And the title of this article is this,
young people are converting to Catholicism in mass,
driven by pandemic, internet, and lax alternatives.
Cindy Johnson grew up in a non-denominational
Christian household,
but now the Upper West Side Millennial is a devout Catholic.
And there's a quote from her, she says,
"There's just something so beautiful and transcendent
"about the rituals and the ancient history
"and the Catholic mass that's been preserved."
Johnson, age 30, told The Post.
The church really communicates a degree of reverence
that I did not find in the more liberal,
laissez-faire approach of non-denominational churches.
So this article basically is just saying that,
hey, Catholicism is on the rise with young people.
And really just to summarize this article for you,
and I agree with what this article is saying,
it's being driven by a desire of people
to return to traditional values and conservatism.
And I've been noticing this for a long time,
I've been saying this for a while,
that people are dying for conservatism right now.
They are just hungering and thirsting after the fundamentals,
after traditional values, after conservatism,
so much so that I tell you,
I go out in public with my family
and I don't even have a lot of kids,
but people just see a bunch of girls
wearing skirts and dresses and they comment on that.
They're like, wow, this is beautiful,
wow, you have a great family.
They don't know anything about us,
but they could just tell that we're conservative
and they like that, they want that,
they're thirsting for that.
And this is a good desire that people are having,
don't get me wrong, that they're wanting
to get back to traditionalism.
But here's the thing, we don't wanna just throw out
the New Evangelical Removement
to replace it with Catholicism, right?
Yes, I'm all for rejecting these fun center churches.
It's garbage, it's fake Christianity.
I don't wanna go to a church that is a rock concert
or a Ted talk, I want the unfiltered raw truth.
I want the King James Bible.
And that's why I love being a Baptist
is because we believe as Baptist that this is the authority.
You know, if you are a Baptist,
it means that the Bible is your boss, right?
Now here's the thing, people are getting this right idea.
Like, hey, let's get away from the fun center.
I'm not learning, I'm not growing.
And so they think, well, the Catholic church is based.
I mean, the Catholic church is conservative.
Like, this is what you'll see on X is a huge swing
of people returning to the Catholic church,
especially millennials and Gen Z.
Because this age group is like one of the most
conservative generations for its age ever.
I mean, and that's kind of a good sign,
but we wanna make sure that we reach people
with biblical Christianity, not allow them to get sucked in
to this cult that is the Catholic church.
And here's the thing, I've preached many, many sermons
before, against the Catholic church,
but, and I will continue to do that in my entire ministry,
but I wanna focus on one aspect this evening,
and so the title of my sermon is this,
Baptist pastors versus Catholic priests.
That's what I really wanna focus on,
because we could talk a lot about doctrine,
and we will definitely do that,
but let's just focus on one difference
between Catholics and Christians, Baptists,
and that is the clergy, the ministers, okay?
So we're in Ephesians 4, notice what it says in verse 11,
And he gave some Apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers
So these positions in ministry these men of God
They are gifts that God has given to men for a specific purpose it says in verse 12 for the perfecting of the Saints
For the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ
Till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man
unto the measure of the stature and fullness of
Christ so
Overall the job of a pastor or a spiritual leader in general is to help people become better Christians
That's really the job. And of course, there's many ways that pastors do this
They can do it by preaching sermons by counseling people by preaching the gospel to the lost
By serving in, you know administering communion administering weddings funerals
There's all sorts of different ways that pastors serve God's people
But the overall goal is the perfecting of the Saints right to help the Saints become better Christians
And so I want to look at a couple major differences this evening between
Baptist pastors and Catholic priests and we'll see which one's biblical number one. Let's talk about this. Let's talk about
Celibacy, okay abstaining from marriage or the physical relationship. There's this guy on YouTube
He's very very popular and he's a Catholic priest and he's pretty young
I think he's like 32 years old and his name is David Michael Moses man
I mean I'm for the Bible names
But I mean that's quite a mouthful David Michael Moses and of course he calls himself father because you know
This is the Catholic priest tradition
So he's father David Michael Moses and he has this video that was really sad to watch the video was called my journey
To priesthood and this is what he said. He said as an altar server growing up
Sometimes people would say oh you'd be such a cute little priest and I'd say I like girls now
That's pretty normal for a little kid. He's thinking like, you know little kid grows up and he realizes. Hey, I like girls
I want to get married someday and so he's thinking like no
I'm not gonna be a priest someday because I desire to marry and guess what?
That's every normal dude has that desire. And so, you know, he said that as a little kid
You know, I like girls and I honestly thought that because I wanted to end up getting married and I knew priests couldn't get married
That meant I was not supposed to be a priest now go to 1st Corinthians chapter number 7 the Catholic Church
forbids its
Priests from being there married now Catholics will lie to you and say oh the Catholic Church doesn't forbid anyone from marrying and it's like
Okay. Yeah, that's true. They're not gonna force you to become a priest
But if you want to be a priest you can't get married now
What is it? Where do they go in the Bible to prove this?
Where do they even twist this from and they'll go to 1st Corinthians chapter number 7 verse 1 the Bible says this Paul says now
Concerning the things whereof you wrote unto me it is good for a man not to touch a woman
Nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband
The touching there is obviously in the context of fornication because he says hey
It's good not to touch a woman why hey to avoid fornication. You should get married, right?
Let every man have his own wife. Let every wife have her own husband. This is why people get married
Okay is to avoid fornication. It says let the husband render unto the wife do benevolence speaking of that physical relationship and
Likewise also the wife unto the husband the wife hath not power over her own body
But the husband and likewise also the husband have not power of his own body
But the wife defraud you not one the other
Accept it be with consent for a time that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again
that Satan attempt you not for your
Incontinency so if you are married there's some rules within marriage and that is that you must give your spouse
Do benevolence and that if you do not what you are doing is you are defrauding your spouse
It says that hey the wife does not even have power over her own body when it comes to marriage
her body belongs to her husband and
Vice versa the husband's body does not belong to himself belongs to his wife and that do knew that do benevolence
It has that important word there do it's something that is owed to your spouse
It's not something that's earned by good behavior or something like that. It's owed
But then he says this but I speak this by permission and not of commandment for I
Would so he's saying my personal opinion my own desire
I would that all men were even as I myself but every man hath his proper gift of God
one after this manner and another after that so he's saying look I
Would I wish that everyone had this gift that I have of not requiring this relationship?
Not you know being able to live without it. And so Paul he has this gift
He doesn't need to get married and he's saying hey my personal opinion is that other people would be like me
So here's the thing. It's not like the Bible says you have to get married or that you have to abstain from marriage
But what it is saying saying if you do get married you must give due benevolence like that is a rule
But he says but I speak this by permission and not of commandment
For I would that all men were even as I myself verse 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows
It is good for them if they abide even as I so he's saying my opinion is if you're unmarried or you're widowed
My personal opinion is that if you can abstain from that relationship that you should
You know not get married again, and again. That's Paul's opinion. That's his own view, but notice verse 9
He has a caveat with this, but if they cannot contain
Let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn
So if you have that desire then you should get married and you know I hear people sometimes saying like I think I'm gonna be like
Paul I think that I I'm not supposed to get married and I just ask this person like do you ever desire this in your life?
