Month: July 2022

I didn’t invent affirmations. They’ve been around for hundreds of years. Some famous theologians only used affirmations when they prayed to God. Why was that? Because affirmations work! God is a not a slot machine that pays out whenever you want something. However, when you have faith in God and approach him properly in prayer, with fear, then God will hear your petitions and give you what you ask for. To ‘fear God” in biblical terms means to show awe, deep respect, and reverence to your maker and the King of the Universe. The Bible says God will answer the prayers of believers but it doesn’t say when this will happen. It could happen quickly or it could take twenty years or more. God is inscrutable in all his dealings with man. The secret is to keep praying until God answers you.

My affirmations are not my own. They’re all borrowed from a book titled, “The Tongue” by Charles Capps who is a well known Christian author and minister. This little paperback book was first published in 1976. It’s out of print now but you can sometimes still find it on Ebay for under $10. It’s a good addition to any religious reference library. God made man to have authority over this physical plane. We see that in Genesis where God gave Adam (a man) dominion over the earth. Then Satan caused Adam to sin which caused his fall and he forfeited control over the earth to Satan. Jesus Christ came down from heaven to die on the cross for our sins and by his resurrection he reclaimed the earth for man. Jesus reclaimed the earth for man as a man, and not God.

It’s important to note that Jesus didn’t reclaim the earth for God. Jesus just wanted to reestablish dominion over the earth for man which God had given to his special creation (man) through Adam. That’s why God works through men to accomplish his will on earth. The word of God conceived in the heart, formed by the tongue, and spoken out of the mouth of man is creative power. It’s how we establish and use the authority God gave us. The spoken word will work for you as long as you continuously confess it and we do that through affirmations. Always pray the result you seek as if God has already granted your petition.

“I delight myself in the Lord and He gives me the desires of my heart.”

“I have given and it is given unto me good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, men given unto my bosom.”

“There is no lack for my God supplies all of my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

“And I, having received the gift of righteousness do reign as a king in life by Jesus Christ.”

“Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law. Christ has redeemed me from poverty, Christ has redeemed me from sickness, Christ has redeemed me from spiritual death.”

“For poverty He has given me wealth, for sickness He has given me health, for death He has given me eternal life.”

“It is true unto me according to the Word of God.”

“I have put off the old man and have put on the new man, which is renewed in the knowledge after the image of Him that created me.”

“With what measure I mete, it is measured unto me. I sow bountifully, therefore I reap bountifully. I give cheerfully, and my God has made all grace abound toward me and I having all sufficiency of all things do abound to all good works.”

“The Lord is my shepherd and I do not want because Jesus was made poor, that I through His poverty might have abundance. For He came that I might have life and have it more abundantly.”

“The Lord has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant, and Abraham’s blessings are mine.”

When you verbally speak your spiritual affirmations before God in prayer you’re praising God with your lips, which the Bible says we’re to do at all times of the day. We’re to praise God continually in prayer because it honors God and glorifies his name. It’s important we acknowledge God before the heavenly host (angels) and the forces of darkness on earth (demons). Affirmations are merely a different kind of prayer we use to declare our alignment with God’s word. Affirmations are like a solemn oath to God. Think of it like you’re giving sworn testimony in a court of law where you have to put your hand on the Bible and swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. Taking an oath before the Lord of Creation is a serious thing.

God has prepared great blessings for his children, not only in heaven but also here on earth. If these affirmations sound familiar to you they should because they’re all Scriptures taken from the Bible, either directly or paraphrased into a declarative statement to capture the intent of God’s word and invoke the blessings God wants believers to have here on earth. Here’s a secret about prayer. When you pray the Scriptures back to God you’re glorifying God so you can’t go wrong as long as you keep praying. God has to answer your prayers in order to fulfill his word. Of course God’s timetable may not be the same as yours. Why wouldn’t you want the blessings of God right now while you’re alive on earth? You don’t have to wait until you get to heaven. One thing I know; when believers get to heaven they’ll be amazed at the blessings God was prepared to give them on earth had they only asked for them continually in prayer. Pray to the Lord continually!

