The Roman Catholic Mass Clarified | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Gospel of Mark Bible Study Series)

Vests. Making void the word of God by

your tradition that you have handed down.

And many such things you do thus making void the word of God by

your tradition that you have handed down and many such things

you do. These are the words of the Lord

Jesus Christ found in Mark, chapter 7 verse 13 and they were

Mark 7:13

directed to the spiritual leaders of his day, who

questioned him about his disregard for man-made.

Addition that dominated his culture back then.

And that stinging statement that was made by Jesus Christ.

Still has resounded in relevance to our spiritual climate today.

Because as you know, there are many customs and there are many

rituals that are being honored and handed down in the name of

God. And as a result are directing

people away from the liberating truths that are found in God's

revelation and we have been lingering here in Chapter 7 for

some time for the sole purpose of addressing.

Some of those prevailing Traditions that we are familiar

with in Christendom familiar with my baby, not acquainted

with maybe not knowledgeable in and we want to address some of

these things in the spirit of Christ.

Now, I know that for some, this may seem like an unnecessary or

an uncharitable approach, but understand that even the Lord

hear you, you have read. With me through this chapter

many times, he addressed specific areas from different

systems of belief sometimes by name and the apostles followed

and those who would occupy the the office of a Preacher.

Are required from time to time to also follow the example of

Christ. It's not an easy thing.

It's not a comfortable thing, but it is a necessary thing.

You know, I was reading in the book of Lamentations and my

personal reading. And I came across a verse that

ministered to me in this area, and I prayed that it would

encourage you. So I quoted Mark chapter 7, but

Mark 7 · chapter mention

if you have your Bibles with you, turn with me to limitations

right after Jeremiah Lamentations chapter 2, and look

Lamentations 2 · chapter mention

with me at verse 14 for a moment.

Limitations to 14. Jeremiah is speaking here.

And he says, After the fact after the fact that judgment has

come to Judah limitations to 14, your prophets have seen for you,

false and deceptive Visions. They have not exposed your

iniquity to restore your fortunes, but I've seen for you

oracle's that are false and misleading They have not exposed

your iniquity to restore your fortunes.

Now, depending on your translation, if you have a good

solid faithful translation, some would say to turn away, thy

captivity, or to turn to bring back your captives or to restore

you from captivity, whatever translation you hold.

The principle is still the same. The Holy Spirit through the lips

of Jeremiah makes a connection between uncovering or

undisclosed, engaging, making known the sins of the people and

then being liberated from captivity.

The Captivity in this context is literal, right?

They literally went into captivity but it was the fruit

of a spiritual captivity. And so God puts blame on those

who are self appointed representatives, in Jeremiah's

day, those who are self acclaimed prophets, and they

refuse to address the errors of the people of that time.

And in refusing to expose the errors, they kept the people

bound. They kept the people in

darkness, they kept the people in falsehood and that ultimately

let to led to their own discipline and their own

chastisement. Aunt.

And so, what's the, what's the point here, here's the point

that if there are things in Christendom, right, that are

deterring people hindering people from coming to saving

faith Then surely there is some sort of responsibility,

especially for those who are leaders in the True Church of

Jesus Christ to say something about it, to address it to

confront it. And if there's any confusion

about what the goal of these messages are, please don't be

confused any further. We want to see people set free.

We want to see people liberated, we want to see people be

restored to their fortunes restored to the true blessings

that are in Christ that are only available when the truth is

Faithfully presented. And when that same truth is

responded to, with repentant faith, So, this is the heart

posture behind what have, what has been presented and what will

continue to be presented? Now, with that being said, I

know that last week you were here.

Some of you were here at least and you heard some discussion,

some insight concerning the doctrines, the false doctrines

pertaining to marry and we did so by examining namely what the

Roman Catholic Church teaches about her.

And I have to say, we received great encouragement from Last

Sunday and one of the common responses from people here and

Beyond is I didn't know that. I just I understood that there

was differences but I didn't know the depth of the

distinctives, I didn't know that this is what people believed and

that's what we're trying to do to make people aware of these

differences for the sake of Restoring and reaching out to

others. Now with the great encouragement

with some testimonies, as you can imagine, there's a little

bit of pushback, right, and not from here.

Thank God, maybe in your heart, I don't know.

But Mainly from people who watch Us online who visit our channel

from time to time, I guess and there were some Egyptian

objections and I'm not going to take the time to address every

single one of those objections. But I think I want to make

mention of one thing because it will only confirm the main point

of all of this. The central idea, the driving

desire of what's being communicated here.

There is truth in this that some of the reformers Martin Luther

Wright, John Calvin, and zwingli and other prominent fingers.

I John Wesley. Also affirmed.

And hold to the Perpetual virginity of Mary They did

believe that and and Colts were provided in response to what was

presented yesterday of how they did hold firm to that view of

her. Now, I understand why that was

brought forward. But here's the thing that I want

to say, regardless of the intention regardless of what's,

what was trying to be done in presenting these men and what

they believe to us I think that attempt missed the whole point

of the message. Because you see whether it's

Luther or whether it's Calvin. Whether it's Wesley, regardless

of who the person is, we don't look to the authority of man, we

look to the authority of the Bible.

