Posted on 09/26/2015 11:31:49 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
The greatly heralded Pope Francis, beneficiary of 24 hour news coverage from all news networks, has once again given us insight into his inner self in a sermon at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York City (Transcript of Sermon) . After starting the service, Pope Francis gave a heart warming shout-out to his "religion of peace", “Muslim brothers and sisters” when he said this:
“I would like to express two sentiments for my Muslim brothers and sisters: Firstly, my greetings as they celebrate the feast of sacrifice.”
The Pope clearly understands that for the last 1400 years, Islam has held that Christians and Jews are not brothers and sisters, but rather infidels worthy of death. Islam's god, Allah, states in Surah 19 of the Koran that he has no son. To say so is blasphemy against Allah and his prophet, Mohammed. However, despite what Muslims believe, the Chrislamic Pope Francis has demanded that the Christian nations in Europe and America receive all Muslim "al hijrah" immigrants, while the Vatican has the strictest immigration policy on earth. Perhaps the syncretic Pope believes that by paying obeisance to Islam he can bring the irrational religion under his cognitive dissonant sphere of influence? His later words in the sermon seem to dignify the Islamic view of Jesus' failure on the cross when he stated:
"And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and not produce fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus Christ and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross.
The Bible foretells in Revelation 13 that in the last days before the return of Jesus, an international religious figure will rise on the scene. The religious figure will look like a self-sacrificing, philanthropist. A real lover of man and the earth! He will appear harmless as a lamb, but when he speaks, he speaks like a ravenous dragon. He may feign faith in Christ, but in reality will direct everyone to worship another political figure who will be promoted to help solve the world's problems. Somehow this religious figure is so intertwined with politics and the economic system, he is able to promote a new worldwide economic order where all must have the the political figure's mark on their person in order to purchase, and to show loyalty to the "new world system". The Bible is also clear that whoever receives this "mark" will be damned to hell, with no hope of redemption.
I am not sure if Pope Francis IS this religious figure. If not, he is certainly a wonderful forerunner. Every time he opens his mouth, he continues his foray into the world political and economic orders and his consistent promotion of homosexuality, Allah as God of the Bible, and Marxism/Socialism betraying his "inner dragon"...
Victory in Jesus, by Eugene Monroe Bartlett, Sr.
I heard an old, old story
How a Savior came from glory
How He gave His life on Calvary
To save a wretch like me
I heard about His groaning
Of His precious blood's atoning
Then I repented of my sins
And won the victory
O victory in Jesus
My Savior, forever
He sought me and bought me
With His redeeming blood
He loved me ere I knew Him
And all my love is due Him
He plunged me to victory
Beneath the cleansing flood
I heard about His healing
Of His cleansing pow'r revealing
How He made the lame to walk again
And caused the blind to see
And then I cried, "Dear Jesus
Come and heal my broken spirit,"
And somehow Jesus came and brought
To me the victory
O victory in Jesus
My Savior, forever
He sought me and bought me
With His redeeming blood
He loved me ere I knew Him
And all my love is due Him
He plunged me to victory
Beneath the cleansing flood
I heard about a mansion
He has built for me in glory
And I heard about the streets of gold
Beyond the crystal sea
About the angels singing
And the old redemption story
And some sweet day I'll sing up there
The song of victory
O victory in Jesus
My Savior, forever
He sought me and bought me
With His redeeming blood
He loved me ere I knew Him
And all my love is due Him
He plunged me to victory
Beneath the cleansing flood!
Can you please point to a link to that quote??...If this Pope really said this...its beyond shocking...it the Pope making a denouncement of Christ as Savior and denying resurrection...true sign of the end time clock running
Bkmk.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/read-pope-francis-yorks-st-patricks-cathedral/story?id=34023376
quoting:
We can get caught up in measuring the value of our apostolic works by the standards of efficiency, good management and outward success, which govern the business world.
Not that these things are unimportant, of course. But we have been entrusted with a great responsibility, and this is why god’s people rightly expect accountability from us but the true worth of our apostolate is measured by the value it has in god’s eyes, to see and evaluate things from god’s perspective, calls for constant conversion in the first days and years of our vocation and, need I say, it demands great humility.
The cross shows us a different way of measuring success. Ours is to plant the seeds. God sees to the fruits of our labors. And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and not produce fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus Christ and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross.
In the light of his resurrection, I would agree.
Thank you for those thought-provoking passages. I have been thinking for some time now about making a change. It is difficult because my family has worshiped at the same Catholic church for four generations, but I have found a lot of value in books I’ve read from Baptist preachers.
Suggestion #1: http://www.intouch.org/watch/the-promises-of-god/our-god-of-promise
Suggestion B: http://www.intouch.org/watch/the-promises-of-god/god-s-precious-promises
Charles Stanley, Atlanta 1st Baptist
1. Low in the grave he lay, Jesus my Savior,
waiting the coming day, Jesus my Lord!
Refrain:
Up from the grave he arose;
with a mighty triumph o’er his foes;
he arose a victor from the dark domain,
and he lives forever, with his saints to reign.
He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!
2. Vainly they watch his bed, Jesus my Savior,
vainly they seal the dead, Jesus my Lord!
(Refrain)
3. Death cannot keep its prey, Jesus my Savior;
he tore the bars away, Jesus my Lord!
(Refrain)
One thing at least that all Christians agree upon, and here this (so called) vicar of Christ says it ain’t so?
We’re hurting under his soul mate Obama, and all this dude does is tell us we suck and everything we believe is wrong.
He can’t be gone soon enough. Screw him and the donkey he rode in on.
The pope's statement is correct up to a point, but it is grotesquely incomplete. I'm sure the disciples thought the whole thing a failure up until the resurrection. I haven't read the transcript, but if he didn't follow-up quickly with the resurrection, then he is incompetent as a Christian leader at best and an out-and-out blasphemer at worst. Without the resurrection there would be no Christians.
It is NOT “blasphemy” to suggest that from a human perspective that the crucifixion appeared to be a failure.
No matter how much you hate the Pope, you can not believe that he believes Christ died in vain.
Its one of his better ones because it is relatively brief and to the point.
Most of them are a lot of blah-blah-blah and my eyes roll up in my head before I get very far.
He is not a good pope; he does not know how to distinguish politics from the gospel.
He sees himself as the head of an institution, which I suppose he is, and talks like it rather than speaking like an evangelist.
Nothing he will ever have to say about Global Warming will be worth ten cents. My message to him would be the same message I'd give to anyone, catholic or non-catholic alike: Preach Christ and let the chips fall. Preach Christ. Whatever the subject matter of the day, immigration, global warming, muslim invasions, whatever it is, preach Christ.
Like I have said, a guy who has walked with God his entire adult life should be more clear on the concept than what he seems to be. He was probably a good neighborhood priest. He would probably be a pleasant guy to chat with over coffee. He should not be pope.
He would not last ten minutes as a street preacher. He just isn't that clear on the concept.
God bless you.
You as well FRiend & Brother, the Lord be with you.
This Pope? I don't believe that this Pope believes in God. He believes in government.
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