AFFIRMATIONS:

“The peace of God which passes all understanding keeps my heart and my mind through Christ Jesus. And all things which are good, and pure, and perfect, and lovely, and of good report, I think on these things.”

“The joy of the Lord is my strength. The Lord is the strength of my life.”

“I will not let the Word of God depart from before my eyes for it is life to me for I have found it and it is health and healing to all my flesh.”

“! am a believer and these signs do follow me. In the name of Jesus I cast out demons, I speak with new tongues, I lay hands on the sick and they do recover.”

“Jesus gave me the authority to use His name. And that which I bind on earth is bound in heaven. And that which I loose on earth is loosed in heaven. Therefore in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I bind the principalities, the powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world. I bind and cast down spiritual wickedness in high places and render them harmless and ineffective against me in the name of Jesus.”

“I let the peace of God rule my heart and I refuse to worry about anything.”

“I speak the truth of the Word of God in love and I grow up into the Lord Jesus Christ.”

“I am complete in Him who is the head of all principality and power. For I am his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God has before ordained that I should walk therein.”

“I am increasing in the knowledge of God. I am strengthened with all might according to His glorious power.”

“I am delivered from the power of darkness and I am translated into the kingdom of His dear Son.”

“I am born of God and I have world overcoming faith residing on the inside of me. For greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world.”

“I will do all things through Christ who strengthens me”

“I let no corrupt communication proceed out of my mouth, but that which is good to edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearer. I grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby I’m sealed unto the day of redemption.”

“God is on my side. God is in me now; who can be against me? He has given unto me all things that pertain unto life and godliness. Therefore I am a partaker of His divine nature.”

“No man shall take me out of His hand for I have eternal life.”

“I’m the Body of Christ, I am redeemed from the curse, and I forbid any sickness, or disease to operate in this body. Every organ, every tissue will function properly, for greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.”

In the dictionary the word affirm is defined as, “to state something firmly and publicly.” The derivative word “affirmative” when used as an adjective means, “agreeing with a statement or to a request.” As a noun the word affirmative means, “a statement or word indicating agreement.” An affirmative is also an exclamation or a declaration. When we talk about Bible affirmations made by the believer we’re talking about a public declaration or exclamation like when you confessed Jesus with your mouth for your personal salvation. It’s public because God hears it and is glorified by your praise and worship. It’s public because the holy angels and the demons also hear you affirm the word of God. When you state the affirmation in a firm voice it means you believer it. You’re claiming the truth of God for yourself and the blessings that go along with it.

The spoken word matters to God. God “spoke” the world into existence and one day he’ll end it the same way. The Bible is God’s wisdom and we are meant to have God’s awesome power in our life when we use our mouth to verbally agree with God’s word in faith. Notice the definition of affirmative involves agreeing with God’s word. In Scripture God says we can have what we say as long as what we want agrees with the word of God and we activate the blessings of God that are contained in the Bible by declaring it in prayer to God. I’m not talking about praying for something once. I’m talking about praying for the blessings of God repeatedly, over and over, until you receive what you have asked for. God might answer your prayer immediately or God might wait twenty years to give you an answer. God is inscrutable and has his own timetable when dealing with his creation. As long as our prayers are biblical God will answer them because God has promised he will. God does not lie and God does not change. The truth of God’s word cannot be broken.

AFFIRMATIONS:

“I trust in the Lord with all of my heart, and I lean not unto my own understanding.”

“In all my ways I acknowledge Him and He directs my path.”

“The Word of God is a lamp unto my feet, it is a light unto my path.”

“The Lord will perfect that which concerns me.”

“I am filled with the knowledge of the Lord’s will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.”

“Jesus is made unto me wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Therefore, I confess I have the wisdom of God, and I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.”

“I receive the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of my understanding being enlightened. And I am not conformed to this world but I am transformed by the renewing of my mind. My mind is renewed by the Word of God.”

“The Spirit of truth abides in me and teaches me all things, and He guides me into all truths. Therefore, I confess I have perfect knowledge of every situation and ever circumstance that I come up against. For I have the wisdom of God.”

“I do follow the good shepherd and I know His voice and the voice of a stranger I will not follow.”

