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FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
August 5

THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST VS THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 14)

After first learning from years of dedicated personal Bible study the meaning of the “gospel” or the “good news of salvation” and what necessitated it, starting with its first introduction to Adam and Eve immediately after they fell to Satan’s temptation in Eden, cradled in those immortal words of hope, light, and life as the “mother” of all promises and prophecies of the Bible recorded in Genesis 3:15 and culminating in the final ones in Revelation, the last of the 66 books of the Bible, I have learned the following:

1) the everlasting gospel of the everlasting covenant is the divine comprehensive plan of redemption and salvation of fallen mankind from the power of sin and Satan and is taught in great detail in the whole SANCTUARY DOCTRINE and its services that includes the systems of the priesthood and sacrifices, the sacred feasts and ordinances in both type and antitype, symbols and shadows of its substance. In the Old Testament the gospel was taught in symbol through the ceremonial system of the Mosaic (or Jewish) dispensation up until these types met their antitype in Christ in Christian dispensation.

2) This glorious truth was revealed to Moses as well as to David and all the holy men of God from generation to generation until the closing work of the day of atonement and cleansing of the sanctuary, both in type and antitype, as the last act and closing work of high priest in the most holy place of the sanctuary. It was in the course of this Bible discovery that I came upon two brief statements that encapsulate and summarize what and why God commanded Moses to command Israel:

“Let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.” Exo. 25: 8, 9; cf. 15:17. “Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?” Ps. 77: 13. God’s “way” of salvation, which He says, “walk ye in it” (see Ps. 86:11; cf. 27: 12, 4) is and through the sanctuary doctrine and message. Therein is revealed the wondrous mysteries of the plan and work of redemption!

Here they are:
“The Sanctuary was the heart of the typical system. There the Lord placed His name, manifested His glory, and held converse with the High Priest [Aaron and his sons only] relative to the welfare of Israel. While we inquire from the Scriptures what the Sanctuary is, let all educational prejudice be dismissed from the mind. For the Bible clearly defines, what the Sanctuary is, and answers every reasonable question you may ask concerning it.” O. R. L. Crosier, “The Sanctuary,” printed in the “Day Star Extra,” in 1846. This article was endorsed by E. G. White in “A Word to the ‘Little Flock,’ printed in 1847. Reprint 1987, Leaves-of-Autumn Books, Payson AZ. The other quote summarizes what the Gospel means and what it was designed to accomplish for fallen mankind:

“The gospel is a system of practical truths destined to work great changes in the human character. If it does not work the transformation in life, in habits, in practice, it is NO TRUTH [emphasis mine] to those who believe it. Man must be sanctified through THE TRUTH. And said Jesus, ‘Thy word is truth’ (John 17:17).

Unless the truth of God shall lift up man OUT OF his depravity [sinful, carnal nature], his intemperate and profligate habits, and make him REFLECT THE IMAGE OF JESUS, he is lost [in his sins].” E. G. White, Letter 14, March 13, 1885.
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
August 4

THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST Vs THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 13)

“I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him [not “her”] that called you into the grace of Christ [not of any human being or church] unto ANOTHER GOSPEL: WHICH IS NOT ANOTHER; [there is only one gospel] but there be some that TROUBLE YOU AND WOULD PERVERT THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.

But though WE [any of the true apostles] or an ANGEL from heaven, preach ANY OTHER GOSPEL unto you THAN that which we have preached unto you, let him be ACCURSED. As we said BEFORE, so say I now AGAIN, If ANY MAN [particularly the ‘man of sin’ and ‘son of perdition’ Paul warned the early church of in 2 Thess. 2: 1-12] preach any other gospel unto to you, than ye have received, let him be ACCURSED. . .

But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.” Gal. 1: 9, 11, 12, KJV.

While yet Saul, the unconverted Paul, he boldly and clearly declared that it was, as his personal experience reveals, and still very much is the religion and traditions of man and their man-made, church-made “gospels,” that counterfeit the gospel of Christ and produces a deadly “zeal not based in knowledge” of God’s will and true plan of redemption!