That's the point that's why we're doing what we're doing,

whether it is a pope or it is a reformer, whatever.

Any man claims as being Revelation from God, must

subject himself and every single one of those statements must be

subject to the evaluation the Station or the condemnation of

what God has written, that's the truth and I think even some

evangelicals have to be careful here because I hear some

evangelicals quote. These guys as though they were

authoritative What does the Bible say?

What does God's word say? What does God's word say through

the men that he has placed his hand on for a special purpose of

revealing Divine truth? That's the goal here, that's

what we're saying. And so this is an evangelicals

and Protestants versus Catholics in Eastern Orthodox in the

world. This is about claiming what the

word of God has to say about itself and then calling people

to observe the truth of the scripture as supreme authority.

That's the point. So let there be no confusion

here again, this is not the denominationalism here.

This is not camps. Here, this is the Bible, the

word of God that has been preserved and kept by Sovereign,

will has been granted to us to know what he desires from us.

All right, there's a lot of things I can say, but I won't

because this will turn into Mary ology part 2 and we don't have

time for that. My desire here is to communicate

something else. I want to take the time to

examine yet. Another instance sense of what

can occur when scripture alone is no longer regarded as

absolutely authoritative, when it doesn't have the final say

last week, you heard some disturbing things and this week,

we're going to look at how some traditions have misinterpreted.

The meaning and the practice of the Lord's Supper.

Again, for the sake of making this a digestible session.

I'm not going to exhaustively teach on this.

Nor am I going to pull from what?

Every single ancient and traditional Church believes

about this. What I'm going to do is stay

consistent with what we did last week and that's pulled from the

Roman Catholic teaching, and then bring that before your

attention. And hopefully, you'll be stirred

enough to look deeper and then to look at what other people

believe in other traditions and other institutions, hold to

concerning this subject. Because the spectrum is quite

wide. And over the years, it became

apparent to me that some professing Christians, do

different things. And and with that, they can

find, he's regularly participating in different

settings. That offer the bread and the

cup. And among those people, you have

some who do things like, attend the Roman Catholic church in the

morning and then go to a faithful Evangelical Church and

that same day and and partake of the mass while also partaking of

the communion that's presented in a Evangelical expression.

And it doesn't seem to bother them and it doesn't seem to work

them. And it doesn't seem to encourage

them to think a little bit deeper about if there are

differences here. Now, listen, I'm fully aware

that some of you might be thinking brother, why again?

I said this last week. Why is this really important?

Why are you making such a big deal of this?

There's enough in our Bible to discover, why are we going this

way? And I understand, right?

And I understand that some would even say leave people alone I

mean can we just not excused them and excuse, what they're

doing as simple devotion to the Lord that they want to express

in different kind of ways. Why do we have to nitpick this?

Why do we have to point these things out?

Is it really important? To, which I would respond.

Listen, it's not about what's important to you and me.

Here's the question isn't important to God.

Is it important to the head of the church?

It's not enough to say we worship.

It's not enough to excuse any kind of practice or engagement

as worship. God wants us to know how to

worship. Not just if we worship.

Okay, more than that. We understand.

What do we believe about our spiritual disciplines?

What do we believe about our expressions of devotion and

adoration? And with that, we have to

understand what do we understand to be this massive, Monumental

ordinance that Christ has established for his people for

all generations until his very return.

What truths that we ascribe to that?

What is it? That were actually doing when

once a month you come forward here and you you engage in this

corporate Act of Thanksgiving and recognition.

And I hope you have a grasp of that.

I hope you yourself are aware of why it is.

You do what you do and if you don't then hopefully you'll know

it now, you know, that we do this in remembrance of him, we

know that we do this in, proclaiming the Lord's death

until he comes. But what others believe?

What others believe about the table, what others believe about

the supper, what other people believe about this ordinance?

Well to Roman Catholics according to their own

catechism. And my intention here is not to

misinterpret anything and so everything I'm going to claim.

And I as I said last week, I don't prefer this kind of

delivery but my head's going to be down more than might be up,

but it's because I want to quote the sources for you so that I

would not be labeled as deceptive or misleading.

I want you to hear what they have to say for themselves and I

want that to stir your heart, stir your heart to have a

greater Zeal for God's glory and a greater Zeal to reach out

people who might not know what. Or even doing, which is very

common, very, very common. Don't catechism.

Their own statement of faith. That is binding.

That is universal. In the Catholic catechism and

paragraph number 132 for the Eucharist which they call it,

which really just means Thanksgiving.

The Eucharist is the source and Summit of the Christian Life.

It is the source and the summit of the Christian Life Source,

meaning that all spiritual life flows from the partaking of the

Eucharist. And the summit meeting that it

is the Pinnacle of the Christian experience.

You can't get any higher than partaking in Mass.

To claim this is quite astounding.