“I have put off the old man and have put on the new man, which is renewed in the knowledge after the image of Him that created me.”

“I am a new creation in Christ, I am his workmanship created in Christ Jesus. Therefore, I have the mind of Christ and the wisdom of God is formed within me.”

“I let the Word of Christ dwell in me rightly in all wisdom.”

The Bible was given to man so that we might know God and his commandments for our lives. Nothing on our physical plane can match the power of God’s word. The power of a nuclear bomb pales in comparison to the Bible. Very few people use even a small iota of the spiritual power that is contained in God’s word. The Bible says whatever a believer binds on earth is bound in heaven. Whatever a believer looses on earth is loosed in heaven. The Bible also says believers can have what they want on this earth. God’s word says we do not have because we do not ask.

Spirit-filled words have great power. When you pray to God verbally affirm to God what he says you can have for the asking. By these affirmations you’re “asking” God to fulfill his holy word in your life. Affirmations allow God to bless your life abundantly. Keep praying your affirmations until God manifests them in your life. It’s never just one and done; it’s the repetition of affirmations over and over in prayer that eventually works for the believer. I have a number of affirmations written on 4″ X 6″ index cards for various topics. I don’t use them all the time but on occasion I’ll pull them out and include them in my daily prayers to God. You’ll be amazed how good it makes you feel to affirm the word of God in his presence.

AFFIRMATIONS:

“Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law. Therefore, I forbid any sickness or disease to come upon this body. Every disease germ and every virus that touches this body dies instantly in the name of Jesus.”

“Great is the peace of my children, for they are taught of the Lord.”

“The devil flees from me because I resist him in the name of Jesus.”

“I am the body of Christ and Satan has no power over me. I overcome evil with good.”

“I am of God and have overcome him (Satan). For greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world.”

“I will fear no evil for thou art with me Lord, your Word and your Spirit they comfort me.”

“I am far from oppression, and fear does not come nigh me.”

“I am delivered from the evils of this present world for it is the will of God.”

“No weapon formed against me shall prosper, for my righteousness is of the Lord. But whatever I do will prosper for I’m like a tree that’s planted by the rivers of water.”

“No evil will befall me neither shall any plague come nigh my dwelling. For you have given your angels charge over me and they keep me in all my ways, and in my pathway is life and there is no death.”

“I am a doer of the Word of God and am blessed in my deeds. I am happy in those things which I do because I am a doer of the Word of God.”

“I take the shield of faith and I quench every fiery dart that the wicked one brings against me.”

“I am an overcomer and I overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony.”

“The Word of God is forever settled in Heaven. Therefore, I establish His Word upon this earth.”

I’m a Baptist believer and I always looked favorably on Catholics as just another Christian denomination. I was dead wrong. Roman Catholicism is a Satanic cult. I first found that out when I was handing out Christian tracts at a Catholic hospital. I was confronted by a hospital administrator and two security guards who asked me to leave the hospital premises. I was dumbfounded! I told them I was passing out the gospel of Christ and asked what was wrong with that. I got no answer but I was escorted off the property. It wasn’t until I started to study Roman Catholicism that it all became clear why the church is dead set against any witnessing for Christ.

Matthew 15:8-9 – (Jesus speaking) – These people draw near to Me (Catholics) with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

The Catholic church teaches that salvation can come only through membership in their church and not through faith in Jesus alone as the Scriptures say. The Catholic church teaches that the Pope has the keys to heaven and hell. The Catholic church wants you to believe you must participate in mass and all the other doctrines and sacraments in order to go to heaven. The Catholic church wants you to believe the Pope and his priests have the final say on forgiveness of sin and who gets to go to heaven, or not. For that reason the Catholic church cannot allow their flock to read the Bible for themselves or they might realize they don’t need the church to go to heaven. The Catholic church doesn’t allow witnessing for Christ even though Jesus Christ gave the Great Commission to all believers. Have you ever seen a Catholic witnessing for Christ? Neither have I. If they did they would be kicked out of the Catholic church and excommunicated by the Pope. I was kicked out of the Catholic hospital because I was a threat to them and their corrupt church doctrines.

