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Program Code: CR002149S
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00:01 God watches over us.
00:03 He looks into the hearts of people. 00:05 He helps us to find the very best in ourselves. 00:08 He is not interested in what church we go to, 00:11 or what denomination we choose. 00:14 He doesn't care how much money and power we have, 00:17 or our political agenda, 00:19 he looks to find a servant's heart. 00:22 This is biblical truth. 00:25 Pastor Carter continues to explore this truth 00:28 in Aims of the Papacy. 00:39 Hello, friend, I'm John Carter. 00:42 Welcome today to the Carter Report. 00:44 This is part three 00:47 of The Aims of the Papacy. 00:51 Now, I received many, many letters 00:54 and we try to treat each letter 00:57 with dignity and respect. 01:00 This letter 01:01 we call the Bob Letter. 01:07 It's written by Bob in California. 01:10 It's a very controversial letter. 01:13 But because it's controversial, we're not going to toss it out. 01:16 We are going to answer it. 01:20 This is part three. 01:21 Here it goes, I'll read the letter again 01:24 to refresh your pure minds. 01:28 "Hi, John, I hope all is well with you and Beverley. 01:32 I'm not sure if you've noticed what is going on 01:34 in Scotland and Europe right now. 01:37 As I write there is a conference forming 01:39 in Scotland with all the world leaders 01:42 to discuss the climate. 01:44 The pope has stated that he will attend the conference 01:47 and present his answer for the climate. 01:50 His proposal is to establish 01:54 a worldwide day of rest 01:57 to lower carbon emissions, 01:59 and of course, this day would be Sunday. 02:02 Although this may help the environment somewhat, 02:05 its real purpose is to get the world leaders 02:08 to conform with the Catholic Church 02:11 and the pope. 02:14 America currently has a leader 02:15 that has no backbone, 02:17 and he is Catholic." 02:19 Bob, I've got to pause here a little bit. 02:25 We pray for President Joe Biden, 02:28 and we respect his Roman Catholic faith. 02:32 In this program, we do not criticize people. 02:35 We don't criticize political leaders. 02:39 We don't criticize religious leaders. 02:42 We are here to defend the truths of the Bible. 02:47 So Bob goes on to say, 02:49 "So, he will certainly bow to the pope 02:53 and is obligated to do so because he is Catholic. 02:59 John, could this be the beginning 03:01 of the mark of the beast? 03:04 How clever would this be for the pope 03:06 to take this opportunity to advance his agenda? 03:11 What are your thoughts about this?" 03:12 Well, Bob, I'm trying to answer your question 03:17 in the most intelligent way I can. 03:21 By exploring all of these issues 03:24 but, Bob, I wanna tell you something. 03:26 Bob in California, we love Roman Catholic people. 03:31 We love the pope. 03:33 Jesus died for people. 03:36 And so, Bob, when I'm answering your questions here today, 03:40 I'm doing so from the viewpoint of truth. 03:44 We're not talking about people, 03:47 but we're talking about the truth of God 03:49 and a great system of deception 03:54 that has deceived almost the whole wide world. 04:01 "What Catholic ideas are contrary 04:04 to biblical teachings?" 04:09 We should remember this, Wayne, what Jesus said. 04:12 Jesus said, "You will know the truth, 04:15 the truth will make you free." 04:18 Now I understand today, 04:19 the concept of truth is anathema 04:22 to millions and millions of people. 04:25 Even to millions of Protestants 04:26 and I am a Protestant Christian. 04:28 I'm an Adventist, 04:31 but I believe in the concept of truth. 04:33 I believe in the purity of truth. 04:37 I believe in the possibility 04:40 of being able to discuss ideas and truths 04:45 without becoming personal. 04:49 Let me make this ever so plain today. 04:53 We are not against Roman Catholics 04:55 never, never, never. 