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If you want to give me a call as usual, all you need to do is dial 8772072276. And if you want to send me an email, you can do that as well. And the address there is just info at CARM.org, info at CARM, C-A-R-M dot O-R-G. All right, so yesterday, you know, I was going to read something. I did it on something I discovered in one of the ecumenical councils. And I wanted to go over it a little bit today because it just flat out heresy. And there we go, got to that. All right, so the ecumenical council, I'm going to talk about what they are first. And then I'm going to read you a quote. I mean, it's just, it's stunning.

I can't believe what I was reading. And I'm going to write an article and release it and stuff like that. But there are seven ecumenical councils. The first one is Council of Nicaea in 325. And it refuted Arianism and affirmed the deity of Christ. So that was good. And let's see, make sure everything else is good.

Very good. This first council of Constantinople in 381, that was the second ecumenical council. An ecumenical council is a council that is formulated by bishops under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and accepted by the clergy and laity. So that's what an ecumenical council is. They are supposed to be very important and authoritative. So this is serious stuff, right? So what I've been doing is trying to find the actual text of the ecumenical councils.

And that's not working there. That's interesting. So I'm trying to find the actual text. It took me a while to find the text for the seventh ecumenical council.

But I have it and once I find it, I copy it to my hard drive and I have the complete text and I have a URL from where I got it and everything. So again, an ecumenical council is a gathering of bishops, of church leaders across the entire Christian church. And so they discuss major issues of doctrine. And they are supposed to be official councils, that the church is supposed to uphold these. Seven ecumenical are recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Church as well as the Roman Catholic Church.

So I'm going to go through them and read something out of the seventh. So again, just to start, the council of Nicaea in 325 dealt with Arianism and the deity of Christ. The first council of Constantinople in 381 affirmed the divinity of the Holy Spirit and condemned Macedonianism, which is denying the divinity of the Holy Spirit.

Then there's the council of Ephesus. Mary asked Theotokos, that's the God-bearer, and also condemned a heresy known as Nestorianism. The council of Chalcedon in 451, Christ as one person with two natures and condemned monophysitism.

That's good. The second council of Constantinople in 553 condemned Nestorianism. I can get into what these things are, but I won't do it. And then the third council of Constantinople from 680 to 681 condemned monophysitism. Now that's basically saying that Jesus only has one will. Now what we mean is that Jesus has two natures, divine nature and a human nature, and so each nature has to have a will. So in the person of Christ, each nature has a will, but is manifested.

The attributes of both natures are ascribed to the single person, so then we get to the communication of the properties. Anyway, I can get into it, but I won't. Now, the second council of Nicaea in 787. So I've been to Nicaea in Turkey and been inside one of the church councils they had in the building. So you don't have to go in there. It's interesting. At any rate, all right, I drank a coffee there. So finding the text of these is very difficult.

I think I've got it, and then I don't. So if by any chance any of you out there have the texts of these councils or know where to get them online, please let me know. I need to do that. But I will say I did find the second council of Nicaea text.

All right. So here, I'm going to read this quote, a couple of things here. I went through, and I just couldn't believe what I found. Now, remember, these are supposed to be councils that approve official Christian theology. And the EO and the RC both claim that their councils are inspired, claim that these things are authoritative. And, man, so the first quote I want to read is about anathema. An anathema is a dreadful thing. It drives us far from God. It banishes us from the kingdom of heaven.

It brings us down into outer darkness. This is the quote from this document, from the Seventh Ecumenical Council. So what the Seventh Ecumenical Council has said is that anathema is dreadful, drives you from God, banishes you from the kingdom, and brings you down into outer darkness. Now, how do you interpret that? It sounds to me like damnation, because it drives you from God, it banishes you from the kingdom of heaven, and it brings you down into outer darkness. That's damnation.

So here's the quote. Anathema to the Christianity slanderers, that is, to the iconoclasts. An iconoclast is someone who is against icons and images being used in the Christian church in worship.

An iconoduo is someone who loves the use of icons and images in the Christian church. Iconoclasts are those who do not. They condemn them. Anathema to the Christianity slanderers, that is, to the iconoclasts. Anathema to those who are against using idols and images in worship. They're cursing them to damnation. Anathema to the Christianity slanderers, that is, to the ones who say don't use icons and images in your worship service. They're to be cursed. They're Christianity slanderers.

