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We're not going to do much longer,
I don't think, because it's so dark. I'm turning to 1 Timothy
2. It's so dark. It's so sad. Some people make the audacious
claim, well, you just don't understand Roman Catholicism. If you really
understood it, you would come and you would be Roman Catholic.
No, that's the problem. The more we study it, the more
we understand what it is exactly Rome teaches, the worse It is. And this is probably a bad analogy,
but on one hand, I kind of feel like a detective and you're doing
good, but there's like a weight on you when you have to investigate
crimes and you look at things and you just have to look at
it over and over and over. It just weighs on you. And so tonight
we're going to talk about the demonic Mary of Rome. I know that's a zinger of a title,
but I want to put forth to you tonight that the Mary that Rome
puts forth, the Mary that Rome talks about, is not the Mary
of the Bible. She's not. We love the Mary of
the Bible. So when I hear this, I want to
be careful. We're not impugning the Mary of the Bible. We love
her. We'll see her in heaven. But she's ultimately a person
in the Bible who we model her faith, and we are encouraged
to see God's grace in her life and the salvation that she receives
because of the atoning work of Christ. 1 Timothy 2.5 is where
we'll start. It simply says this. I'm just going
to read it really, and then we'll flesh out some things about the
Marian dogma of Rome. 1 Timothy 2.5, for there is one
God and there is one mediator between God and men, the man,
Christ Jesus. Ah, but maybe there's a mediator
between men and Christ, right? No, I mean, you can't get that
from that text. That's not what's being said.
Now, most Christians, when they understand, or I'll put it this
way, they don't understand. So most Christians, they see
Roman Catholicism's devotion to Mary and they're uncomfortable
about it. Okay, something doesn't seem
quite right. And then so you ask questions
maybe, or you talk to a Roman Catholic friend, family member,
neighbor, and they say, hey, no, no, no, don't worry about
that. We don't worship Mary. We just think she should be honored.
She's not equal to Christ or whatever. And so you're like,
well, okay, okay. Maybe it just feels weird to
me. Maybe I just, I don't like it. I don't understand it. And
so maybe I'm being a little judgmental. It just feels weird to me. And
so maybe you kind of give them a pass. But tonight, I'm going
to talk about something very dark and sinister
in Rome's understanding of Mary in their official teachings.
And I'm making the argument tonight that it's not just something
that should make you uncomfortable, but I'm actually using this language
intentionally. I've thought about it. I've gone
back and forth in my mind. I'm going to use it. I think
it's the right language. It's demonically influenced.
And it's ultimately designed to take your eyes off of Christ. So I'm going to give you five
characteristics of the demonic Mary of Rome, put Mary in quotes.
Let me remind you something tonight. So when you quote, let's say,
the Baptist Catechism, or when you quote, say, the 1689, do
you understand that's not the same as quoting the Catholic
Catechism, or yeah, the CCC, the Catechism of the Catholic
Church. It's not the same. Because the
Catechism of the Catholic Church is officially binding upon Rome. It's officially authoritative. It's part of their, on par with
scripture. It's part of the binding of the
conscience of Rome. They can say, you can say you
don't believe what I'm about to teach, but you're not Roman
Catholic, right? Which hopefully that's all of
us in here, okay? Obviously. So just understand that. So let
me put it to you this way, probably kind of maybe a bit winsome and
kind. The Roman Catholic conception
of Mary, however sincere it may be by some, is ultimately not
the Mary of Scripture. It's a false scriptural construct. and ultimately a demonic deception
because it draws people away from Christ. So let me give you
characteristics of the demonic Mary. Number one, the false Mary
of Rome possesses divine attributes. The false Mary of Rome possesses
divine attributes. Let me read to you from the Catechism,
paragraph 2679. The Catechism of the Catholic
Church, paragraph 2679. Mary is the perfect prayer, a
figure of the church. When we pray to her, we are adhering
with her to the plan of the Father, who sends his Son to save all
men. Like the beloved disciple, we welcome Jesus' mother into
our homes, for she has become the mother of all living. We
can pray with and to her. The prayer of the church is sustained
by the prayer of Mary, and united with it in hope. So here's one
thing, This kind of came up a few months ago, but the question,
do Roman Catholics pray to Mary? Well, there are some who would
say, well, no, we don't pray to Mary. Well, yes, you do. This
is what the catechism teaches. You pray to Mary, explicitly
taught here in the official teaching. A few points I'll make to that.
