95-Biblical Instructions in an "Old-School Luther-Style Disputation-Sermon" on the Evil Satisfaction and Mind and Heart-Corrupted Furtherance of the Sin-Filled Shadowy Darkness of Idolatry: A Sermon on the All-Corrupt and All-Blinding Power of Idolatry in the Thoroughly Depraved Nature of Sinful Man

1.  The biblical teaching of idolatry is described as spiritually irrational (Acts 17:29).

2.  The scriptural teaching of idolatry is described as spiritually degrading (Rom. 1:22-23).

3.  Idolatry is the worship of man-made objects or idols (2 Kin 17:16).

4.  Idol-worship is demon-worship (1 Cor. 10:20-21).

5.  Idolatry is depraved defilement (2 Cor. 6:15-18).

6.  Idolatry is complete enslavement (Gal. 4:8-9).

7.  Idolatry is a complete abomination (1 Pet 4:3).

8.   Pope Francis I put "World Youth Day" in 2013 to the Virgin Mary's care, but the Bible says God alone is our hope because it is an act of worship and a matter of ultimate glory (Ps. 62:5).

9.  Idolatry enhances the totally blindness of sinful man (Mt 23:26) that has bound his mind and heart in total abominable corruptions (Ps. 53:1).

10.  David Powlison author of "Seeing With New Eyes" wrote, "We are meant to long supremely for the Lord Himself, for the Giver, not His gifts. The absence of blessings – rejection, vanity, reviling, illness, poverty – often is the crucible in which we learn to love God for who He is. In our idolatry we make gifts out to be supreme goods, and make the Giver into the errand boy of our desires."  (reference, P&R Publishers, 2003, p. 134-135).

11.  "When the loss of any temporal enjoyment casts us into excessive despondency and dejection it is evident that what we have lost, was the object of our inordinate love. The most innocent attachments cease to be innocent, when they press too strongly upon us! To cleave to any created object, and to look for happiness from it – is to make an idol of it – and set it up in God's place. Should this object be a friend, a brother, a wife, or a child, the idolatry is still odious in the eyes of that God, to whom we owe our chief affection. Our warmest passions, our most fervent love, desires, hopes, and confidences should always have God for their object. It is His desire that our happiness should not center in any of the good things of this life." (John Fawcett, Christ Precious).

12.  "Either we will love and serve God, or we will love and serve our idols. Idols exist in our lives because we love them and invite them in. But once idols find a home, they are unruly and resist leaving. In fact, they change from being the servants of our desires to being our masters" (Edward T. Welch, Blame in on the Brain? P&R Publishing, 1998, p. 194).

13.  "Idolatry" is the practice of seeking the source and provision of what we need either physically or emotionally in someone or something other than the one true God. It is the tragically pathetic attempt to squeeze life out of lifeless forms that cannot help us meet our real needs."  (Scott Hafemann The God of Promise and the Life of Faith. Crossway Books, 2001, p. 35).

14.  "O ye sons of men, think not that God is blind. He can perceive the idols in your hearts; He understands what be the secret things that your souls lust after; He searches your heart, He tries your reins; beware lest He find you sacrificing to strange gods, for His anger will smoke against you, and His jealousy will be stirred. O ye that worship not God, the God of Israel, who give Him not dominion over your whole soul, and live not to His honor, repent ye of your idolatry, seek mercy through the blood of Jesus, and provoke not the Lord to jealousy any more."  (C.H. Spurgeon, A Jealous God, Sermon 502, March 29, 1863).

15.  "To whatever we look for any good thing and for refuge in every need, that is what is meant by “god.” To have a god is nothing else than to trust and believe in him from the heart… To whatever you give your heart and entrust your being, that, I say, is really your god."  (Martin Luther, Luther’s Large Catechism).

16.  "You don’t have to go to heathen lands today to find false gods. America is full of them. Whatever you love more than God is your idol"  (D.L. Moody).

17.  The biblical teaching is that the practice of idolatry began in man's apostasy (Rom 1:21-25) like the fall of Satan (Is. 14ff).