This is not a secret. The proof is out there for anyone taking the time to look at the evidence. If you’re not a Catholic don’t become one or you’ll be worshipping Satan. Don’t join any of the other trendy cults who claim to be Christian but are also Satanic cults. I’m referring to Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witness, Scientology, etc. The Catholic church has also been trying to corrupt the word of God by funding new Bible editions that omit certain Scriptures from God’s word. Only trust the King James Bible (NKJV) as the true word of God. As the author of history God knew that Satan would corrupt the Roman Catholic church. As the author of the Bible God put Scriptures in the Bible that speaks directly to Catholic believers trapped in an evil church. If you’re a Catholic you’d be wise to meditate on the following Bible verses.

2 Corinthians 6:14 – Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

We know God is talking about a church containing Christian believers because he talks about fellowship. God is either talking about a Catholic church or a Protestant church. Those are the only two choices available. The fact that God references communion tells you God is talking the Catholic church and telling believers to come out of her so as to not fellowship with unbelievers, which most Catholics are. They just might not know it because they have always depended on the Pope and the Church to save them and not God. Most Catholics will be in total shock on the last day when they find themselves at the Great White Thone judgment of Christ for nonbelievers.

2 Corinthians 6:15 – And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?

God is letting us know that the Roman Catholic church belong to Belial. Belial is just another name for Satan, the devil, who is the enemy of all men and the devourer of souls. Satan knows he’s going to hell forever and he wants to take as many men and women with him as possible.

2 Corinthians 6:16 – And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them, I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

God’s first commandment is in Exodus 20:3, “You shall have no other gods before Me.” Catholics are taught to pray to Mary and not Jesus. As the Mother of God she is considered to be co-equal with Jesus in granting salvation to men. The Catholic church dogma declares the “immaculate conception” of Mary which means she was free from original sin. This is unscriptural. Pope Pius IX declared this to be divinely revealed to him in 1854. Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) added another blasphemy when he instituted the dogma of nonsensical daily Rosary prayers to Mary for all Catholics. In Scripture God says not to worship him with vain repetitions like the heathens do. A centerpiece of pagan religions is goddess worship and the Roman Catholic church has adopted this with the elevation of Mary to divine status and worshipping her instead of God. If you’re a Roman Catholic you’re a heathen in the eyes of God. The Catholic church by making Mary equal with God, and praying to her, has placed other gods (Mary) before the Lord in disobedience to God’s first commandment. There is no biblical warrant for revering Mary or worshipping her. This church dogma was created by sinful men and not God. Tell me I’m wrong?

God’s second commandment is in Exodus 20:4-5, “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.” Idols and statues are an integral part of pagan worship. Look around any Catholic church and what do you see? You see numerous statues of saints and Mary that people can pray to. You see numerous paintings and carved images of Jesus on the cross. The second commandment is very clear and the Catholic church is violating it.

2 Corinthians 6:17 – Therefore “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”

God is making it abundantly clear the body of believers is not compatible with the Roman Catholic church and they are to come out of her (leave the Catholic church) in order to return to fellowship with God. Most Catholics are brainwashed from birth and have never personally accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. They just believe being a member of the church and believing all the false doctrines and going through all the phony sacraments will get them to heaven. It won’t. Satan is blinding you to the truth of God. In the above verse God makes it clear he’s waiting for you to leave the Roman Catholic church and come to him.

2 Corinthians 6:18 – I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

God made every one of us and he wants to be a Father to us in every sense of the word. We don’t need a corrupt church coming between God and man. We don’t need evil men with their own agenda interfering with the relationship we have with God. This is what Satan has designed the Roman Catholic church to do to us. If you’re Catholic please don’t fall for the lies of Satan any longer. Come out of that evil institution while you still can. You have no excuse because I have told you. Let’s use our common sense here. Do you really think God approves of the Roman Catholic church when it’s obviously disobedient to the first two commandments of God? Not to mention being unscriptural in every single church dogma, doctrine and sacrament.