Number one, Matthew 6-6. Some of these you have to look
up later. Jesus says, but when you pray, go into your room and
shut the door and pray to your Father who's in secret. Now,
He's not teaching that you can't have public prayer. He's not
teaching that you can't pray to the Son or that you can't
pray to the Holy Spirit. But He certainly is teaching,
there is a clear implication there, that prayer is meant to
be made to God alone. I'll give you another verse.
Psalm 65-2. I love this. Psalm 65, 2. The psalmist says,
O you who hear prayer, O you who hear prayer, to you shall
all flesh come. So the psalmist says in Psalm
65, 2, that one of the reasons that God is praiseworthy is because
He is the one who hears prayers. We don't talk about this divine
attribute, but He has the divine attribute, if you will, of prayer
hearing. Now, I know that you can hear
prayers, I can hear prayers, but it's different, right? It's different in the way that
God hears prayers. We pray to God alone. I'm not
done with that, though. God can hear the prayers of any
person anywhere because he is omnipresent. This is an important
argument. Psalm 139. We're not going to
look at it, but just understand, believe. I don't think I have
to teach. No one's going to deny this. Even Rome does not deny
this. God is omnipresent. What does that mean? Omni, all,
present, present. It means he's everywhere. Now
did you know, now some people, this may be hard for you to wrap
your mind. God is the only being that is omnipresent. You understand? Satan, we talk about Satan a
lot. He's not omnipresent. He's not everywhere at once.
The angels are not everywhere at once. The human nature of
Jesus, where is that? What's at the right hand of God
the Father Almighty? The human nature of Jesus is not everywhere
at once. And listen, certainly Mary and
the saints are not everywhere at once. So the argument I'm
making is this. To say that we pray to Mary is
to even though they wouldn't say it this way, I'm making the
logical argument, to pray to Mary is to ascribe to Mary divine
attributes that are reserved for God alone. You understand? Now, they say, well, no, no,
no, I ask you to pray for me. Okay? Gunnar comes to me and
he says, Pastor Quatro, will you pray for me? Well, sure,
of course I will. I would pray for Gunnar. But
that's not Gunnar praying to me. You understand? It's him
asking me to pray for him. I'm glad to do that. But it's
different to actually praying to someone. And if people all
over the world at the same time can pray to Mary, then she must
have divine attributes, which we know she doesn't, the biblical
Mary. But the Mary of Roman Catholicism
is not the Mary of Scripture. The Mary of Roman Catholicism
is ultimately demonic. Secondly, A second characteristic. Some of this you may not know.
Immaculate conception in sinless life. Let me cite the teaching
of Rome again. Paragraph 491, Catechism of the
Catholic Church. Through the centuries, the church
has become ever more aware that Mary, full of grace through God,
was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is, what
the dogma of the immaculate conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed,
in 1854, the most blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment
of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of Almighty
God, and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the
human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin. segment and then I'll explain.
That's paragraph 491. Paragraph 493 says this, maybe
you didn't know this. By the grace of God, Mary remained
free of every personal sin her whole life long. That's the Mary
of Roman Catholicism. The Mary of Rome, the false and
demonic Mary of Rome, was immaculately conceived, that's the language,
meaning she was kept from the stain of original sin. So Adam
is not her frederal head. Beyond that, she never committed
any, according to Rome, she never committed any personal sin her
entire life. Were there any problems with
this? Yeah. What'd you say? Yeah, you see, you're catching
on now. Even though the left hand is saying, no, no, no, no,
she's not divine, and the right hand is pumping her up with all
these divine attributes. You see? And that's what's happening.
Very good. Hold on, hold on, we can't. Very
good. I'm sorry, we just can't. We've got to keep pressing. So,
but we'll have time at the end, Lord willing. The Bible says
in Romans 3.23 what? for all have sinned. and fallen
short of the glory of God. This includes the biblical Mary.
She was a sinner. The fact that she was full of
grace, and no way to take that little phrase and to create this
stupid doctrine out of it. It's just, it's wicked. It doesn't mean she's immaculately
conceived. It doesn't mean she never committed personal sin.
It simply means that she was chosen by God to carry Christ
in her womb. Which by the way, let me just
make a point, is amazing. Right? Amen. We do not despise
the biblical Mary. We love her, just like we love
all the saints. We recognize her special role. We're grateful for it. We give
God glory for it. But we absolutely despise the
unbiblical teaching put forth here by the Prince of Darkness.
