They're so nosy. Anyway. Well, we gotta get back into this. We were talking about indulgences, weren't we? And the five papal doors, the doors that damn, right? And, you know, I know it's kind of laborsome. to go through some of this material, right? But I believe it'd be very profitable to talk about it. So that's what we're gonna do here. We're gonna talk about, we're gonna continue with these indulgences because that's what these people, these five people portal doors are about. They're about making money for the Pope. They're about making money for the coffers, and they're about evil. And they're actually doors that damn. When they say words like repentance, they don't mean what you mean. When they say words like faith, they don't mean what you mean. When they say words like the Lord's Supper or ordinances or anything, they don't mean what you mean. That's one thing that you have to understand. What they mean is totally different. So, we're on part three of these indulgences. Yeah, part three of this. Part two in this five people portal series that we're doing, mini series here. But we're actually gonna get back into talking about these holy doors and the Jubilee, the year of release, right? We'll pick it back up with bony face there in a little while. So this is Rome's scheme. These five doors are Rome's scheme to a false gospel. Number three, the opposition to indulgences within the Church of Rome. Such a doctrine could not fail to offend truly pious souls even within the Church. Long before the Reformation, the whole system was attacked by eminent doctors. One of its most powerful opponents was John of Wessel. In the middle of the 15th century, a festival of jubilee with vast indulgences was proclaimed by Pope Clement VI. Never mind, I'm gonna keep going. This brought the subject practically before Wessel's mind and he wrote a treaties against indulgences. For a full account, you can see that in the Reformers before the Reformation. The flagrant abuses connected with the sale of indulgences began to cause a reaction against the system even in the popular mind. In the 15th century in particular, the disposal of them had become almost a common traffic, and a public sale of them was generally preceded. by some spacious pretext. For instance, the reduction of the Greeks under the yoke of the Roman Church, a war with heretics, or a crusade against the Neapolitans. Wait, they don't like Neapolitan ice cream? What's going on? Or those little Brock's Candy Neapolitans? You started a war against them? What? Man. People fight about anything. My wife loves those little Neapolitan candies. Too often the pretenses for selling indulgences were in reality bloody, idolatrous, or superstitious. It was one of the charges brought against John XXIII at the Council of Constance in 1415 that he empowered his legates to absolve penitents Penitence. Penitence. I'll get it right in a minute. From all sorts of crimes upon payment of sums proportioned to their guilt. When such indulgences were to be published, the disposal of them was commonly farmed out, for the papal court could not always wait to have the money collected and convey from every country of Europe, and their rich merchants at Genoa, Milan, Venice, and Augsburg would purchase the indulgences for a particular province and paid to the papal chancery handsome sums for them. Thus both parties were benefited. The chancery came at once into possession of large sums of money and the farmers did not fail of a good bargain. Wait a minute. Are you telling me they ran that thing like they resold those things? Yeah. Right. Precisely. They sold it to one person and then they sold it to another. Right. Thus, both parties were benefited. The chancery came at once into possession of large sums of money, and the farmers did not fail of a good bargain. They were careful to employ skillful hawkers of the indulgences, persons whose boldness and impudence bore due proportion to the eloquence with which they imposed upon the simple people. that this species of traffic might have a religious aspect, the Pope appointed the archbishops of the several provinces to be his commissaries, who in his name announced that indulgences were to be sold and generally selected the person to hawk them. And for this service, shared the profits with the merchants who farmed them. These papal hawkers enjoyed great privileges, and however odious to the civil authorities, they were not to be molested. In other words, leave them alone, let them sell their indulgences, kind of like the stock market, or like you're selling rare commodities. And generally selected the purses to hawk them, and for this service shared the profits with the merchants who farmed them. These papal hawkers enjoyed great privileges, and however odious they were to the civil authorities, they were not to be molested. Complaints indeed were made against these contributions levied by the popes upon all of Christian Europe. Kings and princes, clergy and laity, bishops, monasteries, and confessors all felt themselves aggrieved by them. The kings that their countries were impoverished under the pretext of crusades that were never undertaken and of wars against the heretics and the Turks, being the Muslims. Wait, hold the phone. Are you trying to tell me that the Pope uses the Muslims to wage war and as a piece of bargaining and as a military order in order to control nations? No, he's telling you that. I'm just repeating it. And history bears it out that that's exactly what Rome has always done. They have always used Islam. They have always used the Muslims. as a tool of antichrist. Always. Always, always, always. Right. If they wanted to slaughter the Jews, they use the Muslims. If they wanted to slaughter the Greeks, The Orthodox Church, the Great Schism. Then they use Crusaders to burn the cities down. Like they did with the Crusades, by the way. Peter's Church at Rome published indulgences with a plenary remission to all such as should contribute towards erecting the magnificent fabric. The right of promulgating these indulgences in Germany, together with a share in the profits arising from the sale of them, was granted to Albert Elector of Mence, an Archbishop of Magdeburg, who selected as his chief agent for retailing them Saxony John Tetzel. a Dominican friar, of licentious morals, but all of an active and enterprising spirit, and remarkable for his noisy and popular eloquence. Well. Assisted by the monks of his order, he executed the commission with great zeal and success with no less indecency, boasting that he had saved more souls from hell by his indulgences than St. Peter had converted by his preaching. Wait a minute. How does that work exactly? It doesn't. What are the five doors about? Are they about spooky witchcraft and devils flying in and out and everywhere? No, that's just kind of a bonus. Well, what is it about then? Money, control, power, corruption, false gospel. That's what it's about. That's all it's about. That's all it's ever about. Right? That's what it's about. So, Let's see. He assured the purchasers of them that their crimes, however enormous, would be forgiven, that the efficacy of indulgences then St. Peter had, excuse me, efficacy of indulgences was so great that the most heinous sins, even if one should violate, which was impossible, the mother of God would be remitted and expiated by them and the person freed both from the punishment and guilt, that this was the unspeakable