Yes, it's not you man. Okay, and here's the thing just realize
99 point nine nine nine nine nine nine percent of men are gonna fall into the category of where they should get married
The Apostle Paul is a rare bird my friends. That's why hey to avoid fornication
Let every man have his own wife, right? Adam was created. God said hey, it's not good that the man's alone
He created and help meet for him in Eve, you know, this is the natural order of things
This is how it is for most people
But then he says this in verse 10 and unto the married I command yet
Not I but the Lord let not the wife depart from her husband. So he's like enough with Mike and my opinion
Here's what God's saying if you are married don't divorce if you are married don't let the wife depart from her husband
That's not his opinion anymore. That's God's opinion. Then he says in verse 32, but I
Would have you without carefulness. So his view his idea is that I would have you without
carefulness meaning full of care full of
Giving mind giving attention to things he that is unmarried
Careth for the things that belong to the Lord how he may please the Lord
But he that is married careth not for the things that are of the careth for the things that are of the world how he
May please his wife. So here's the thing
Theoretically if you're not burning in your lust if you're not struggling with this
Theoretically if you were unmarried if you're single you'd be able to give more attention and more time and more of your effort and energy
To the things of God now the caveat is that is only true if you're like the Apostle Paul
Because it's better to marry than to burn
You're not gonna be giving the Lord more of your attention time and care if you're struggling in that area constantly
But you're just abstaining anyways, go ahead and pick it up. Okay, pick it up Bethany. Come on. Look at verse number 34
He says this there is difference also between a wife and a virgin
I always laugh when I read that cuz I'm like, yeah a single guy definitely wrote this like yeah
No, duh
There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin
The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord that she may be holy both in body and in spirit
But she that is married careth for the things of the world how she may please her husband again
This is only true theoretically if a woman's just able to go through her whole life and not struggle in this area and not desire
Man, yeah, she could give more of herself and of her time and of her energy to God
But if she's married she's gonna have to divide some of that energy in time to pleasing her husband
Now some people take this and say like, you know
Single people are the ones that are doing the most for God and you're gonna be able to have the best
Possible spiritual life if you are celibate and single but you know
What's funny is that reality doesn't really match that?
Because when I think of men that I look up to as being very spiritual great pastors, you know
What's funny is that they're all married and what's funny is that they all have a bunch of kids
Which you know what that does that takes a lot of time that takes a lot of care and you think like well
If you have no wife and you have no kids
You would just be some spiritual rock star and you'd be able to just give so much of your time to the Lord
Yet in reality, we don't see that we see that Paul is the exception to the rule
And if which is a big if you don't desire a wife or your woman and if you don't desire a husband
You can theoretically give more of your time to the Lord
But let me tell you something if you desire that physical relationship that is not you
And so this Catholic priest who said that when he was a boy he desired to get married someday
Let me tell you father David Michael Moses. It's not you. You're not the Apostle Paul
You know, you should not be celibate. It is not good. And let me tell you something
It is not good for you spiritually because what he just told us is hey
I like women and guess what every man does and so what that tells me is he's going through his ministry
Struggling in this area of life every single day because let me tell you something
God doesn't just push a button and it's like, oh, you know, I'm spiritual and so I don't struggle in this area
No, this is why God gave you a wife
This is why God gave you ladies a husband is because this is a natural
Need that we all have that should be satisfied a godly way through marriage and you are gonna be a messed up person in your mind
When you do desire this relationship, and you just never have it. It's a recipe for disaster
It's a bad idea verse 36 says or I'm sorry look at verse 35 and this I speak for your own
Prophet not that I may cast a snare upon you but for that which is comely and that you may attend upon the Lord without
Distraction so notice God's not you know the Apostle Paul's not trying to cast a snare upon people saying like you have to be like me
Whether you desire this relationship or not
You know that would be casting a snare on people and I would say that this father David Michael Moses
He fell into a trap
He fell into a snare of the Catholic Church where he thought maybe before you know, he was become a false prophet
He's just some little boy that maybe had some sort of desire to do right
He thought like oh if I serve God in the highest way possible than I have to give up marriage
And maybe he even in his heart thought like he was doing something valiant and something good
But let me tell you you fell into a trap because Paul said I did not write this to snare you and if you're saying I desire
Wife, but you're purposely not doing it. You're in a trap. You're in a snare snare verse 36
but if any man think that he behaved himself uncomely toward his virgin if she passed the flower of her age saying if she's a
Full-grown woman and need so require let him do what he will he sinneth not let them marry
Nevertheless he that standeth steadfast in his heart having no necessity
But hath power over his own will and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin doeth well
So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well, but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better
So again, hey, there's nothing wrong with getting married marriage is a blessing from God
The Bible says that the marriage bed is undefiled, right? So it's a blessing from God
But here's the thing you don't have to get married you don't have to abstain from marriage if you desire that activity
you should get married if you are a rare bird and you don't and you just want to give as much of your time energy and
Effort to God as possible. You don't have to get married
No one's gonna force you to get married but it is God's will for the vast majority of humanity to get married now
I say all that to say this go to Titus chapter number one the Catholic Church Catholic priests have a doctrine that
Catholic priests are not allowed to get married doesn't matter if they want to or not
They just cannot get married so we saw what Paul was teaching in first Corinthians 7, but when it comes to
Pastors when it comes to clergy
God has a different rule for clergy the Bible teaches that clergy pastors
Must be married. It's not a question of oh if you desire this or not
No, no, no pastors must be married. There are two places in the Bible that have pastoral qualifications
Titus chapter 1 verse Timothy chapter 3 look at Titus one
It says this verse 5 for this cause left IV and Crete that thou should have set in order the things that are wanting and
Ordain elders in every city as I had appointed thee that word elder
It's interchangeable with bishop pastor elder and elders just a pastor
He's saying I want you to ordain elders and it says if any be blameless notice this the husband of one wife
So he's saying hey Titus when you're gonna ordain elders
This is what I want you to look at if you're gonna ordain someone to be a pastor
Hey, they've got to be blameless and it says the husband of one wife. You say oh, that's just an isolated passage
Okay, flip a few pages to first Timothy chapter 3 first Timothy chapter number 3 back a few pages
I'll show you this is not an isolated passage. This is a requirement to be a pastor verse 1
This is a true saying if a man desired the office of a bishop, right?
So we're talking about being a pastor the office of a bishop
He desired the good work a bishop then must be blameless here
Here's another qualification the husband of one wife
Vigilant sober of good behavior given to hospitality apt to teach this is not and this is not unclear in the Bible folks
This is very obvious. This is very simple
But the Catholic Church just loves to do the opposite of what the Bible says and you know, we've talked about this many times
It's like the Catholic Church is just so Satanic anything any commandment that God gives they just want to flip it on its head
Hey, don't worship idols. Let's bow down to idols. Let's worship Mary, you know, hey
How about pastors have to be married? Oh pastors can't be married priests can't be married. So hey when you're fasting don't disfigure your face
Hey, let's put ash on our face letting everybody know that we're fasting. It's like this is the Catholic Church
It's a clown show and so yes, please let's reject the modern fake rock-and-roll churches
But let's not go to this institution that has zero respect for the Bible
Zero respect for the office of a bishop when the Bible says a bishop must be blameless
Or sorry must be the husband of one wife and I've heard some Catholics say this they want to just completely
Erase all of the qualifications of a bishop because they'll say this well it says he must be blameless and no one's perfect
That's not what that means. Okay blameless means that there's not some glaring major issue
That's standing out in someone's life like hey, this guy's a pastor and he's a convicted murderer like uh, this person's not blameless
Right, or how about this this person has committed adultery on his wife. Yeah, this person is not blameless, right?
It does not mean that you have to be perfect or sinless. I mean, why would God put that in the Bible?
Do you think this is a joke? Do you think God just laying out these qualifications are just to be ignored and and disregarded?
No, it's in there for a reason and it says that he's supposed to be the husband of one wife
So let me tell you something every single Catholic clergy member is
Unqualified for the office first of all because they're unsaved
I mean, that's kind of the the main issue is that they believe salvations by works instead of grace through faith
But also they don't even meet the carnal requirement of being married. Now. Why does God have this requirement?
Why is this important to God?
Well look at verse 3 not given to wine no striker not greedy of filthy lucre but patient not a brawler
Not covetous verse 4 one that ruleeth well his own house
Having his children in subjection with all gravity for if a man know not how to rule his own house
How shall he take care of the Church of God see the reason why you've got to have a wife
You have to be the husband of one wife and you have to have faithful children not accused of riot or unruly is
Because the home is kind of your proving ground for spiritual leadership
What do we what do we preach about this morning?