18.  The radical fall and rebellion of Satan (Lk 10:18; Rev 12:7) involved a complete and willful submission through the changeable mutability of his will to the evil and blind commission of self-worship in utter corruption (see Is. 14ff) against the self-existent God (Is. 54:18).

19.  Christians are warned in the infallible Scriptures against company with those who practice idolatry (1 Cor. 5:11).

20.  Christians are called to completely flee from the thinking and working of the practice of idolatry (1 Cor. 10:4).

21.  Christians are to have no fellowship with idolatry (1 Cor 10:19-20).

22.  Christians are meant to be kept from idolatry (1 Jn 5:21).

23.  Christians testify against idolatry (Acts 14:15).

24.   Christians are called to completely turn away from idolatry (1 Thess 1:9).

25.  Christians kneel in worship to Christ (Acts 7:60; 20:36).  That is, we are called to kneel in worship to the Triune God alone: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit because He alone is from everlasting to everlasting  and alone worthy of glory.

26.   Idolatry is in the background of the unregenerate heathen (Josh. 24:2; Ez. 16:44-45).

27.  People are enticed to idolatry through contact with idolatries (Num. 25:1-6).

28.  Enticements happen by idolatry through intermarriage (1 Kin 11:1-13).

29.  Idolatry is man-made imaginary spiritual goodness (Jer. 44:15-19) because man's mind and heart are completely bent to corrupt practices (for example the heart of man in Rom 1:21-23).

30.   Idolatry is removed through divine punishment (Deut. 17:2-5).

31.  Idolatry is removed in ancient times also like today because it is not powerful by the literal nature of the graven image (1 Sam 5:1-5; 1 Kin 18:25-29).  Rather it is powerful through satanic spiritual power that is a foreigner to the worship of God in spirit and truth (Jn 4:23-24).

32.    Idolatry should be removed through spiritual reasoning (Is. 44:6-20).

33.  Idolatry is removed by the supernatural display of God's awesome power of powers (2 Kin 19:10-37).

34.  We are to denounce idols that take us away from God (Mic 1:5-7).

35.  Idols are removed through exile (Hos. 8:5-14; Zeph 1:4-6).

36.  Idolatry is removed through spiritual rebirth in non-baptismal regeneration but cosmic and divine regeneration by God's supernatural intervention (Hos. 14:1-9; Amos 5:26-27; Tit 3:5; Jn 3ff).

37.  Idol making is described by Isaiah in Is. 44:9-18.

38.   If someone says like Pope John Paul II that Mary rescued him from death, it is the same as making a "graven image" in attributing divine help from it (see Ex. 32:4).

39.   If you kneel to a image of the Virgin Mary, a particular saint or angel, it is contradictory worship (Ex 32:8) because God alone demands all the glory in worship.

40.   If the image as some kind of spiritual power, it is not of God but is a graven god apart from the holy living of God (Ex. 34:17; Phil 4ff).

41.   Do not seek direction from an image of a saint or a statue, because God demands exclusive attention (Lev 19:4).

42.   Image-honoring or image-veneration is a sign that a sinner has "corrupted themselves" (Deut. 9:12).

43.   Clement of Alexandria said "works of art" are not godly.

44.  Tertullian said demons are concerned with images of deceased people.   I think it means in light of a "religious practice" of some sort.

45.   Why kneel to a statue when you can kneel and worship God alone in your prayer closet?

46.   Worshiping God alone is the way of growing in the peace of God because everything is brought to Him alone.

47. Idolatry is praying to the Virgin Mary on your knees.

48.  Idolatry is praying to a particular angel on your knees.

49.  The worship of the consecrated Host in the Roman Mass is idolatry because it is the work of man's hands.

50.  Thinking there is other merit besides Christ alone is cosmic idolatry.

51.  A preeminent pope like Diotrephes in 3 Jn is leadership worship.

52.   It is not idolatry to ask a friend in Christ to pray for you to God alone for a particular need because we are called to bear one another's burdens.