The quote goes on. Anathema to those who apply passage of scripture written against idols to holy and venerable images. So this curse is upon those who apply passage of scripture, like Exodus 20 where it says don't make for yourself an idol, that you bow down before them. Cursed are you if you use those verses against their idols and their icons.

You're cursed. You're anathema. Anathema to those who do not salute holy and venerable images. Anathema, the curse upon you for not saluting holy and venerable images. Anathema to those who affirm that Christians pay regard to images as to gods.

Anathema, now listen to this one. Anathema to those who call holy and venerable images idols. Anathema to those who teach not diligently all Christian people to worship and salute the holy, precious, and venerable images of all saints.

Did you get that? Curse upon you if you do not diligently and teach all Christian people to worship and salute the holy, precious, and venerable images of the saints who from the beginning of the world have pleased God. You're cursed if you don't teach and encourage others to worship and salute the holy, precious, and venerable images of the saints.

This is the actual wording. Anathema to those who hesitate and do not from the heart confess that we ought to worship holy images. Anathema cursing you if you hesitate and do not from the heart confess you ought to worship images. So it curses to hell those who don't affirm and teach the service, worship, adoration of images in your church service and stuff. Now, this is from the Seventh Ecumenical Council. To me, this is proof that the Seventh Ecumenical Council was apostate. This is apostasy. They condemn others to damnation.

If you don't, it's just so sickening. They condemn, let me write this out as I'm talking about this, to damnation those who, let me write this out, do not salute holy and venerable images. And what else does it say? And if you do not diligently teach that all Christians should worship and salute the precious images. So worship and salute them.

I don't know what they mean by that in that context at that time. And that if you do not confess from the heart, oh my goodness, from the heart that you are to worship holy images, let them be cursed. So, let me get this right here, condemn to damnation those who do not salute holy and venerable images, diligently teach that all Christians should worship and salute those images. And that if you do not confess from the heart that you are to worship the holy images, you're cursed to damnation. Oh my goodness, this is, I was blown away when I found this. I just couldn't believe it. And people might say, well, where is this? You know, I'm going to release an article soon. I'll put the documentation and where it's found and stuff like that. But, wow.

So my question is, why does the 7th Ecumenical Council contradict scripture? And it curses people. So take this out. Let's see. So, these are my notes.

And that of those who teach not diligently all Christian people to worship and salute the holy, precious and venerable images of the saints. Wow. You can call me up. We've got a break.

You can call me up and we can talk about this, what you think of it. This is pure apostasy. It's damnable heresy.

It's a contradiction of scripture. I'm going to go through and show you where now. Right after the break, you may call 877-207-2276. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the show.

I'm going to continue with this issue that I found in the 7th Ecumenical Council. It just blows me away. It's just incredible. I'm hoping, seriously, I'm hoping that I misread it. I'm hoping that I got something wrong.

I'm hoping that, I don't know, I'm just hoping that it can't be true. I do have the URL. Like I said, I'm going to put this in an article with the citation and that's it. In fact, I'm looking again at the URL, which I can't tell you what it is because it's just too long.

Archive.org.stream.com. All this stuff. It just goes on and on.

You wouldn't get it. Let's see. I'm going to do a search again. This is just too incredible. Anaphoma to those who apply. Yeah, there it is. See, I'm just reading it right from there. It's anaphoma to those who apply passage of scripture written against idols, the holy and venerable images, who do not salute holy and venerable images. I'm just reading through it. That's what it says. Who consciously communicate with those who dishonor and insult holy images.

Oh my goodness. I'm going to go through this some more when I write this article, probably today. Let me read it one more time. The quote, I'll just read through it. Anaphoma to the Christianity slanderers, that is to the iconoclasts. Anaphoma to those who apply passage of scripture written against idols to holy and venerable images. Anaphoma to those who do not salute holy and venerable images. Anaphoma to those who affirm that Christians pay regard to images as to gods. Anaphoma to those who call holy and venerable images idols. Anaphoma to those who teach not diligently all Christian people to worship and salute the holy, precious and venerable images of all saints who from the beginning of the world have pleased God. Anaphoma to those who hesitate and do not from the heart confess that we ought to worship holy images. Blasphemy. So the summation is it condemns to a damnation those who do not salute holy and venerable images who do not diligently teach all Christians should worship and salute them, that if you do not confess from your heart that you are to worship the holy images you are to be damned.