Let me read another passage, Hebrews 4, 14-16. Since then, we have a great high
priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of
God. Let us hold fast our confession, for we do not have a high priest
who is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but one who in
every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let
us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace that
we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. perfect life accomplished and
fulfilled alone. His life alone accomplished and
fulfilled all righteousness for his people. This is exclusive
to the Lord Jesus Christ. This makes him unique. This makes
him the fairest of 10,000 to my soul. This makes Him the bridegroom
of Song of Solomon, lovely and handsome and beautiful and glorious
and great. He alone is set above all the
rest in His righteousness. There's no one like Him. You
can't bring anyone up to His level, even His own earthly mother. She is not without sin. Mary needed Christ to bleed for
her actual sins, her sin in Adam and her personal sins as well. Let me make this note. Miss Virginia,
I'll let you ask a question real quick. Let me make this note.
This doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was not considered
dogma until 1854. 1,820 years after the resurrection
of Jesus, Rome comes up with this. Oh yeah, we're fine. Okay.
Foolish. Okay, it's real quick. You got
something? Yeah. Yes. Very good. Okay, thirdly, the
bodily assumption, a third characteristic of the demonic Mary. Okay, what is the bodily assumption?
That sounds weird. Well, let me read to you. Catechism
of the Catholic Church, paragraph 966. The Immaculate Virgin, preserved
free from all stain of original when the course of her earthly
life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly
glory and exalted by the Lord as queen over all things, so
that she might be the more fully conformed to her son, the Lord
of lords and conqueror of sin and death. The assumption of
the blessed virgin is a singular participation in her son's resurrection
and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians. In giving
birth, you kept your virginity, In your dormition you did not
leave the world, O mother of God, but were joined to the source
of life. You conceived the living God
and by your prayers will deliver our souls from death." That was
all that. Now, there's disagreement in
Rome. Did Mary actually die and then
she was assumed bodily or did it happen right before her death?
There's disagreement. I don't care to wade into that.
The point either way. is she is being elevated here
in a divine way. She is possessing qualities that
the scriptures do not give to her. You understand what this
is being saying? You understand that we await
the resurrection of the dead. When our loved ones die, they
await the resurrection of the dead. Rome is teaching, not Mary,
either she died or she didn't die, one or the other, but at
the end of her life, her body and soul went straight to heaven. And so now you have The Lord
Jesus Christ reigning from heaven and you have, I'll read this
quote later, you have Mary who commands Jesus. Commands Jesus? I'll share a quote with that
later. Zero biblical evidence for this.
Zero. Zero. Okay, where in the Bible do they
get this? Nowhere. They'll say, but Enoch was taken
up. You remember, Enoch was not, for God took him. That's Genesis
5. Elijah was taken up. Are we disputing that? Of course
not. We're not disputing that. But how do you get from there
to this false view of Mary? Okay. Well, you can't. And again,
this is because you have this weird view of Mary that is demonically
influenced. And so you have all these strange
doctrines. And I will say this, the bodily
assumption But you could fact check me, is not considered dogma
by the Roman Catholic Church until 1950. 1950! That means for, you know, 1900
years the Church of Rome didn't believe this. But in 1950 they
said, okay, we believe this. So I understand, many Roman Catholics
will say they don't worship Mary, but you start adding all these
attributes up that she has, it sheds light on how dark and unbiblical
the view is. Okay, number four, we're gonna
go to what, I didn't just add this, already in my notes, but
Miss Virginia added it too. Number four, she is referred
to as the Queen of Heaven. Now, I don't find a specific
statement that calls her the Queen of Heaven. I'm going to
read you one in just a second. It doesn't exactly say that, but you hear
Catholics say that all the time. Queen of Heaven. So the statement
is, what I just read, the previous reading, 966, said Mary was now
exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things. So there it
is. And it's not the phrase Queen
of Heaven, but Queen over all things, you know. You have a
King of Heaven, So you have a queen, you can see this all kind of
medieval, you can see that influence there. Now, here's what's fascinating. Did you know, and I want you
to turn to these places, did you know, we're going to have
to deal with this, did you know the phrase queen of heaven is
actually biblical? It's a biblical phrase. It's
in the Bible. Two different times. Or two different
passages. Multiple times, but two passages.