53.   Idolatry is a actual transgression against God and His holiness.

54.   Idolatry is complete unrighteousness.

55. Idolatry is not from a Spirit and Word-born faith (Rom 14:23).

56.  The source of idolatry is man's corrupt heart.

57.  The other source of idolatry is Satan's rebellion.

58.  Christians should acknowledge sin before God (Ps. 32:5).

59.  Christians should confess sin before God (Ps. 51:3-4) because He alone forgives sin (1 Jn 1:9).

60.   A furtherance of idolatry creates a greater degree of sin.

61.   Idolatry is not the unforgivable sin among the sons and daughters of Adam.

62.  The rebellion of Satan and fallen angels have no spiritual cure because there is no Redeemer for the angelic race.

63.  Those who are permanently-bound to reprobation by God's divine choice also do not have a divine Redeemer because Christ only intended to die for God's elect alone (example, Jacob (elect) and Esau (non-elect), or Judas Iscariot (non-elect) and Simon Peter (elect).

64.  Idolatry creates a greater sin of spiritual mind-control against the things of God in the worshiping-exaltation of Jesus alone.

65.  People should only worship the Blessed Trinity alone for that is not idolatry but consistent biblical truth.

66.  Those who say the "Hail Mary" commit idolatry.

67.  Those who think the Virgin Mary is more compassionate than Jesus Christ commit cosmic idolatry because there is no one who forgives and understands like the Savior and God-man than Jesus Christ.

68.   Those who think Muhammad is the last and greatest prophet and mistaken, because Jesus was not only a prophet but He is Jehovah God in human flesh.

69.  Joseph Smith thought he was greater than Jesus Christ.  That is, it is idolatrous treason to think such things in light of the person and work of Jesus Christ.

70.  The Eastern Orthodox say the way of knowledge and atonement of Jesus leads to dedication.  But the Bible says that man is not god but God is God and man is man.   Such teachings are idolatry.

71.   No one should worship that which is not self-existent.  That is, no one should honor, venerate, esteem or worship in a religious context that which is not from everlasting to everlasting.

72.  The elect angels in the Book of Revelation command us to worship God alone.

73.  Peter commands us to worship God alone and not saints in the Book of Acts.

74.  Idols do not necessarily come to us in a statue or a image of a saint.  Rather an idol is something you place ahead of God.

75.  Is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit first in your life?

76.  Who do you seek salvation from?  God and man?  Or God alone?

77.  To kiss the ring of the pope in a religious context is contrary to the angelic command in the Book of Revelation "WORSHIP GOD."

78.  The Bible is the supreme infallible and final authority, but no one should worship it.  Worship God alone.

79.  It is idolatry to think the baptismal waters pardons sin.

80.  It is idolatry to think we can somehow merit salvation.

81.  It is not idolatry to love your neighbor as yourself.

82.  It is not idolatry to love your enemies instead of hatred.

83.  Sin is basically cosmic treason of idolatry.

84.  Worshiping Allah is a practice of idolatry, because He is not the one true God.  Rather the Blessed Trinity is the One true God.

85.  It is better to love God than love an idol.

86.  It is better to get things from God than an idol.

87.  It is better to worship God alone than honor a saint in prayer.

88.  It is idolatry to believe "purification of sins" occurs through meritorious sufferings in this life or in the torments of purgatory.

89.  It is better to believe the Cross alone "purifies sin" than anything else.

90.  The Westminster Larger Catechism says, "Q. 104. What are the duties required in the first commandment?  A. The duties required in the first commandment are, the knowing and acknowledging of God to be the only true God, and our God;[446] and to worship and glorify him accordingly,[447] by thinking,[448] meditating,[449] remembering,[450] highly esteeming,[451] honouring,[452] adoring,[453] choosing,[454] loving,[455] desiring,[456] fearing of him;[457] believing him;[458] trusting[459] hoping,[460] delighting,[461] rejoicing in him;[462] being zealous for him;[463] calling upon him, giving all praise and thanks,[464] and yielding all obedience and submission to him with the whole man;[465] being careful in all things to please him,[466] and sorrowful when in any thing he is offended;[467] and walking humbly with him.[468]."

