People think that there's this big massive doctrine in the Catholic Church about

purgatory and they also think that it's nowhere biblical and both of those ideas

are actually incorrect. First, it's not a massive doctrine and secondly, it's

very biblical. There's three things that Catholics believe about purgatory. A, that

there exists some place of final purification. B or two, we believe that that

purification, that process is painful or involves some discomfort. Three, we

believe that the prayers of those on earth can assist those going through this

final purification or process. That's it. That's that's that. Wait a second. Did

Jesus pay the final price for our sins? Absolutely he did. Jesus, by his life, death

and resurrection on the cross, he took away the eternal consequence for our sin.

Right? The eternal consequence for our sin is eternal separation from God.

Hell. So Jesus paid that price. He made it possible for us to have access to

the Father. He made it possible for us to be rescued from

domination and have salvation. But we also know that all of our sins don't only

have any eternal consequence. They also have a temporal consequence. Even if I'm

forgiven because of God's grace, there is now some temporal or consequences in

time in myself because of that. Even though I'm forgiven, I'm now attached to sin.

Even though I'm forgiven, I now have a kind of a proclivity towards that same

sin. Even though I'm forgiven, there are some consequences in time, temporal,

that I have to deal with. What part of the story is all about is because of God's

grace, because of His mercy, because of His love, He has released us from those

eternal consequences of sin, aka hell. But He also desires to free us from the

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