This is what it is. Yet what does the Bible say? Exodus 20 verses 4 through 5. You shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children of the third and fourth generations of those who hate me. So it says do not make for yourself. Now what are the arguments that people will do that they give me, the EO and the RC, the Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholics, the EO and the RC, what they'll say is, well, you know, in the temple God told them to put images in the temple.

And they said, well, yeah, he did, but they didn't worship those images, didn't bow down before those images, and those are images God said to make. What the Bible says is you shall not make for yourself. You shall not do it. So here's Deuteronomy 5, 8 through 10. You shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness of what is in heaven above the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God. And it goes on, the same thing as Exodus 20.

Don't do it. Now, Revelation 13, verses 14 and 15, check this out. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth, that's the Antichrist, because of the signs which it has given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life, and it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the beast, the image of the beast, to be killed. I can only conclude if what I'm saying is accurate, if I got the real text. I'm still so blown away by this that it's like, I've got to be wrong someplace. But it is so clear, if what my research has found is accurate, if it is the case, this is actually from the 7th Ecumenical Council, which certainly seems to be the case. If they're really saying this, they're teaching the Antichrist stuff. They're teaching the same stuff as the Antichrist.

It just blows me away. It's blasphemy. It's blasphemy. So I have to verify this again.

I've done this twice, two or three times. Oh, man. It's just horrible. It's just blasphemous. Oh, man. Okay, I just can't believe it.

I'm going to be using this against the EO and the RC. It's blasphemy. It's idolatry. It's Antichrist. The 7th Ecumenical Council is supposed to be a universally true council that the Christian church is supposed to adhere to.

What teaches this? Blasphemous heresy. And I've tried to find the text of the other councils. I've spent a couple, three hours trying to do this, and it's not easy to find. So I can go through those other councils. Again, if any of you out there know online, this is where we can find it.

This is the Ecumenical Council. Here we go. If there's a book that has everything listed out, you can tell them what the book is, too. Email me the information at info at karm.org. Say, Matt, you missed this.

It's over here. Here's where the text of the 7th Ecumenical Council says. That's what I want to find because I'm going to do searches through them. I'm going to see what they're teaching. I'm just blown away by the heresy taught in this one. And now it appears that the other ones are pretty good councils and what they addressed.

I'm going to go through them and check. But, you know, I was saying, so much heresy, so little time. Why are people believing this crud?

Why do they believe in these lies? I just can't believe it. It's just so bad.

It's just blasphemy. Let's get to Jamal from North Carolina. Jamal, welcome, man. You're on the air. Hey, Matt, thanks for taking my call. I would ask how you're doing, but you seem rather perturbed today. I'm irked. I have become irked by the damnable heresy taught by one of the Ecumenical Councils. Yeah. What do you think when I was reading there?

What do you think of that stuff? Well, I thought, well, it irked me as well. I'll use your phrasing. I was surprised, but then at the same time I was not surprised considering how there's so much heresy out there. But, you know, we just have a lot of people not following the word, a lot of people lost.

So at the same time, in that vein, I'm surprised, but I'm not surprised. Yeah. Hey, man, there's a break. So hold on, buddy. Okay, we'll get back to this. Okay.

I'll get back to you after the break. So hold on. After these messages, please stay tuned. It's Matt Slick live taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the show. Already I've got people giving me links to other sites that have the councils.

I don't know where they get them so fast, but that's good. And I've copied them down. And thanks, Charlie and Laura. And I went through them, and they word things differently.

So I'm going to be going through carefully and quoting them from different places, but it looks like the same thing is being said in different translations. Blasphemous. Okay, let's get back to Jamal from North Carolina. Jamal, welcome, buddy. You're on the air. Yes, sir. Thanks again for taking my call. I have to be quick with this.

I apologize. I'm on my way to a Bible study at the Richard Childress Racing Museum. So a little plug there. But I'm going to have to, unfortunately, cut a short so I can make it there on time. Okay.

So what do you got? My question is... Yes. My question is how far can we go before, or how far can we push the society before we make this into a theocracy?