gift of God in order to reconcile men to himself. So they say they held the Virgin Mary in high regards. But they said, even if you raped the Virgin Mary, you would still be forgiven because of this papal indulgence. Well, what are you getting at preacher? I'm getting at this right here. Partly. What are these five papal doors about? Pope Francis approves LGBT pilgrimage. See, he's gonna wash them. He's gonna grant them indulgences to be what they are. You get it? That's what he's doing. That's his game. It's to baptize the LGBTQ and wash away all their sins. That's what it's about. Partly. It's part of the scheme. In order to reconcile men to himself, In the usual form of absolution written by his own hand, he said, may our Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon thee and absolve thee by the merits of his most holy passion. And I, by his authority, that of his apostles Peter and Paul, and of the most holy Pope, granted and committed to me in these parts, do absolve thee, first, from all ecclesiastical censures, in whatever manner they have been incurred, then from all thy sins, transgressions, and excesses, how enormous soever they may be, even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the Holy See. and as far as the keys of the Holy Church extend. I remit to thee all punishments which thou deservest in purgatory on their account, and I restore thee to the holy sacraments of the church, to the unity of the faithful, to the innocence and purity which thou possessest at baptism, so that when thou diest the gates of punishment shall be shut, and the gates of paradise of delight shall be opened, and if thou shalt not die at present, this grace shall remain in full force when thou art at the point of death. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The terms in which the retailers of indulgences described their benefits and necessities of purchasing them were so extravagant that they appear most incredible. Now, actually the mafia did do that. Aaron said the mafia would buy tickets to commit, they did. That's how they were absolved. That's how they were absolved. That's how they got mafia hitmen to do what they did, because they're all working for the Vatican. The Italian mob is ran by the Vatican, it always was. All of that is ran by the Vatican, it always has been. They're Sicilian. Eh? El Papa. El Papa runs the mob. You know, Papa's the biggest mobster ever. So see, all their sins are forgiven. All their ecclesiastical punishments. Well, first of all, there is no power in the ecclesiastical in churches to punish sinners. The only power a church has is to separate them from their assembly, but not to harm a hair on their head. But Rome took the power of the state and the power of the church. The terms in which the retailers of indulgences describe their benefits, right? Out of this world, literally. If any man said they purchased letters of indulgence, his soul may rest secure with respect to its salvation. Do you understand that? Do you see why I call them five papal portals, doors that damn? The Bible says without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. The Bible says that except you repent you shall all likewise perish. The Bible says believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I unto you. Says not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy saved us by the washing of regeneration, the renewing of the Holy Ghost. You can't buy your way into heaven and you can't buy forgiveness. It was already purchased in the blood of Jesus Christ. The souls confined in purgatory for whose redemption indulgences are purchased as soon as the money tinkles in the chest, instantly escape from that place of torment and ascend into heaven. That the cross erected by the preachers of indulgences was equally efficacious with the cross of Christ itself, lo, said they, the heavens are open, if you enter not now, When will you enter? For 12 pence, you may redeem the soul of your father out of purgatory. And are you so ungrateful that you will not rescue the soul of your parent from torment? If you had but one coat, you ought to strip yourself instantly and sell it in order to purchase such a benefit. It was these abuses as much as any of the other one cause which led to the Lutheran Reformation. And it was against these that Luther first directed his attacks. See, this is what these papal doors are about. By the way, you could see the same thing when he said, oh, and we'll put a door in the prison. And then he commanded in 2015 that churches have their own door so they could do the same thing, right? So churches had their own door. The Bible says Christ is the door. They have their own door. The present doctrine and practice of indulgence, the following extracts show what has been since the Council of Trent and is now the Romish doctrine of indulgence. The Council declared that as the power of granting indulgences was given by Christ to the Church and she has exercised it in the most ancient times, this Holy Synod teaches and commands that the use of them as being greatly salutary to the Christian people and approved by the authority of Councils shall be retained and she Anathematizes those who say they are useless or deny the church the power of granting them But in this grant the synod wishes that moderation agreeable to the ancient and approved practice of the church be exercised Lest by too great facility ecclesiastical discipline be weakened Wait so Yeah, in other words Anathema you're cursed if you don't believe in the power of the Pope then you're cursed, buddy. If you don't believe in the power of the bishops and the Pope to forgive sins, well, you're cursed. Pope Leo X in his bull, De Indulgentis. whose object, he states, to be that no one in future may allege ignorance of the doctrine of the Roman Church, respecting indulgences and their efficacy, declares that the Roman pontiff, vicar of Christ on earth, can, for reasonable causes by the power of the keys, grant to the faithful, whether in this life or in purgatory, indulgences out of the superabundance of the merits of Christ. Right. He says a single drop of Christ's blood Clement VI says a single drop of Christ's blood would have sufficed for the redemption of the whole human race. So the rest was not lost, but was a treasure which he acquired in the militant church to be used for the benefit of his sons, which treasures he would not suffer to be hid in a napkin or buried in the ground, but committed to be dispensed by St. Peter and his successors. his own vicars upon earth for proper and reasonable causes for the total and partial remission of the temporal punishment due to sin and for an augmentation of his treasure the merits of the blessed mother of god and of all the elect who are known to come in aid the reasonable causes on account of which indulgences are given are where the cause be pious that is not a work which is merely temporal or vain or in any respect appertaining to the divine glory, but for any work whatsoever which tends to be the honor of God to the service of the church, an indulgence will be valid." So who determines that? Whoever wants to. Whoever pays the most money. Right? I mean, this is how they do this. Well, you don't want your You know, when Chiniqui talked about his, I think it was his father died and they took his cow, right? The only cow they had, the priest did for payment. So those poor people starve, right? All right. We see