91.  It further says,  "Q. 105. What are the sins forbidden in the first commandment?  A. The sins forbidden in the first commandment are, atheism, in denying or not having a God;[469] idolatry, in having or worshipping more gods than one, or any with or instead of the true God;[470] the not having and avouching him for God, and our God;[471] the omission or neglect of anything due to him, required in this commandment;[472] ignorance,[473] forgetfulness,[474] misapprehensions,[475] false opinions,[476] unworthy and wicked thoughts of him;[477] bold and curious searching into his secrets;[478] all profaneness,[479] hatred of God;[480] self-love,[481] self-seeking,[482] and all other inordinate and immoderate setting of our mind, will, or affections upon other things, and taking them off from him in whole or in part;[483] vain credulity,[484] unbelief,[485] heresy,[486] misbelief,[487] distrust,[488] despair,[489] incorrigibleness,[490] and insensibleness under judgments,[491] hardness of heart,[492] pride,[493] presumption,[494] carnal security,[495] tempting of God;[496] using unlawful means,[497] and trusting in lawful means;[498] carnal delights and joys;[499] corrupt, blind, and indiscreet zeal;[500] lukewarmness,[501] and deadness in the things of God;[502] estranging ourselves, and apostatizing from God;[503] praying, or giving any religious worship, to saints, angels, or any other creatures;[504] all compacts and consulting with the devil,[505] and hearkening to his suggestions;[506] making men the lords of our faith and conscience;[507] slighting and despising God and his commands;[508] resisting and grieving of his Spirit,[509] discontent and impatience at his dispensations, charging him foolishly for the evils he inflicts on us;[510] and ascribing the praise of any good we either are, have or can do, to fortune,[511] idols,[512] ourselves,[513] or any other creature.[514]"

92.  Why would anyone stay in a religion of idols when the Bible speaks against it?  Mediate on God's written Word alone.

93.  It is idolatry to say "I believed in Jesus on my own because of libertarian free will" because only God saves.

94.   No one should worship a Cross but remember it in our minds to focus on Jesus and His work.

95.  Idolatry is powerful.  Some believe images of Jesus are acceptable while others believe they are not acceptable.  The simplicity of worship to God is to go to God alone that is revealed in divine revelation (the Holy Scriptures).  

All praise to God, who reigns above,
The God of all creation,
The God of wonders, pow'r, and love,
The God of our salvation!
With healing balm my soul he fills,
The God who every sorrow stills,
To God all praise and glory!
What God's almighty pow'r hath made
His gracious mercy keepeth;
By morning dawn or evening shade
His watchful eye ne'er sleepeth;
Within the kingdom of his might,
Lo, all is just and all is right,
To God all praise and glory!
I cried to him in time of need:
Lord God, O, hear my calling!
For death he gave me life indeed
And kept my feet from falling.
For this my thanks shall endless be;
O thank him, thank our God, with me,
To God all praise and glory!
The Lord forsaketh not his flock,
His chosen generation;
He is their refuge and their rock,
Their peace and their salvation.
As with a mother's tender hand
He leads his own, his chosen band,
To God all praise and glory!
Ye who confess Christ's holy name,
To God give praise and glory!
Ye who the Father's power proclaim,
To God give praise and glory!
All idols under foot be trod,
The Lord is God! the Lord is God!
To God all praise and glory!
Then come before his presence now
And banish fear and sadness;
To your Redeemer pay your vow
And sing with joy and gladness:
Though great distress my soul befell,
The Lord, my God, did all things well,
To God all praise and glory! (TH, 4).

Grace and peace unto you!

