The Catholic Magisterium Is a LOT Like the Sanhedrin: The Mark Series pt 44 (11:27-33)

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Mike Winger

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🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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It seems eerie to me how similar the claims that Roman Catholicism makes are to the claims that the Pharisees and Sanhedrin were making in the time of Christ. The Pharisees claimed to have and oral tradition that wasn't written down but was handed down through an elder-succession from Sinai to Jesus' time (which was simply not historically true). They claimed that this tradition was equal in authority to the written word. They claimed that they had a special right to interpret that Bible and felt more authority than they really possessed. They thought they were sitting in Moses' seat and carrying the continuation of his authority in their own role. Well, all of these points are alive and present in the claims of the Roman Catholic Magisterium. They claim to have an oral tradition that wasn't written down but is equal in authority to the New Testament (which is simply not historically true). They claim to have special right to interpret the Bible. They claim to have special authority over God's people due to a claim that they have apostolic succession in their leadership roles. They claim to sit in the seat of Peter and carry the continuation of his authority in their own role. All of the parallels make it really interesting when Jesus simply dismisses the Sanhedrin and the Pharisees in the New Testament. In other words, we have a sample of how Jesus might respond to modern Roman Catholicism in the way that He responded to the 1st century Sanhedrin. And I think we should respond the same way. This is part 44 of a verse by verse study through the Gospel of Mark. See the WHOLE Gospel of Mark playlist here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ3iRMLYFlHuGenHwUdeiQ5M-uj5XW4sF My website https://BibleThinker.org

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0:00.0	All right, we are alive. This is part 44 of the verse by verse study through the
0:10.6	Gospel of Mark. I'm Pastor Mike Winger and today we are dealing with a
0:16.0	passage that I think gives us a very interesting something I don't want us to miss a parallel
0:21.6	between the first century religious leaders and the modern Roman
0:26.3	Catholic Church's claims. But I'm trying to do this in a way. People's emotions get high when this issue comes up and so what I'm
0:36.2	going to ask is that we we try to take our time with this right this is this is
0:39.8	an observation that I think is very important but it's done in the context of a verse by verse study through a text.
0:46.0	And so we're going to try to take it soberly and thoughtfully and point by point.
0:50.0	So this is one super interesting issue that I think we should not miss.
0:53.8	I think it does give us a pattern that sort of demonstrates something like, it's something
0:59.2	similar to Solis scriptura that that's sort of reformed teaching about the scripture but it might be a
1:04.7	little actually a little more broad than that and it might be more like sola
1:09.2	uh... uh... uranas or something I just went to the Greek because I don't even know what the Latin
1:12.3	is for it but but like
1:13.4	only heaven kind of command. Anyway I'll explain more as we go and this is
1:20.1	Mark 11 versus 27-33 that's the the passage we're in. Let's just dig in. You guys know how
1:25.7	this works. If you're a first-time person here, you know, this is what we do. We do
1:30.0	verse studies. We do thoughtful topical issues covering it from a
1:34.1	biblical perspective helping you learn to think biblically about everything and the
1:37.4	whole playlist for the entire Mark series which I am loving so much and many of
1:42.2	you are too it's just like meat for you know
1:46.5	giving you protein for your spirit kind of thing and and it's all available in the playlist in the video description if you want to have that.
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