occasionally the very greatest indulgences given for the very lightest causes, as when a plenary indulgence is granted to all who stand before the gates of St. Peter, whilst the Pope gives the solemn blessing to the people on Easter day, for indulgences do not depend for their efficacy on consideration of the work enjoined, but on the infinite treasure of the merits of Christ and the saints, which is a consideration surpassing and transcending everything that is granted by an indulgence. In some cases, the work enjoined must not only be pious and useful but bear a certain proportion with the indulgence. That is, the work enjoined must tend to an end more pleasing in the sight of God than the satisfaction remitted, although it is not necessary that it be in itself very meritous. or satisfactory, or difficult, and laborious, though these things ought to be regarded too, but that it be a means apt and useful towards obtaining the end for which the indulgence is granted. So the large resort of people before the gates of St. Peter when the Pope gives his solemn blessing is means apt and useful to set forth faith respecting the head of the church, and to honor of the apostolic see, which is the end of the indulgence. Bellermine. The First General Lateran Council granted remission of sins to whosoever shall go to Jerusalem and effectually helped to oppose the infidels. Preacher, why do you got to cover all this history stuff anyway? Why don't you talk about really cool, like somebody else's broadcast as good as talk about really cool spooky demons that are devils that are flying around and like, you know, people snorting devils and seeing holes in the sky and seeing all kinds of cool stuff. And why can't you talk about that stuff? Because that stuff ain't damning anybody to hell, this stuff is. That's why. this stuff is right here, because this is right in front of your face what it's actually all about. Do you get it? What did the Pope do? See, this is history that everybody's ignorant about. I covered a lot of this, some of this in my crusades in Baptist history. because people are so absolutely ignorant of their history. That's why they don't hate Rome like I hate it. I hate it. It's antichrist to the core. I want the people to be saved. I feel sorry for the people that are enslaved to it. I want them to be saved. But the papacy and the Vatican, I hate it. It's vile. It's soul damning. It's terrible. And people are deceived by it. So I don't, you'll forgive me if I don't waste a lot of time talking about spooky stuff. Cause this is spookier than ever. If you really want to know the truth of it. They literally paid, the Pope literally paid these people to go over there and wipe people out in Jerusalem. The third and fourth Lateran councils granted the same indulgence to those who set themselves to destroy heretics, or who shall take up arms against them. Well, who are the heretics? You. You. Bible believers, Baptists, Anabaptists, Waldensians, Donatists, Novationists, Petrobruscians, Patricians, Paulicians, Albigensians, Lawlords, you are. Wait, you're saying that he actually gave them full pardon if they killed you? Yeah, yeah. Well, he couldn't fight the Reformation and he couldn't fight Bible preaching without killing people. Boniface VIII granted not only a full and larger, but the most full pardon of all sins to all that visit Rome the first year in every century. Why? That's his jubilee. That's the five doors. That's what we're talking about. That's what this is about. And you should hate it. Well, wonder where the Muslims got that idea to like go to Mecca and stuff and pray and stuff. And where'd they get that idea where they all got to go over there and make their little voyage to Mecca and do all that stuff. And where'd they get that from? They got it from Rome. They set up a holy place over there. Just to fight with the Jews. Just to compete with them and make up some fake place called Palestine. Whose idea was that? Bonyface. All of them. It was their idea, it was Rome's idea. Clement V decreed that they who should at the Jubilee visit such and such churches should obtain a most full remission of all their sins. Where does the Bible say that your sins will be remitted if you visit a church? It doesn't. That's what witchcraft is. Right? Christ said, for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Hebrews 9 22 says and almost all things are by the law purged with blood and without shedding of blood is no remission Romans 3 25 whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood To declare his righteousness for the remission of sins Christ's righteousness for the remission of sins The abatement, the relaxation, the moderation, right? The release, the discharge, the relinquishment of the claim or right, forgiveness, pardon, the giving up of the punishment due to the crime as the remission of sins only by Christ. And he not only granted a plenary absolution of all sins to all who died on the road to Rome, but also commanded the angels of paradise to carry the soul direct to heaven. Wait a minute. He told those people that when they died, because they were granted a plenary indulgence, that their soul was taken by an angel straight to heaven. Yeah. You see how evil it is? You see how they use it to control men? You see how they use it? Is this boring you? Is this too much for the little peon minds today of people that live in this world that are so used and so fixated on garbage and nonsense that when you give people the absolute plain truth, it's too much for them. They want to be entertained. Right? They want to be entertained with it. Clement V decreed that they who should at the jubilee visit and such and such should obtain a most full remission of all their sins. Sincere repentance, we are told, is always enjoined or implied in the grant of an indulgence, and is indispensably necessary for every grace. But as the dead are removed from the possibility, so are they from the necessity of repentance. As the Pope says, Bellarmine, applies the satisfactions of Christ and the saints to the dead by means of works enjoined on the living. They are applied not in the way of judicial absolution, but in the way of payment. modem solutionists. For as when a person gives alms or fasts or makes pilgrimage on account of the dead, the effect is not that he obtains absolution for them from their liability and punishment, but he presents to God that particular satisfaction for them in order that God on receiving it may liberate the dead from the debt of punishment which they had to pay. So the dead can't repent, so you can repent for them. You pay this money, you get this indulgence, and guess what? You repent for them. Well, that's impossible. Yeah, but it goes along with Rome's idea of baptizing infants and youth sponsoring their faith. The Bible says, if thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. Well, you can't believe for somebody else. And you can't pay for somebody else's belief either. Their object is to afford succor to such as have departed real penitence in the love of God, yet before they had duly satisfied by fruits worthy of penance for sills of commission and omission and are now purifying in the fire of purgatory, that an entrance may be opened for them in that country where nothing defiled is admitted." Wait a minute. If they were sincere when they were here, and all you're doing is paying for a leg up for them, wouldn't they already be out of purgatory? You