The seven sacraments from hell. The Catholic Church calls the seven sacraments vehicles of grace. If anything, they're vehicles away from the grace of God. Vehicles away from the grace of God. I'm gonna read you from their works, the seven sacraments, and then we're gonna go in and find out what salvation actually is. The seven sacraments of the Catholic Church. Baptism. The sacrament of baptism is the beginning of life. Supernatural life, when the sacrament of baptism is administered. The spiritual vacuum, which we call original sin, disappears as God becomes present in the soul, and the soul is caught up into the sharing of God's own life, which we call sanctifying grace. That's what the Catholic Church says. Now, if you'll look behind me here, we just brought this chart up here from down in California. This is the evolution of theology here. the evolution of theology, and we find out the Lord called out his church. And about 251 AD, there was a split in the church at Rome, and we began to change the polity or the organization of the church. it turns from a democracy independent and solely separate from all other churches until a hierarchy of churches. By 325 AD we have Constantine. Constantine began the Catholic Church and as the Catholic Church evolved we see a evolution of theology. And the evolution of theology is what ended up here in the seven sacraments of grace, as they call it. I would call it seven sacraments from hell or seven sacraments that keep you away from and rule you away from the grace of God. Vehicles away from the grace of God. We see infant baptism established by law. We see the Pope in 500 A.D. We see indulgences begun. We see purgatory invented. We see saint anemic to worship begun in 787. We also see over here in about nearly 500 A.D. we see Mariolatry, the worship of Mary, and that evolves also. In 1100 we see transubstantiation. 1123 the doctrine of celibacy is invented. The Inquisition, auricular confession in 1215 A.D. The Bible is totally forbidden out of the homes of anyone. Because if somebody read the Bible, they would not believe this. This is contrary to the Word of God. We see all of this evolution of doctrine and theology. Now let's go back and see. We've already read about baptism. Baptism is a vehicle of grace, they say. And when it is administered, the spiritual vacuum, which we call original sin, disappears as God becomes present in the soul of man by an act of a priest. By the act of a priest. And the soul is caught up into that sharing of God's own life, which we call sanctifying grace. Now, confession. Now, confession, as the Sure Athlete Church does it today, was invented in 1215 AD. And confession to them is a vehicle of grace. The sacrament of confession or reconciliation is a sacrament in which the priest, as the agent of God, forgives sins committed after baptism. Get this. The priest, as an agent of God, forgives sins committed after baptism. When the sinner is heartily sorry for them, and sincerely confesses them, and is willing to make satisfaction for them, in other words, do something for the sins that they have committed. That's a perversion of the grace of God. First of all, there's only one man between God and man, and that's Jesus Christ. No priest, no Mary, nothing else. There is no other mediator between God and man, only Christ Jesus. Now we come to the Eucharist. The word Eucharist means good gift. In French it's bon dieu, the good gift, the good God. The Catechism points out that the Holy Eucharist is both sacrifice and sacrament. The Eucharist sacrifices Jesus Christ ever, ever, ever, over and over and over again. Transubstantiation was begun in 1100 A.D. It's not from the Bible. It is from the Catholic dogmas. The Catholicism points out the Holy Eucharist as both a sacrifice and a sacrament. Every time they ring the bells, burn the incense, and say the right words, the Eucharist itself, the little wafer, becomes the body of Jesus Christ. And he is sacrificed one more time. Now, in the age of Tyatira, the book of Revelation calls about, that means continual sacrifice. And during that period of time is when transubstantiation as a doctrine was reinforced and enforced by the Catholic Church. When you're going to catechism, if you do not believe that that wafer becomes the body of Jesus Christ, you cannot be saved. If you don't believe that the cup of wine becomes the blood of Jesus Christ, you cannot be saved. The sinner is hardly sorry for them and confesses them. That's your confession. And then it says, as a sacrifice the Holy Eucharist is the Mass. The Mass is that divine action in which Jesus Christ, or Jesus through the agency of a human priest, changes the bread and wine into his own body and blood and continues through time the offering which he made to God on Calvary. The Bible says that Jesus Christ was offered one time, he died one time, a box, once for all, not a thousand times over. The offering himself for mankind, the act by which we receive the Holy Eucharist is called Holy Communion. That is a doctrine right straight from the gates of hell. First of all, baptism is not a vehicle of grace. Confession to a priest is not a vehicle of grace. The Eucharist is not a vehicle of grace. If anything, it's a vehicle away from the grace of God. Confirmation. Now, we know that Little babies can't make a confession of faith. We know that because they're not able to speak yet. And the Bible talks about making a confession of faith before baptism. In the book of Acts, the second chapter. And Romans, the tenth chapter. Confirmation. While confirmation is a distinct and complete sacrament in its own right, its purpose is to perfect in us that which was begun in baptism. We might say, in a sense, that we are baptized in order to be confirmed. When you have a godmother and a godfather, they make a confession of faith for you at your baptism. That doctrine is not of God either. You're not