And just from that statement alone, you can make the obvious

observation that the Eucharist is absolutely vital and Central

to the faith of Rome. There's no question about it,

but here's a question to ask, why, why is the mass so primary?

Why is it so defended? Why is it so cherished?

Why is it worshipped? Yes, worshipped.

It's an important question because once you understand the

attributes, once you understand the implications of what is

being taught with the Eucharist, then you'll get why it is so

love, cherish and defended. Unfortunately deceiving and here

I'm going to make it so easy for you.

I hope that's my goal is to break down everything that is

learned in the week and to present it to you in a way that

you can understand and apply it. All you have to remember is two

main aspects, just to two main distinctives that Makes Rome's

understanding of the Lord's Supper different than ours.

And the first one is this that the mass the Eucharist Rite, the

mass is the partaking of the literal body and blood of the

son of God. The mass is the partaking of the

literal body and blood of the Son of God.

Here's a summary from their own documents that leaves a clear

foundation and an overview of their belief in this.

Be patient with me please, as I read a lot, In their catechism,

number 13, 76137 64, you taking notes, the Council of Trent

summarizes, the Catholic faith by declaring, because Christ,

Our Redeemer said, it was truly his body.

That he was offering under the species of bread, it has always

been the conviction of the Church of God and this holy

Council. Now declares again, pay

attention that by the consecration of the Bread and

Wine. They're Takes place a change of

the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body

of Christ, Our Lord, and of the whole substance of the wine into

the substance of his blood. This change the Holy Catholic

church has fittingly and properly called

transubstantiation. You've heard the term

transubstantiation that Fant fancy term simply means a change

a transformation in substance. It's real, it's literal, it's

not metaphorical. It's not spiritual, it's not

allegorical, it is material. And this is a miraculous event

by their own claim that the actual elements become the

physical body of Jesus and the physical blood.

This is again something to be understood as real and tangible

here. It is from their own catechism.

I caught it to you. 1376 here's paragraph, 1374, this is

astounding. In The Most Blessed Sacrament of

the Eucharist, the body and blood together.

So the body and the blood together with the soul and

Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And therefore, the whole Christ is truly really substantially

contained. You're going to hear me quote

later on from Catholic answers. Then the same way.

Jesus Christ was here, two thousand years ago.

He is with us daily. When the Eucharist is presented.

Now before I unpack, what that implies, we have to understand

that this notion according to the catechism is a teaching that

they believed to be from the very lips of the master.

You might be wondering where, where do they get this

understanding, right, and you remember how I quoted the first

paragraph because Christ Our Redeemer said that it was truly

his body that he was offering under the species of bread, he

said it. So, the claim is, we didn't get

this out of thin air. We didn't even, we didn't

attribute this to Sacred, to just soon or to the magisterium

our basis for this is Christ. And what's their go to passage?

You know, it, John chapter 6 and I want you to turn there to the

John 6 · chapter mention

collection of verses that is often referred to to justify

this teaching. In John chapter 6.

John 6 · chapter mention

In verse 53. So Jesus said to them, truly

truly, I say to you, unless you eat the Flesh of the son of man

and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks.

My blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last

day for my flesh is True Food and my blood is true drink.

Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks, my blood abides in me

and I in him. Seems straightforward.

Seems clear, right? Here's the problem.

Here's the first problem of going to John chapter 6, to try

John 6 · chapter mention

to justify this. Massive teaching with massive

implications and it is catastrophic when you break it

down. Was the Lord's Supper even

Institute at this point in the ministry of Jesus Christ and

sir. No.

There is quite some time to go before the institution of the

Lord's Supper it even takes place.

So what you have here is a teaching that has no connection

whatsoever to the ordinance that Christ will establish after he

is going to serve his disciples and make and before he makes his

way to the Cross, There Is No Illusion here whatsoever.

That Jesus is providing some kind of commentary of what takes

place at the table. Nothing of the A short.

And so, to take a teaching that uses similar terminology, but

then to apply it to something that you and I engage with as an

ordinance, is a dangerous stretch to make.

So then, how do we understand this?

How do we make sense of what Jesus is saying?

The way you try to understand anything that is being said, in

the Bible, you investigate the immediate context.

And as you investigate the immediate context without your

presuppositions, without any kind of authority telling you,

otherwise Eyes. But just with the word of God,

in John chapter 6, you have to make the honest, conclusion is

John 6 · chapter mention

in the simple reading and evaluating Jesus, implying that

we should not on his body and drink his actual blood.

Well let's look forward because thankfully what Jesus says in

the very same chapter clarifies, what he meant by this.

So I want you to again, look at verse 54, look at the promise

associated with eating and drinking him.

Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks.

My blood has what eternal life has eternal life and I will

raise him up on the last day. What a glorious promise you eat

of me. You drink of me.

You will have eternal life and I will raise you up on the last

day. You know what's fascinating

about that? That's not the only time in this

context, Jesus gives that promise he gives it back here in

verse 40. Look at John 640 and what do you

read? For this is the will of my

father that everyone who looks on the son and believes in Him

should have eternal life and I will raise him up on the last

day of parallels perfectly. One difference, the precondition

is different. The prerequisite is different.