I asked that last time, but we ran out of time. Yeah, a theocracy is when religious leaders are in control, and they are the ones with the authority, specifically religious authority, that they say come from God. That would be a theocracy. And those religious leaders can be kings or prophets or judges or various things, presidents, I guess, even just depending.

And how far do we go? I don't know, because it's a difficult question, because you can have different theocratic arrangements, and one theocratic arrangement would be different than another, some severe, some good, some bad, et cetera. So it would be difficult. So Islam with the Imams in their realms are theocratic organizations, and you can see how oppressive they are, because they have members of the clergy who are in power and tell how government is supposed to run, military is supposed to be done, et cetera. That's a theocracy. And so Islam, Muslim countries are good examples of that. Okay. Okay.

That was pretty good. But I didn't know that the Muslim areas were theocratic. I thought there was just like another form of a dictatorship, but that actually kind of makes sense. Yeah, some of them. Not all of them, but most of them are not. But they claim divine authority to be in place for God.

So I think, for example, under Taliban rule would be a theocracy, for example. Right. Okay.

So there you go. Okay. All right. Appreciate it, sir.

And always take care. God bless. Praying for your wife and your ministry. Okay. Thank you very much, because we both need it.

My wife did it a little bit better today, and praise God. So thank you. All right. Thank you, sir. God bless. Bye.

All right. Yeah, I want to thank you all for her praying for my wife. Those of you who may not know, she has some serious medical issues, and she's starting to improve. It took a fall two weeks ago today, and now she's starting to get around a little bit better and do stuff. So praise God for that, and thanks for the prayers. Keep praying for her. She really needs a lot of prayer, because, well, for a lot of things.

And she's married to me, so that can't be good or easy. Let's get to Marie from North Carolina. Marie, welcome.

You're on the air. Thank you. Yes, my question is, did God forgive Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and was it the imparting of both sins since it was until death?

No. When he first died. Yeah, he forgave them, all right? He covered them with animal skins. So when you go to Genesis 3, and they covered themselves with loin coverings. And then what God did was he covered them with animal skins. So when he did that, that was the work of God that covered them with death. So that's what he did, because the animals had to die in order for them to be covered. So that's what happened. So, yeah, they are, we would say, I would say, certainly, theologically, that, yeah, they're saved, okay?

Oh, okay. I was wondering if they went to hell or not, or what, you know, because it was the whole world, you know, that had to deal with that sin. So he brought us back. He didn't have to bring us back from that through his shed blood, but he did it through the blood of death. Right. So it doesn't say, it doesn't say he specifically killed them, killed an animal. God, this is covered with animal skins. So that's what we would say.

That is a type of gospel message in the atoning sacrifice. Okay? All right. Okay. All right, then. Thank you. You're welcome. Bye-bye. God bless. Okay.

All right. So that's Genesis 3.21. It says the Lord God made garments of skin from Adam and his wife and clothed them. And that we understand to be animal skins. So it doesn't say it specifically, but garments of skin. And it wouldn't have been human skin, so it makes sense logically to say it was animal skin.

And the process probably necessitated a killing of the animal in order to cover them. That's consistent with the revelation of Leviticus 17, 11, and 14 about shedding of blood. Particularly verse 11 that's given for atonement and things like that.

So that's what seems to be the case. All right? And I think we go to Hebrews 9.22. And according to the law, one must almost say that all things are cleansed with blood.

Without shedding of blood is no forgiveness. So these are the kinds of things that we can see in the ultimate that I teach them. All right. So I think I have some other stuff.

People found things. Look at that. Good stuff.

I got a lot of stuff to read and check on as I was talking about the councils. So here's another text from the seventh. Looks like from the seventh ecumenical council. Now, I looked at the synodicon before, and anyway, so it says in there, it says, Believing in one God, celebrated in Trinity, we salute the honorable images. Those who do not so hold, let them be anathema. Those who do not thus think, let them be driven away from the church. We follow the most ancient legislation of the Catholic Church.

That means universal at the time. We keep the laws of the fathers. We anathematize those who add anything or take anything away from the Catholic Church. We anathematize the introduced novelty of the revilers of Christians.

We salute the venerable images. We place under anathema those who do not do this. To those who presume to apply to the venerable images of things said in the holy scriptures about idols, anathema. To those who do not salute the holy and venerable images, anathema. To those who call the sacred images idols, anathema. To those who say that Christians resort to the sacred images as gods, anathema. To those who say that any other delivered us from idols except God, Christ our God, that doesn't make sense. To those who say that any other delivered us from idols, that doesn't make sense. I don't understand what they're saying.