95-Disputations on the Scriptural Rejection in my Constitutional Right for Religious Freedom About the Papal Teaching of Homosexual Leadership by Pope Francis I in the Church of Rome and the Scriptural Solidarity to a Foreordained Good Work of Christian Morality APART FROM Homosexuality as a Descriptive Demonstration of the Holy Unified Righteousness of Christ Alone by Faith Alone

1.     No one will ever get right with God touching a civil goodness that is completely tainted with actual transgressions (1 Sam 24:13) and the sin of homosexuality is very grievous (Gen 18:20).

2.     In a Bible-believing local church outside of Rome, the activity of homosexuality is grounds for church discipline and potential excommunication from the localized body of Christ (see Mt 18ff).

3.     Rome has already rejected the Bible-centered gospel in the Canons of the Council of Trent, but how much further by homosexual defilement (1 Tim. 1:10) with those who will not inherit the kingdom of God by the cosmic treason of homosexual-practicing passion, “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality…” (1 Cor. 6:9 ESV).

4.     Those who practice homosexuality in the thought life are not captive to the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16) nor captive in every thought to His perfect obedience (2 Cor 10:5).

5.     There is no such thing as a good homosexual fornicator (Ps 14:3; Mk 10:18) and homosexual thoughts or behavior is contrary to sound doctrine (1 Tim. 1:10).

6.     The Bible does not teach a dogmatism of celibacy.  This error has lead to the furtherance of homosexual passion (see Rom. 1ff). 

7.     The Bible teaches an plural eldership rule like Peter, James and John (Mt 17:1) and a husband of a God-fearing wife for the ministry of a biblical elder (Tit 1:6; Prov. 31ff). 

8.     The eldership is to be married in its biblical normative sense between a man and a woman (1 Tim. 3:2) not in anyway engaging in homosexual activity (Deut. 23:17; 1 Kin 14:24; 1 Kin 15:12; 1 Kin 22:46; 1 Kin 23:7).

9.     The vulnerable in the Church of Rome are not safe among homosexual violators of the moral law of God in the broad context of sexual purity (Ex 20:14).

10. By their fruits you will know them (Mt 7:20).  Hence, is this not explicit spiritual evidence of the spiritually, morally, doctrinally, historically, theologically and dogmatically bankrupt state of the Church of Rome?

11. The moral law of God forbids adultery (Jn 8:3-5) and the Bible also forbids homosexuality (Rom 1ff).

12. The spiritually unregenerate are limited to outward appearance (Is. 1:14-15).

13. This teaching of homosexual leadership in the Roman Church was already there in secret for a long duration of time but God knew the secrets of their hearts (Ps 44:21).

14. Rome cannot control the homosexual passion of their leadership (Ps 64:2) which is evidenced by their terrorism of the abused (like what happened in Judges 19:25 compare to Gen. 19:5).

15. Christian morality is a good work that the Blessed Trinity created and ordained for His glory alone (Eph. 2:10; 1 Cor. 10:31) but it does not have the spiritual strength to add to the God-man’s supreme righteousness (Phil 3:9).

16. Christian morality does not spiritual save but demonstrates faith (Eph. 2:10; Js 2ff) because Christ alone saves (Gal 2:20). 

17. The God-caused motivation for good works is not to out way the scale of good and bad, because Christ alone died for His elect people alone to be holy (Eph 5:27).

18. Man thinks he is good because he looks at other men and seems better, but he does not understand by nature that his “righteousness” is a spiritual stranger to God and is abominable filthy rages (Job 15:16; Ps 14:1; Is 64:6).

19. Christian morality among the spiritual unregenerate engage in fornication with strange women (Acts 15:20; 1 Kin 11:1) and a homosexual-blind submission to rebellion against a holy God (Rom 1ff; Lev 11:45; 19:2).

20. Christian morality is the Reformed teaching of right conduct in the holy presence of God, His elect angels and the people of God in Christ (Phil. 4:8).

21. Pope Benedict taught that homosexuality is an “intrinsic evil” but Pope Francis I teaches that a gay priest is someone who is good and searches for the Lord.  (See the by the New York Times On Gay Priests, Pope Francis Asks, ‘Who Am I to Judge?’). 