see the scam? This is what happens when people don't have the word of God, and they don't open the Bible, the scriptures, and read about eternal life through Jesus Christ, the Lord. This is how. When you don't have the Bible, when you don't have the scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, When you don't have that, guess what? You'll fall for anything. We have resolved, says Pope Leo XII, in his bowl of indiction, indication, sorry, indiction, whatever it is, for the Universal Jubilee in 1824. That's what the Pope is doing now. but only this was in 1824. In virtue of the authority given us by heaven, fully to unlock that sacred treasure composed of the merits, sufferings, and virtues of Christ our Lord, and of his virgin mother, and of all the saints which the author of human salvation has entrusted to our dispensation, during this year of the Jubilee, we mercifully grant, give and grant in the Lord a plenary indulgence remission, and pardon of all their sins to all the faithful of Christ. truly penitent, and confessing their sins and receiving the Holy Communion, who shall visit the churches of blessed Peter and Paul. We offer you, says Ganganelli. in his bull-day indulgences, a share of all the riches of divine mercy which have been entrusted to us, and chiefly those which have their origin in the blood of Christ. We will then open to you all the gates of the rich reservoir of atonement derived from the merits of the mother of God, the holy apostles, the blood of the martyrs, the good works of all the saints. We invite you then to drink of this overflowing stream of indulgence, to enrich yourselves in the inexhaustible treasures of the church according to the custom of our ancestors." Stop! The Bible doesn't say the riches of the church. It says, "...and that we might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He had aforeprepared unto glory." Ephesians 3.16 says that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. These people are witches, is what they are. Deceiving the masses, right? Deceiving and being deceived. That's what they're doing. Do not then let slip. the present occasion, this favorable time, these salutatory days, employing them to appease the justice of God and obtain your pardon. The temporal punishment due to sin by the decree of God, when its guilt and eternal punishment are remitted, may consist either of evil in this life or of the temporal suffering in the next. Which temporal suffering in the next life is called purgatory? that the Church has received power from God to remit both of these inflictions, and this remission is called an indulgence. It is the received doctrine of the Church that an indulgence, when truly gained, is not barely a relaxation of the canonical penance enjoined by the Church, but also an actual remission by God himself of the whole or part of the temporal punishment due to it in his sight. I know we haven't even got through indulgences yet. I know. I haven't even got back to the Jubilee yet. But these indulgences, in my opinion, are so evil. They are so vile. They are so wicked. And they have damned more souls to hell that they need to be talked about. People need to understand. They need to have a good understanding. God's people, Christians, need to understand this. What Rome taught and what they have always taught. Right? and how they try to whitewash it, right? But they can't. Because this is who they are and this is what they believe. And this is how they damn souls to hell for all of eternity. Because they teach them a lie. They teach them a false gospel, a false penance. Right? They teach them lies. And these are doors that damn. That's what they are. They're doors that damn for all of eternity. Friend, these people are dying and going to a devil's hell, believing a false gospel, believing that they were right with God, believing that they were pious people, or maybe not even believing that, but being led to believe that they were better than what they actually were. Right? So they sell them on the fact that they need purgatory when there is no purgatory. They need absolution from purgatory and there is no purgatory. That they can get an indulgence. They don't even need the indulgence. Right? When the Bible says the blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin, Jesus paid the sin debt. He paid it all. As to the present practice of indulgences, it subsists with all its immoral tendencies, in full force to this day. It is true, however, that the abuses connected with the sale of indulgences are not so flagrant as in former times, especially in those countries where the Roman Church is destitute of political power. Where it has, the system is almost as bad as ever. It is said that as lately as the year 1800, a Spanish vessel was captured near the coast of South America, freighted, among other things, with numerous bales of indulgences for various sins, the price of which varying from half a dollar to $7 was marked upon each. They had been brought in Spain, been bought in Spain, and were intended for sale in South America. Seymour tells us as follows, this inscription is placed in that part of the church, which is of all most public. It is placed over the holy water to which all persons must resort on entering the church before partaking of any of its services. It is as follows. Indulgence. The image of the Most Holy Mary, which stands on the high altar, spoke to the Holy Pope Gregory, saying to him, Why do you no longer salute me in passing with the accustomed salutation? The saint asked pardon and grant it to those who celebrate mass at the altar, the deliverance of a soul from purgatory. That is the special soul for which they celebrate the mass. Wait. So she was just like sitting there in this image of the most holy mother, Mary. Which stood at the altar, started speaking to Pope Gregory. Dude. Okay. Now let me give you some advice. If you're ever somewhere. and an inanimate object, like a statue, starts talking to you, run! Get out of there! I mean, really? You're sitting there and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this statue starts talking to me? And you're gonna sit there and you're gonna stand there and you're gonna talk back to it? No way, man. I'm outta here. There is nothing more frequently remarked by Protestants on entering the churches of Rome than the constant recurrence of the words, indulgente plenaria, a plenary indulgence attached to the masses offered there. And this is the tantamount to the emancipation of any soul from purgatory through a mass offered at the altar. Instead of these words, however, the same thing is more plainly expressed in some churches. In the church, Santa Maria Della Pace, so celebrated for the magnificent fresco of the Sybils by Raphael, there is over one of the altars the following inscription, Agni Messa Celebrata Inquest Altara Libera, I don't even know what that says, Una Anamad Al Purgatorio. Okay. Every mass celebrate this altar frees the soul from purgatory. In some churches, this privilege extends throughout the year, but in others, it is limited to those masses which are offered in particular days. In the Church of Crochet Day something or other, this privilege is connected in a special manner with the fourth Sunday in Lent. And this is notified by the public notice posted in the church close to the altar, setting forth that a mass celebrated there on that day releases a soul from purgatory. Indulgences