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You’re listening to Search the Scriptures Daily, a program in which we encourage everyone who desires to know God’s truth to look to God’s Word for all that is essential for salvation and living one’s life in a way that is pleasing to Him. Presently in this first segment of our program we’re going through a new series featuring Dave Hunt’s book, Seeking and Finding God. It’s an unimposing book of about 150 pages that he wrote as a follow-up to send to those, those who are interested in the conversations he’s had with people that he meets on his travels, and with whom he’s has had fruitful conversations.
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Right now we’re interviewing Greg Durel. He’s the pastor at Heritage Bible Church at Gretna, Louisiana. He has a radio—weekly radio ministry, which is devoted to educating Catholics in biblical doctrine.
Greg, we’ve been dealing with dogmas, issues, thoughts, on the basis of what Catholics think. Does it conform, well, first of all to their own church—how does it compare with what the Bible teaches? And, Greg, last week we mentioned the fact that many Catholics don’t believe many of the dogmas of the Catholic Church. Now, how does that work out?
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We’re in the gospel of Matthew chapter 2, and we’re going to pick up with verse 19.“But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel; for they are dead which sought the young child’s life. And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee.”v
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Como lo indican las citas en la página opuesta, el catolicismo enseña que, aunque la muerte de Cristo hizo posible que los pecados sean perdonados, el pecador perdonado debe sufrir cierto dolor o tormento no definido, de intensidad y duración desconocidos, para ser purificado y, por consiguiente, hecho apto para el cielo. Aunque el catolicismo dice que teóricamente es posible ser limpiado mediante los sufrimientos de esta vida y la muerte personal, ninguno, ni siquiera el papa, puede saber si eso ocurrió. Por tanto, casi todos los católicos esperan pasar algún tiempo en el purgatorio, pero desconocen cuánto durará. El que no acepta la doctrina del purgatorio es excomulgado automáticamente de la Iglesia Católica Romana.
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MATTHEW 5:38-39 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
LUKE 18:7-8 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
LUKE 21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
ROMANS 3:5-6 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance ? (I speak as a man) God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
ROMANS 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
ROMANS 12:19-21 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
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You’re listening to Search the Scriptures Daily, a program in which we encourage everyone who desires to know God’s truth to look to God’s Word for all that is essential for salvation and living one’s life in a way that is pleasing to Him. In this first segment of our program, we are in our second week of going through a new series featuring Dave Hunt’s book: Seeking and Finding God. Now, it’s hardly an imposing book of about 150 pages, but its content is life-transforming. Dave, last week you gave our audience kind of an overview of what the book was about, and why you wrote it—but would you just again tell our listeners, our viewers why you wrote the book?
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Our topic for today is Roman Catholicism, and we’re going to compare some of the major teachings of the Catholic Church with what the Bible teaches. And our guest is Greg Durel. He’s pastor of Heritage Bible Church of Gretna, Louisiana. He has a weekly radio ministry, which is devoted to educating Catholics and biblical doctrine. And he’s also one of the founding directors of Reaching Catholics for Christ and a speaker at RCFC’s national conferences.
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So this is truth! Now, the Emerging Church, which we’ve discussed for a number of weeks, they have left truth behind. They don’t believe the Bible is truth. Really? We’re going to have to discuss that. It may take us years!
Now, it can’t be that complicated. It’s like—remember? The Catholics and the Lutherans—they’ve discussed Justification by Faith for thirty years, and finally concluded—well, they agreed—"Well, I guess the Reformation was a semantic misunderstanding, and all the people that were burned at the stake. It’s a pity that they were, but it was just a misunderstanding.”
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La revista TIME informa que han habido tantas visiones de la “Virgen María” por el mundo, que “los últimos años del siglo XX se convirtieron en la edad del peregrinaje mariano” a los santuarios establecidos para conmemorar esas apariciones. Sólo en Francia hay 937 altares marianos.4 De 1961 a 1965 hubo unas 2,000 visitaciones a la villa de Garabandal, al noroeste de España, acompañadas por fenómenos ocultistas y mensajes apocalípticos al mundo. En 1983 cientos de árabes palestinos “vieron a la Virgen María” cerca de Belén, Israel.
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This is our Understanding the Scripture segment, we are in the gospel of Matthew, and we are in Matthew chapter 2, and Dave, I’m going to pick up with verse 12:“And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.”Of course this is referring to the wise men.Verse 13:“And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word:for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”Of course this is a dream, and we talked about dreams last week, and this is the way the Lord communicated to Joseph to preserve him, and certainly, Mary and the baby Jesus.
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You’re listening to Search the Scriptures Daily, a program in which we encourage everyone who desires to know God’s truth to look to God’s Word for all that is essential for salvation and living one’s life in a way that is pleasing to Him. In this first segment of our program, we are beginning a new series featuring Dave Hunt’s book, Seeking and Finding God.
