SUMMARY:
The passing of John Paul II opens up a tremendous opportunity for Christians to talk about spiritual issues.
We must speak the truth in love and proclaim the Gospel with clarity and completeness!
We must also earnestly contend for the faith against everything that stands opposed to God’s word.
May God help us to be faithful in these times of great deception and compromise!
By MIKE GENDRON
I GRIEVE for John Paul II who gained the whole world but forfeited his soul.
Year after year he was the most loved and admired man in the world, but because he was blinded by the prince of this world, he never saw the light of the gospel or the glory of Christ.
Had he been a devoted follower of Jesus Christ he would have been hated and persecuted by the world (John 15:19).
I also grieve for the many who have been deceived by the late pope and his religion.
It breaks my heart to see so many professing Christians who cannot discern truth from error and genuine Christianity from its counterfeit.
If ever there was a more important time for faithful servants of our Lord Jesus Christ to take a stand for the truth, it is now.
The religious corruption of Rome
has been on constant display for the
whole world to see. The splendour and
pageantry has been extraordinary.
Thousands of deceived people have
stood in long lines to venerate a dead
man with a rosary in his hands and a
twisted crucifix by his side.
Bishops and Cardinals are now encouraging Catholics to pray to and for this dead pope whose body was constantly “blessed” with incense and holy water.
Praying prayers with meaningless repetition to anyone is an abomination to God (Matthew 6:5- 7; Deut. 18:11). The bizarre veneration and adoration of this man has been unprecedented.
It appears few are pope’s kingdom
concerned with the words of Jesus who
said, “Woe to you when all men speak
well of you” (Luke 6:26)
Tragically the pope has had greater success in deceiving the world since he died than during his 26 year pontifi cate.
The global media has become his mouthpiece and willing partner in spreading his perverted theology.
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Few evangelical leaders will speak about the pope's false gospel that shut the kingdom of heaven to those who wanted to enter |
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Through non-stop television coverage, the pope’s church has become the world’s stage.
Its princes have been masquerading in their purple and scarlet robes as “ministers of righteousness.”
They have cast a spell over the TV audience with the splendour of their rituals and the pomp and pageantry of their pagan traditions.
The magnifi cence and grandeur of this corrupt religion has bewitched much of the gullible world into believing this is what Christianity is all about.
Few evangelical leaders will speak about the pope’s false gospel that shut the kingdom of heaven to those who wanted to enter. They refuse to acknowledge that he was condemned by God’s word for preaching another gospel (Galatians 1:6-9). Instead they are saying that since he “believed in Jesus,” he went directly to heaven.
His salvation has been guaranteed by some evangelicals because of his suffering, goodness, and holiness.
There are times in the lives of evangelicals when faith is tested.
This is indeed one of those times and sadly we see many failing the tests by capitulating to enemies of the Gospel. Could it be that they are seeking the favour and approval of men rather than the approval of God? Many are praising John Paul II for being a great spiritual leader.
But why give such honour to the head of an apostate church, which keeps over a billion people in spiritual darkness. While he never claimed to be God, he took pleasure in being addressed with titles reserved for the triune God alone.
He usurped the title “Holy Father” from God the Father, “The Head of the Church” from the Lord Jesus Christ and “The Vicar of Christ” from the Holy Spirit, who Jesus promised to send in His place.
The pope said he represented Jesus Christ, yet he lived in stark contrast to the Saviour who had no place to lay His head. He denied Jesus was man’s Creator by teaching that evolution is true.
On several occasions he denied that Jesus was the only way to the Father. When he addressed Muslim leaders, he said there is “a common spiritual bond that unites us.”
In 1999 he denied the blood of Jesus was the only purifi cation for sin by awarding a plenary indulgence for anyone who quit smoking or drinking alcohol.
John Paul is acclaimed as a great moral leader, yet he failed to discipline American bishops for tolerating the wicked sexual abuse by deviant priests.
One thing is certain — the pope knows the truth now.
I believe he is experiencing what the rich man in Luke 16 endured. Both of them dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in splendour every day.
When the rich man died and found himself tormented in the flames of Hades, he begged the Father to send someone to tell his family the truth so they would repent and not end up in the same place.
The pope may now be making the same request.
The passing of John Paul II opens up a tremendous opportunity for Christians to talk about spiritual issues. We must speak the truth in love and proclaim the Gospel with clarity and completeness!
We must also earnestly contend for the faith against everything that stands opposed to God’s word. May God help us to be faithful in these times of great deception and compromise!
Pope Entrusted Poland to Black Madonna
A LETTER SENT TO THE SHRINE
OF JASNA GORA
VATICAN CITY, APRIL 5, 2005 (Zemot/
prg).
Before dying, John Paul II sent a letter to the religious of the Shrine of Jasna Gora, in Czestochowa, and gave two gold crowns as a gift for the icon of the Black Madonna.
“I entrust our Homeland, the whole Church and myself to her maternal protection,” said the Pope in his letter, addressed to Izydor Matuszewski, Prior General of the monks of St. Paul the Hermit, of the monastery of Jasna Gora.
And, at the end, he added “Totus tuus!” (All yours!), the motto in Latin with which he placed his pontifi cate in Mary’s hands.
In the letter, whose contents were revealed by Vatican Radio, the Pope recalled all that God has done in his great mercy over the last 350 years for Poland through the Blessed Virgin, granting victory in defence of the monastery and the country, against a Swedish invasion.
“May these providential events be a call to unity in the building of the common good for the future of Poland and of all Poles,” he wrote.
“May it be a call to care for the treasure of eternal values, so that the exercise of freedom will lead to building, and not to collapse,” the Pope stated. “I entrust to her maternal protection the Church on Polish soil so that, through the testimony of holiness and humility, hope for a better world will always be reinforced in the hearts of all believers,” the Pontiff added.
Finally, John Paul II prayed “for those responsible for Poland’s future, so that they will have the courage to defend every good for the benefit of the Republic.”
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