22. The clear testimony of the written Word says that homosexuality is an iniquity-exalting abomination (Ps 53:1; Lev. 18:22). 

23. Now the question is whom will you believe?  Do you believe the God-breathed Scriptures (2 Tim. 3:16-17) that alone is infallible (Jn 10:35) or the testimony of the immoral passions of homosexual wickedness of Pope Francis I like the doom-exalted city of Sodom and Gomorrah in ancient history (see Gen 19ff)?

24. Those of God are a new creation in that they are called to be moral to demonstrate God’s predestinarian plan in the furtherance of Christian morality from Scripture for every good deed (2 Cor. 5:17; 2 Pet 1:5; Eph. 2:10; 2 Tim 3:16-17).

25.Rome has committed the violation of this New Testament commandment, “Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”  (1 Cor 15:33 NASB).

26.The law of God is written on the heart of all the elect (Heb. 8:10).

27.There ought to be boasting in Christ alone (1 Cor. 15:10; Phil. 3:7-10).

28.Church leaders should not be engaged in the practice of homosexuality because by nature it is detestable (Rom 1ff).

29.Clement of Alexandria condemned the practice of homosexuality in the city of Sodom and Gomorrah.

30.Tertullian calls homosexuality a monstrosity, because it violates the law of nature.

31.Novatian says homosexuality is “men deformed into women.”  Hence it is unnatural and morally shameful.

32.Cyprian of Carthage says homosexuality is man broken down into a woman.

33.Eusebius of Caesarea quotes Lev. 18:24-25 regarding morally avoiding homosexual defilement.

34.Basil the Great gives practical advice in avoiding homosexual behavior.

35.John Chrysostom speaks of “dishonorableness” in the practice of homosexuality.

36.Augustine speaks of the spiritual crime of Sodom and says they should be punished by God (see Lev. 20:13).

37.The Apostolic Constitution speaks of homosexuality as “wicked and impious.”

38.The Rome Catechism forbids homosexuality (RCC 2396) but Pope Francis I allows them to be in the leadership of the Church.

39.How does the infallibility of the Pope provide more certainty when they strongly disagree among popes and Church documents?

40.The Roman Catechism says that homosexual activity is “contrary to natural law” (RCC 2357).

41. Spurgeon wrote, “Concerning homosexuality: This once brought hell out of heaven on Sodom…”

42.“Homosexual behavior is contrary to the Creator’s design (Gen. 1:27-28), and therefore is entirely unnatural (Rom. 1:26-27). Homosexual acts are not good; they neither conform to the standard of good (i.e., righteousness) revealed in God’s law, and they are not good (i.e., beneficial) for an individual or for society. According to Scripture, homosexual activity is sinful and an abomination (Lev. 18:22; 20:13; Rom. 1:26-27; 1 Cor. 6:9; 1 Tim. 1:9-10). The rise and acceptance of homosexual relationships is a sign of moral degradation, is due to man’s suppression of the knowledge of God in his pursuit of idolatry, and is a revelation of God’s wrath (Rom. 1:18-32; Gen. 19:1-11).”  (Reference, William Einwechter, The Debate over “Same-Sex Marriage,” June 21, 2006, Vision Forum Ministries).

43.Greg L. Bahnsen author of “Homosexuality: A Biblical View” wrote, “God’s verdict on homosexuality is inescapably clear. His law is a precise interpretation of the sexual order of creation for fallen man, rendering again His intention and direction for sexual relations. When members of the same sex (homo-sexual) practice intercourse with each other…they violate God’s basic creation order in a vile and abominable fashion.”

44.Jay Adams in an article in TableTalk says, “In mercy, even though homosexuality is a sinful way of life, and not a genetic problem, Paul makes it clear that it is possible for a homosexual to be “washed” form his defilement through the saving grace of Jesus Christ (1 Cor. 6:9-12).”

45.We are elected by God for holiness (Rom. 8:29).

46.We are called to holiness (1 Thess. 4:7).

47.New creations possess holiness (1 Cor. 3:16-17).