going to find any godmothers and godfathers in the Bible. That's why the Catholic Church did not want you to read the Bible. The Bible was forbidden from the laity forever, since about 400 A.D. in the Catholic Church. All Bibles were burned that they found in the original languages. The Bible could only be read in Latin. that was translated by Jerome, the Latin Vulgate. I hope that these messages are helping you to understand how to, if you're a Catholic, you've probably been a Catholic all your life. Your mother and your father, your grandmother, grandfather, great-grandmother, great-grandfather, and all of them. Catholicism is not a vehicle of grace. It is a vehicle away from the grace of God. If you're listening, look in God's Word and see what the Bible says. Not what the priest tells you, not what the catechism teachers tell you. It's what the grace of God declares in His Word. The Word of God is that perfect thing. The Catechism section on confirmation says that confirmation is a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit in its effects to root us more deeply in divine affiliation, being children of God, unites us more firmly to Christ. You're either saved by grace or you're not. Grace means free gift. Ephesians 2 and 8 says, for in grace ye are having been saved through faith, and that didn't come from you either. It is a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. Theseus, all works people, all works. Something you can do or somebody can do something for you. The priest cannot pray your father, your brother, your sister, or your child out of purgatory. First of all, there is no purgatory. That was an invention over here, remember? Purgatory. Right over here in 700 AD. That was when it was invented. God didn't invent Purgatory. Purgatory is a great tool of the Catholic Church. It's what holds people in the Church. You're threatened with Purgatory. What does Purgatory do? Purgatory According to the Catholic Church, the Gospels by the way, there's another Gospel there and another hell. Their other hell is purgatory and in purgatory if you die, if you've been baptized and you die and you have sins, you have to go there to purgatory until you're purified and you become holy. You die in this world without Jesus Christ and there's no purgatory ever going to get you to God ever again. There's no way out. Hell is eternal. Purgatory doesn't exist. The Catholic Church said it unites us more firmly to Christ, increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us, strengthens our bond with church. Every church is visible and local. The church, Catholic, Constantine called it the church universal or the church Catholic, because the Catholic church, the Pope controls salvation for all, as his authority trickles down to the priests, from the cardinals and the bishops, which are another thing that's an invention of the Catholic church, all the way down to the priests. The Bible says that we are all priests. that God made us all priests unto him. It associates us more closely to her mission of bearing witness to Christ, that's a Catholic church. It helps us more, strictly obliges us to spread and defend the faith by word and deed. By our word and our deeds. Salvation is by grace, and Jesus Christ did it all. Do you understand? He did it all. Even when we believe it is not us. A person may have a great, strong faith in a system of teaching, but it means nothing unless it's founded upon the right faith. For in grace you have been saved through faith, and that not is out of you. Faith didn't come from you people. It's a gift of God. The gift, the grace of God. Verse number five. Verse number five. Marriage. Marriage is a vehicle of grace? Yes, according to the Catholic Church it is. Maybe you're listening to this for the first time, I do not know, but this is what's being taught out there. This is what controls people by the millions. Marriage, to ensure the right use of procreated power. God founded the institution of marriage, the lifelong and irrevocable union of one man and one woman. Up to the time of Christ, marriage, although a sacred union, was still only a civil contract between a man and a woman. Jesus, however, took this contract, this exchange of marital consent between a man and woman, and made the contract a conveyor of grace. Heresy right straight from hell. Marriage is not a vehicle of grace. Marriage is instituted by God, of course. And it's not for procreation. It is for procreation, but that's not the only thing marriage is for. I saw a poor Catholic soul one time came up to me, and he'd been off to a Catholic, what we want, camp meeting or seminar. And all the time they were there with their husbands and wives, the priest said, now, if you're beyond the age of childbearing, you no no, no hanky panky with your wife, no no. He said, we don't do that. That is a vehicle right straight from hell. Not a vehicle of grace. God gives a man and a woman together to enjoy each other. To raise children, of course. But every sensuality that you have between a woman and a man was created by God. And it is not a vehicle of grace. It's not going to get you to heaven. If it was a vehicle of grace, like those Catholic priests have about 10 or 15 or 20 wives, they probably need them. Marriage is a vehicle of grace. Why don't you just get married a whole bunch? Of course, it said it was a one-time contract, and it's a vehicle of grace. The Catholic Church says he made marriage a sacrament, a sacrament of matrimony among Christians. Catholics are not Christians, they are Catholics. Catholics are not Christians, they are Catholics. You're either Catholic or you're a Christian. You can be a Buddhist, you can be a Seventh-day Adventist, you can be a Jehovah Witness, you can be a Mormon, but none of these can be those and a Christian too. A Christian, we're going to define a Christian in just a little while. Holy Orders, now, that's number