Look, back at verse 54. Why was the prerequisite?

If you feed on my flesh and if you drink my blood, you have one

eternal life and to you have the promise that I will raise you up

on the last day. Hold on to that.

That's the reward. That's the assurance.

You go back to verse 14, you realize that the rewards are

still there, the same ones, but what, what is required before

that? He says, it who looks on the son

and believes in him, who looks on the son and believes in Him.

St. Promise, yes.

Different precondition. It seems.

So and less Jesus here. When you join these two

statements proves that in this parallel, the feeding and

drinking. Is not a literal command to

Feast on him physically, but it is a metaphor for receiving him

and believing in him by faith to Christ eating is believing.

That's all it is to eat. Means to receive him by faith.

And by receiving and by faith, you receive the nourishment and

the sustenance that he provides through that channel of simple

trust and who he says to be and this is the emphasis in John

John 6 · chapter mention

chapter 6. So, wait, well, why is he using

the language of eating and drinking because why are the

people there there? They want actual bread.

He just multiplied, bread fed, thousands of people and here

they are. Again, they want a refill.

So Christ meets them there and he takes their physical desire

and he parallels it with a spiritual truth.

He's meeting them where they're at and he's challenging them

through this metaphor, through this figure of applying.

It spiritually. Look at verse 35 of John chapter

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6, Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life whoever comes to

me, shall not hunger. And whoever believes in me,

shall never thirst believe, believe verse 29.

When the same crowd asked them, what are the works of God that

we need to do? How does Jesus respond?

This is the work of God that you believe in him whom he sent.

Belief. Receive.

Comes by faith, not by feasting. Comes by trust, not by

transubstantiation. Now if this is not the true

meaning of Jesus words, then we have more problems than just

transubstantiation we do because I want you to think about it.

If we're consistent with Rome's interpretation here, then you

also have to understand that when Jesus says you have eternal

life and I will raise you up on the line last day, then I'm just

by simple equation. Me eating him and drinking and

means I will have eternal life. Eating and drinking him is by

faith. That's consistent with the whole

scripture that's in harmony with the rest of the Bible.

But if eating him and drinking and means that after the priest

consecrates, the bread and the wine and it transforms it to

Christ's body and I am to eat of him then naturally we have to

understand that it is the Eucharist that gives me eternal

life. It's the mass that ultimately

saves me. That's a different gospel.

And only is a different gospel, which I'll get to in a moment.

It's inconsistent with scripture because we know that the Lord

instituted the Lord's Supper, not for people to become

Christian. But for people who aren't

Christians, So even the very purpose and definition of the

Lord's table is is obliterated because we know that it's for

the church that we come in remembrance of him, we don't

come to the table to be in him or for him to be in us.

Know, because we are in and we now can and have the right to

partake in that table. So there's a lot of problems

here and this is why it can't be according to how our Roman

friends claimed it to be in a common objection that that is

often given. It's really a foundational

objection to what I just said to you is that if Christ really was

speaking here metaphorically, then why didn't you make the

effort to clarify that he was speaking and figurative language

to those that were there because they interpret it literally and

they even walked away. Assuming that what was being

said was literal Why didn't Jesus say whoa wait, hold on,

no, no let me understand. This is actually talking about

faith and although he already talked about belief belief

belief over and over and over again.

So this is what usually brought forth as an obstacle.

And here's a simple answer. Apart from the fact that Jesus

uses metaphor a lot especially in John, how many I am

statements? I am the door.

I am the light, right? How many of them there are

seven, including this one apart from that is it foreign to us to

actually see in Jesus preaching and teaching that he does not

elaborate on what he had said to his audience.

Keeping them in the dark. It's not a foreign idea.

In fact, Jesus did that and we learned that in Mark especially

through his Parables that when he discerned the heart of the

people, that no matter how many miracles and how many truths

were brought forth to their attention, that they were still

willing to deny and not apply the truth.

That was given to them. He was still willing to engage

with them. But in a way that would solidify

their darkness and keep them away from the truth, as an act

of discipline in judgment. Is it any different here?

It's pretty obvious here. You have this people fixated on

the fact that Jesus provided them food, and that's all they

wanted him for they saw. Saw him as the king that can

overthrow Rome that can make their lives a little bit easier.

And so they want to Crown Him and Jesus sees right through

them. And so every time, if you read

that lengthy chapter, every time Christ tries to diverts them to

spiritual truth and eternal life, the people became more and

more hostile, more and more upset, more and more Disturbed.

And when Christ claimed his Heavenly origin, you can just

you can tell just by the reading that they're becoming more

distant to Christ. Truly is not more attracted.

To the point where Jesus makes these very graphic claims about

himself and what is required of them and they walk away and

guess what? He doesn't chase them.

He doesn't run after them. And this isn't the only time

that he does that because Christ knows the heart.

And that's why in that same chapter, he talks about the

father drawing, right? He talks about what needs to

happen in the heart. Something needs to happen in

that heart. There needs to be disposition of

your heart, to receive who crisis and his claims and not to

ignore to misinterpret with your fleshly understanding.