48.Holiness and homosexuality is incompatible (Rom 1ff; 1 Pet 1:15-16).

49.Holiness and fornication is also incompatible (1 Pet 1:15; Mt 15:19).

50.Homosexuality in thought or in practice is spiritually unclean (Rom 1:24, 26, 27).

51.The holiness of Christ was announced in the Psalms (Ps 16:10) that is contrary to homosexual defilement.

52.The holiness of Christ is announced in the Prophets (Is. 11:4-5) which is still contrary to homosexual behavior.

53.The holiness of Christ is proclaimed by Gabriel (Lk 1:35), demons (Mk 1:24), the centurion (Lk 23:47), St. Peter (Acts 4:27, 30), St. Paul (2 Cor. 5:21) and St. John (1 Jn 2:1, 29).

54.The Holy God-man was totally free from complete sinfulness (1 Jn 3:5).

55.Jesus was totally free from complete guilt (Jn 8:46).

56.Christ was complete set apart from defilement (Heb. 7:26-27).

57.The reason for the Christian to be holy is because God is holy (1 Pet 1:15-16).

58.The reason for the Christian to be holy is because of the love of Christ (2 Cor. 5:14-15).

59. The godly fear of a Christian should be to hate evil (Prov. 8:13).  I am NOT saying Christians should "hate" a homosexual sinner.  Rather we are not called to excuse their sin like Pope Francis I has done, but we are called to share the love of Jesus Christ in hopes that God may "make them willing" to respond (see Jn 1:13).

60.The motive of the Christian of godly fear is the majesty of God (Jer. 10:7).

61.The motive of the Christian of godly fear is holiness (Rev. 15:4).

62.The Bible calls the Christian public to “TRUST AND OBEY.”

63.The person who has committed homosexuality in anyway will be pardoned if they repent through Christ crucified (Is. 43:25; Jn 19:30; 1 Jn 1:9).

64.Homosexuality merits God’s wrath in forsaking God’s moral law (Ex 20ff; Ezra 8:22).

65.Christians are called to purity apart from homosexual behavior (Phil 4:8; Rom 1fff).

66.The apostle Paul says, “Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart” (2 Tim 2:22 NASB).

67.The apostle John says, “And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure” (1 Jn 3:3 NASB).

68.It is not scripturally mistaken to “judge” if something is wrong or not, because we are called to engage in just and right judgments (Jn 7:24).

69.What does “judge not lest you be judged” mean?  It refers to hypocritical judgment (Mt 7ff).  It does not mean you cannot make a sound judgment about any issue.  We are called to judge all things in light of what is God-breathed (2 Tim 3:16-17).

70. No Roman leader has the right to force the vulnerable to engage in homosexual behavior (Phil 4ff).

71.  The London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 and the Westminster Confession calls for the highest standard for their eldership leadership unlike pot-moral Romanism.

72.  The Augsburg Confession says in one part, "That we may obtain this faith, the Ministry of Teaching the Gospel and administering the Sacraments was instituted. For through the Word and Sacraments, as through instruments, the Holy Ghost is given, who works faith; where and when it pleases God, in them that hear the Gospel, to wit, that God, not for our own merits, but for Christ's sake, justifies those who believe that they are received into grace for Christ's sake."

73.  Martin Luther author "The Smalcald Articles" wrote, "Hence it follows that all things which the Pope, from a power so false, mischievous, blasphemous, and arrogant, has done and undertaken, have been and still are purely diabolical affairs and transactions (with the exception of such things as pertain to the secular government, where God often permits much good to be effected for a people, even through a tyrant and [faithless] scoundrel) for the ruin of the entire holy [catholic or] Christian Church (so far as it is in his power) and for the destruction of the first and chief article concerning the redemption made through Jesus Christ."

74. The Westminster Confession of Faith says, "There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ.  Nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God."

75.  The London Confession says, "The way appointed by Christ for the calling of any person, fitted and gifted by the Holy Spirit, unto the office of bishop or elder in a church, is, that he be chosen thereunto by the common suffrage of the church itself; and solemnly set apart by fasting and prayer, with imposition of hands of the eldership of the church, if there be any before constituted therein; and of a deacon that he be chosen by the like suffrage, and set apart by prayer, and the like imposition of hands."