To those who dare say that at any time the Catholic Church received idols, anathema. You know, why is it? Why do people just won't believe what God says? To me it's easy. I don't understand it.

Well, yes I do. I'm just trying to decide what direction to go here, you see? See, I get irritated when I hear stuff like this and my mind starts going in different directions. And I'm thinking, what do I talk about?

How do I address this next? In true believers, in true believers, there's the will to follow Jesus. They long for his voice. They long for his voice the way the sheep are comforted by the master's voice. True believers find the voice of Christ recorded in the gospels and echoed in the epistles. They don't follow the seductive whispers of tradition or the mixed voices of the church fathers. Instead they take pleasure in the shepherd's voice and long to hear more of him. They do not recognize these sayings, these words, these deeds from others. They turn from them and they look to Christ. And it's amazing to me that true Christians want to follow Jesus. And what this council has done is curse those who don't bow to images.

It's stunning to me. See, here's some of the stuff I was in bed last night thinking about these things. And when I just read you or quoted something I wrote last night. I'm going to read some other ones that I wrote last night.

It really irks me. That gets me going. Hey, look, if you want to give me a call, the number is 877-207-2276. I'll be right back. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the show.

If you want to give me a call, the number is 877-207-2276. So I discovered these quotes yesterday. It was yesterday, I think, before yesterday. And it really bothered me.

As you can tell, I'm talking about it still. I'm just blown away by it. How could a council do something like that? So the reason I was doing this is because I deal with the EO and the RC, the Eastern Orthodox Roman Catholics. I've been hearing that more and more people are turning to these Orthodox churches and joining them. I've been hearing. I was talking to a friend of mine today, and he was naming names of individuals that were supposed to be Protestant apologists.

And they are working with Eastern Orthodox people and welcoming them into the brotherhood of Christ. And I'm like, what? How can that be? And he was saying that myself and James White are two.

I think he said a couple others, but I think he said he mentioned James and myself are the two who are holding fast, standing firm and not bowing to the false teachings of those churches. You know, it's interesting. So this has really been bothering me a lot.

I've been thinking about it. And John Owen. John Owen, he was a great theologian of the, okay, he was a Presbyterian. He was in the 1600s, I think he was.

Let me check really fast. And I'm reading through a book. Yeah, he died in 1683.

He wasn't a Presbyterian, he was a Congregationalist. And he wrote The Mortification of Sin. So I've been reading through that. And his sentences are multi-faceted. In modern times, we speak in short sentences, but these guys back then, man, these sentences are 50 words long, 100 words long.

Commas and sub-points and things like that. So I've been reading through his stuff because it's good. He was a theologian and a pastor.

He was reformed in his theology. Okay, and so as I'm reading through some of his stuff, he would spark an idea. And I would go to, I have my phone, those are folding phones, you know. And I would, that's an interesting point.

And then I would go in and explore it and I'd write these things up. And one of the things he said was temptations don't put anything in the man. They draw it out of him but it's already there. That's what he said, and that's a good point.

And I started thinking about it. So if you're tempted to serve another god, bow before idols, or contribute to your own salvation, it's because those lies are already in you. Perhaps that's why it's so easy for so many of the EO and the RC to bow before statues, pray to fallen creatures, and to work to keep themselves right with God. That's got to be what it is because it's within them that the heresy already resides, and temptations simply bring them to light.

Now the more you feed lies, the stronger their poison becomes. To expose the lies that live in your own heart, you must study Christ's word. You have to learn his voice found in the scriptures. You have to let the light of God's word shine upon the darkness of your own heart.

That way you can learn to tell the difference between the lies of Satan and the truth of Christ himself. Now the thing is that we all, you have to understand this, Christians, that we all struggle against the sin within us. We still have sin warring with our souls, warring against that which is good and that which is holy. That we fall in our various temptations because those sins are already in us and abide in us. And we sometimes allow temptations to awaken them and have their way with us for a while before we get sick of them and we confess and repent and turn. And how is it then that we can become aware of those things that are already dwelling within us, those evil thoughts and things that are within us even as Christians? It can only be seen by the light of Christ, the light of his truth that shines upon you and within you. You must be reading his word, you must be trusting him and let the word of God, the scriptures, what Jesus spoke in the gospels and the epistles echoed.