And so it's clear but tradition as a way of skewing and

confusing, what is clear? Have you ever wondered how not

the wise, not the what's but how transubstantiation takes place?

Because it's spelled out in great detail and it's actually

very important for you to know and here is from their

catechism. Number 1105 1105, The invocation

upon. So when the priest makes

invocation is the intercession in which the priest begs of the

father to send the Holy Spirit the sanctifier so that the

offerings may become the body and blood of Christ and at the

faithful by receiving them may themselves become a living

offering to God, John O'Brien who is a Catholic priest wrote a

book called The Faith of millions.

The faith of Millions. Is the credentials of Catholic

religion and in his work, which is very popular, not just

popular. It is often referred to, as a

theological guide for serious, Roman Catholics.

He expands on what is in the catechism here?

He expands on it and he gives us even more specific details of

what actually takes place. When the priest, yes, that same

priest that's their daily. When the priest is ready to

consecrate the elements, what actually takes place.

Pay attention. This is disturbing.

I'm just giving you a heads-up. It's disturbing.

This is in his book, from the 1933 publication date, and it's

found on page, 27, T and 271. And this is again, this is not

some peripheral thing. I was just kind of scrolling

through different websites and apologist from the Roman

Catholic faith. And I found John O'Brien being

referred to as a reference and one of the arguments this is not

the same reference but it just goes to show that he still being

referred to Quote, you ready for this?

When the priest? Pronounces the tremendous words

of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens, brings Christ

down from his throne and places them upon are altered to be

offered up again as the victim for the sins of man.

It is a power greater than that of monarchs and Emperors.

It is greater than that, of saints, and Angels, greater than

that of seraphim and cherubim. Indeed it is Greater even than

the power of the Virgin Mary. For while the Blessed Virgin was

the human agency by which Christ became incarnate, a single time,

the priest brings Christ down from heaven and renders him

present on our altar as the Eternal victim for the sins of

men. Not once but a thousand times.

And quote. You almost got to take a few

breaths before you dissect this. Right?

It's jarring. It is jarring because according

to O'Brien, the priest is the one who has the authority by his

command to bring Jesus Christ, out of heaven and to be in our

midst. And so great is the office of

the priest. According to Old Brian, that his

authority, surpasses the prerogative 's that are uniquely

bestowed upon who we learn about.

Last week, the Virgin Mary, which is another startling thing

because of all the praise and the veneration in the worship.

That goes to her. It makes you wonder really,

there's something that actually challenges Mary.

The inconsistencies in a false system are not surprising.

And if you think about a deeper, what you have here is actually

an imitation, you have an imitation here of the levitical

priesthood so we believe what Christ did on the cross is

suffice has, right? It's finished.

But what you have with the levitical priesthood was what

you had priest. You had an altar, you had daily

sacrifices priest, alter daily sacrifices.

That is mirrored perfectly with Rome's version.

You have priests the front. There is not just a nice table

decorated, it's an altar, where sacrifices take place, There is

an altar and instead of goats, and instead of oxen you have

Christ being sacrificed. And this is not my

interpretation that's from his very same book on page, 262.

We believe that the sacrificial system of old points to a New

Covenant, with a greater sacrifice and a greater high

priest. But to Rome it foreshadows their

priesthood. And it gives them some kind of

License to justify their priesthood, their Altar and

they're sacrificing, not of animals, but of the son of God.

That's a whole different conversation, but let me

continue for my original quote going into page 271, okay?

If you thought, what I quoted to you was hard, get ready for

this? The priest speaks and low

Christ, the Eternal, and omnipotent God, boughs, his

head, and humble, obedience to the priest command.

Of what Sublime dignity is the office of the Christian priest?

Who is this privilege to act as the Ambassador and the

vicegerent of Christ on Earth. He continues the essential

Ministry of Christ. He teaches the faithful with the

authority of Christ. He pardons the penitent sinner

with the power of Christ. He offers up again the same

sacrifice of adoration and atonement, which Christ offered

on Calvary. No wonder that the name which

spiritual writers are. Especially fond of applying to

the Priestess called, is that of alter Christus?

For the priest is and should be another Christ.

For the priest is and should be another Christ.

Funny. I remember Jesus warning about

false Christ that would emerge in the last days.

Do you remember That people who claim the authority and the

power of Christ would be in our midst.

So, what you have in the system is not just a false

interpretation of communion. You have false Christ who are

offering it. Clergy you actually claim and

believe that they have the ability to pull Christ down from

heaven and to become elements that can be consumed by others.

Which results in what exactly think about it.

Think about the order of thought, think about the

implications, think about what can happen if you have Christ.

Actually literally being here in our very presence in close

proximity, then you have the Son of God in your midst and if you

have the Son of God in your midst, with people who love God

or their God, love their Jesus, then what does that invoke?

What does that provoque at least worship?

