GOOD BUT LOST: So basically what I’m saying to you is that there’s nothing wrong with the person on the other side of your fence. You can trust them, you can love them, and they can be your neighbors, as my neighbors are. You can give them the keys to your house, to your car. You can entrust whatever you want to with them. They’re not bad. They’re not any eviler than the rest of us who were born wicked sinners. The problem is that they are lost – most of them. And the sad thing is most of them don’t even know that. They have almost been inoculated with a gospel vaccine. They almost have gotten just enough of the truth to give them a little case of the gospel much like if you have a little scar, a polio vaccine, or a DPT shot or whatever. You get just enough of that disease to build an antibody so that you will not get the full-blown contagion. Many Roman Catholics have gotten just close enough to the Word of God. They’ve gotten just close enough to the power of God; they’ve gotten just close enough to the God of the scripture that it’s almost inoculated them from the truth.
THE MASS
I’d like to begin tonight with the first reason Romanism is so deadly, abominably wrong and that is the error of the mass. And just because Romanism is deadly, and just because they’re some good people that perhaps are related to you that perhaps live next to you, that perhaps you’re in a Bible study with, that know personally, intimately, the Lord, Jesus Christ, and have been born-again, and just because they choose to stay in the church does not lessen the deadly, blasphemous, totally anti-biblical and anti-Christ doctrines of the church. And I don’t say those words unadvisedly. I don’t say them lightly or flippantly or knowing more than they do proudly. I say it much like Paul when he said, “… by the space of three and one-half years, I did not cease to warn you with tears”. And tonight if I didn’t have to preach I could weep for the people that I know and that you know that don’t believe the truth of the Gospel because they’ve been inoculated by the false doctrine of Romanism.
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