This has ever been the driver of religious intolerance and persecutions from ages past, the present, and in the culmination of the great controversy between truth and error, righteousness and unrighteousness, light and darkness, spiritual purity and spiritualistic imposture. Paul continues:

“For ye have heard of my conversation in time past [former life] in the JEWS’ RELIGION [Judaism], how that BEYOND MEASURE I PERSECUTED THE CHURCH OF GOD, and wasted it. And profited in the JEWS’ RELIGION ABOVE many equals in mine own nation [the Jewish nation], being more exceedingly zealous in the TRADITIONS of my fathers.

But when it pleases God, who separated me from my mother’s womb [cf. Jer. 1: 4-9, etc.] and called me to his GRACE. [for what purpose is this grace?]. To reveal His Son in [not merely to] me, that I may preach Him to the heathen [‘Gentiles’]; immediately I conferred NOT with flesh and blood [not any mortal]:

Neither went I to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before [ahead] of me [he did not go even to the headquarters of their religion and faith to seek counsel or further instructions]; but I went to Arabia [the deserts], and returned again to Damascus [in Syria].” Gal. 1: 13-17, read verses 18-23; 2: 1-7).

There is only one gospel, even as “there is only one body, and one (Holy) Spirit, even as ye are called to one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is ABOVE ALL, and through all, and in you all. But unto everyone of us is given GRACE ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF CHRIST.” Eph. 4: 4-7.

It is Christ—God Creator incarnated into our flesh and blood human nature without ceasing to be the “Word from the beginning” (John 1:1-3) who alone determines the amount of divine empowering grace to impart daily, hourly, from moment to moment to the penitent sinner’s importunate petition to overcome his personal and individual sins, weaknesses, and struggles.

Christ, the Son of man, is every sinner’s personal and personalized Savior and “Friend that sticketh closer than a brother” (Prov. 18:24). “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior. Who will have all men to be SAVED, and to come unto the KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH [of the one and only true gospel of Christ].

For there is one God, and ONE MEDIATOR between God and men, the MAN [not any woman] CHRISTJESUS; who gave Himself a RANSOM for all, to be testified in due time. Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the TRUTH in Christ, and LIE NOT;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.” 1 Tim. 2: 3-7, KJV.

Hence, ultimate and eternal salvation is individual, not corporate. As Jesus clearly declared to the world in language even a child can understand: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: No man cometh unto the Father, BUT BY ME.” John 14: 6, KJV.

Any other “way,” “truth,” “gospel,” or “mediator or mediatrix,” whether introduced by any of the true apostles or even an angel descended from heaven, is ACCURSED according to the Holy Scriptures.

I am pretty sure no rational mind would prefer a curse over a blessing or to be cursed instead of blessed by Jesus Christ the Creator, Savior, and only Mediator between God and man!

(To be continued) Bless all, NMF

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THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST vs THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 12)

But wait! Isn’t this plain idolatry that even a child raised in a Bible-based Christian home can quickly see? Indeed! But “In the following quotation the Catholic Church explains why she believes this worship of the wafer (or ‘host’) is not idolatry.

‘Now turn for a moment to the Catholic altar. The holy Sacrifice of the Mass is being offered up. The bell has given the signal that the MOST SOLEMN AND AWFUL MOMENT of consecration is at hand. As yet there is only bread in the hand of the priest, and [fermented] wine in the chalice before him. To worship these lifeless elements would be the GROSSEST IDOLATRY.

But SUDDENLY, amid the silence of the breathless multitude, the PRIEST UTTERS THE DIVINE LIFE-GIVING WORDS of consecration, and that which was bread and wine, is bread and wine NO LONGER, but the TRUE Body and Blood of our Lord Himself. It is the SAME BODY that was born of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that DIED FOR US on the cross, that was RAISED AGAIN TO LIFE, and that even NOW sits at the right hand of the Father…….

‘Now is this MYSTERY the power of the CREATION appears as much as in the MYSTERY of the INCARNATION.’ – ‘The Holy Mass: The Sacrifice for the Living and the Dead,’ M. Muller, pp. 174, 175. New York: 1876.” – ‘Facts of Faith,’ C. Edwardson, p. 208. Southern Publishing Asso., Nashville 8 TN: 1943

I hope and pray at this junction that whatever form of Christianity you profess, whether Baptist, Church of Christ, Evangelical, Jehovah’s Witness, Methodist, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Reformed, Seventh-day Adventist, Seventh-day Baptist, non denominational, born-again Catholic, etc.,— who all believe in sola scriptura, “the Bible and the Bible only,” to closely examine your understanding of two mysteries spoken of in Bible: the “mystery of godliness” (1 Tim. 3:16) and the “mystery of iniquity” (2 Thess. 2: 7, 3-12).