During the early period church and all the way through the middle ages most of the people didn’t have access to the Bible. The Catholic Bible was written in Latin which only the highly educated could read and the church forbade any Bible translations into the common languages. People had to rely on the church to tell them what the Bible said and about God and that’s the way the Roman Catholic church wanted it. The evil empire wanted to be able to freely create and install unscriptural doctrines and sacraments for the church without any pushback from the faithful. If nobody could read and very few had Bibles then nobody could question what the church was doing. The peasants just accepted that whatever the Pope was doing had the approval of God. Numerous Popes throughout the centuries have attempted to confiscate and burn all Bibles and/or prevent their translation into common languages because they wanted all religious information to come only from the church.

Psalm 119:18 – Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

Psalm 63:1 – O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.

As you can see from the above verses God gave the Bible for every believers to read and study and obey. Nowhere in the Bible does it give the right to any church body to withhold the Bible from believers or to spoon feed the faithful with unscriptural doctrine. Catholics are discouraged from reading their Bibles on their own without interpretation of those Scriptures by the church. The Pope interprets Scripture to mean what he wants it to mean and that interpretation has precedence over what God plainly says in his word. In the church it’s a sin to not to accept the Pope’s word over what God says. What blasphemy!

Isaiah 42:8 – I am the Lord, that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another.

Psalm 29:2 – Give unto the Lord the glory due His name; worship the lord in the beauty of holiness.

There are dozens of verses in the Bible that command us to honor God with our money and praise him continually with our lips in prayer. God is glorified when we pray to him and that glory is stolen from God when believers are prevented from praying to him. The Roman Catholic church has stolen God’s glory with their unscriptural doctrine on prayer and they will be held accountable on the last day. God talks to us through the Bible and we talk to God through prayer. That two-way communication creates fellowship between man and God. God can’t hear the prayers of Catholics who pray to Mary or other church saints and that’s just what Satan intended.

Psalm 145:19 – He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He will also hear their cry and save them.

Psalm 6:9 – The Lord had heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer.

Along comes the Roman Catholic church who decides to change the way we talk to God. They decide God is too busy to hear our prayers so they make their flock pray to Mary instead. Now Mary is the mother of Jesus and is no doubt revered in heaven but she’s not divine like the church claims. Mary is only a human being like us and Scripture confirms she needed salvation just like we all do. Mary can’t hear our prayers and she can’t forgive our sins or take our prayers to Jesus. That’s utter nonsense! The Bible clearly teaches we must make our prayers directly to God the Father and nobody else. I’m sure Mary is mortified that she is the object of prayer here on earth. If God had intended that we make our prayers to Mary he would have said so in the Bible. God would not have omitted something as important as that.

Psalm 112:1 – Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in His commandments.

Isaiah 33:6 – Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the strength of salvation; the fear of the Lord is His treasure.

In the Bible I count 129 direct commands from God to the believer. While it’s true many of the commands are redundant, the point is God commands us to do many things which we cannot know unless we read and study the Bible ourselves. The Roman Catholic church, or any church for that matter, will only give you a few of the most important commandments and will tell you only what’s important to them. You can’t expect to be spoon fed your religion. Each of us is responsible for learning all there is to know about God for ourselves; by personally reading and studying the Bible. As believers it’s our duty to read and study God’s word so we know what it is we must do to please God. And the word of God must take precedence over all else. If any church or doctrine is not scriptural you must not follow it. If your church does not follow the teaching of the Bible then leave that church and find one that does.

Isaiah 43:11 – I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no Savior.

Isaiah 5:20 – Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

The entire Bible is about the revelation of Jesus Christ on the earth and his worship should be the centerpiece of any church. The Roman Catholic church has reduced Jesus to a cookie they pull out only during mass. Every doctrine and sacrament of the Roman Catholic church is 180 degrees from what God wants for his church. Satan and God are both invisible but you can know them by their works. The fact that 100% of the Roman Catholic church dogma, doctrines and sacraments are unscriptural reveals to us that the Roman Catholic is the fruit of Satan. There’s no other logical answer. You shall know them by their fruit and we can that clearly. The pomp and circumstance of a Roman Catholic church service is indeed a stench in the nostrils of God. Have no part in any Roman Catholic pagan worship service.

Isaiah 45:22 – Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

Hosea 13:4 – Yet I am the LORD your God…there is no Savior besides Me.