Christ is here. And if Christ is here, we're

going to worship Him. Worship God no worship the

sacrament. Because the sacrament is God

With Us. If you don't believe me, if you

think this is exaggeration, let me quote from Catholic answers.

And this is not an anxious in text.

This is modern apologist. Who clarify what they believe

quote, since Christ is present in the Eucharist, God is truly

present. This means that we give the

Blessed Sacrament the worship and adoration that we give to

God Alone. We see this especially in our

liturgies. When we kneel and genuflect only

before the Blessed Sacrament, these are postures that are due

to God and only to God as signs of adoration.

So what do you have here? You don't have the elements

before in which we give thanks to God for what he has done.

You have the worship of the actual elements because they're

no longer Bread and Wine. It's the body and blood of

Christ here with us. And how does that happen?

When a man was been ordained in. The priesthood makes the command

Christ. Humbles his head in obedience

that command and makes his way down.

This happens every single day all across how do they explain

it? Well, they say it's a miracle,

it's a miracle. Only the only the Holy Spirit

can make Christ, physically appear in thousands of thousands

of their churches or thousands, thousands of wherever they

celebrate this at the same time and it's just as real.

As you was here, 2,000 years ago.

Now here's what they say, the main reason Catholic answers for

so great, a confidence resides in the meaning of the Eucharist.

Jesus Christ is here on Earth again in the Eucharist just as

he was 2,000 years ago. He's not just present in memory,

he is not just spiritually present, he is on Earth, body,

and blood, soul, and divinity. But is that the only reason why

is that the only reason why Catholics believe that bread and

wine become the actual presence of Jesus Christ?

No, that's not the only reason why it's not so that they can

worship Him in closer. Proximity.

It's not so that they can have some euphoric, you know,

experience this mystical kind of thing.

It's more than that. Here's a simple question.

If Christ is being brought down, not just to make a show, not

just to make some kind of dramatic demonstration.

But if he is coming down as a sacrifice, the question is a

sacrifice for what? Which is the second Point

member. All of that was under the first

point, the point that the mass is the literal body, and blood

of Jesus Christ. It's the partaking of him

physically. Secondly, and lastly, the mass

is recognized. As an actual sacrifice.

Perhaps some here, you haven't heard that.

Maybe this is you hearing it again, but it's very important

to understand here. When Christ comes down in the

Eucharist, it's not so that he can be merely worship or doored.

It's so that a real sacrifice can take place.

That something can actually take place in your life as a result

of you participating. That sacrifice.

And you and I understand the Lord's table to be an act of

remembrance. We reflect on what he has done.

We even in some measure look forward to what will come to

pass when he does return and feast with us.

And we reflect as we enjoy, and we rehearse to one another of

his saving faith of his grace. That's what we do.

But Rome cannot accept the Simplicity of this to them.

It's much more. It's, there's something else

happening in mass and we have no intention to misrepresent them.

So, again, forgive me, I must read what they say and I hope

you understand what they're saying.

So this isn't their catechism. I did brought the book last

time, but you can look this up. This is recorded.

You can you can, you can look this up yourself.

It's free on a pdf online and number 1367 of the catechism of

the Catholic Church. Here's what it says the

sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are

one single sacrifice, very, very important, the Eucharist and

what happened on Calvary is one single sacrifice the victim.

Christ is a victim, right? The victim is one and the same,

the same. Now offers through the ministry

of priests who then offered himself on the cross only in a

manner of the offering is different and since in this

Divine sacrifice, which is celebrated in the mass, the same

Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner, on the altar

of the Cross is contained in his offered and an unbloody manner.

The sacrifice is truly propitiatory.

So, let's break that down. It's one sacrifice.

So, when the mass is taking place, this is an additional

sacrifices that are happening. The claim is what happened on

the cross. Through the mass is being

repeated again and again, and again and again, over and over

and over and over. And so what happened?

2,000 years ago, it's happening every single day by the power of

the priesthood commands Christ by to come down and for a

sacrifice to take place. Now what's the difference and

they highlight the difference, the only difference is 2000

years ago, it was a bloody sacrifice and what happens daily

is an unbloody sacrifice. What does that mean?

Here's what it means. The bloody sacrifice means that

we don't see the mass as what they saw that day when Jesus

Christ died. We don't see the the gruesome

bloody bruised, Jesus know. It's the same sacrifice, but

it's under the appearance of bread and wine.

It's unbloody same sacrifice though.

Just different appearance. And that's why a number 136 sis

of the catechism. We are told that the Eucharist

makes present, they use the word re present but then they they

clarify it represent, meaning that they make present, not

symbolically they make what happened, then is now happening

before your very eyes. I'm sure you can sense, the

troubling, realities of this. And it sounds strange, but it's

more than strange. It's blasphemous.

Blasphemy there's no other way to put it.

Call me what you want, kill me if you want.

I say it as it is, it's blasphemy.

And all you have to do is read the book of Hebrews to

understand and know how off this all is and ironically in the

theme of the book of Hebrews. What is the author doing by the

spirit? He is promoting crisis being so

much greater than the levitical system which includes their

priests and their sacrifices Christ is better.

