. We declare, say, define and proclaim to every human creature that they, by necessity for salvation, are entirely subject to the Roman Pontiff. You see the mindset of this man. That for salvation you must be subject to the woman who rides the beast. You must be entirely subject. That document caused some little sensation in the year 2000, but for the most part, pastors and evangelical leaders made no comment. They just let it pass by. And the Roman church went scotch-free as it usually does, even with these horrendous decrees. But that is the woman who rides the beast. When I was giving you the civil power, I mentioned at the very end that besides religious instruction and property and recognition of marriages where she deals out concordats to nations and the kings of the earth obey her and enter into civil agreement with her, she also includes her economic policies. The present Pope Ratzinger has declared officially the Vatican politics of economics. I'd like to read one of the things that he authenticates from Vatican Council 2. Quotation, If one is in extreme necessity, he has a right to procure for himself what he needs out of the riches of others. If you are in extreme necessity, you have a right to procure what you need from the riches of others. That is an exact quotation from document number 64 Gaudium and space paragraph 69 of Vatican Council 2. I have written a whole news article on this called, The Paper Promotion of Collective Ownership and Tests. It's on our webpage and you can get a copy of this after this message where I go into detail of Vatican politics. The woman rides the beast and part of her weaponry is financial power. As was spoken of in Revelation 17, the merchants of the earth work together with her. And her biggest merchandise is the souls of men. And she sells the souls of men. It is quite horrendous and quite heartbreaking. It has been difficult and painful for me to give this presentation, but it needs to be given. And I know that we have a Catholic here, if not many Catholics, and I'm happy for that, that you came here today. And I know that this must be painful for you to hear these things, but to hear them you must. I needed to know this when I was a Catholic priest. And part of my coming out of the papal system was understanding 2 Thessalonians 2 and Revelation 17. That we have to understand that there's a commandment also given in Revelation 17 going into chapter 18 verse 4. Come out of my people and be separate that you do not partake of our plagues and our sins. Come out of her, my people. As you look to the Lord for his grace and accept salvation in the person of Christ Jesus and become one of the Lord's own, you come out from her and be sacrament. And this is for those who really say they are Bible believers, are true evangelicals. We come out from her and do not associate with her who rides the beast or the man of sin who sits in the temple of God as if he were God. We have no association with this one when we say to precious Catholic people what the Lord himself said. The Lord commanded the light to shine out of darkness that shined in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. God, who at the beginning of creation made light, now causes his light to shine in the darkness. to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. I ask you, precious Catholic person, to see the glory of Christ Jesus. He died for sinners in the place of sinners. He took their sin on His body on the tree. He took all the agony of what it was to be punished for the believer's sin. so that the light of the glorious Gospel could shine on you. God's light could light up your life and that you could be accepted in Him, the Beloved, to the glory of the Father's name. That is the Gospel message. He who knew no sin became sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. Praise His name, that those who are dead in trespasses and sins hear the voice of the Son of God and live. I know I was one of those who heard the voice of the Son of God and lived. And that is my message to you. Look to no church, look to the Father in heaven to give you the grace that you would trust in Christ Jesus alone and you will know the joy unspeakable and full of glory. And your life will be totally and forever changed. And you will grow in grace and knowledge and wisdom before God. I see somebody crying some tears from their eyes and I feel like that myself. Praise God. Because this is awesome. It really is awesome. That the all-holy Christ Jesus gave His life for us destitute sinners. And His commandment is that we trust on Him, the work of God, that we believe on Him whom the Father has sent. And in that way, our lives are totally changed. Praise God. Praise His Holy Name. And we give Him the praise, the glory, the worship, the honor, now and forevermore. Amen and Amen. Praise God.