Spiritual leadership in the home if you cannot do that if you cannot succeed as a spiritual leader as the pastor of your home
You're dead sure not you don't have a chance in the house of God
Like if you can't get your wife to follow you and believe what you believe and get on your program
If you can't get your kids to do that
Okay, you're not gonna be able to do that to grown adults grown men and women in church
And so it makes no sense. You got all these priests that have zero life experience. I mean, they have no clue
They're gonna go and give counsel and advice to marry people about married issues
They're gonna go give counsel and advice to people with child rearing issues. They've never raised a child
They've never you know had kids. They are not qualified to do the job that they're doing the Bible says
Hey, if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the Church of God?
What do you do with that Catholics? What do you do with that verse verse number five of first Timothy chapter number three?
What do you do with it? I'll tell you what they do. They ignore it. They just completely ignore it
Just like they do with every single part of the Bible that they don't like
That's why they have their little do a reams Bible version that only Catholics use
That's a complete joke of a version and they love to mock the King James Bible
I'll tell you why because the reason the King James Bible came into existence is because the Catholic Church
Was forbidding the people to read the Bible for hundreds and thousands of years. It's called the dark ages
And it's like why is it that William Tyndale had to start translating into English on the run?
Why was he on the run?
Because the Catholic Church was trying to kill him for translating the Bible and ended up burning him at the stake for it
And it's just like still today Catholics. You know what they hate. They hate the Word of God. They hate the Bible
They are a man-made religion that's based on man's creeds man's traditions all these rituals all these fancy buildings
But it's not based on what the Bible says because if it was their priests would be married
They would not be celibate not only that first Timothy chapter number four by the way
Let me chapter four verse one notice what this says now the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times
Some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils
So the Bible says hey in the last times in the latter days
There's gonna be people giving heed to doctrines of devils. What are those doctrines of devils?
Speaking lies and hypocrisy having their conscience seared with a hot iron
Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God have created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth
I mean the Bible just explicitly spells out for you some of the doctrines that people are going to be
Receiving in the last days and one of those things are going to be a doctrine that forbids to marry and that's exactly what this doctrine
Is from the Catholic Church it is from Satan himself
And let me tell you something being a Catholic and especially being a Catholic priest is like a punishment from God
It's like God is punishing you for being so stupid and foolish and not harkening to what the Bible says
That he's gonna withhold from you like two of the greatest reasons to live meat and marriage
It's like these are some of the greatest pleasures that God's ever created and it's like, okay
If you're just gonna despise my word and reject the qualifications
Well, then you could just enjoy your terrible life of celibacy because guess what? That's not fun folks
It's like a punishment for being an idiot for being someone that wants to follow Satan rather than what the Bible says
So number one. Hey big difference between Baptist pastors and Catholic priests is that we don't believe this celibate junk
It is a doctrine of devils and my Bible says that the bishops the pastors must be married
Not that they must not be married. Here's the second difference between us
Secular work two different philosophies when it comes to secular work when it becomes to a Baptist pastor versus a Catholic priest
So this quote is from the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln and it's answering a question. It's like a Q&A
Here's the question. Can a priest have a part-time job? Okay. Here's the answer from the Catholic Church
The church in her wisdom has established legal restrictions on priests
Participating in activities that are unbecoming or foreign to the clerical state
While our minds might jump immediately to actions that are sinful in this context foreign doesn't mean activity
That is sinful while not strictly forbidden the church establishes that unless they receive permission from the church
Clerics are prohibited from conducting business or trade personally or through others for their advantage or that of others a priest
Would not be able to work a part-time job
Even if he were to donate his salary to a worthy cause this means that everything a priest does should be in the spirit of
Fulfilling his ministry and working at Chick-fil-a or Home Depot does not do this
Okay, so they've kind of got this aristocratic view that their clergy
Cannot work a secular job and that if they work a secular job
They have to get like special written permission from the church
Even if they were like wanting to donate all of their salary like they still can't do it
They have to get written permission now go to Acts chapter number 18 acts chapter number 18 and and let me just say this
Here's the thing the Bible does allow
Ministers to be paid full-time for their
Ministerial labor the Bible does allow that and I would even say that that's great
And I would even say that that might be an ideal situation, but here's the thing the Bible does not
Forbid men of God from being bivocational the Bible does not forbid
Pastors from being full-time pastors or deacons or church staff and also working a job on the side
And you know the reason I even bring this up is because we don't want to get this attitude
Where we would despise or look down on a pastor who works two jobs whether by choice or by necessity
I mean, there's some pastors where they just by choice want to do both their whole life. That is okay
And there's some pastors that are gonna be full-time in the ministry their whole life. That's great. That's wonderful
but look what the Bible says Acts 18 verse 1 after these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth and
Found a certain Jew named Aquila born in Pontus lately come from Italy with his wife Priscilla
Because that Claudius had commended commanded all Jews to depart from Rome and came unto them and because he was of the same craft
He abode with them and wrought for by their occupation. They were
Tentmakers so notice the Apostle Paul. He's tearing it up in the ministry. I mean he's turning the world upside down
He's starting churches everywhere yet. He also is a tentmaker by occupation and guess what?
There's nothing wrong with that and you know, I've preached before we don't want to get this this
aristocratic holier-than-thou
Mentality where we look down on people for doing jobs that you might consider blue-collar or menial or not that important
I mean notice what the Catholic Church says there Oh being a priest we wouldn't want them doing anything unbecoming or foreign
Like working at Home Depot
So terrible it's like what's wrong with people that work at Home Depot
Like should we just hate people that we just clown on and make fun of people that work at Home Depot
Is that really a Christian attitude? Like you really think that's cool. No, it is not folks
It's absolutely not it's garbage and hey the same people that would make fun of someone for working at Home Depot are probably the same
People that would make fun of the Apostle Paul for making tents. Oh, you think you're a real man of God
Oh, you think you're hot stuff Paul. Then why are you making tents, huh? It doesn't seem very clerical doesn't seem very priestly
Hey, I'd rather have a pastor that makes tents then have these weirdo creeps and long robes that aren't married
Speaking Latin to me in the in the service, you know what I mean? Like but again the Catholic Church
It's all about the flesh man. That's what it is
It's all about carnality and what appeals to the flesh the big beautiful buildings and the nice stained glass windows and the very pressed
You know robes and uniforms and everything that they got
Why do they have all that stuff because they can't appeal to you spiritually because they're empty and dead spiritually
They can't preach a hard sermon. They have to preach a homily, right?
They can't preach sermons. They have homilies that last like 10 or 15 minutes
Why and here's the thing these homilies often come from some
Think of the wrong word. It's like a concordance, but it's something else but oftentimes in Catholic churches
They're not even coming up with their own homilies. There's being this is the homily for this Sunday
Why do they do that stuff because they're of the world because they're appealing to the flesh because they're not saved because they can't appeal to the
Spirit really quick go to 1st Corinthians chapter 9 and let's look at this
Doctrine in the Bible here 1st Corinthians 9 verse 3 the Apostle Paul said this mine answer to them that examine me is this
Have we not power to eat and to drink have we not power?
To lead about a sister a wife as well as other apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas or I only in Barnabas
Have we have not we power to forbear working?
So notice Paul is acknowledging he has power to not work a secular job
Paul does not have to be by vocational and what I say is hey pastors and ministers
They do not have to be by vocational if the church can pay staff full-time
That's great
My own personal preference is that's probably ideal because then they're gonna be able to give more of their time and effort and energy
Into the house of God, you know, that's probably the best-case scenario and he's acknowledging that he has that power
He goes on to elaborate in verse 7 who goeth to warfare anytime at his own charges who planted the vineyard and eateth not of
The fruit thereof or who feed at the flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock
So it's like there's kind of two extremes out there in this world people who think it's wrong for
Passers to be paid and then people who think like passers have to be paid and they can't work a secular job
And right now he's kind of refuting that first group
He's saying like hey what soldier goes out on his own dime what soldier buys his own gun and his own
You know armor, that's ridiculous. Who's gonna plant a vineyard and not eat the fruit thereof
You know who's gonna raise a flock and not get the milk from that cow, right?