04:58 In fact, we believe 04:59 that the vast majority of God's true children 05:02 are found in the Roman Catholic Church 05:04 and another churches like the Roman Catholic Church, 05:06 not in my little church. 05:09 God looks upon the heart 05:11 and God loves Roman Catholic people. 05:15 But you've asked me a question. 05:17 Let me repeat it to you. 05:20 What are Catholic ideas 05:22 that are contrary to biblical teachings? 05:26 Well, let me give you some. 05:28 We're not talking personalities. 05:31 We are talking ideas 05:33 that are not found in the Word of God 05:36 and therefore I feel obligated to talk about these things. 05:42 Take for instance, purgatory. 05:45 I was asked to take a funeral some time back 05:48 in a little Australian country town. 05:51 This was many years ago. 05:54 This dear old man was a devout Roman Catholic 05:58 and the family came to me with wads, 06:00 big bundles of dollar bills. 06:04 And they said, "We want you to pray for Parr." 06:09 I said, "But I don't pray for the dead." 06:12 They said, "No, you got to pray for Parr, 06:14 because Parr is in purgatory and he's suffering." 06:19 Well, I told him this look, 06:20 my beloved Roman Catholic friends, 06:23 whom I love in Christ. 06:26 I don't believe in purgatory 06:30 because purgatory 06:32 is not taught in the Bible. 06:37 I said, "Parr died with his faith 06:40 in the Lord Jesus Christ and by the grace of God, 06:43 dear old Parr is going to be with Christ 06:47 in paradise." 06:49 There is no such place as purgatory. 06:54 Let me tell you some other ideas 06:55 that I don't accept that is taught 06:58 by the great Roman Catholic Church, 07:00 the idea of eternal hellfire. 07:05 You know what this idea is? 07:06 That God is going to burn people 07:09 for millions and millions 07:11 and billions and trillions of years. 07:19 Do you believe this idea? 07:21 How can you believe in a God of love, 07:24 I asked you and believe in this terrible idea? 07:29 This makes God into a terrorist. 07:32 Now I'm going to read Jude. 07:35 It's only one chapter, verse 7, it says, "Sodom and Gomorrah, 07:38 and the cities around them in similar manner 07:41 to these having given themselves 07:43 over to sexual immorality 07:46 and gone after strange flesh, 07:50 are set forth as an example, 07:53 suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 07:58 Now, I've been to that vicinity. 08:01 I've been to the vicinity of old Sodom and Gomorrah. 08:05 Those cities today 08:06 are under the murky waters of the Dead Sea. 08:12 They're not burning, my friend, the fire went out. 08:16 I don't believe in the Catholic idea 08:20 of an eternally burning hell 08:23 because I believe it turns God 08:27 into a monster. 08:30 Forgive me for defending God. 08:34 If I need your forgiveness, you ask me this question. 08:38 Here's the question. 08:40 What are Catholic ideas 08:41 that are contrary to biblical teachings? 08:45 I don't believe in the Catholic idea 08:49 of the priesthood offering up a sacrifice. 08:54 I don't believe I need an earthly priest. 08:57 I can give you many, many texts out of the Bible, 09:00 particularly the Book of Hebrews 09:02 that teaches that Jesus Christ 09:05 is my High Priest 09:08 and I can go into the Most Holy Place, 09:11 and I can confess my sins to Christ, 09:15 and He is my Priest, 09:17 and He forgives my sins. 09:20 So I don't believe in the Roman Catholic idea 09:24 of the priesthood 09:25 or the sacrifice or all of this great power. 09:30 I don't believe in the Roman Catholic idea 09:33 of Sunday keeping. 09:35 Now, one of the reasons I don't believe in it, 09:37 my friend, is because 09:38 of what the Roman Catholic churches has said. 09:41 The Roman Catholic churches taught in its great confessions 09:45 that they by the power of God 09:47 changed the Sabbath from the Sabbath, 09:51 from the seventh day to the first day of the week, 09:53 from Saturday to Sunday. 09:55 You can read this in Keenan's Catechism. 09:57 I've got most of these catechisms. 10:00 I believe in the Ten Commandments. 