It's in Jeremiah. So let's look there. Jeremiah,
two different times. So it's a biblical phrase. Well,
let's think about that. Jeremiah chapter 7, verse 18. Jeremiah chapter 7, verse 18. Biblical phrase. Jeremiah 7.18, the children gather
wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough to
make cakes, here it is, for the queen of heaven, and they pour
out drink offerings to other gods to provoke me to anger. Well, you'll find that phrase
again in Jeremiah 44, so turn there. Jeremiah 44. The queen of heaven. It's a biblical
phrase. Jeremiah 44, verse 17. Jeremiah 44, 17, The Queen of
Heaven is a biblical phrase. applicable to who? Demonic gods. False gods. Right? So the people
of Judah, what they did in their syncretism, you know, where you
kind of mix things together, is that they would try to worship
the one true God of the Bible, and then they'd mix in these
other gods and stuff, and they'd come up with this demonic God,
and so referred to a couple different times here as the Queen of Heaven.
And in our passage, they're talking about, well, when we were worshiping
the Queen of Heaven, things were going well. And then we stopped
off, like Jeremiah said, and we repented and all that. Now
things have gone bad. So you know what we're going
to do? We're going to go back and we're going to worship the
Queen of Heaven. And what has this done? This has provoked the Lord
to anger. Now what I find fascinating is
this. It's like, how can you get more plain? That maybe you're
trending in a bad direction. How can you get more plain and
say, you know what? Maybe this isn't a good idea if we take
a very title right out of the scriptures for demonic worship
and we apply it to Mary. That's pretty, I think it's pretty
brazen by demonic activity that they could even pull that off.
And then it's all the more bewildering that people would actually embrace
that and now refer to Mary as the Queen of Heaven. But I would
argue that the Mary that they worship, yes, is the same, or
not same, but is very similar to the Queen of Heaven in Jeremiah. Make sense? Okay. There is no queen of heaven.
Wow, good note. Thanks for writing that down,
Quatro. There's no queen of heaven. There's only a king. And what
is his name? Jesus. And the king has a bride. That bride is the church. So
I remind you of Luke 27, 28 says, as he said these things, this
is Jesus. A woman in the crowd raised her voice. Again, this
is so plain. Like you're like, Lord, If you
could make it plain to us that Mary doesn't have a special status
in heaven or a special status in the church as far as rank
above people or whatever, could you make that plain to us somehow?
Listen to this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said
to him, blessed is the womb that bore you and the breast at which
you nursed. Well, that seems very rational,
right? This is Jesus. Jesus, bless your
mama, right? Bless your mama, Jesus. You're
like, praise God. She carried you. She nursed you. She's blessed. What does Jesus
say? But he said, blessed rather are
those who hear the word of God and keep it. Here's a great opportunity
for Jesus to say, you know what? You're right. That's my mama.
And she should be said above. But he doesn't. They say, no,
no, you're missing the point. Those in the kingdom are those
who hear the word and do it. OK, fifthly. A fifth characteristic, throwing
these together, advocate, helper, mediatrix, mediatrix. How do you say that? Mediatrix.
Mediatrix. Mediatrix. Mediatrix. Okay, Advocate Helper Mediatrix.
Catechism 969 says this. Taken up to heaven, she did not
lay aside this saving office, but by her manifold intercession,
continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation. Therefore,
the Blessed Virgin is involved in the church under the titles
of Advocate, Helper, Benefactrix, Benefactress, and Mediatrix. Is there no alarm bells going
off in anybody? There's no, like, red flags here. Advocate, helper,
benefactress, mediatrix? The words advocate and helper
and mediatrix, again, applying divine aspects of the triune
God to this demonic invention. Who is the helper of our salvation?
This is not, by the way, this is not coincidence. It's not
coincidence that in John 15, Jesus calls the Holy Spirit,
what? The helper. and Rome calls Mary
the helper. That is not by coincidence. You're
just like, well isn't that, huh, that's coincidental. No, the
Roman version of Mary is seeking to usurp the God of the Bible. Vatican II says this, listen
to this. This just makes you want to vomit. Mary shared her son's sufferings
as he died on the cross. Thus, in a holy singular way,
she cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope, and burning charity
in the work of the Savior in restoring supernatural life to
souls. Now you should tell me, but don't
worry guys, Rome doesn't worship Mary. Right? By the way, you say that, you
may look around and see the sophisticated Americans. Go to Mexico. Ask
Gunnar about our little walk. I mean, he knows. He's been there
a couple of times. Go. Look. He's still probably got
some of the pictures. Think about Advocate, 1 John 2.1. My little
children, these things I write unto you that you sin not, and
if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father. Who is it? Jesus
Christ the righteous. Hebrews 7.25, Wherefore He is
able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God
by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them.