are now granted in the Romanist Church on a very ample scale, especially to all contributors to the erection of churches and to the funds of the propaganda in other missionary societies. In fact, almost ally act of piety so-called, entitles one to an indulgence, as, for instance, the worship of relics, the visiting of churches or special altars, the participation of divine worship on great festivals, such as inauguration of churches, and especially taking part in pilgrimages. Indulgences which apply either to the whole church are called general, while others that are confined to a particular locality, as a bishopric, are called particular. The most general indulgence is that of the Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Year of Jubilee, which is now 2025. The general indulgence is always made out by the Pope himself, while the particular indulgences, either plenarists or minists, are often among the privileges of diverse localities, either for special occasions and various lengths of time, or occasionally forever. The papal indulgence is to be proclaimed by the bishop and two canons of the diocese receiving it. Indulgences are divided into plenary and non-plenary partial temporal. Are you getting this? This is the game. This is what it's about. Right? This is the goal. Very damaging. Very damaging to men's souls. A plenary indulgence is that by which is obtained a remission of all temporal punishment due to sin, either in this life or the next. Non-plenary or partial indulgence is that which remits only part of the temporal punishment due to sin. Such are indulgences for a given number of days, weeks, or years. This sort of indulgence remits so many days, weeks, or years penance, which ought to be observed agreeably to the ancient canons of the church. Temporary indulgences are those which are granted for a certain specified time. Indefinite are those which are granted without any limitation of time. Perpetual are those granted forever and which do not require to be renewed after a given number of years. Wow. A local indulgence is attached to certain churches, chapels, or other places. It is gained by actually visiting such a church. So you can earn forgiveness by just visiting church. That's what they teach in their doctrine. If you take the mass, right? The sacraments. If you observe them, right? A real indulgence is attached to a certain movable things as rosaries, medals, and as granted those who actually wear these articles with devotion. Do you realize these are charged objects? These are lucky charms that are not so magically delicious? Do you realize that what they're selling people is charms or amulets? It's witchcraft. This is witchcraft. They attach real indulgences to rosaries, medals. It's granted those who actually wear these articles with devotion. Should the fashion of them cease, so they cease to be deemed the same articles, the indulgence ceases. So long, however, as such articles continue and are reputed to be the same, the indulgence continues in force, notwithstanding any accidental alteration which may be made of them as the affixing of a new string or ribbon to a rosary." It's witchcraft. It's their mojo. It's their life. By the way, who else taught this? Well, Joseph Smith had his lucky peak stone, didn't he? He could tell the future with his lucky peak stone, his golden ticket like Willy Wonka, his golden tablets. Joseph Smith had his own mojos he kept with him. He was a witch. His family was full of witchcraft. Did the same thing. Right? The rosary is witchcraft. It's witchcraft. By the way, the Hindus in other cultures, other new-agers, use rosary beads. Use charged objects and amulets that bring safety to them or that bring good luck to them or anything else. It's witchcraft. You can't take an object, right? And charge it with forgiveness and power. That's like the worshipping of relics. What the Greek Orthodox do when they kiss pictures. They don't know what Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John look like, but they're kissing some stupid picture of them. Why? Because you're a bunch of Catholics, that's why. Worshipping icons and relics. Attributing power to them. What does that remind you of? Well, honestly, you know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of He-Man and the masters of the universe. When He-Man lifted up his sword. Right? He-Man lifted up his sword, right? And he had power, right? He did, didn't he? That's what he did. Charge objects, wasn't it? That's right. That's what they do. That's how they operate. Strong spiritual warfare, right? I don't know if I can find that video, man. I don't know where that is. I don't know where that video is. Let's see. Nope. That's not it. I used to have it, but I can't find it now. Right? But anyway, they have their strong spiritual warfare, don't they? So they use these charged objects, it's witchcraft. Other indulgences. Personal indulgence, right? is one which is granted to certain particular persons or to several persons in common as to the confraternity or brotherhood. These privileged persons may gain such indulgences wherever they may happen to be, whether they are in health, sickness, or at the point of death. Other indulgences are termed enjoined penitence. penitence injustice. By them is conferred the remission of so much of the punishment which is due to sins at the judgment of God, as the sinner would have to pay by canonical penitence. penances, or by penances enjoined in all their rigor by the priest, and indulgence produces its effects at the very moment when all the works prescribed in order to obtain it are performed. The scales of payment are peculiar, being made to meet a variety of cases, and they are so lenient that the payment of them can form no bar against the subsequent commission of the crime for which an indulgence has already been received." Congregation of Indulgences. Assist the Pope in managing the Department of Indulgences. So there's, you know, there's a Department of Indulgences. Isn't that wonderful? Right? It did remind me of this right here though. It did, honestly. Their charged objects did remind me of this. these encounters with Bigfoot that he's having. Nephilim, Nephilim, Nephilim, Nephilim. And I lifted up my sword. And I was like, and he was like, and I was like, I'm getting my shotgun, I'm getting my 45. Spiritual warfare! Give me my gun, give me my .50 cal, give me my Uzi, whatever I got, just give me something, and I'm blowing these things away. Okay, so you aimed your, what are you, like a prayer, you got a prayer bazooka? You got a prayer missile? I aimed, in strong spiritual warfare, I aimed my prayers at that side! Boom, and I fired! This sounds like intense spiritual warfare. He did spiritual warfare. Prayer and strong spiritual warfare, I guess. Whatever that is. Those are the key words. Strong spiritual warfare. I'm going to take my guns, and I'm going to get my car, and I'm going to go home. I'm going home. I'm not sitting in the woods with a bunch of whatever they are. And we did strong spiritual warfare. Strong spiritual warfare. Yeah, yeah. And I did strong warfare! Because we're in strong spiritual warfare! Go home! If there was some bigfoot, crazy, psychotic, devilish creature out there that was growling and grunting and backmasking Led Zeppelin songs to me all night, I'm not going to sleep, bro. No way, dude. I'm leaving. I'm not sleeping with that thing there. We both did intense spiritual warfare! And I saw golden roosters. When Bigfoot didn't touch me, it left me alone, and I did strong spiritual warfare! Bigfoot ran! If the struggle is real, that's the truth, man. They won't be hairy, they won't stink. Spiritual warfare! Glory in the upper bowl! And he shoots the glory at him. Glory in the lower bowl! And he... This Bigfoot was talking to my mind telepathically. Okay. Then it was in a biological container. What are hoops? Like, oh, okay. Okay. Still absolutely hilarious. Still funny. Right? Anyway, that's right. That's right. It's time for strong spiritual warfare. All right, man, still this article just keeps going. There's such a history to these indulgences. Well, you know, they were happening for 1,000 years, so what do you expect? 