10:02 I don't believe that any church has got the power 10:06 to change the commandments of God. 10:08 And the Catholic Church says it has that power. 10:13 I don't believe in the immortality of the soul. 10:16 Well, now you say, but everybody believes, 10:18 well, I don't believe it. 10:20 I know the Greeks used to believe it 10:22 and the Romans used to believe it, 10:23 and the Egyptians used to believe it, 10:25 and the Persians used to believe it, 10:26 and the Babylonians and Norsean. 10:31 But I believe the text in the Bible 10:33 Ezekiel Chapter 18, 10:34 that says the soul that sins will die. 10:39 I believe that the soul has the capacity to die. 10:43 I don't believe in praying for the souls of the dead. 10:48 That's why I didn't pray for the soul of this old man 10:51 that I told you about before 10:54 because he was safe and he was secure. 10:57 I don't believe in eternally burning hell. 11:01 And I don't believe in the immortality of the soul. 11:05 I don't believe in confessing my sins to a priest, 11:09 because my priest is Jesus. 11:12 When I say I don't believe 11:13 in confessing my sins to a priest. 11:15 I'm talking about an earthly priest. 11:17 I believe that is a terrible idea 11:22 because it's so against the Bible. 11:25 Now, let me read you from Hebrews 4:14-16. 11:29 Please listen up, Bob. 11:33 "Seeing then that we have a great High Priest 11:36 who has passed through the heavens, 11:38 Jesus the Son of God." 11:40 Our high priest is not the pope. 11:44 Forgive me, my Catholic friends. 11:47 I'm not trying to insult you. 11:48 I'm not trying to be rude. 11:50 I love Roman Catholics, I love the pope. 11:53 We're not talking about people, we're talking about ideas. 11:57 Can we lay aside the emotion 12:00 and talk about biblical truths? 12:04 Now, the Bible tells me, I have a High Priest. 12:08 That's not the pope, it's Jesus. 12:11 "Great High Priest 12:12 who has passed through the heavens, 12:13 Jesus the Son of God, 12:16 let us hold fast our confession." 12:17 This is Hebrews 4, 12:19 "For we do not have a High Priest 12:21 who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, 12:24 but was in all points tempted as we are, 12:27 yet without sin. 12:28 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, 12:32 that we may obtain mercy 12:34 and find grace to help in time of need." 12:38 This is great news. 12:41 This is the gospel, you're a sinner, I'm a sinner. 12:46 I don't need to go to the confessional 12:48 on Sunday or on Wednesday. 12:51 I go to Christ, 12:53 and I go to Jesus Christ 12:57 direct. 13:00 You see, I can't believe these Roman Catholic ideas 13:04 because I don't believe they're taught in the Bible. 13:07 I don't believe in the mass. 13:10 I don't believe that the priest has got the authority 13:13 to turn the bread into the body of Christ, 13:16 or the wine into the blood of Christ. 13:18 I don't believe 13:20 in the doctrine of Transubstantiation. 13:25 Now don't get mad with me 13:27 because I don't believe in these ideas. 13:29 Can't we be rational? 13:31 Can't we discuss the Bible 13:33 without getting mad with each other? 13:37 Can't we lay aside religious bigotry? 13:41 Let me give you some of my other ideas. 13:43 I don't believe in the baptism of babies. 13:47 Jesus was baptized 13:49 when He was about 30 years of age. 13:52 They didn't baptize babies in the Bible. 13:55 Oh, I know 13:57 I'm going to make lots of people very mad with me 14:01 but you see, I'm a Christian who believes the Bible. 14:05 Can you forgive me for that? 14:09 I don't believe in the baptism of babies. 14:12 I believe in Sola Scripture, Sola Scriptura, 14:18 I don't believe in the Bible and tradition. 14:20 Now I know there are some Protestants 14:22 who are very Roman Catholic in their thinking. 14:25 They believe in the Bible 14:27 as interpreted by tradition. 14:31 I don't believe that. 14:32 I'm a Protestant. 14:35 I believe what Jesus said, "It is written, 14:38 man shall not live by bread alone, 14:40 but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." 14:43 That's where I stand. 