The Bible makes it clear that salvation unto eternal life is only through Jesus Christ by faith alone. That means being a member of the Roman Catholic church won’t save you. Following church doctrines and sacraments won’t save you. Praying to Mary and chanting the nonsensical rosary won’t save you. Confessing your sins to an evil man in a box won’t save you either. The Pope and his priests cannot save your eternal soul or send you to hell no matter how much they want you to think they can. The Apostle Peter is not the first Pope and Jesus did not appoint him to be the head of church. When Jesus said, “Upon this Rock I will build My church,” he was referring to himself and not Peter. The Popes claim to be the Vicar of Christ on earth but in reality they are the servants of Satan. There have been 265 Popes and with few exceptions, if any, they will all be thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone on the last day for leading their followers away from the truth of God.

The early Christian church was centered in Rome and the Bishop of Rome, as the leader of the church, eventually became known as the Pope. The word Catholic means “universal.” The term Catholic was first used by St. Ignatius of Antioch to refer to Christianity as a whole. Those Christians who recognized the leadership of the Pope were called Roman Catholics. In 285 AD the Emperor Hadrian split the Roman empire into the western Roman empire ruled from Rome and the eastern Roman empire ruled from Constantinople. In 476 AD the western Roman empire was destroyed but the Roman Catholic church survived. There remained only one Christian church, headquartered in Rome, until 1054 when the church split in two.

The Pope in Rome wanted the church in Constantinople to subjugate themselves to the Pope’s leadership in all religious matters. When the church in Constantinople refused to do this the Pope had no other choice but to excommunicate the head of the church in Constantinople. In a tit-for-tat the Pope was excommunicated in return. There was always the possibility of the two churches reuniting until 1204 when the crusaders sacked Constantinople under the orders of the Pope in Rome. The church in Constantinople became known as the Eastern Orthodox Catholic church. The two churches were together for a thousand years so most of their doctrines and sacraments are identical. They are a Satanic cult just like the Roman Catholic church and their leadership is also sold out to Satan.

The main differences between the Roman Catholics and the Orthodox Catholics is that while the Roman Catholics recognize the Pope as the head of the church the Orthodox don’t recognize a supreme leader like the Pope. Roman Catholics think the Holy Spirit comes from the Father and the Son whereas the Orthodox Catholics think the Holy Spirit comes only from the Father. Roman Catholics believe in the immaculate conception of Mary who is called the, “Mother of God.” The Orthodox Catholics, on the other hand, don’t believe in such a thing as “original sin” and therefore they don’t accept the immaculate conception of Mary and they certainly don’t give her the title, “Mother of God.”

The Roman Catholic church teaches that the Pope has authority over all the church and he is infallible. The Pope’s interpretation of the word of God takes precedence over what God himself says. For the Orthodox Catholics, their Pope is honored but his authority is no different than any other Bishop in the church. The Roman Catholics teach that there is a place called purgatory where believers can do penance to cleanse them of their sins after death. The Orthodox Catholics also believe in purgatory but they don’t think sins are cleansed after death.

There are 1.3 million Roman Catholics and 300 million Orthodox Catholics. I see them as essentially the same. They are both Satanic cults and they are Christian in name only. We are told there are 2.4 billion Christians in the world, counting Catholics, but that is misleading because Catholics aren’t Christians. They say they are and they think they are but they’re wrong. Satan has sold them a bill of goods and stolen the truth of God from before their eyes. Some Catholics may be saved by personal faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior but I fear most are mistakenly depending on their priest, the Pope and the doctrines of the Roman Catholic church to save them. Only faith in Jesus Christ can save us unto eternal life!

The Roman and Orthodox Catholic churches are both evil criminal enterprises bent on maintaining their power, wealth and influence over the lives of their followers at all costs. All the doctrines and sacraments established by both of the churches were established by men for their own benefit. None of the Catholic doctrines and sacraments are scriptural in any way. Christianity is Jesus Christ and vice versa. The Catholic churches give lip service to Jesus Christ but have reduced him to a cookie they bring out only during mass. The Catholic faithful are told to pray to Mary, a human being just like us, instead of to God the Father as the Bible commands.