Don't go back to it. He's better, don't go back to

it. He sufficient and know you know

the verses I'm sure there's so many of them I'm just going to

pull out a collection of to and I'm Going to read it.

I don't even need to expound upon it for it to absolutely

obliterate. What you just heard.

I'll turn with me in your Bibles.

I don't want to quote the catechism more than the Bible.

Hebrews 7:26. May this refresh your soul, may

Hebrews 7:26

this bless you, may the secure you met, this create a praise in

your heart. This afternoon, Hebrews 7:26 for

Hebrews 7:26

it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest,

wholly, innocent, unstained, separated, from Sinners, and

exalted above the heavens. He has no need like those High

priests who offer sacrifices daily first for his own sins.

And then, for those of the people since he did, This once

for all when he offered up himself once for all amen.

Indeed I'm glad you're awake this afternoon.

Hebrews 10 term with me, Hebrews 10:10.

Hebrews 10:10

What a lovely sound. And by that will we have been

Sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once

for all I apologize. I said I want to comment on it

but I must buy that. We will have we have been past

tense we have been Sanctified through the offering of the body

of Jesus went every single day. When the priest commands it?

No, once for all verse 11 and every priest stands daily at his

service offering Repeatedly. The same sacrifices which can

never take away sins but when Christ had offered for all time,

a single sacrifice for sins. He sat down at the right hand of

God waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a

footstool for his feet. Hallelujah indeed.

Yes, amen. Now, can you confidently?

And honestly say that as you read these scriptures, can you

reconcile them with What the catechism teaches can you.

Can you truly? Look at these and say we need an

altar. And we need priests and we need

repeated sacrifices and the priest has the ability to pull

Christ now from Heaven, onto Earth again.

We are told here that he sat down at the right hand of God

waiting from that time until his enemies should be made his

footstool. Are these the same?

They're not. They're not the same.

Because it's a different version of the Lord's table.

It's a different Christ. It's a different gospel.

Whoa, brother, you got me saying, amen.

And Hallelujah, few moments ago, but I understand there's

differences brother but for you to make a claim that it's a

different gospel. That's a very, very serious

statement and I stand by it. I do stand by it.

Because, although it is one offering, you have to ask the

question. Why?

Why is it being offered again? Why is what Christ did 2000

years ago? Being re presented made present

over and over and over. I won't tell you, I'll let them

tell you from their own catechism, did you hear the

final words of 1367? This sacrifice is truly

propitiatory. It appeases it satisfies it

accomplishes something. What does it accomplish while in

paragraph number 1366, it's salutary power be applied to the

Forgiveness of the sins. We daily commit, That's not

clear enough. Let me read to you paragraph

1414. As sacrifice, the Eucharist is

also offered and reparation for the sins of the living.

Pay attention in reparation for the sins of the living and the

dead. And to obtain spiritual and

temporal benefits from God. You heard that, right?

So I'm not just approaching the mass to receive forgiveness for

my sins. Now, I can actually partake of

the mass on behalf of somebody who has died so that they can be

forgiven for their sins. Is this the Bible is this?

What Christ taught? You heard this correctly?

And forgive me because I'm going to give you a now, just and

bullet bullet fashion quotes, because I know where this is

going to go, and I want to be no mistakes.

In the 22nd session of the Council of Trent.

In the second chapter under that the title is the sacrifice of

the mass is propitiatory both for the living and the dead.

And I'm just going to read some of it.

Here's what it says for appeased, by the sacrifice, the

Lord, grants the grace and gift of penitence.

And pardons even for the gravest crimes and sins.

For the victim is one in the same.

Whenever they say, victim, they mean Jesus.

So in their view, Jesus is in Eternal victim.

Because he's continually being sacrificed.

For the victim is one in the same.

The same. Now offering by the ministry of

priests who then offered himself on the cross, the manor alone of

offering being different, the fruits of that Bloody sacrifice.

It is, Well, understood our received, most abundantly

through this unbloody one. The fruits of that.

Bloody sacrifice are applied and experienced in this unbloody

one. I received most abundantly

through this unbloody ones so far, it is the latter from

derogating anyway, from the former where.

For, according to the tradition of the Apostles.

This is where I want you to pay attention.

It is rightly offered, not only for the sins punishment,

satisfactions and other necessities of the faithful who

are living, but also for those departed in Christ, but are not

yet fully purified. So if you want to come to the

table and you know, loved one that claimed to believe in God

but didn't really live a Christian Life, didn't really

love God, where they go, they go to purgatory and so they're in

purgatory, there are being purged, and if you want to

accelerate that process, you can take the mass on their behalf

and it would be applied to them. And you want to be upset with

me. Here is the one of the Cannons

under that same session. The twenty second session of the

Council of Trent Cannon three. What does this mean for you?

What does this mean for you? I'm almost done here.

What does this mean? For those who don't believe

this, if you do believe this, I hope that you come to the truth

of the scriptures. If you don't believe this, What

does that mean for you? I'll tell you what they say.