14:44 You might be mad with me, but sorry about that. 14:46 I don't believe in the celibacy of the clergy 14:52 because St. Peter had a mother-in-law 14:55 and my Catholic friends say 14:57 that St. Peter was the first pope. 14:58 Now I don't believe that, I don't believe it's true 15:02 but, you know, I appreciate your wanting to believe it, 15:05 but I don't believe in celibacy. 15:06 I don't believe in the veneration of relics. 15:11 I don't believe in the Roman Catholic 15:12 stand on contraception. 15:17 I don't believe that a group of priests 15:21 have got the right to tell women 15:22 what they ought to do. 15:26 I don't believe in the Roman Catholic teaching 15:28 on contraception. 15:29 Most Roman Catholics agree with me, 15:32 at least in America. 15:35 Why can't you open your minds up a little bit, 15:37 I say to you and Christian charity, 15:40 and think that maybe we can talk 15:42 about some other things, too. 15:45 I don't believe in the idea of a theocracy, 15:48 which was originally devised by St. Augustine 15:52 many, many years ago, 15:54 one of the first great Roman Catholic theologians. 15:58 He taught about the union of church and state. 16:01 While the Catholic Church for about 16:03 1000 years practiced a theocracy, 16:07 ruled the world, the then known world, 16:09 and persecuted heretics like me. 16:15 I don't believe in theocracy, 16:17 I believe in the separation of church and state. 16:21 Now, I realized today 16:22 that in the United States of America, 16:24 there are millions of Protestants 16:26 who sort of lost their way completely. 16:28 They're totally ignorant of the scriptures. 16:31 Hey, are you listening here? 16:32 Totally ignorant of the scriptures 16:35 and now they want the church 16:37 to join with the state 16:39 and they want to make Jesus 16:40 the King of America, 16:42 and they want to persecute people 16:44 who don't fit in with their way of thinking. 16:50 That's the very essence to me of Antichrist. 16:52 I don't believe in this. 16:54 Jesus is a Christ of love. 16:57 He doesn't compel us. 17:00 He says choose. 17:03 I don't believe that the pope is the successor 17:06 of St. Peter. 17:08 I don't believe he should be called 17:11 the Holy Father 17:15 because in John Chapter, 17:17 let me give you the verse, 17:11. 17:23 He talks to God. 17:26 And He calls God Holy Father. 17:32 The pope shouldn't accept the title, 17:34 Holy Father, sorry, Francis, 17:40 my apologies 17:41 but people shouldn't call you, 17:44 Holy Father because you know you're not the Holy Father. 17:48 You know, God is the Holy Father. 17:53 So I'm not trying to make everybody mad with me. 17:55 I'm simply just saying, can't we be reasonable 17:59 and consider some truths. 18:01 I don't believe in praise for the dead, 18:04 such as they celebrate in Mexico 18:07 and other parts around the world. 18:13 So what I'm saying here today is this. 18:15 Can't we all love each other? 18:17 We love Roman Catholics. 18:19 We love the pope. 18:23 But can't we believe the truths of the Bible 18:26 and can't we have the courage 18:30 to follow the truths of the Bible? 18:31 Not all countries have religious 18:33 freedom and freedom of speech. 18:38 We have freedom of speech so far 18:39 and freedom of religion 18:41 in the United States of America. 18:44 But in many, many other countries, 18:46 we do not have full freedom of speech 18:48 and we do not have full freedom of religion 18:51 in many, many other countries. 18:56 "Do you have a Roman Catholic background?" 19:02 Hey, didn't you guess? 19:06 Yes, I have somewhat of a Roman Catholic background. 19:08 My father was a very strong Roman Catholic. 19:14 He was an altar boy when he was a kid. 19:17 He learned Mass off by heart, 19:20 and he used to say it to me 19:22 and to the rest of the family members. 19:25 Yes, I do have a Roman Catholic background. 19:29 I could have become a Roman Catholic priest. 19:34 But I discovered the truth of the Bible 19:38 and finished the Roman Catholic Church with me. 19:43 Now, of course, I've been 19:44 to many Roman Catholic countries. 