six, Holy Orders. What in the world is a Holy Order? The sacrament of Holy Orders creates a priest. The Bible says that when you're born again, you become a priest unto God. You, by teaching the Word of God, become a priest for God upon the earth. Priests are not a vehicle of grace. If they're anything, they're vehicles away from the grace of God. There are two notable ways in which the sacrament of holy orders differs from other sacraments, and a sacrament is a vehicle of grace, people. I say it's a vehicle away from the grace of God. One is that the fact that the holy orders can be administered only by a bishop. Now there's another invention. And only a bishop has the power to ordain priests. An ordinary priest cannot pass his power on to another. Children of God, every time you lead someone to the Lord Jesus Christ, they become a priest, and yes, you're passing the priesthood on to others. The priest cannot pass his power on to another. The second way in which the Holy Orders differs from other sacraments is that the Holy Orders is not received all at once. Number seven. extreme unction, the anointing of the sick. We got a lot of Catholics now that are becoming Pentecostals and divine healers. But according to the Catholic Church, they can't do that. The laity in a Catholic Church has no powers for anything. You don't have any powers. Only a priest can forgive sins. You can't lead anybody to the Lord. The priest has to do it. The anointing of the sick, the extreme option. The anointing of the sick is a remarkable sign of God's great love for us. In his merciful efforts to bring us safely to himself in heaven, God seems to have gone to the very limit. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Church's section on anointing the sick, defines the purpose of the sacrament as a conferral of a special grace on a Christian experiencing the difficulties inherent in the condition of grave illness or old age. Catechism page 1527. The book of James tells us to anoint the sick. and to pray for them. The anointing there basically is administer medication. Administer medication. Olive oil was a medicine. When the Good Samaritan found the Jewish fella beat up on the road to Jericho He poured in wine and poured upon him and wrapped his wounds up and poured oil. Olive oil and honey are what we call antibiotics to some extent. There's an old Indian remedy called Green Mountain Salve which was passed on by the Indians from the Indians to the mountain men. It is beeswax and honey and pine sap. And they used to have on every ranch, and you can see this in Lonesome Dove, when Captain Call was bit by that horse. He came in the house and went over to the stove and he got this little dipper and put that green mountain sap on that wound, the antibody. That's kind of what it's talking about when it means anointing the sick. Sure you can pray for your, and we should, we should pray that God will raise them up. But I want to tell you one other thing. The healing of the sick is not in the atonement. The atonement is the atonement. The healing of the sick is not in the atonement. By His stripes, we are spiritually healed. We're all gonna die, people. With all youth medicine, we all pray for one another when we're sick, praying that God will allow us and bring us through whatever we have. Now, let's go to the second chapter of the Book of Acts. Verse number 36. Peter is preaching here, there were 120 preachers on that Pentecost preaching by the way, but this message here is recorded. Not because Peter was a pope either. He was just one of those 120. He was an apostle of God though. It talks about the crucifixion of the Jesus Christ. It talks about God's plan of salvation through His Son, the only vehicle of grace. And verse number 36, and therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified. Peter is preaching to these people and they're hearing it in all of their own languages. That was a miracle of the unconfusion of the languages there on the day of Pentecost. It wasn't the birthday of the church either. Church was already called out. What happened here is the church received the power of the Holy Spirit to receive the word of God and to carry her through all ages. And now when they heard this, they were stabbed down in their hearts. And they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, see there's a whole bunch of them there, all the other preachers. Brethren, what shall we do? And Peter said to them, repent, all of you repent, everyone, that's in the plural by the way, you all repent, all repent. And then he says here, Repent, and then it goes to the singular, those that have repented, now babies can't repent, people. Baptism is not a vehicle of grace. Now, let's see what it says. Now, when the King James was translated, or written, Baptism was a vehicle of grace according to the Catholic Church, so the reason why they translated it as baptized for the remission of sins is because they believed that. But that's not really what it says. Let each one of you be baptized, repent, and let each one of you that have repented be baptized singularly in the name of the Father, Son, in the name of Jesus Christ, because of the forgiveness of your sins, because of the sending away of your sins. Asaphason. Because of the sending away of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Because they're going to become members of that church. And the Shekinah glory of God that came upon that church on the day of Pentecost, that also came upon the tabernacle at the time of Solomon. It was a foretaste of glory divine, what would happen on the day of Pentecost. For the promise is to you and your children, for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call to himself. And with many other words, he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, be saved from this twisted, perverse generation. So then those who had received his word, those that had believed had been born again, were baptized. And there were about, that day, added 3,000 souls. Romans, the 10th chapter. Let's go to Romans. Well, let's just go Romans 3.23 first. Let's just go right down this Roman road of salvation. Let's see what a vehicle of grace actually is. Paul talking to the church in Rome. Now, the Catholic church, you know, the head of that church is in Rome, but it wasn't this church. The Catholic church in Rome, the Catholic church in the Vatican, is a total foreigner to this church. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. For all have gone astray and they've missed the mark of the glory of God. For all have gone astray and they've missed the mark of the glory of God. Romans 6 and verse 23 says, for the wages of sin is death, but the free gift, the free grace, the free vehicle of grace is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Not through the priest, not through the church, but through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans the 10th chapter now. Romans chapter 10. But what does it say, the word is near you in your mouth and in your heart, that is the word of faith which we are preaching. That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord. Who you talking to here when you confess with your mouth? You're coming to God by the blood of Jesus Christ. And believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. You do this and you shall be saved. What does saved mean? It's not in a state of grace that you can fall out of. It is a state of salvation. We just read the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church. They are not vehicles to grace people. They are vehicles away from the grace of God. For with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness." Is that what it said there, what we just read, the seven sacraments? Does it agree with this? The church in Rome now, does they teach this? No. For with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness. And with the mouth, confession, resulting in salvation. you become righteous in the sight of God, and you become saved. For the scripture says, whosoever believes in him will not be disappointed, for there is no distinction between Jew or Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all abounding in the riches for all who call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How do you get saved? By hearing the word of God. By reading the word of God. I remember so many years ago in 1960, my grandmother had been run over and she was my mother. She raised me. She had been run over and it took her a week to die of her injuries. It was horrible. My whole world, my foundation had gone. I could always depend on my grandmother. She was my mama. And she loved me like a mother. She died. I was going to church, and the church gave me a Bible, that little church did. And I read that Bible. I started with the first part, Genesis, and I read all the way through it, underlining everything that was so scary, until I come to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and Acts, and Romans, 1st and 2nd Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, etc. Then I saw grace, and I wanted that grace. And in that church, they were all excited with the charismatic gifts. And I walked down to the altar one Sunday morning. My step-grandmother came down there. She had been my step-grandmother. And she came down and she said, Jimmy, what's wrong? I said, well, I think I need to be saved. And she said, well, this is how you do it. Do you believe that Jesus Christ was real? I said, yeah. Do you believe that he actually died on the cross of Calvary? I said, yes. Do you believe that he was raised from the dead? And I said, yes, I do. I read the Bible, and I believe it. And she said, why don't you ask the Lord to save you and forgive you your sins? And I did. And I was saved that very day in January 1961, the very month that my grandmother died. That church didn't teach me much about the Bible. I read the Bible. I wandered away from God. I wandered and wandered and wandered and wandered and had a terrible life in a lot of ways. But God never took his hand off of me at all. I was struck down in an accident out in oil fields and was paralyzed with my legs, my lower back crushed. And I began to study God's Word. And I began to realize that God wanted me to preach His Word, and it never has revoked that call yet. Right now I'm doing exactly what God wants me to do. I'm directly in the will of God. I'm preaching to you, my brothers and sisters in Christ. That's what the Lord wanted me to do. I want to give you a firmer foundation of faith than I ever had. that I was given. I want you to know the Lord Jesus Christ in a real way. I want you to know His forgiveness and His love. And when He saves you, He wants you to serve Him the best you can. You want to be happy? Serve the Lord. You want to be happy? Give to His cause. Support His causes. Give to Him as He gave to you. Our Father would send this message out Father, I pray for if a Catholic listens to it, that they will come to you and know that you're real. Not the facade of religion, but the real grace of God that surpasses all of our understanding. Father, I pray for each and every soul out there that hears this, that I know some way they'll need this message. Father, forgive me where I failed you. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. I want to say this one thing in parting. I had one of my students call me and talk to me the other day. Asked me if we could pray for people to be saved. If they had died, if we could pray for them that they would be saved. And I said, no, there's nothing left. There's no hope left. He said, how about, can we ask the Lord to forgive them for them? And I said, no, that's personal. That's the way it is. That's the way it is. We're sending this message out, people, for you. In the love of Christ, we send it out.