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This is a continuation of our discussion of The History Channel’s The Bible mini-series. I have in the studio with me Ed Newby, who’s on our staff and who has previewed the first part of this series. I think there’s—what—how many parts, Ed?
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Dave, you’re been on the debate wagon of late, and these are questions that are coming up.It’s amazing, not only the atheists, but those who are really against Biblical Christianity with what they come up with, but what about this question?Did God just leave out those who didn’t know anything about Israel, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, things that we’ve been talking about and Matthew and so on….
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Hemos identificado a la mujer que cabalga la bestia como la ciudad del Vaticano y la falsa Iglesia Mundial que tendrá su sede central allí. Pero, ¿por qué se habla de una mujer sobre la bestia y no de un hombre? ¿Por qué a esta falsa Iglesia Mundial se le ve como mujer? Este criterio, como todos los demás en Apocalipsis 17, se ajusta perfectamente al Vaticano. La figura más prominente en el catolicismo romano es una mujer. Ella eclipsa todo lo demás, incluyendo a Dios mismo. Se ofrecen más oraciones a la María católica, y más atención y honor se le dan a ella que a Cristo y a Dios juntos. En todo el mundo hay miles de santuarios a María (y cientos de altares a otros “santos”), pero sólo hay unos pocos santuarios menores para Cristo.
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1 JOHN 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 JOHN 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
JUDE 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness [unbridled lust], and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
JUDE 1:7-8 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
JUDE 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
JUDE 1:17-19 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
REVELATION 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously [luxuriously], so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
REVELATION 18:14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
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Today, we’re going to address the Bible as interpreted by Hollywood, in particular the History Channel’s five-week mini-series titled The Bible. And it started off, in terms of interest in it—well, it broke records for the History Channel.
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Las declaraciones con que iniciamos este capítulo y el anterior indican que, desde los días de Spurgeon hasta hoy, los líderes cristianos han cambiado dramáticamente su forma de pensar respecto al catolicismo romano. Durante 350 años la mayoría de los credos protestantes señalaban el papado como el sistema del anticristo. Ahora están abandonando esa opinión. El principal evangelista del mundo ha dicho que el papa Juan Pablo II es “el líder religioso más notable del mundo moderno”.4 Uno de los destacados “expertos sobre la familia” en los Estados Unidos opina que el papa es “el más eminente líder religioso que menciona el nombre de Jesucristo”.5 Con frecuencia se escucha de importantes evangélicos que han visitado al papa y han vuelto convencidos de que él ha “nacido de nuevo”. Si es así, ¿cómo puede continuar en ese oficio fraudulento, dirigiendo ese sistema religioso corrupto con su falso evangelio de obras y rituales que está enviando multitudes a la condenación?
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1 PETER 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
1 PETER 4:1-2 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
1 PETER 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
2 PETER 1:2-4 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption [moral decay] that is in the world through lust.
2 PETER 2:9-10 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
2 PETER 2:17-19 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were [once] clean [who had] escaped from them who live in error.While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
2 PETER 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
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Our topic for today is “Apostasy.” We’re going to define it and discuss what the Bible has to say about it. Our guest is G. Richard Fisher. He’s a retired pastor, author of the The Confusing World of Benny Hinn, and contributing writer to the Personal Freedom Outreach Quarterly Journal, an excellent—I mean, excellent!—newsletter, which addresses false doctrines and false teachers that have contributed to the spread of apostasy in our time.
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Entre los evangélicos de hoy cada vez se acepta y fomenta más una opinión benigna acerca del romanismo, la que contradice las convicciones que los protestantes han sostenido por más de 400 años. La Reforma —si aún la recuerdan— se define como la separación innecesaria de una iglesia que era bíblica y evangélica. Las declaraciones de varios evangélicos contemporáneos contradicen la fe y las convicciones de millones de mártires, quienes prefirieron morir antes que aceptar la transubstanciación, el purgatorio, las indulgencias, la adoración de santos, y el resto del evangelio falso y perjudicial de Roma, basado en ritos y obras. Si el catolicismo apoya sólidamente “las grandes doctrinas fundamentales del cristianismo”, entonces, ¿por qué fue necesaria la Reforma?
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2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
TITUS 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
TITUS 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
HEBREWS 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
JAMES 1:14-16 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren.
JAMES 4:1-3 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
JAMES 4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
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Supply believers with teaching, information, and materials which will encourage the love of God's truth, and assist in the development of Biblical discernment.
Mobilize believers in Christ to action in obedience to the Scriptural command to "earnestly contend for the faith" (Jude 3).
Impact the church of Jesus Christ with the necessity of trusting the Scriptures as the only rule of faith, practice, and a life pleasing to God.