These two opposite mysteries lie at the very core of the final stage of the great controversy “which is to test the whole world.”

(To be continued). Bless all, NMF

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THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST vs THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 11)

Liguori says of the priest as he performs the Mass [all emphasis mine]: “In OBEDIENCE to the words of his priests—Hoc est Corpus Meum—God Himself descends on the altar….He comes WHENEVER they call Him, and AS OFTEN as they call Him, and places Himself IN THEIR HANDS……
They may, if they wish, SHUT HIM UP in the tabernacle; …..they may, if they choose, EAT HIS FLESH, and give Him for FOOD to others.’ – Doctor Alphonsus de Liguori, ‘Dignity and Duties of the Priest,’ pp. 26, 27.

“Then priests and people worship the Christ thus created: ‘Elevating a particle of the Blessed Sacrament, and turning towards the people, he [the priest] says: ‘Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him who taketh away the sins of the world.’

‘And then says three times: Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldest enter under my roof; but only say the word, and my soul shall be healed…..

‘This pure and holy Sacrament. Who livest and reignest forever and ever. Amen.’ – ‘The Key of Heaven,’ Right Reverend J. Milner, D. D., approved by Cardinal Gibbons, pp. 126, 127. Baltimore: J. Murphy & Co., 1898.” —-‘Facts of Faith,’ Christian Edwardson, p. 208, Southern Publishing Asso., Nashville, TN: 1943.

If this is contradicting and confusing to your eyes and ears, nothing’s wrong with your mind, because that’s what “Babylon” in Revelation means, “confusion,” babel.

Furthermore, the Bible clearly states that Christ “as the Lamb of God “was offered only ONCE AND FOR ALL” at His crucifixion at Calvary—not “as often”’as the Roman priest “changes” a wafer of bread into the actual body of Christ! See Heb. 9: 24-26, 28; 10: 10, 11, 14.

(To be continued). Bless all, NMF

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
July 30

THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST vs THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 10)

Regarding the Roman Catholic sacrifice of the Mass, their Sainted Doctor Alphonsus de Liguori says:

‘If the person of the Redeemer had not yet been in the world, the priest, by pronouncing the words of consecration, would produce this great person of a Man-God. ‘O wonderful dignity of the priests,’ cries out St. Augustine; ‘in their hands, as in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, the Son of God becomes INCARNATE [emphasis mine].’ Hence priests are called the PARENTS of Jesus Christ.

‘Thus the priest may, in a certain manner, be called the CREATOR OF HIS CREATOR…..HE THAT CREATED ME WITHOUT ME IS HIMSELF CREATED BY ME!’ ‘- ‘Dignity and Duty of the Priest,’ pp. 32, 33.” – ‘Facts of Faith,’ Christian Edwardson, p. 207, Southern Publishing Asso., Nashvile, TN: 1943.

Even heathen or pagan religions do not claim—as the Church of Rome claims for its own priests—such dignity and power to “produce” or “create” the gods that their adherents and votaries worship!

If you find this hard to swallow, remember that “truth is stranger than fiction.” However, here, this isn’t fiction to numberless millions who sincerely and zealously partake of the Mass on Sundays believing it to be gospel truth!

Lest we forget: Sincerity never ever changes error into truth, neither does constant repetition, tradition, an overwhelming majority nor the endorsement of powerful human institutions!
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
July 29

THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST vs THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 9)

See Part 8 before proceeding.

“We now have before us the ONLY means of salvation in the Roman Catholic GOSPEL, as presented by men of unquestionable authority among them. This throws light on the reason why the Catholic priest has such a HOLD on his people. They dare not oppose him, because he represents their ONLY means of contact with heaven.