1,500 years, what do you expect, right? We cannot attempt to give this place a full refutation of the Romish doctrine of indulgences, nor is it necessary. That's true. It's not, so we won't. Okay? But this is, man, that is pretty good, though. You know, I think I'm gonna read this, because this is, I get it, this is good. Because, you know, when you take purgatory, and you take indulgences, and you take all these, and you take these charged objects, you do all these things, you can see why these people are so deceived and enslaved. Rome is there to enslave them. Rome enslaves them to an antichrist religion and lies to them, deceives them. And I think by the time we're done, we'll finish reading this and then Friday we'll talk about those five people portals. We'll get into the Jubilee part of it and we'll get into some, some of the modern examples, but this history of these indulgences, I don't, I, I don't feel bad about, about bringing this to you because I really believe that it helps you to understand why do people believe this? Like, How do these people live this way? And how do you have mobsters that, hey, hey, okay, I got something for you. So this new guy, this Luigi that killed this healthcare worker, this Italian Roman Catholic that killed this healthcare worker, right? This Italian Roman Catholic, right? You know that he's already been absolved of that, right? Like he was doing this for El Papa. He was doing this for somebody high up and he's already been absolved. Well, how do you know that? Because his parents, his parents are high donors to the Roman Catholic Church. In fact, they supported the schools. They're very wealthy people. So anytime someone donates a vast amount of money to the Roman Catholic Church to pay for something, their sins are absolved. So if they hired him to do that work, then they absolved him of whatever sins he committed. Do you really believe that he was working for the Jesuit order? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That they're Jesuit co-adjutors? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. You bet. Without a doubt. And this is how they get people like that to do that. Those things. Whatever they do in whatever branch of government, wherever they're at, they lock them into this superstitious religion, these lies and this witchcraft, this bewitching witchcraft. They lock them in there and then they grant them indulgences for whatever crimes they commit. Remember the Crusades? They could go kill all the people they wanted to, right? They would kill all the people and they would be granted forgiveness. They'd be granted forgiveness. Right? That's what happens. They're granted forgiveness. That's the way it works. Now you see how dangerous this is? You see how dangerous this doctrine is? That's how you get men to kill. How? Well, they think they're doing God's service. The article was framed in 1558 before the Council of Trent, which endeavored to remedy the worst abuses arising from the practice of such a doctrine, but which nevertheless virtually sanctioned the principles naturally involved in the system. In the Parker M.S. of 1562, the 25th session of the Council of Trent, which was held December 3rd and 4th, 1563, appears the change of terms from scholasticorium, doctrina, to Doctrina Romanism, Piuses, whatever it is in the history of the Reformation. The English theologians held, number one, that temporal pain, the fruit of sin, is in its nature remedial and disciplinary both to the sinner and to others that they may see and fear, and that as such it is not remissible by any sacrament or ordinance entrusted to the church. The former proposition they support by Jeremiah chapter 2, Jeremiah 19, Isaiah 3 9, The show of their countenance doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom. They hide it not. Woe unto their soul, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. By the examples of Moses and David. Right? Also the Lord was angry with me for your sake, saying, Thou shalt not go in thither. 2 Samuel chapter 12, how be it because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme. The child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. There is no way that a man can absolve you of what God is going to punish you for or chasten you for or require of you. The following quotations cover, however, more nearly all the points. Viewed even in its purest form, as stated by the most eminent doctors and sanctioned by papal bulls, the doctrine of indulgence not only introduces a contradiction into the Catholic system in respect to the works of satisfaction, which were generally an integral part of the sacrament of penance, are entirely disconnected with it and viewed as a mere matter of ecclesiastical jurisdiction. but it has this further radical defect pervading all its constituent parts that moral and religious things which can only be taken as spiritual magnitudes are considered as material ones. Quality being treated wholly as quantity and consequently a standard of external computation and a sort of religious arithmetic applied which involves contradiction. Even in order to establish the superabundance of the merit of Christ, it was affirmed that though a single drop of His blood would have sufficed for a universal atonement, yet the Savior had shed so much more, as if it were not the divine sacrifice of love on the part of the Son of God and man, and His atoning death in general, but His several outward sufferings and their quantity in which its value and importance consisted. By the way, what is this? What they're rebuking is Roman Catholicism teaching that your good can outweigh your bad. Because of how the atonement is applied. But that's not biblical. We are forgiven of our sins because of Jesus Christ and his atonement. Not because of penance, not because of how sorry you are for it, not because of an indulgence. No, no, no. It's absolute heresy what they're teaching. Absolute heresy. Carl, you've been using it for years because I showed you Strong's McClintock. I think anyway. But yeah, Strong's McClintock, I've had the 12-volume set. In fact, I have a set for sale right here. I have an extra set right here that I've got on sale right now. This is the 12-volume set. It's very expensive, by the way. But anyway, I've been using Strong's McClintock since I bought it 20 years ago. Very good, by the way. Very good set. I think, did you see it from me, Carl, or no? Did you see it before me? Not that it matters, I'm sorry. I'm not trying to sound vain. I was just, I was just stating that. I was like, anyway. In like manner on the part of the saints, it is not their peculiar and more exalted moral and religious character, but their several