Instead of going directly to God in prayer for forgiveness of sins the flock is told to go confess their sins to another sinner in a box who has no authority to forgive sins. Only God can forgive our sins and the Pope has no authority to say otherwise. Pope’s are the self-appointed Vicars of Christ but they’re reading the Scriptures wrong. The “Rock” upon which Jesus said he would build his church is himself. Jesus was not giving that honor and glory to Peter. In addition, Peter was not the first Pope. The Pope and his priests have no authority over the church of God on this earth through Peter as they claim. The Roman Catholic church has no standing before God; but they do have standing before Satan, whom they serve.

Jesus Christ came down from heaven to establish his church on the earth, which is the body of believers who accept him as Lord and Savior. The temple of God is the body of each believer and not some church building or a particular denomination. After Jesus ascended back to heaven he sent the Holy Spirit back to earth 50 days later, at Pentecost, to indwell all believers from that day forward. If you’re a believer you are the church of God and you carry Jesus Christ inside you as you live your life. All believers are inseparably linked to God for all eternity. Jesus came to earth to destroy the works of the devil. Jesus defeated eternal death by his resurrection. Satan didn’t take this lying down. Satan fought back by inciting men to violent acts against all Christians. Many thousands of Christian believers were persecuted and killed. Many Christians were fed to the lions in the Roman coliseum just for sport. God’s purpose cannot be thwarted so the more the Christians were persecuted the more their numbers grew.

Matthew 20:28 – (Jesus speaking) – Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.

Matthew 26:28 – (Jesus speaking) – For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Satan realized he couldn’t stamp out Christianity so he changed his tactics. Satan decided if you can’t beat them join them, and destroy them from within. Rome was the largest city in the world and the early Christian church was headquartered there. At the time Rome was also filled with pagan temples worshipping a host of fake religions and false gods, all sponsored by Satan to divert man away from the truth of God. When the Emperor Constantine declared Christianity to be the official faith of the Roman empire in 313 AD all these pagan temples didn’t go away all of a sudden. They just switched to being Christian houses of worship and all the pagan priests simply put on new robes and became Christian priests. You have to understand that because pagan gods aren’t real there was no spiritual truth to be had so their priests had to sell the “sizzle” of religion to fool everyone into thinking they were worshipping a real god.

Matthew 6:7-8 – (Jesus speaking) – And when you pray do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think they will be heard for their many words. Therefore do not be like them. for your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.

Matthew 7:22-23 – (Jesus speaking) – Many will say to Me in that day, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?” and I will then declare to them, “I never knew you, depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.”

How did the pagan temples accomplish this? First of all, all pagan temples were very ornate. If it looks good it must be true, right? Wrong. The pagan temples used vain repetitions in their worship services so a god must be impressed, right? Wrong. There were many idols everywhere that people could worship as gods. If statues in the temples looked like a god then they must be a god, right? Wrong. All the pagan priests were dressed lavishly. If they look impressive they must represent a god, right? Wrong. Elaborate music was an integral part of the pagan worship services. If the music sounds good then it must represent a god, right? Wrong. Since pagan worship had no real truth or substance they had to make it look good by coming up with ceremonies and rituals that gave the appearance of worshipping a god. I’m referring to the many sacraments and doctrines that defined a pagan worship service. Busy work before a nonexistent god.

Matthew 10:28 – (Jesus speaking) – And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 7:13-14 – (Jesus speaking) – Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

These pagan priests in Rome were in the business of religion because religion sells and there was money to be made. So when Rome became Christian the priests merely exchanged their pagan robes for Christian ones and then changed the signs on the doors of their temples and then they were open for business as Christian churches. These new Christian priests converted to the faith in name only. They didn’t change their beliefs at all. It was merely a business decision to incorporate their pagan beliefs and rituals into the new Christian church. This early church in Rome grew to become the Catholic church and under the influence of Satan they adopted many of the pagan temple rituals that existed at that time. Satan managed to corrupt the church in Rome over time and as a result the Roman Catholic church eventually became totally Satan’s church from about the time of Pope Gregory the Great in the sixth century (590-605AD) and probably long before then.