Cut off from the CHURCH, they feel they are LOST; but they do not know of a CHRIST who has come all the way DOWN to the lost sinner’s side, to whom they can come PERSONALLY and receive FORGIVENESS through GRACE alone. The DIVINE LADDER HAS BEEN CUT OFF, and Mary, saints, and priests have been SUBSTITUTED. But the Bible knows of only ‘ONE MEDIATOR,’ Jesus Christ. (1 Tim. 2:5; Ps. 49: 7, 8.).

“But we have not yet gone to the DEPTH OF THIS SUBSTITUTE ‘MYSTERY.’ Let us now take the next step. Having removed the living Christ from contact with the sinner, they had to SUBSTITUTE something else to satisfy the longing of the human heart for the INDWELLING presence of Christ.

“And that substitute is the ‘SACRIFICE OF THE MASS.’ The Roman Church teaches that the priest in the mass CHANGES the little wafer into the REAL CHRIST, which they then fall down and worship, after which they EAT Him, believing that they have become PARTAKERS of Christ and receive FORGIVENESS of sin. Thus they have substituted a MAN-MADE Christ for a LIVING Christ! St. Alphonsus de Liguori says:” – ‘Facts of Faith,’ Christian Edwardson, p. 207, Southern Publishing Asso., Nashville, TN: 1943.

Help your Catholic relatives, friends, and associates know the truth regarding real meaning of the Sacrifice of the Mass, by first understanding this topic of the Gospel of Christ vs the ‘Gospel’ of the Roman church.
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
July 28

THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST vs THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 8)

Edwardson says this of the gospel of Rome’s Antichrist:

“Here is this ‘dogma’ presented in authentic Catholic works:
‘We define that the Blessed Virgin Mary in the first moment of her conception. . . .was preserved free from every form of original sin.’

‘Unlike the most of the children of Adam, the SOUL [emphasis mine] of Mary was NEVER subject to sin.’ – ‘Faith of the Fathers,’ Cardinal Gibbons, pp. 203, 204. Baltimore: 1885.

“The Sainted Doctor Alphonsus de Liguori says:
‘The merits of Jesus, shall be dispensed through the hands and by the intercession of Mary.’ – ‘Glories of Mary,’ p. 180, New Revised Edition. New York: P. J. Kennedy & Sons, 1888.

‘God has chosen to bestow NO GRACE [emphasis mine] upon us but by the hands of Mary.’ – Ibid, p. 180.

‘Whoever asks and wishes to obtain grace without the intercession of Mary, attempts to fly without wings.’- ibid, p. 189.

‘Mary is the HOPE of all our salvation.’ – Ibid, p. 195.

‘Thou [Mary] art the ONLY advocate of sinners.’ – Ibid, p. 129.

‘All those who are saved, are saved SOLELY by means of this DIVIND mother; …..the salvation of all depends upon the PREACHING MARY.’ – Ibid, pp. 19, 20.

‘We ask many things of God and do NOT obtain them; we ask them from Mary and OBTAIN them.’ – Ibid, p. 150. Much more can be cited.

“A Protestant may ask if the merits of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross are not sufficient, so that we can receive grace DIRECTLY from Him. To this the [Roman] Catholic Church answers:
‘The merits and the virtue of the sacrifice are infinite, but that virtue and these merits must be applied, and this can only be done by CERTAIN MEANS.’ – ‘Doctrinal Catechism,’ S. Keenan, p. 129. NY. Kennedy & Sons, 1846.

[What are these ‘certain means?’]
‘The PRIEST has the power of the KEYS, or the POWER of delivering sinners from hell, of making them worthy of paradise, and of changing them from the slaves of Satan into the children of God. And God Himself is OBLIGED TO ABIDE by the judgment of His Priests….The Sovereign Master of the universe ONLY FOLLOWS THE SERVANT by confirming in heaven all that the latter DECIDES in earth.’ ‘ – ‘Dignity and Duties of the Priest,’ St. Alphonsus de Liguori, pp. 27, 28. NY: Benziger Bros., 1888.’”- ‘Facts of Faith,’ Christian Edwardson, pp. 206, 207. (Revised) Southern Publishing Asso., Nashville 8 TN: 1943.