works, and especially the volume rather than the worth of these, which was taken into account and the whole was handled as something totally disconnected with their persons as an objective fund, a sum of remedy money in the church's hands. I did tell you about that in 2018, Carl. Holy buckets, did I really? I don't even remember. Oh yeah, it's a full set. I'm selling it online. It is a full set. I'm selling it to fund me way to Europe. Well, actually to pay my bills, because I'm using other money to fund to Europe. So that's kind of what I'm doing. But anyway, but I already have this set. This was an extra set. But it is nice that you can get it online. That's a very expensive set. In like manner on the part of the saints. Okay. Then the worth of these which was taken into account and the whole was handled as something totally disconnected with their persons as an objective fund, a sum of remedy money in the church's hands. According to the same category, the imputation of the merits of Christ and the saints was described as purely external transference of a portion of that sum to one who needed it. For although a penitent frame of mind was required of the sinner, still it was not for the sake, nor according to the measure of that, that the merit of Christ in the saints was transferred to him, but solely for the sake of some service performed by him for the church, and this performance again is quite an external and isolated work. At the same time as respect the merits of the saints, the theory of indulgence rests on the supposition that a man who is still human, although a saint, may not only possess a sufficiency of merit to answer his own need before God, but may likewise do more than the divine law demands of him, and thus acquire a surplus of merit for the use of others. Even this is a monstrous supposition. But still more monstrous, perhaps, is another, which invades the religious domain and the glory of God. It's wicked. It's wicked. It tramples on the glory of God and the atonement of Christ on Calvary and His blood that was shed. It's treason! It's anti-Christ religion! In point of fact, the doctrine and practice of indulgences gives the Church a position as absolutely unerring and omniscient judicial power. It identifies the tribunal of the Church with that of God, and the tribunal of the Pope with that of the Church, thereby indirectly identifying the Pope with God's. so that the Pope is raised to a position in virtue of which, as the visible head of the mystical body of Christ, and as the dispenser of all penalties and graces, he decides the highest questions involving salvation of the living and the dead according to his mere pleasure. This is why the Pope is Antichrist. This is why we call him Antichrist. This is why, because it's blasphemy! He's making himself equal with God. What is he doing? He's sitting in the temple of God saying he is God. That he can judicially decide who is forgiven and who deserves it, who deserves and who has merit and who doesn't and how much merit can be applied to that person. It's vile and it's a door that damns. All right, continuing on. It identifies the tribunal, a dispenser of all penalties and graces. He decides the highest questions. Granting, however, that the whole doctrine were well founded, the position assigned to the Pope would be one elevated far above the reach of fancy and could be designated only as that of a terrestrial god. What an infinite amount of obligation would it impose upon the papacy, and with what consciousness sharpened to the utmost ought the popes, if they were bold enough to believe that such plenitude of power had actually been lodged in the hands of any child of the dust, to have dispensed the lofty blessings committed to their trust? how carefully ought they have guarded them from perversion and debasement. And yet what do we see? Abuse upon abuse and profanation upon profanation in an ascending scale for more than two centuries until at last moral indignation bursts like a tempest upon their impiety. That's from Omens, Reformers before the Reformation, page 246. Either the Pope has the power of bringing souls out of purgatory, or he has not. If he has not, the question is decided. If he has, what cruelty, then, for him to leave there whole millions of souls whom he might by a word bring out of it? Without going so far, why this strange inequality in the distribution of a treasure which is deemed inexhaustible? Why will a patter and an av in my parish church avail only for five or six days' indulgence when they avail? for 40 days in another church before another Madonna or another cross? Why is the performance of the works paid in such or such a congregation with a plenary indulgence and in this or that other with a mere indulgence for a time? Why, but we should never end with the contradiction with which this matter is beset, yet let us give one just one more. If plenary indulgence be not merely a lure, how comes it that the masses continue to be said for the souls of those who received it when dying? Why, that solemn de profundis repeated at Rome during the whole reign of a Pope on the anniversary of the death of his predecessor. This is what Luther said in his thesis. And the objection is not the less embarrassing for being old. The only means of getting out of the difficulty would be to accept the consequences of the system. You have only to regard as well and duly entered into heaven all who left this world with that infallible passport and to refuse, therefore, to say a mass for them. And why is this not done? Why have no need to explain? We have no need to explain between a mere act of inconsistency added to so many others and the drying up of their very best source of revenues. Could Rome ever hesitate? But if there be ground to ask, on the one hand, why the popes and the bishops have not at least the charity to grant everywhere and to all as many indulgences as they have a right to dispense. No less reason have we to be astonished at the low price they put upon them and the incredible facilities offered to such as wish to acquire them. See, for instance, the statues of the Brotherhood, well known under the name of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary. By a brief of 1838, plenary indulgence is accorded to those who shall worthily confess on the day of their reception into the brotherhood, which is as much as saying to people, come in among us, and all your previous sins will be wiped out. Plenary indulgence moreover to such as shall confess themselves and communicate at certain epochs of the year, and these are 10 in number. Further, Indulgence of 500 days to whosoever shall devoutly be present at the Mass of Saturday and shall pray for the conversion of sinners? Though we should believe in indulgences, it strikes us that we could not but feel some scruples at seeing them lavished away in this manner. For a Mass that shall have cost you half an hour to be exempted from purgatory for near a year and a half? for one confession to be exempted from it altogether, although you may have deserved a thousand years of it? If not stopped by shame, these bold traffickers in salvation ought at least, one would think, to dread lest their wares should suffer deprecation in consequence of being given away for so little. True, they do not cost them anything, and there is no limit to the purchases. Nobody well knowing to how many years of purgatory he may be condemned, can reasonably stop