We need to hear his truth, we need to take his truth of his word and apply it to our hearts. Say, if there's any wicked thing in me, show it to me. Now how many of us do that? How many of us actually ask God to expose ourselves before him? You know, I haven't done that for a long time.

I remember back in Southern California when I used to live there. I remember this very clearly. I asked God to expose my own sin to me, to reveal it to me.

And this went on for like six months, he did. And I remember, oh man do I remember, I remember I had a stoplight turning left. There was an Arco gas station on the corner, I said remember this. And when I prayed and I withdrew that request from God with respect, I said Lord I can't handle it anymore. The depravity of my own heart and the sin, the small things, the repeated things that I was finding. Now some may say to me, well man maybe you weren't saved.

I said no that's not it. Because when you're a true Christian you seek Christ. You see if you're in a river and the river is flowing and you are in that river flowing along with it, you don't know how strong the river is until you swim against it. If you are in your own heart, your own mind, abiding in sins and you don't feel the resistance against them, perhaps it's because you're swimming along with them. It's only when you swim against the sins, the river, the strength, you move against them when you find out how strong the sin is within you.

That's when you become aware of it. See the word of God opens our hearts and our minds to see what's in us. Just as the Bible says in Psalm 139 24, and see if there's any hurtful way in me and lead me in the everlasting way. It's a beautiful verse. See if there's anything in me that I need to get rid of.

Just tell me, Lord show it to me. You know, search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my anxious thoughts and see if there be any hurtful way in me and lead me in the everlasting way.

It's Psalm 139 23 and 24. You know, we get comfortable. I certainly get comfortable.

I can only say this truthfully. I get comfortable in my own sin. The reason I say that is not that I'm seeking to do those things that are evil and I'm comfortable with my sin. It's okay. I'm not saying that. I'm saying if it's like a realization, if I am not aware of fighting any particular sin in me, perhaps it's because I'm comfortable with them.

That's dangerous. We should always be made aware of the things in us at different levels and different times that we're struggling against, against which we need to war and we need to tackle them. And these things I'm talking about are reminded or come up because of the heresies of anathematizing those who would be against idolatry and the Seventh Ecumenical Council curses those who don't affirm the use, adoration, worship, bowing before images in church service. They can't see their own sin because they're abiding in it. They're being swept along in the river of depravity. They're comfortable in it. They're in houses. They dwell in houses made of their traditions, made of the church dogmas. And they dwell in these houses because they're comfortable. They sleep under the blankets of tradition. They are warmed by the fires of heresies in their false houses that they built for themselves.

And they're comfortable in these realms because they aren't submitting to the clear and powerful and truthful teaching of God's word. It's just that simple. This really has bothered me a great deal what this council has said. It really has gotten me.

How could a church council do this? And like I said, I'll be researching these quotes more. And I'll be using different URLs and different translations of these. And I'll be showing them for multiple.

I'm going to show it to you. It's just horrible. And it just is an example of heresy that grows through time. They have fed into the lies.

They've submitted to them. And the poison of their heresies has killed them, and they're walking dead men. They're walking dead men in these houses they built of their own dogmas, their own traditions.

They're not built for the truth of God's word. They have a house of idols they live in. You know, people in false religions, to expand this house analogy, they dwell in houses made of opinions.

And I've seen it. They take comfort in sacred traditions and church dogmas. And they warm themselves by the fires of idolatry. They take pleasure and warmth and comfort in creaturely veneration, praying to Mary, praying to the saints.

It's sick. And their houses will fall. Their dogmas will be destroyed. And their fiery heresies will be distinguished. And they curse those who don't join them. This is the way of evil. Just like it says in Revelation.

Just like it was saying. Let me read it again from Revelation. Revelation 13 verses 14 and 15.

I'm almost out of time. I'll read verse 15, and it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as who do not worship the image of the beast to be killed. It's anathema. Man, talk about heresy. Talk about heresy. I'm just still blown away.

Hey, there's the music. I gotta get going. May the Lord bless you by his grace. Be back on there tomorrow. And I hope you have a great evening, everyone. Remember, study God's Word. Let it expose you to yourself before the Holy One. Talk to you tomorrow. God bless you.