So hey those that preach the gospel are going to live of the gospel. That just makes sense
I don't know why people think like being an electrician is a job being a lawyer is a job being a doctor's job
But being a pastor is not a job. It's like why don't you try it for a week and tell me it's not a job
No, it's a lot of work and he's saying like look that we should be able to get paid for this verse 9
For is it for it is written in the law of Moses thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn
Doth God take care for oxen? He's like hey if there's this ox that's working in your field
Why would you muzzle its mouth so that it can't eat it needs to eat to keep working for you, right?
It needs to get nutrients and food and water so it can keep producing for you
He's saying did God really even say this for oxen though verse 10 or saith he it altogether for our sakes for our sakes
No doubt this is written that he that ploweth should plow and hope and he that thresheth and hope should be partaker of his
Hope if we have sown unto you spiritual things
Is it a great thing that we shall reap your carnal things if others be partakers of this power over you or not?
We rather nevertheless notice we have not used this power but suffer all things
Lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. So Paul he says all that to say this
Hey, I can take a paycheck if I want to I can receive money of the work that I'm doing if I want to but he's saying
Hey, I'm choosing not to use this power lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ
So there may be different churches different ministers that are in different situations
Where they may choose to take no salary or take a partial salary or take a full-time salary and guess what?
All of those are totally okay. If a pastor wants to work two jobs whether of necessity or just he desires to he's just like
Hey, this is a hard economy and I just want to do both. That's totally okay
You shouldn't despise a pastor for doing that. He's worthy of his meat. So all that say this. Hey the Catholic doctrine that
clerk sorry clergy cannot work a secular job is just not biblical and at the end of the day what we should base our
Beliefs on is not traditions man's opinions. It's the Bible go to first Timothy one number three
Let's talk about another difference between Baptist pastors and
Catholic priests number three that is the title of father. This is obviously a big difference
I do not take the title of father not only do I not want that
I would never allow someone to call me that because it is wicked and I will prove that to you from the Bible
But first let me show you how they try to justify this. I've seen a lot of Catholics talk about this doctrine
Here's how they justify this first Timothy 1 verse 1 Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Savior in Lord
Jesus Christ
Which is our hope unto Timothy notice these words my own son in the faith grace mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus
Christ our Lord
So Paul calls Timothy his son in the faith and some people think this means different things
Oftentimes in the Bible this could be referring to someone getting someone else saved like you've begotten them in the gospel
I don't really think that's the case when it comes to Timothy
I think that the Apostle Paul is more of a father to him in the sense that he helped him to grow and to
Develop spiritually everything good over there. Okay kids falling asleep folks
there's another difference between Baptists and Catholics we're family integrated and
Sometimes, you know, the kids are gonna fall off their chair and cry in the middle of the sermon
But hey, at least they're safe from pedophiles unlike the Catholic Church
All right. Sometimes you just have to go off the notes
All right, but here's the thing Timothy my own son in the faith
I don't think that the Apostle Paul got Timothy saved why because elsewhere he talks about hey, you know
I know the faith that was in your grandmother and your mother
So it seems to me that Timothy probably got saved by his grandmother or mother but Timothy is kind of like Paul's protege
He's kind of like investing in him taking him under his wing helping him develop spiritually
So that's why I think he's saying he's like my son in the faith now go to if you will
1st Corinthians 4 1st Corinthians chapter number 4 now, here's the thing
There's a big difference between the Apostle Paul being like a father to Timothy or us being like a father to people that we get
Saved or ministered unto then receiving the title of father
Here's what you see in the Bible you see Paul saying like hey
This is like my son so you could say Paul's like a father
But you know what you never see you never ever ever see a man of God receiving the title of father
You never see anyone go up to Paul and say father Paul. How are you doing father PETA father Peter?
Excuse me father James father John like you don't hear these titles. They don't exist
Why because this is a man-made idea that's wicked saying that ministers should be called father look at first Corinthians 4 verse 15
For though you have 10,000 instructors in Christ yet have you not many fathers?
For in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Wherefore I beseech you be ye followers of me
So he's saying look you have 10,000 instructors yet. Have you not many fathers?
Why because he's the one that begot them through the gospel. He's the one that got them safe
There's only one human individual usually that's involved in getting you saved, right?
Sometimes there's multiple people that plant and water and stuff like that. But when I go out soul-winning
Hey, sometimes I knock on the door. I preach them the whole gospel
I call upon the name of the Lord of them and
Through the power of Jesus Christ through the power of the gospel. I've begotten them into the faith
So I'm like a father under that person, but I'm not father Oz. They're not gonna start saying father Oz
No, no, I'm still pastor Oz and you whoever you are out there that get people saved
You're still brother. So and so or sister. So and so you do not suddenly become a father
Think about this idea Paul is saying this you have ten thousand instructors in Christ
I mean, there's all these different people that are spiritual leadership that are investing spiritually
But he's saying you have one person who got you saved if this is a license to call ministers father
This wouldn't make any sense because he's saying like there's only one it's just me
So if Paul's gonna take the title of father then it would have to be like only Paul like father Paul
But all these other people are what the ten thousand instructors. So why does the Catholic Church say?
Oh all the ten thousand instructors are called father see how that makes no sense like every parish every Catholic Church
They all have all these fathers when Paul's saying look there's ten thousand instructors
But you don't have many fathers you have one the person who preached you the gospel and begot you again through the gospel
So again, even when they try to use this to justify if anything if you took their logic
You'd have to say like only the person that got you saved would have this title
But again, I don't think that you ever see anyone taking this title
It's just like hey, I'm like a father unto you because I got you saved
I'm like a father unto you because I raised you up in the ministry and I trained you and I taught you but you don't
See father Peter don't see father Paul now why go to Matthew chapter number 23 Matthew chapter number 23
Here's what you have to understand when you base your doctrine. You need to base your doctrine off of clear
statements in the Bible not stories even if you did see a story which doesn't exist by the way
But even if you did see a story in the Bible where someone calls Peter father Peter or father Paul
You realize that that doesn't make it right. You know that the Bible records
Accurate stories of people doing wrong and it's still recorded in the Bible
Okay
When you base your doctrine has to be clear statements from the narrator of the Bible or from Jesus Christ or from God
You know that is actually where you base your doctrine notice what Matthew 23 verse 9 says
This is Jesus Christ and call no man your father upon the earth for one is your father
Which is in heaven you have to interpret the Bible to where all of it is true
You can't just sit here and be like well
You know Paul says he's like a father into someone because he got them saved or because he trained Timothy
Therefore let's just ignore what Jesus said like that's what Catholics do when you show them this verse of hey
Call no man your father upon the earth what they'll say is well Paul was called father. Okay, so you're just ignoring Jesus like, okay
Let's just forget about what Jesus says first of all
I don't even grant you that Peter or Paul or any of these guys were called father so-and-so
But even if they were listen, even if they were that would be wrong
You want to know why because Jesus who is God in the flesh said no
It's like who are you gonna listen to a story of someone doing something or Jesus clearly telling you don't do this
Call no man your father. But what does the Catholic Church do? They don't give a rip about Jesus Christ
They don't care about his words. They don't care that he specifically said call no man father call no man rabbi
And what do they do? I'm father David Michael Moses. No, you're not
No, you're not because that title goes to God alone. Happy Father's Day call no man father, right?
And it's like will you call your dad dad? Yeah, cuz he's my dad, right?