in adding to the amount of indulgences with which he is to appear at the bar of judgment. by placing himself on the most favorable conditions and taking care to let no occasion be lost, a man of 60 might without difficulty have amassed them for above a million of years, over and above the plenary ones, each one of which ought to suffice and with which one does not well see what the rest can signify. That's Bungener, the history of the Council of Trent. For further literature and discussing of this subject, see Philpott's Letters to Mr. Butler, Analysis of Chronology, Spiritual Vanillity of Rome. There's a bunch of resources here. Mosheim's History of the Church, The History of the Reformation by Dauben. Neander's Church History. And you can listen to mine on the Crusades. on how much I talked, I think I talked about some of the indulgences there, not a ton, but some of them, because he granted indulgences to all the people and forgiveness of sins. This is the damning effect of this. And what's it really about? Bringing in all this LGBT, this is part of it. We're going to explain more of these five doors that dam on Friday, I believe. We'll explain more. but as you see here. See, the gospel is too simple. The Bible says very plainly in Romans 1, verse 16, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, the just shall live by faith. Salvation is not in the hands of a man. It's not in a cookie God. It's not in the Lord's supper or communion or the mass, the sacrifice of Jesus, the perpetual sacrifice of Christ to bring him down from heaven and sacrifice him all over again in Rome's sacrifice. It's not. Salvation is not in the hands of man to baptize or sprinkle someone and save them through baptismal regeneration. Salvation is not through getting indulgences, through penance, through how much you beat yourself, how much you whip yourself, how sorry you are. That's not salvation. The Bible says salvation is by grace through faith, in Ephesians 2, 8, 9. Salvation is of the Lord. It says, for by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, as any man should boast. Salvation is not through a priest, except the high priest that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, Jesus Christ, who is in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. The Bible says of Christ, wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Jesus Christ ever lives to make intercession. We have one high priest that can be touched. There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. And there is no purgatory in the scriptures at all. These five doors are about the Vatican controlling men's souls, trafficking in men's souls. Totally foreign to the gospel. There are five papal portals, they're doors that damn, and they're sold through indulgences. It's wicked, it's vile. It's work salvation. It's a scheme of Rome. By it they held on to kings. We'll talk about that on Friday. They controlled countries. They controlled kings. They controlled people. They had God's people slain. They had the Anabaptists, the Waldensies, the Donatists, the Lawlords, the Poletians, the Albigensies, all of these people murdered through the giving of indulgences in all of these things. It's what they did. It's very sad. It's not salvation. Salvation is simple. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out. Sin is the transgression of the law of God, and all unrighteousness is sin. And for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Amen. I am looking to Jesus, giving all in the race, pressing upward to gain the heavenly prize. Faithful men are my witness who have struggled and died, and they watch from the grandstand in the skies. Faithful men. And I want to follow in their footsteps. Make me, Lord, a faithful follower. Jacob joined with the faithful. Joseph followed behind. Moses ran with the mighty men of old. There was David and Daniel. Then came Peter and Paul. Now they chant as they run on streets of gold. Faithful men. All right, one more. The dawn of eternity, when the mist of time is gone, when the choir of heaven gathers to begin redemption's song, I'll bow before my Savior in a body new and whole. Then I'll rise to sing His praises while eternal ages roll. I stand. The blood of Jesus. The price is paid. My debt is borne. The chains that bound me no longer hold me. Because of Calvary, I stand retained. I gaze upon my Savior, and the wounds He bore for me. I will sing of His salvation, bought with blood upon the tree. While the halls of angels listen to a song they cannot sing, I will voice my praise to Jesus with a song of the redeemed, of the redeemed. The price is paying, my debt is gone. The chains that bound me no longer hold me. Because of Calvary, I stand free. By the blood of Jesus the price is paid. My debt is gone, the chains that bound me. Amen! Praise the Lord. That's the message, right? Because of Calvary, I stand redeemed. It is Christ and Him alone. Praise the name of the Lord. Amen. All right, everybody. God bless you. And we're going to take off here. I will see you at 2 p.m. Central Time. Lord willing, anyway, Friday, 2 p.m. Central Time. Saturday, if everybody's feeling okay, we're supposed to go preaching Saturday night. There's a holidazzle event Saturday night. or Saturday afternoon, excuse me, Saturday afternoon, we'll be preaching. I'm going to say somewhere around, I don't know, two to five or something like that, somewhere around two to five. We're going to meet at one o'clock. We'll get down there about two. So somewhere around two to five, we're supposed to preach. If I got enough guys that are feeling good and they're able to go, we'll see how it goes here. I don't know how everybody's doing. I'll find out tonight, the state of everything, how everybody's doing, but you pray for us. Okay. Um, two to five Saturday afternoon, two to 5 p.m. Saturday afternoon. All right. Also, uh, and, but, but Friday's broadcast 2 p.m. Central time, 2 p.m. Central. We will finish up with these five papal doors. These, uh, doors that damn we'll finish this series up here. This little mini series here. I think we'll finish it anyway. I hope you're learning some things. We had two. two uh back-to-back broadcasts on indulgences really in the history of them to really understand what happened you know with this and why this is a big deal to them okay and then anyway so you pray for us pray for our safety uh and tonight i'll be preaching the word of god we are going to talk about the baptism with fire okay one lord one faith one baptism The baptism with fire. By the way, that one baptism is not the baptism with fire, but we will talk about that baptism with fire as we go through the doctrines of baptisms, which I've not been through in a very long time, probably about eight years. Time to go back through and teach some new folks that we have. All right, Sunday, we'll be back into the psychology series, Sunday morning, and then Sunday afternoon, I'll be preaching and teaching on the Lord's Supper because our church will be observing the Lord's Supper a week from this Sunday. So anyway, so I'm gonna be teaching in the afternoon on the Lord's Table. All right, all right, everybody, pray for us. If you can give to our ministry, please do, that's how you do it, right there. That's how you can give. You see it on the screen. And go ahead and do whatever the Lord leads you to do. All right? All right, everybody. God bless you. Take care. We'll see you soon. Lord willing.