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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Do you have an addiction? Is there anything that you believe you “really need?” Is there anything that you could not imagine losing for a few weeks? Do you plan your life around the ability to get or use something? Is there any behavior, habit or unhealthy desire that you can’t stop? Are other areas of your life suffering (family, friends, career, finances, health) because of a certain behavior? Is a certain behavior preventing you from growing in Christ? Do thoughts of a certain item or action or person consume you more and bring more pleasure than thoughts about God? Is there anything that is wasting your money and time? Is there anything in your life that you keep hidden from others? Is there anything in your life that leaves you anxious, guilty or empty, but yet you still desire more of it? Is there anything that is mastering you? When you are grumpy, depressed, scared, bored, stressed or irritable, where is the first place you turn? What or whom do you trust for comfort and protection, adventure and satisfaction, purpose and pleasure? Not all the things we can be addicted to are necessarily evil, but if God is not on the top of the food chain you have an addiction. You are worshiping and idol.
Randy Smith

Scripture is clear: that womb contains a person being formed in the image of God. Any distinction between the unborn and a person (or a human and a person, for that matter) is both artificial and unbiblical. God recognizes the unborn as a person and designs the unborn for life from the moment of conception. While our culture is continually pushing against this idea, it is not possible to believe the Bible and deny that the unborn are persons. And once followers of Christ accept this, we can no longer sit idly by while people are mercilessly murdered in their mothers’ wombs.
David Platt

    • Christ And The Pope Contrasted

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    Christ And The Pope Contrasted

    Christ and the Pope Contrasted

    1). Christ wore a crown of thorns. Matthew 27:29 “Among (the pope’s) insignia (is).. the triple crown.” (Externals of Catholic Church, Msgr. John O’Sullivan, Pg.9)

    2). Christ said, “My Kingdom is not of this world.” John 18:36 The pope is “Sovereign of the State of Vatican City” and “a temporal monarch.” (Ibid., p. 9)

    3). Christ washed His disciples’ feet, this manifesting a spirit of

    humility worthy of emulation by His followers. John 13:5 For centuries, the Pope presented his foot to be kissed. Catholic Dictionary of Theology, Volume III p. 178

    4). Christ gave His Gospel free to all. Matthew 8:10 The Pope authorizes stipends for Masses. (Priest Conway, The Question Box)

    5). Christ said, “Call no man upon earth your father.” Matthew 23:9 “The Pope is usually mentioned as ‘Our Holy Father'”. (Externals of Catholic Church, pg. 9)

    6). Christ lived a chase and pure life. 1 Peter 2:2 Even Roman Catholics admit that a number of the popes lived immoral, degraded lives.

    7). Christ authorized the Holy Spirit as His Vicar on earth. John

    14:26 “Christ chose St. Peter to be..his vicar on earth.. These powers were passed to his successors.” (Catholic Almanac, pg. 145)

    8). Christ is the Head of the Church. Colossians 1:18 “St. Peter,…the head of the church…these prerogatives passed to his successors.” (Ibid)

    9). Christ claims infallibility for himself and the Word of God

    alone. Matthew 24:35 “The successor of Peter…is infallible in matters of faith and morals.” (Externals of Catholic Church, O’Sullivan, pg.5)

    10). Christ taught that sin should be confessed to God. 1 John 1:9 “Sacramental confession is the act by which a person accuses himself of his sins to a priest.” (Catholic Almanac, pg. 279)

    11). Christ taught His followers to pray to God through Him. John

    16:23 The Pope teaches his followers to pray to Mary. “We often more quickly obtain what we ask by calling on the name of Mary than by invoking that of Jesus.” (Glories of Mary, Liguori, pg. 254)

    12). Christ is the one mediator between God and man. 1 Timothy 2:5 “We can honor the saints by praying to them.” (St. Joseph’s Catechism, pg. 113)

    13). Christ taught that salvation was by grace. John 3:16, Ephesians

    2:8-9 The Pope teaches salvation by works. “We sin by presumption when we trust we can be saved by God alone without our own efforts.” (St. Peter’s Catechism, pg. 33)

    14). Christ was poor and lowly. Matthew 22:19 The material wealth of the Vatican, over which the Pope is absolute monarch, is immense.

    15). Christ had no place to lay His head. Matthew 8:20 The Pope lives in a magnificient palace surrounding by wealth and pomp.

    16). Christ promulgated the laws of His Kingdom and urged His

    followers to do the same. Matthew 5,6,7, 28:20 Cannon law has been substituted as the official law of the Roman Catholic Church.

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