But this title this spiritual title belongs to God. Yes
You could be like a father unto someone because you got them safe
You could be like a father unto someone because you raised them up in the ministry
You could be a literal father to someone by begetting them physically
but you know what the title of father in a spiritual sense belongs to one and that's God the father and
anyone taking that upon themselves is
Blaspheming God and the Catholic Church is a religion that blasphemes Christ and every time
Some Catholic goes in and says oh father forgive me. Oh father this father that they're just spitting in the face of Jesus Christ
They're saying oh, Matthew 23. Just rip it out of the Bible. It's wicked
Here's some titles that are that are scriptural pastor
bishop elder deacon
evangelist
Apostle now Apostles are done away with but that was a spiritual title in the beginning of the New Testament
You know, these titles are okay, but what is not okay is father. What's not okay is Pope
That is not okay. That is not something you see in the Bible
But again realize Catholicism is not a biblical based religion
It is based on man's ideas man's traditions mixed with Roman paganism Roman mythology
Greek mythology go to Matt Mark chapter number 12 mark chapter number 12
here's another big difference between Baptist pastors and
Catholic priests and that is the physical garments that we wear you'll notice this evening
I am dressed like a normal person in the United States
You know I work in downtown, Oklahoma City
And I'll go walk around and I often see men at business at work dressed exactly how I'm dressed right now
You go just to nice places in America people wearing their Sunday best. They're gonna be dressed like this
There's nothing extravagant or flamboyant about what I'm wearing. This is just normal attire now
Of course the Catholics the priests they wear the backwards collar and you could see them from a mile away
You could just see this person say like this is a Catholic priest. We know he is why because he's got the backwards collar or sometimes
They'll have the robes the really long flowing garments and they're just making a show to everyone like I'm clergy
I'm a minister
What's funny is I go out and about throughout my life and unless you know me
Unless you personally know me or seen me on the news or whatever. You don't know
I'm a pastor you just like this is just a normal guy with a normal family and that's cuz I am just a normal guy
That's because pastors are just normal guys
Normal men that meet the qualifications that have the ability to do what we do, but we're not special
We're not in some elevated
aristocratic class
Above the regular people that's the dichotomy though that happens in the Catholic Church is like the clergy are just these elevated
Worship special men and let me tell you something. They're not they're not special
Look at Mark chapter 12 verse 38 and he said unto them in his doctrine beware of the scribes
Which love to go in long clothing and love salutations in the marketplaces. So notice Jesus
Specifically warns about a group of false prophets that are known for doing something what going around in long
Clothing isn't it funny how everyone wants to tell you that Jesus wore dress. Oh, yeah
You know everybody in the Bible was just walking around wearing a dress then why is Jesus?
Singling out a group of people saying watch out for the guys that are going around in long clothing man
That's good advice at any time period and today in this weird tranny world that we're living in if you see a guy walking
Around in long clothing beware of that person and you know what same thing applies for all the ministers of the Catholic Church
Beware of the scribes that go around in long clothing and why do they do that? It says and love
Mutations in the marketplace, you know what they just love they love it when people see a Catholic minister and recognize
Wow, this is a Catholic minister. Oh father. So great to see you. Oh, God bless you
You're you know, what's funny that doesn't happen to me everywhere
I go cuz no one knows I'm a pastor unless you come to anchor Baptist Church or watch the news
That's the only way you'll know and so I don't constantly have people coming up to me like, you know
These veterans that walk around wearing their military attires just like oh, thank you for your service. Thank you for service
Thank you for service. It's like why does that happen? Because they're wearing a uniform and it's recognizable that they're in the military
Why do these false prophets love to go around in their long robes and their backwards collar?
It's because they want to get recognized and get the praise of man
Because let me explain something to you false prophets are not in the ministry for people because they're false prophets
They're in it for themselves. They love the glory for themselves
so they wear these long clothing to get the salutations in the marketplace and the chief seats in the synagogues and
The uppermost rooms at feast. Here's the thing. Sometimes if people do know your clergy
They will treat you better
Oftentimes they will give you special privilege privilege and treat you nice and look if you know if you know that about someone
There's nothing wrong with that, you know, pastors are supposed to be given double honor. That's great. That's fine
But it's like you shouldn't be trying to draw attention to yourself. Did you know I'm a pastor? Hey, by the way, I'm a pastor
Hey, did you know I'm a pastor? Hey, I'm at the grocery store. Hey, I'm a pastor. It's like that's just ridiculous
That's just prideful at that point. Hey, if someone just finds out or someone asks, no, no worries. Tell them that's fine
But you know, you shouldn't be wearing a sign that says at all times. I'm a pastor. I'm a priest. I'm a bishop
Why cuz we're just normal men, but these people they're not normal men
Cuz look at verse 40 which devour widows houses and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive the greater
damnation so notice they're devouring widows houses, they're not
Sincerely praying to God. It's for a pretense. You know that means it's for a show when these people are praying to the Lord
They're not sincerely speaking to that to him in their heart. They're not asking for anything
They're just saying these long prayers so that they could put on a show and boy does the Catholic Church love their long prayers
Isn't that funny? And it's just like they love to just repeat the same prayers over and over and over again
You know Jesus even says that he gives an example of the Lord's prayer as an example prayer
And they just Catholic Church loves to repeat that over and over and over again
Why because they are doing it for a pretense look at this verse number 37. It says of mark 12 David
Therefore called himself Lord and whence is he then his son notice this and the common people heard him gladly
You know what? I love about being a Baptist and about being a Baptist pastor is that I'm just around common people
I'm just around the common man the everyday, you know regular
People that are in our country. Those are the type of people that
Jesus
Attracted was the common man the common man heard Jesus and they just liked him
he wasn't like he was a part of this aristocratic class and only people that were really into the fancy religion and the
Traditions and the stained-glass windows like Jesus there was nothing special about Jesus's appearance
Why because he was attractive to the common man even when Jesus was betrayed
He had to get betrayed with a kiss
Why because he just looked like everyone else and you know if me and you and all of our church we go out to eat tonight
You know what? I'm just gonna look like everyone else because we're wearing the same clothes. We're just Baptist here, right?
But boy if a Catholic priest goes somewhere, it's very obvious. They love to stand out
They're not a part of the common man, right? They're this elevated special class. You know what?
That's not how Jesus was go to Ephesians chapter number one. Here's number five another difference between
Baptist pastors and
Catholic priests is the administration of communion and the Catholics call this the Eucharist
We just call it communion this priest David Michael Moses in his video my journey to priesthood
He said this I fell in love with what a priest could do for people
specifically to literally give them Jesus in the Eucharist through the mass and
To forgive their sins in the person of Jesus Christ
You want to know a big difference between Baptist pastors and Catholic priests is that when I'm in ministering communion at Easter
I do not think that I'm giving you the literal body and blood of Jesus Christ, but Catholic priests do called trans
instantiation and this guy saying, you know what attracted me to being a priest is literally giving people Jesus Christ through the Eucharist and
By forgiving their sins, you know what another delusion that I'm not under is that I realized that I have no power to forgive
Your sins in the place of God only God can't forgive sins
Look at Ephesians chapter 1 verse 7 in whom that means in him in Christ in whom we have redemption through his blood
the forgiveness of sins
According to the riches of his grace. So notice it's in Christ that we receive the the forgiveness of sins
It's not in a Catholic priest. There's one person that can forgive sins. That's God go to mark chapter number 2 mark chapter number 2
Mark chapter 2 verse 5 when Jesus saw their faith
He said unto the sick of the palsy son thy sins be forgiven thee now
That's a bold statement. You know if I walked up to someone and said son thy sins be forgiven thee
I hope you would be a little freaked out. I'll be like what did he just say?
That's weird, but if it's God in the flesh that makes perfect sense, right?
And that's what Jesus is Jesus is God in the flesh and so hey he can forgive sins all day long verse 6
But there was certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts
Why did this man speak blasphemies who can forgive sins?
But God only and here's the thing if Jesus was not God they would have a point
But Jesus is God so they're wrong here and immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reason within themselves
He said unto them why reason ye these things in your heart whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy?