We have one advocate and one intercessor and His name is Jesus
Christ. We don't need another intercessor
for our intercessor. Right? Go to the side of the
room and say things like, well, yeah, yeah, we have an intercessor, but how
do we get to Jesus? You know, the only way you get
to God is Jesus. How do you get to Jesus? Well, that's where
Mary steps in and she's an intercessor for the intercessor. Baloney. Pope Pius X. For while the prayers
of those in heaven have certainly some claim on the watchful eye
of God, Mary's prayers place their assurance on the right
of a mother. For that reason, when she approaches
the throne of her divine son, she begs as advocate, she prays
as handmaid, but she commands as mother. That's Pope Pius X
in his, well, it's still Latin, but anyway, one of his encyclicals.
She commands His mother. They've created a Jesus that
is standoffish, that is angry, that is mean, that you can't
approach. So you can't approach Jesus, so you go to Mary, right? Because that's His mama, and
He'll listen to His mama. So you go to Mary, and you talk
to her, you do the rosary, you plead for her, you talk to Mary,
and if Mary hears you, well, you're going to get your wish,
because she'll command her. Son. Let me just remind us here
of the gospel. We do not need Mary to get to
God. We need Christ alone. John 14, 6. Jesus says what? I am the way, the truth, the
life. No one comes to the Father except
through me. So it is the finished work of
Christ that is His righteous life, His perfect life. His obedience
to the law, His substitution for sinners, dying under God's
wrath, bearing our sins in His completed work, in His body,
on the tree, crying out in John 19, it is finished. Dying the
death that we deserve under the judgment of God, being laid in
a borrowed tomb. On the third day, rising again,
from the dead, and as we've been studying in the first chapters
of Acts, ascending into heaven as king. And it is that work
alone that saves us as applied to our souls by the Holy Spirit. It's not Mary, it's not the saints,
it's not the Pope, it's none of the priests. Mary plays zero
role in all of that. Was she used by God to carry
the Savior in her womb? Yes and Amen. This is a noble
task. We're grateful. But in no way
does it contribute to our salvation by any of her work. The only
work, I'll use Jonathan Edwards quote and I'll just change it
a little bit, the only work that Mary contributed to the salvation
of sinners is her own sin, which by necessity made it necessary
for Jesus to die for her. What she stands as in scripture
is similar to Paul, an example of faith. Don't go the other
side, and we're not going to bash her, but we don't put our
trust in her. We don't pray to her. Rather,
we trust in the one that the biblical Mary trusted in. Remember
in Acts, the first part of Acts? Acts 1.14? She's a model church
member. She's there with the church,
and she's praying. So, trust the one that she trusted
in, and pray to the one that she prayed to. Pope Leo XIII,
which, or the present pope is Pope Leo XIV, But this was early
on in the 20th century. Every grace granted to men has
three successive steps. By God, it is communicated to
Christ. From Christ, it passes to the
Virgin. And from the Virgin, it descends to us. According to Rome, all grace
comes to us passing through Mary. This is so blasphemous. John
1 16 says this, for from his fullness, that is Christ's, for
from his fullness, we have all received grace upon grace. Where does our grace come through? Christ alone. Don't forget that. Christ alone. This is not disparaging
the work of the triune God. Of course not. I mean, the triune
God is at work, but the grace is mediated through the gospel,
through the completed work of Christ. It's Christ alone. It's
not grace from Christ and Mary, grace from Christ and your works,
grace from Christ and whatever. It's Christ alone. Now, in the
reigning time, I'm going to mention one last characteristic. Those
five, I'm calling demonic characteristics. This one, it's a bonus, is not
necessarily demonic. It's not heresy in and of itself. There have been in church history
believers who have held to this, but I'm going to argue that it
flows from the excessive Marian veneration that eventually leads
to doctrines like the Immaculate Conception, the Mediatrix. When
we go beyond scripture to protect Mary's uniqueness, We begin to
distort her role and cloud, as it were, Christ. Okay, so what
is this doctrine? Well, you're probably familiar.