19:48 I love the Roman Catholic people. 19:51 I've been to El Salvador. 19:54 After one of the meetings in El Salvador, 19:58 in this great outdoor stadium 20:01 that seated 60,000 people 20:03 packed to the doors. 20:06 After one of those meetings, 20:07 the Vice President of the nation stayed behind. 20:11 And she was a Roman Catholic. 20:13 She loved what I was preaching. 20:17 If you listen to what I'm preaching, 20:19 you'll agree with what I'm saying, 20:21 my friend. 20:22 I'm opposed to bigotry. 20:25 I want people to expand their minds 20:28 and to think God's thoughts after him. 20:31 The Vice President of El Salvador said to me, 20:33 Pastor Carter, please keep the meetings going. 20:38 Please come back 20:40 because we've got so many problems 20:41 here in this country of El Salvador, 20:43 so many gangs, so much violence, 20:45 so much crime, so many drugs. 20:48 She said we need you to come and preach here. 20:53 She was a Roman Catholic talking to me saying, 20:55 "We need you to come and preach here." 20:58 So I love Roman Catholic people 21:02 and that's why I'm talking these things 21:04 because I want my Roman Catholic friends 21:07 and my Protestant friends to get back 21:10 to Christ in the Bible. 21:15 "Why is there so much pedophilia 21:18 among Roman Catholic Church leaders?" 21:25 Well, I think I could add to the question, 21:27 say, why is there so much pedophilia 21:29 in the world generally? 21:32 Because Protestant churches 21:33 had their problems too with pedophiles. 21:37 We see pedophilia all the way through society today 21:40 is because people have gotten away from God 21:43 and they've gotten away from the Word of God. 21:46 But you ask me about the Roman Catholic Church. 21:48 Yes, it's had its fair share 21:51 of pedophiles among the priests. 21:53 We all know this. 21:56 This has been true 21:57 in the United States of America. 21:59 It's been true in Australia. 22:01 It's been true in Europe. 22:03 It's been true in Ireland. 22:07 Thousands of pedophiles abusing children. 22:15 And this is not a criticism of Roman Catholics. 22:17 It is a criticism of the sinful human heart. 22:25 Man without God 22:27 is a very sinful person. 22:31 The human soul is very black and dark without God. 22:36 Whether you are Protestant, 22:37 or whether you are Roman Catholic, 22:40 whether you are Hindu, whether you are Muslim. 22:45 Having said this about pedophiles, 22:49 I would hasten to say the Roman Catholic Church 22:52 has had some wonderful Roman Catholic priests 22:56 and I respect them. 22:58 I've met some of them. 23:01 Some of them, I believe, being the saints of God. 23:05 The problem, my friend, with the pedophile 23:09 and all of these other deviances 23:12 is the problem of sin. 23:16 There's only one person who's got the solution to sin. 23:20 It's not the pope. 23:22 It's not the leader of my church. 23:24 It's not some minister. 23:29 Any person who's got the solution 23:31 to the problem of sin 23:33 is Jesus Christ our Lord, 23:37 who died for our sins with His own blood 23:41 has suffered for us on the cross 23:45 and who right now is our High Priest. 23:48 Therefore, my message is, come to Him, 23:53 believe in Christ. 23:57 He believes in you. 23:59 More to come. 24:16 Jesus said, "All authority has been given to Me 24:20 in heaven and on earth. 24:22 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, 24:26 baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son, 24:30 and of the Holy Spirit." 24:34 John Carter reports, 24:36 "We have seen God's power as the Gospel of Christ 24:39 has been proclaimed in Africa, 24:43 India, Russia, 24:48 Ukraine, Cuba, 24:54 El Salvador, and many other places. 24:58 We invite you to partner with us 25:01 in proclaiming Jesus Christ." 25:06 To God be the glory, 25:09 great things He has done. 25:14 Write today to the Carter Report, 25:17 P.O. 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