Thy sins be forgiven thee or to say arise and take up thy bed and walk
But that you may know that the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins
He sayeth to the sick of the palsy so notice the son of man has the power to forgive the sins
I am not under some weird illusion tonight thinking that I can forgive you of your sins now if you trespass against me personally
I can forgive you of the wrong that you did to me we could forgive each other God commands us to forgive each other
But I cannot absolve you of your sins before God
You know how you get your sins forgiven you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
And then God forgives you of your sins not father so-and-so not Baptist pastor so-and-so
No, God forgives you of your sins by believing him and here's the thing once you're forgiven of your sins once you've believed in Jesus Christ
You're forgiven of all your sins past present and future
You don't have to keep confessing your sins to be saved salvation is a one-time event
Putting all your faith in Christ once you do that you're saved for forever David Michael Moses said this
Obviously at every single Catholic mass something extraordinary happens, which is that the bread and wine
Actually change into the body and blood of Jesus Christ
Look, this is not an obscure thing that just a couple of crazy Catholics believe
This is universal in the Catholic Church every single Catholic every single Catholic priests priest believes that when they administer
Communion or they call the Eucharist that the cracker that you receive turns into the flesh of Jesus Christ
The human flesh of Christ and that when you take the wine and you drink it it becomes the blood of Jesus Christ
This is what the Catholics believe he says this by trans
Substantiation, of course, we mean the substance what they actually are
Changes so he's not saying like a this is metaphorical. This is spiritual
No, no, he's saying like the substance of the bread and of the wine turns into the body and blood of Jesus Christ
I am NOT straw manning here
This is what Catholics believe and when Catholic priests get up and administer Communion
This is what they believe they're doing for people for giving their sins and giving them the flesh of Jesus Christ in the blood of Christ
Now there's a couple reasons why this is stupid and blasphemous and false go to Hebrews chapter 10 Hebrews chapter 10
And I should say cannibalistic as well
Literally cannibalistic Hebrews chapter 10 verse 8 above when he said sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin
Thou wouldest not neither hadst pleasure therein which are offered by the law then he said lo I come to do thy will
Oh God, he taketh away the first that he may establish the second by the which will we are sanctified
Through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
Once for all you know how many times the body of Jesus Christ was sacrificed one time
You know many times his blood was spilled one time. There's no Catholic drinking the blood of Christ today
There's no Catholic eating the flesh of Jesus Christ today
This is just some sick demonic twisted false doctrine that denies what the Bible says that Jesus was offered once
His body was broken once and when we do communion, it is a ritual
It is a symbol. It is a picture of the broken body of Christ, right?
We take that piece of bread and we crumple it up
We crush it to show like Christ's body was broken, right? We pour that pure 100% grape juice
We pour that before the people to show the pouring of the blood of Christ that he shed his blood for us
Go to first Corinthians 11 first Corinthians chapter number 11. I'll show you that this is symbolic when we do the communion not literal
First Corinthians 11 verse 23 for I've received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night
In which he was betrayed took bread notice Jesus took bread. He didn't like cut off his finger, right?
Here's my you know, here's my finger. No, it's not how it worked
He took bread and when he had given thanks he break it and said take eat. This is my body now that sounds literal
But we know that he just took bread. He took bread and he said this is my body now
Is that Jesus's flesh or is that bread? It's bread. Thank you. Some Baptists can use their brains unlike Catholics. It's bread
He's saying this is symbolically my body
He says this which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me. He's saying like look
This is a memorial. This is a ritual. This is a picture
You are not eating his finger. You're not eating his toe
You are not, you know drinking his blood that is disgusting notice verse 25 after the same manner
Also, he took the cup when he had sub saying this cup is the New Testament in my blood
This do ye as oft as you drink it notice in remembrance of me highlighting again the fact that this is a memorial service
For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup you do show the Lord's death till he come say
Oh, but it says that this cup was his blood. Oh, it said that the bread was his body
We got to take him at his word. That's exactly what it says. Okay, you know what else Jesus said Jesus said I am the door
Okay, Catholics you have to believe that Jesus is the door. All right, everybody
You have to walk through that door to go to heaven
That's the level of retardation you would have to have to be a Catholic and to be a Catholic priest
You know what else Jesus said that he is the bread of life. He's literal piece of bread guys
You know what else Jesus you know what else John said of Jesus Christ behold the lamb of God
Jesus is a literal lamb. No, you're a literal idiot
You are a literal retard to believe that you are eating the flesh of Jesus Christ and drinking the blood of Jesus Christ
You might as well put a lamb at your church and say this is Jesus
Let me the Bible says that he's the word of life that he's the word of God this paper and ink is not Jesus Christ
But he is the word of God settled forever in heaven. You know what else the Bible says. He's the vine
Well, let's find a vineyard. We got to find Jesus. We got to get the vine to find Jesus
No folks. There are some things that are symbolic in the Bible
And look, I believe that when something unless something's obviously symbolic we should just take it as literal
But let me tell you something. No one's eating Jesus today. No one's drinking his blood today. It is symbolic
It's a memorial of Christ. It's insane. Go to 1st Timothy 2 Jesus said this in John 6 63
It is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh
Propheteth nothing the words that I speak unto you. They are spirit and they are life
Look putting Jesus's physical body and blood into your body is not gonna do anything for you
Even if you were doing that which no one's doing that no one's ever done that
But even if you were that doesn't profit you because the flesh profits nothing
You know what profits you is by eating the Son of God eating that bread of life metaphorically by trusting in him
Hey walking through the door by trusting in him right partaking of the water of life by metaphorically
drinking of him by trusting in him lastly another big difference between Baptist pastors and
Catholic priests last one. I know the pizzas here and that's this thing of confession now
This is a big difference between us and something I feel I feel very very strongly about
Catholic priests partake of this ritual called
Confession where you go into some locked booth some locked area with the Catholic priests and you just dump your deepest darkest
Secrets and your worst sins that you've ever committed and he listens and he forgives you right
He forgives you of your sin and he gives you some advice maybe and then he's not allowed to tell anyone about it
Supposedly, he cannot break the seal of confession now notice what first Timothy chapter 2 verse 5 says for there is one God and one
Mediator between God and men the man Christ Jesus
You do not have to go to a priest to approach God the father. Okay, I'll read for you Hebrews 414
It says this seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens
Jesus the son of God
Let us hold fast our profession for we have not in high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities
But was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain
Mercy and find grace to help in time of need the Bible says hey
Jesus Christ is our high priest and we don't have a high priest that cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities
You know our high priest knows what we're going through
He knows what we're feeling he cares about our issues and our problems and we get to go
Straight to God the Father through Jesus Christ the Son and you know Bible teaches that we ourselves are kings and priests, right?
But we have that high priest to mediate between us to go to the Father and even the Holy Ghost is involved in this
because he's able to
Translate our prayers to God the Father with groanings that cannot be uttered to help our spirit pray to God
You know, you don't need a man to help you pray now look corporate prayer is biblical
We do it we pray people at the door would pray as a church
But you do not need any man to pray to God
You do not need to confess your sins to any man
You can confess your sins to God and you know who could forgive you God can forgive you and obviously if you're safe
He's already forgiven you of all your sins
From a standpoint of you don't have any sin remaining that gets you to heaven. You're saved. You're sealed. You're sanctified
But of course you could ask God for your forgiveness of sin to renew your relationship with him to have a good walk with him
Hey God, you know, I said this today. I lied today. I shouldn't have done that God. Will you just forgive me?