If anyone says in Cannon, three of the second twenty second

session of the Council of Trent. If anyone says that the

sacrifice of the mass is only of praise and thanksgiving or that

it is a mere commemoration of the sacrifice consummated on the

cross, but not a propitiatory one or that it profits, him only

who receives and not be offered for the living and the dead for

sins, punishment, satisfactions, and other necessities.

Let him be anathema. Your excommunicated, you're not

part of the true church. You're not a real Christian if

you don't believe that this is more than just remembering.

If you don't believe that this is more than just a reason to

give, thanks to God. If you don't believe that, it

actually can forgive Sins, Not Just for the living but for the

dead, you are anathematized. You want to get angry at me?

You want to think I'm divisive? Here's the 13th session of the

Council of Trent Cannon one. If anyone denies that in the

sacrament of the most holy Eucharist are contained, truly

really, as substantially the body and blood together with the

soul and Divinity of our Lord. Jesus Christ and consequently

the whole Christ but says that he is only as in a sign.

If you believe that it's just the sign and you don't think

it's body, blood soul and Divinity of Christ here on Earth

if you don't believe that. If you only believe it's a sign

of figure or Force, let him be anathema.

So there's condemnation here, condemnation for those who don't

believe what is being taught by the system.

I can end it here but I don't want to end it with you being

condemned. I don't want to end up with you

leaving with that. I've quoted this verse many

times and I can't help it, so forgive me.

And when I was thinking about what's a way that we can end

this with a final exclamation mark, that would hopefully boost

your heart and rejoicing in the truth that you're in.

How can you move forward from Hebrews?

And maybe you have a more accurate way of ending this but

I can't think of anything else other than Hebrews 10:14. for

Hebrews 10:14

buying single Sacrifice by single offering, he has

perfected for all time, those who are being sanctified For by

single not, a repeated, not a nun.

Bloody Not by the authority of any priest.

Now, by Christ coming to this Earth again, and again and again

now by taking what he did 2000 years ago and Performing that

sacrifice again and again, for by single offering, We have been

made perfect. Amen.

I appreciate your applauses, this afternoon.

I appreciate your amens, I appreciate your attention.

I want us to pray and how I want us to pray.

I want you to join me in sincerity of your heart.

Maybe you have a Roman Catholic mother father, brother, sister

friend and maybe I'm sure you love them very much.

Maybe this Disturbed you because in my presentation, you are

thinking of them and you might have Associated what I'm saying

as an attack on people that, you know, and that you see who

supposedly love God and serve him.

And again I'm not pointing out. People I'm pointing out this

system and I'm fully aware that there are people who are in that

system, even priests who don't really know what they're doing,

who don't really know what the church teaches their Church

teaches. I want us to pray for our

family. This afternoon I this is not

just some lesson to provide shock value.

We want to hear this and then we want to bring our prayers to God

through the mediator Christ Jesus.

That God would give us an opportunity to share what we've

learned in the spirit of love. And that God would Open the Eyes

of those that we know and those that we don't even know to come

to the truth and to embrace the Simplicity of the Gospel.

Let's pray. And let's really Posh our hearts

seriously and attentively. Father, we are shaken.

Perhaps, we even feel a righteous indignation.

But again Lord we acknowledge in your presence.

We too were once lost. And we too have done and said

and maybe even believe things that are contrary to your word.

And so Lord, we do not sit on the high seat.

Of self-righteousness this afternoon.

If there's any anger, it is towards the evil one.

Who is deceived many? Who seeks to viciously veiled

the glory of Christ to minimize the sufficiency of the cross.

To make less of what you have already done.

And we thank you that your word is clear.

We thank you. That we are in the truth.

We pray for those who are not. We pray for those who might be

uneducated unaware and even worse who are aware but believe

what Rome has to say to be true. And for those who might not be a

part of the Roman Catholic church, but different

traditional churches that have very similar views of the

Eucharist. What have mercy on them?

Give us opportunity to speak kindly to them but without fear

of what is true. We pray that you would convict

those who are actively participating and something that

you do not approve of, we pray for those, even those who claim

to be Evangelical. Who don't see the differences,

who don't care to see the differences.

You don't see the significance of what participating in a

different table actually means. Lord, we are humbled.

We have much to think about but for now Lord we are humbled and

grateful for all that we heard all that was accessed.

Thank you, that we live in an age where these things can be

accessed. So freely and quickly.

Surely you are coming soon. Where your gospel is being

proclaimed to the nation's, At a rate that we've never seen

before. Lord, use us until you do come

help us, honor you and everything, the Lord's supper

and our baptism and are preaching in our daily lives,

help us honor you. And again, with all that, we

learn may not puff us up. May not make us.

Arrogant may not make us abusive or unnecessarily offensive.

Miss often us or may break us. Make me and make us more loving

and compassionate and yearning for people to be saved.

Lord, we say, Amen in a moment and we pray that you would

receive worship even through a heavy session like this may you

receive pure. Holy clean, faithful Worship in

Jesus name. Amen.

Amen, amen Saints, let's stand and Worship the Lord.