The perpetual virginity of Mary. That is, forgive me parents,
but I'm gonna say it this way, Mary never had sexual relations
with Joseph or anyone else. So I'm saying that, I'm saying
that's poor teaching. It's not as bad as the other
five, but it's very poor teaching. Well, you say, it's easy for
you to say, right? Well, Jesus had brothers, but they would
respond. Some would say, yes, he had brothers,
but you see, they were Joseph's children from a previous marriage.
Is that plausible? Well, I mean, you could see how
you could make that up, but it, To me, it doesn't fit at all.
There's another argument with the Greek word for brothers.
You know how this is Hebrew, but you know how the concept
of brother lot was considered Abraham's brother, but it wasn't
actually his brothers, his nephew. So there's an argument, you know,
that the Greek word for brothers would be referring to close kin,
but not brothers like cousins. So what do we do with all that? Well, I could argue. from various
places, but I'm going to pick a place that you're probably
not suspecting. Psalm 69. Would you turn there?
Psalm 69. Psalm 69, verse 9. You'll know
this verse. Psalm 69, verse 9. Psalm 69,
verse 9 says, For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the
reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. Now that verse is quoted in John
2. It's also quoted in Romans 15.
Who is ultimately that verse pointing to? It's not a trick question. Zeal for your house has consumed
me. And the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen
on me. Who's that referring to? It's referring to the Lord Jesus.
There's an interesting verse right before that verse. I want
you to see it. Verse 8 says this, I have become
a stranger to my brothers and alien to my mother's sons. Is that verse applying to Jesus?
I would absolutely argue that the whole psalm is pointing to
Jesus. Right? It's applying to Christ
too. In John 7, Jesus' brothers reviled
Him. In Mark 3, His whole family,
Mark 3, verse 21, His whole family thinks He's outside His mind.
Absolutely, this psalm applies to Christ. And it's irrefutable
language. It's irrefutable. So if you look
at verse 8, if you say, I've become a stranger to my brothers,
well, then you kind of struggle. Okay, well, maybe that's His
cousins. But when He says, an alien to
my mother's sons, Yo, how do you get around that? Well, you don't. Mary had other
children with Joseph after Jesus was born. Very plain. Let's close tonight with words
from the biblical Mary, and then we'll have a couple of minutes
if you want to ask questions. In John chapter 2, verse 5, here's
what the biblical Mary says. His mother said to the servants,
do whatever he tells you. That's a good word. What do we
want to do at this place? What do we want to do at Providence
Baptist Church? What do we want to believe? What do we want to
practice? How do we want to live? We want to do whatever the son
says. We want to do whatever Christ tells us to do. How does
He speak to us? Through the inerrant, infallible,
sufficient, authoritative, clear, and necessary scriptures, which
are alone our highest authority. Not tradition. Even with our
confession and our own catechism, these things are helpful tools.
They're authoritative in a sense, but they're not equal with the
scriptures. They bow. to the Scriptures,
because the Bible alone is our highest authority. And the Scriptures
teach us, right? We're going to listen to Scripture
or the tradition of Rome? No. The Scriptures teach us there
is no other mediator. It's Christ alone who is our
only suitable and all-sufficient Savior. He needs no help. He
alone is unique in the exclusive way to God, and we're called
to rest in Him alone. Okay, maybe a final warning,
and then we can stop the recording. 1 John 5.21, little children,
keep yourselves from idols. Let us be mindful how easy it
is to fall into idolatry. Even of concepts that have their
roots in scripture. They didn't just pick some random
person over here, you know, let's worship Bob the tomato or whatever. I was going to make a joke. I'm
not going to make a joke. We don't just worship some random thing. No, no. They
pick something in the Bible, and then over years, it's turned
into idolatry. So little children, keep yourselves
from idols. Be on your guard. Listen to the
Son. Trust Him. Soli Deo Gloria. All right. Amen. We can be done.
The Demon Mary of Rome
Series The Failure of Rome
The Mary of Roman Catholicism is not the Mary of the Bible.
| Sermon ID | 918251654307601 |
| Duration | 37:29 |
| Date | |
| Category | Midweek Service |
| Bible Text | 1 Timothy 2:5 |
| Language | English |
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