I want to please you
I want a relationship to be clear and clean and I want to be restored right you do that to God
You don't come to me. You don't come to anyone else and tell them. Oh, I did this really deep dark twisted thing
I don't want to hear it and that is like that that must be a big difference between a Baptist pastor and a Catholic priest
Is I don't want to hear it
I don't want to hear the darkest most nastiest sins that are ever committed in this world now now
Let me be very clear what I'm saying. I'm not saying that you can't get help if you're in a bad situation
I want to help you and let me say this nothing will shock me
I will never judge you if you come to me for anything other than like a crime like, you know
Pedophilia or something like that like I am committed to helping you
I love you
But do not think that you would need to confess your sins to me or that you need to like spill out your darkest deepest secrets
That is weird. It's not biblical. We have a high priest that could do that
Now why bring this up is because I saw David Michael Moses
He made a video saying what if someone confesses murder in the confessional and I was just like, oh, that's that's a good question
What would a Catholic priest do if they're in the confessional and someone says father?
Forgive me for I murdered someone today. What would you do? Okay, so here's what he says. This question is
Referencing the seal of confession
Which basically means that if you come to confession the priest can't repeat what you say the priest can't go around saying
Hey, did you hear so-and-so did this now so far so good?
I agree with this principle of hey
You should be able to go to your pastor and you should be able to trust the information that hey if you're asking for help
With something he's not gonna go around blowing his mouth. Hey, you know my church members into this my church members marriage is like this
That would be inappropriate and gross and wrong and terrible. Okay, that is wicked
And so obviously I agree that if someone confides in a spiritual leader that that should stay with that person, right?
Now he says this let me give you three scenarios to illustrate this point
First if you come to meet with me in my office not confession
We're just talking so he wants to make it really clear. This is not confession. This is just in my office
We're talking then that's what we call
Privileged information. I'm not bound to strict secrecy
But if I went around saying Sally told me that her husband Joe has a real gambling problem
That would be inappropriate so far so good. I'm okay with that. Okay. Hey you go into the pastor's office
You talk to him in private. Hey, I'm struggling with this. Hey, this is where I'm at with my marriage. Can you help me?
That's great Proverbs 11 13 says this a tail bear revealeth secrets
But he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter so far so good. No problem with that
He says this here's another scenario if someone is in my office again, not confession
He keeps making that clear
This is gonna be important in a minute if someone came into my office again
Not confession tells me that they poisoned all the water in the city
Then I'm obviously going to do something about it
They don't have the right to keep me in secrets keep secrecy just because we spoke inside my office now
I would hope so I would hope if someone came to you and told you that they were going to poison the water in the city
That you would do something about that. But why do you have to say not confession? Like I would just say hey
Period if you tell if you tell me you're gonna poison the city in the water. I'm gonna do something about that
Hey, I'm thinking about going to a school later and shooting it up. No, we're gonna stop you right?
Oh confession not confession office my office house, you know, I don't care if it's in a house or with a mouse or on a boat
I don't care where it is, you know
We're gonna deal with that issue if you're planning on murdering people, right?
But he says again if someone comes to my office not confession and tells me that well then we're gonna deal with that issue
He says this if someone tells me outside of confession
Even in private that they're going to harm themselves or someone else that there is a grave danger that either of those things might happen
I am bound by love and often the law to act on that information. Yeah, no crap, but but hold on again
Why are you highlighting if it's not in confession?
Like if someone tells you they're going to go murder someone that's kind of a big deal
Whether it's in confession or not, but he's like, hey if it's not in confession and someone tells me that
They're gonna kill someone of themselves. I'm bound by love and often the law to act on that information
So I guess you're only bound by love when it's not in confession, but when it is in confession
You're somehow not bound by that you say you're straw manning him. Okay, let's keep reading his quotes here
He says but by contrast that's a big but but by contrast if you come to confession
We're clearly in the sacrament of confession. We're going through the ritual then whatever you say in confession
I cannot repeat under any
Circumstances so it's like hey if you're gonna poison the water and we're not in confession
I'll act on that if you're gonna kill someone or yourself, and we're not in confession
I'll act on that but if in we're if we're in confession, I cannot break the seal of confession under any
Circumstances you know what he's saying if you told me you're gonna kill everyone you're gonna poison the water
Or you're gonna kill someone or you're gonna kill yourself, and it's in confession. I'm not gonna do anything about it
I'm not gonna say anything to anything anyone about it. That's crazy town folks. That's in the same
How can you say that you're motivated by love if oh as long as it's in confession?
You tell me you're gonna go murder people. I won't warn anyone
I thought spiritual leaders supposed to be the watchman that warned when the evil comes thought you're supposed to be the pastor that
Warns when the wolf comes right when the danger is coming for your flock. Nope, not in confession
He says we call it the seal of confession because the sins are sealed in secrecy
No matter what sins are said in confession
Yeah
That's real safe to have a real secret place with a celibate man where you could talk about the darkest deepest stuff in your life
I wonder why there's so many pedophiles in the Catholic Church wonder why there's so many people to get molested in the confessional booth
The priest cannot say or do anything about them. He can't even treat the person differently outwards afterwards. It's like oh
Is that is that the guy that told me he's gonna poison the whole city?
It's like I can't treat you any differently afterwards who among us hasn't you know once or twice?
Poison the water table of Oklahoma City. He's like what this is insane. He says this is extremely serious
Yeah, it is if a priest directly breaks the seal meaning if they tell someone that a specific person committed a specific sin
Then that priest is automatically excommunicated or kicked out of the church
So it's like you know a terrorist comes in your booth and says hey, you know, I did this terrorist attack
Well, you can't tell anyone about it. Don't tell the FBI don't tell the governing authorities
You know the higher powers that God ordained for the punishment of evildoers
Oh, I thought you're bound by love and the law well not in confession or you'll be kicked out of the Catholic Church
I wish everyone was kicked out of Catholic Church. I wish the Catholic Church didn't exist
He says what if the person confesses something really big like murder? What do I do? You call the police idiots?
That's what you do. He says well
Here's the thing to understand the sins I hear in confession. They don't belong to me
I am acting in persona Christi or in the person of Christ the sins belong to God
I do have a chance as a spiritual father to offer some advice
Really the confessional is the only place where you could bring your deepest darkest things and know that it's gonna stay there
My son, let me give you some advice on poisoning the entire city
This is bad and we at the Catholic Church are against things that are bad and four things that are good
Like that's what you're gonna do and it's like I'm not making up these wild scenarios of poisoning the city
This is the example you gave
You gave the murder example you gave the poisoning example. You're insane sins belong to God
So he says this so if someone comes to me in confession and confesses that they murdered someone, what do I do?
Well, I forgive them in the person person of Christ. So if someone confesses to a Catholic priest murder child molestation
Rape kidnapping, you know what the Catholic priests will do nothing. Nothing is what he'll do
He'll sit there and he'll forgive you in the person of Christ and maybe give you some advice about how raping kids is wrong
And about how murdering people is wrong and about how poisoning the water table is wrong
But you know what God forbid he calls the police God forbid
He tells anyone about it because that's breaking the secrecy of confession. This is satanic. This is so crazy
It's not even funny and I'm gonna show you from the Bible now why this is unbiblical in the specific
Example that he gave go to Deuteronomy chapter 21
the Bible gives us what we should do in the case of an unsolved murder because think about if someone came to a Catholic priest and
Confessed a murder that implies like hey, there was this unsolved case. There's this whodunit going around and someone just told you
Who did it look at Deuteronomy chapter 21 verse 1 and I'm sure no Catholics ever read this Catholics
Don't really care about the Bible, but look at Deuteronomy 21 verse 1
It says if one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God give it thee to possess it lying in the field
Didn't notice this and it be not known who hath slain him, right?
So there's an unsolved murder that's just gone down. No one knows who killed this guy. We just got this body who did it
What do we do?
The Bible tells us what we do then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth and they shall measure unto the cities which are round
About him that is slain and it shall be that the city which is next unto the slain man
Even the elders of that city shall take in heifer which hath not been wrought with and which not have not drawn in the yoke
And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley which is neither eared nor sewn and shall strike off
The heifer's neck there in the valley so there's an unsolved murder the elders of the city
Jurisdiction where it took place they measure they find out. What is this the nearest?