Only “the truth as it is in Jesus” can deliver the sinner-slave from the degradation of sin, the power of Satan, and the tyrannical rule of spiritual darkness of deep-seated “Christianized heathenism,” “tradition-over-Scriptures,” lying heresies of Spiritualism, abominations, antichristian-anti biblical, the Church-over-Christ doctrines and teachings!

(To be continued). Bless all, NMF

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
July 27

THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST VS THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 7)

“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood [not spirit], He also Himself likewise took part of the same [flesh and blood].”
Heb. 2: 14.

“Wherefore in ALL THINGS it behoved [Gr. ‘under obligation’] Him to be made LIKE UNTO His brethren [you and me]. . . .In that He himself hath SUFFERED BEING TEMPTED, He is able to SUCCOR THEM THAT ARE TEMPTED.” verses 17, 18, KJV. Temptation is no temptation unless there is no possibility of yielding.

Paul definitively states what kind of human flesh and nature God Creator incarnated into. Mark! “For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, and for sin, CONDEMNED [not condoned!]

SIN IN THE FLESH [For what purpose?]. That the righteousness of the LAW might be fulfilled IN us, WHO walk NOT after the flesh but after the [Holy] Spirit.” Rom. 8: 3,4. Read the rest of chapter.

Apostle Paul relates to the Christian his experience before being fully converted in Christ and his convoluted and terribly frustrating experience in chapter 7, then, after his genuine conversion he triumphantly declares the condemnation he suffered prior was because of his yet-carnal mind that was attempting to achieve spiritual success and victory. All he ended up with was wretchedness of spirit!

Too many Christians distort the truth by misquoting or “picking-and-choosing” only what they want to read in the Bible because it appears to sustain them in their worldly course of life. Such haphazard, careless, and even irreverent reading of the Holy Bible, God in His Word can never stand the closest scrutiny of the Scriptures, bring us up to a higher spiritual sphere and abiding relationship of branch-to-Vine with “the High and holy One who inhabits the eternity.”

‘But any serious searcher of truth will allow himself to be blessed by the WHOLE truth, the WHOLE gospel, the WHOLE law, the WHOLE armor of God, by faith and obedience which is based on “loving God with ALL the heart, ALL the mind, ALL the soul, and ALL the strength.” Jesus said, “This is the FIRST and great commandment.”

“ALL following verse is one of my all-time favorites so that it is already imprinted in my memory bank. Notice:

“Though He were a Son [of God] yet learned He OBEDIENCE by the things which He suffered; and being made perfect, He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that OBEY Him.” Heb. 5: 8, 9.

Here Paul specifically says that Jesus, “Ben ami,” Son of suffering like Benjamin was, not yet “Ben David,” Son of King, “had to learn the obedience of a man, as our Example by suffering—-not caused by physical affliction or infliction but by temptation.

Any striving Christian know to a certain extent of personal experience how PAINFUL it is to say NO in both heart, mind, and decision to deny oneself his favorite food, entertainment, and secret vices, if any.

That was the experience of Paul until he found the answer and the “way of escape.” Jesus was “tempted IN ALL POINTS” as all mankind is tempted “yet without sin;” not once did He yield, not even in thought, to any and all of Satan’s personal temptations and provocations or through his agencies, primarily the religious leaders who prided themselves as the “spiritual guardians of the chosen people and nation.”

In His adopted flesh-and-blood human nature that was never exempt from the natural power of heredity transmitted through His forbears four thousand years after the fall (thats why the gospel of Matthew opens up with a genealogy of Jesus, etc.) with all its passions (else He could not feel and relate to the lot of fallen man): but He did not have the sinful pollutions (for not once did He yield to temptation, not even in thought hence, He “was holy and undefined” as the Lamb of God “without blemish, the only sinless Man who “was made in the likeness of sinful flesh” and thus “walked as a Man among fallen men.”

The opposite of “likeness” is unlikeness. So we get it right. That’s also why it was prophesied that His body “would see no corruption” neither would a bone in His body be “broken.” It is sin that debases the moral character, defiles the conscience and brings on decay and corruption at death. If you have ever smelled “the stench of death” it should be a severely unpleasant reminder of what the results of sin is so that we will learn to detest the cause not just the effect.

(To be continued) Bless all, NMF