76.  Again it says, "The work of pastors being constantly to attend the service of Christ, in his churches, in the ministry of the word and prayer, with watching for their souls, as they that must give an account to Him; it is incumbent on the churches to whom they minister, not only to give them all due respect, but also to communicate to them of all their good things according to their ability, so as they may have a comfortable supply, without being themselves entangled in secular affairs; and may also be capable of exercising hospitality towards others; and this is required by the law of nature, and by the express order of our Lord Jesus, who has ordained that they that preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel."

77.  If having a pope shows divine and spiritual certainty of faith, why is there such radical confusion among the two current popes, the Vatican and Roman documents on the practice of homosexuality?


78.  Isn't the written Scripture's perpetuity a clear basis for the Bible's position against the practice of homosexuality instead of that of an alleged "holy gay men?"

79.  Hasn't Pope Francis I been conformed to the image of the devil in moral disobedience in excusing homosexual immorality in Church leadership?

80.  Christians are called to love those who practice any kind sin, especially those in the deep sexual idolatry of homosexuality.

81.  Doesn't this position of Pope Francis I cause a further problem in the furtherance of homosexual abuse among the vulnerable?

82.  Why do the adult folk of the Churches of Rome subject their children to ungodly men and unbiblical practices?

83. The question is, what is better though it is true that everyone is a sinner?  Is it better to have elders devoted to one wife, preach, teach and pray in the Reformed faith?  Or, is it better to have the rebellion of homosexual leadership?  I ask you, which is more honoring to Christ?

84.  Hasn't the Church of Rome been led astray by ungodly men who love the passion of sexual evil more than the God-honoring way of marriage for the leaders of the church?

85.  How is someone who is gay suppose to call sinners to contrite repentance from every sin and a life set apart by God?

86.  Why should families take the risk of being under the "authority" of the Church leaders of Rome?

87.  What is more honoring to God by way of the Bible?  A life of holiness and Christian morality, or a life of secret homosexual behavior?

88.  How can such corrupt priests handle the "material body of Christ" when they use their hands in rebellion against God?

89.  With love and respect, I call Pope Francis I to repentance for his false teaching on "judgment."  Suppose we cannot judge whether something is wrong or not.  It simply means there is absolute chaos.  We are called by God to make sound, right and honoring judgments or decisions that honor His written Word.

90.  The evil living of the leadership of the Roman Church is evidence of the works of the flesh.

91.  Roman leaders need their sin placed upon Christ alone or there will be no forgiveness for them.

92.   I am saddened at the miserable condition of this sin in the Catholic leadership, but all I can do is pray for them and share God's message of free righteousness, forgiveness, cleansing and grace through the Savior and Creator Jesus Christ.

93.  I take no pleasure in the astray Church of Rome, but I seek to be a means of sharing the glad tidings of Christ alone for their betterment unto God's glory alone.

94.  We are called by Jesus to hate false doctrine, but we are also called by Jesus to love those who are spiritually lost.  There is no doubt this is a papal heresy touching moral practice, leadership and sanctification.

95.  The astray pope illustrates that such a Roman system is incompatible with the written Word alone and the subordinate authority of ruling "equal and plural elders" of the Reformed church.

Most perfect is the law of God,
Restoring those that stray;
His testimony is most sure,
Proclaiming wisdom's way.
O how love I thy law! O how love I thy law!
It is my meditation all the day.
O how love I thy law! O how love I thy law!
It is my meditation all the day.
The precepts of the Lord are right;
With joy they fill the heart;
The Lord's commandments all are pure,
And clearest light impart.
The fear of God is undefiled
And ever shall endure;
The statutes of the Lord are truth
And righteousness most pure.
They warn from ways of wickedness
Displeasing to the Lord,
And in the keeping of his Word
There is a great reward. (TH, 450).