Municipality, what is the nearest city to us then they take those others of the land and they do this sacrifice, right?
They do this appeasement here when it says in verse 5 and the priests the sons of Levi shall come near for them
the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister unto him and to bless in the name of the Lord and
By their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried and all the elders of that city that are next unto the slain
Man shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley and they shall answer and say our
Hands have not shed this blood neither have our eyes seen it be merciful
O Lord unto thy people Israel whom thou hast redeemed and lay not innocent blood unto the thy people of Israel's charge and the blood shall be
Forgiven them notice they're they're washing their hands over this sacrifice to imply saying hey look we didn't do this murder
Not only that we didn't see it
We don't know who did this because if they did know what's the implication they should say something
They should tell people and the only way God is going to forgive them and not lay this blood to their charge is if it is
Innocent if that these people are innocent. They really don't know and look this happens to this day
There's tons and tons of unsolved murders that happen every single year in America and it's like hey if you don't know obviously
You're not guilty. But what about if you know, what about if you do know who did it?
You know what you should have done. You should have spoken out
You should have said something and you know, you claim father David Michael Moses to be motivated by love
Okay, what about loving your neighbor as yourself?
What about treating other people the way that you want to be treated like the golden rule of Christianity?
You know, if your daughter well your celibates you will never have a daughter, you know
If your sister was murdered by someone and someone knew who did it and they decided not to tell wouldn't that piss you off?
Wouldn't you be angry? I'd be furious
I mean that is so disgusting to think like you could have information on a murder
But you don't care about the families of the victim
You don't care about justice being done because of your stupid Catholic confessional booth. That's garbage
The Bible says here that these men were supposed to come over the sacrifice and say hey
We didn't do it and we don't know who did it now
What about if they did know go to Leviticus chapter 5 Leviticus chapter number 5
You know you got to realize that government is ordained by God government is a God ordained institution
Government is not just inherently bad Romans 13 says that government is instituted for the punishment of evildoers
It's one of the most important functions of government is to punish criminals
You know, why would we sit here and not tell them if someone's committed a murderer Leviticus 5 verse 1
And if a soul sin and hear the voice of swearing and is a witness whether he hath seen or known of it
Seen or known of it if he do not utter it, then he beareth the iniquity
You know what? You got a Catholic priest today that hears someone tell him Oh father
I did this to this little boy to this little girl or I killed this person
You know what if that person knows that information and keeps it to themselves and does not say anything
God is also holding that Catholic priest responsible and when that Catholic priest dies and goes to hell
Not only is their hell gonna be super hot from their demonic false religion and their false doctrine and their own sins that they've been committing
But also the sins that they've been hiding and harboring for other people
You know what I will do if someone tells me that they murdered someone I will call the police if someone commits any sin
Worthy of death. I will turn you in to the police immediately
We're not interested in harboring pedophiles at this church
we're not interested in in sweeping things under the rug like rape and murder and incest and kidnapping and
Pedophilia. No. No, we're gonna call the police. Why because that's actually what being motivated by love looks like
How is it loving to know information on a murder and keep it to yourself? It's bull crap. It's wicked
Go to Ephesians 2 Matthew 7 12 Jesus said all things therefore. I'm sorry therefore all things
Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them for this is the law and the prophets
You know just think about yourself in the pew right now. God forbid
What if someone you love and cared about was a victim of a horrific crime?
what if someone think of someone right now that you love and care about and they were raped and murdered and
Someone knew who did it and kept it to themselves. How would that make you feel, you know?
Well, there's Catholic priests all over the world that know that kind of stuff and they keep it to themselves
Woe unto those people. Woe unto the Catholic priests. Woe unto this whole entire religion because it's wicked as hell. Ephesians chapter number two
You know at the end of the day, there's all these differences between Baptist pastors. We'll get to Ephesians 2 just a second
I missed one thing. There's all these differences between Baptist pastors and Catholic priests, right? And they're very important differences
But here's the most important difference is what we preach about salvation and I'm telling you right now
Catholics are not Christians. You want to know how I know that because I go out soul winning and I ask people all the time
Hey, do you go to church anywhere? Are you a Christian? I'll say oh, no, I'm a Catholic. I'm not a Christian
I'm a Catholic those of you who go soul winning know what I'm saying is true all the time. They'll correct us
No, we're not Christians. We're Catholics that say is thou rightly that is very true
You're not a Christian and you want to know why you're not a Christian
Why you're not saved is because the Catholic Church teaches that salvation is by works that salvation is by
Confessing your sins to the priest and taking the Eucharist and thinking that you're eating the body and blood of Jesus Christ and doing
all these rituals and rites and repeating and chanting these prayers and getting down on your knees before
Statues of Mary and of dead Saints. Let me tell you something. It's just a pagan false religion
It's not Christian and if you are a Catholic unless you repent and believe on Jesus Christ
You will spend eternity in hell you will die and go to hell and that's why we need to reach this next generation
Before they go into Catholicism why because Ephesians 2 8 9 says for by grace
Are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves?
It is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast
It's not of works getting to heaven is not of repenting of your sins confessing your sins to a priest praying
Kneeling before an altar doing rituals. It's not of works. It's by grace. What does that mean?
It means that we don't deserve it if we receive grace. It means that we didn't deserve it
That's what great earth. Yeah, exactly. That's what grace is, right?
So what do we deserve we deserve hell for all of sin and come short of the glory of God, right?
For the wages of sin is death. We've sinned we deserve hell Jesus Christ came to this earth. He's God in the flesh
He lived a perfect life. He never sinned. He died on the cross for our sins. He was buried
He spent three days in hell
He rose again from the dead and what do we have to do to believe or to be safe?
We have to believe in Jesus Christ. We have to trust in him
It's not of works. So, you know Catholic priests are false prophets and here's the thing, you know
Maybe there's Catholic priests out there who initially had some good intentions who initially thought that they were doing something good
But I'm telling you people that stay in that people that teach these doctrines people like David Michael Moses. These are false prophets
These are reprobates. These are people that are turning people twofold more of the child children of hell
And you know, I preach all this to say this us as Christians. I don't have to worry about you being a Catholic
So it's so stupid. It's such a stupid religion
I would be insulting you if I even thought it was possible for you to become a Catholic
You're you're saved you have the Holy Spirit of God
But here's the truth is that a bunch of Gen Z errs out there and a bunch of Millennials out there are
Sick and tired of liberal garbage watered-down preaching rock-and-roll churches the fun center churches and they're looking for something
They're looking for conservatism. They're looking for traditional Christianity
And you know we need to do we need to point them to that through the word of God before this evil satanic cult
Snatches them up and brings them to hell with it. Let's go out and let's preach the gospel to Catholics
I love Catholics
I want them to be saved
But I hate the lies that they're being told and I hate the liars
That are at the top of their religion that are sending people to hell. I hated Pope Francis
You know what? I hate Pope Leo as well. Oh, we have the first American pope. That's so wait. No, that's terrible
That's like such a disgrace to our nation and I'm not one of these people that just like look for every excuse
I can to hate America, but I'm telling you right now. That is a shame on our country. That is not a go USA moment
It's like why I wish we could have lived our whole country's existence without ever having this distinct dishonor upon us
Just like Pope Francis is burning in hell someday
Pope Leo will also burn in hell someday and you know what so will every Catholic priest
But what we want to do is reach people who can be reached people who are still hanging in the balance
We want to preach them the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let's pray Lord. We thank you for your word and God
I just pray that you would destroy the Catholic Church. I pray that you would destroy the influence that they have
I pray that they would not deceive any young people right now who are yearning and desiring for conservatism and traditional values
I pray that people would soften their hearts and sincerely pray to you to be shown the truth
And I pray that you would lead the soul winners that are in this room
To the doors of Catholics who are desiring truth and young people who are still undecided
I pray that you'd help anchor Baptist Church to be a bulwark in this community against the satanic religion in Jesus name. We pray