The Country Baptist Church Newsletter
1 Mile south of Interstate 30 on HWY 19
April 18, 2010
Pastor: Bro. Harace Hammond                         Pastor’s E-Mail: cbcpastor@toast.net
Web Site: www.baptistsonline.org/cbc

“The Voice Of The Country Church”

We Ask You To Pray For:

Bro. Charles & Mary Hammond and family, Bro. Archie & Barbara Griffin, Waylon & Pat Abercrombie with their daughter and son, Randy & Donna Johnson, Loyce Smith, Roberta Bruce and family, Barbara Fails, Jim & Linda Meier, Tyson & Dina Taylor and The Boys, Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia, Don & Wynell Hammond, Brenda Galusha, Baby Tucker Walker, Helen Stone, Bro. & Mrs. Pinson, Leta Ellis, Chet Reagan, Sidney Strawn, Amanda Tomlin, Helen Rowe, Kimberlee McCool, Stephen and Kaleb McCool, Janiece Stewart, Melissa Smith and Children, Brother David and Anne Shortt, Jewell Mathis, Justin Horne, Janette Sims, Jean and Cheryl, Letha Langford, David Ellis and family, Virgil Young, Gwen Davis, Allison Rodgers Clay, Angela Hutson, Tiffany and Shannon Lemmon, Bob Ellis, Elaine Woodall, Reese Carrington, Jack Whittle, Ronda Douglass, Nancy, Rosa Tomlin, Pastor and Sister Hammond, Katie Fitch and Stephaine, Sarah Dooherty, Scott & Gina Sillivan, Otis Steward, Mark Ralston, Fay Johnson, Bro. Frank Pittman, David Lemmon, Martha Haygood, Kim Stevens, Lit Hatly, Brian Berry, Mike & Sally Leinhauserand, all of our Troops and their Families.

A Thought For The Week:

Did the apostles preach the sacrifice of Christ?—the devil’s apostles preached the
sacrifice of the mass. Did the saints uplift the cross?—the devil’s servants upheld the
crucifix. Did God’s ministers speak of Jesus as the one infallible Head of the
Church?—the devil’s servants proclaimed the false priest of Rome as standing in the
self-same place. Romanism is a most ingenious imitation of the gospel: it is the
magicians “doing do with their enchantments.”

Charles Spurgeon

Danger of False Teachers

Catholicism Part 2

Teaching on Catholicism could take volumes maybe even a small library. I have read and heard men speak on different topics on the Catholic church and it never fails to amaze me how evil that Catholicism has been down through history, from their beginning all the way down to today. The thing that amazes me even more is how the everyday people have over looked this evil. Even those of us in the true churches of our Lord have been deceived by the Catholic church.

Colossians 3:8; “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” Paul warned the Colossians to watch out for those teaching false doctrine through worldly deceit. This is so relevant in our day.

Teaching philosophy and psychology has become a high light in the mega church movement. Popularized through books, radio talk shows, and radio and television ministries. All of this has it's roots in Catholicism. The “feel good” teachings along with the “prosperity gospel” being taught by most churches today can be traced back to Roman Catholicism.

There are many “traditions of men” that affect our everyday lives and even our churches. Most of the holidays that are celebrated in our nation and by our churches have roots in Catholicism. I will not do an in depth study at this time but Lord willing will soon. Some of the things we see churches perform in their religious services have come from the Catholics. The Protestant denominations carried many of the traditions of Roman with them when they protested during the Protestant Reformation. Many Baptist have even adopted some of these traditions.

The tradition of “baby dedications” have become common place in Baptist Churches today. If you study the history of “baby dedications” you will see that this has it's beginnings with “infant baptism” which is strongly taught by Catholicism and most Protestants. Many Baptist were tortured and/or died preaching against “infant baptism” in Europe during the Dark Ages. Some say at least 50 million. In early America in New England the Protestant churches ruled the local governments in most towns and villages. Obadiah Holmes and John Clark were among those who were persecuted for preaching against “infant baptism” and other Catholic doctrines the Protestants were teaching.

The doctrine of “Free Will” also came from the Catholics through the Protestants. Free Will teaches that man makes his own decision on whether he will accept Jesus as his savior or not. Romans 9:15,16 says “ For he saith to Moses, I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I WILL HAVE COMMPASSION. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.”

The teaching that if we live a good life in the eyes of man we can obtain a home in heaven comes from the Catholics. Now how many times have we heard someone say “he/she is a good person., surely they have a place in heaven.” John 6:63 Jesus said “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” So it does not matter how good we are in the flesh. It is only the actions of our spirit in Christ that matters.

How sad to think of all those through out history that have died believing that they were on their way to a home on high only to wake to see hell.

Perhaps the most despicable of all has been the molestation of children by leaders in the Catholic church. From the hierarchy in Rome all the way down to the Parish priest and nuns. The more we hear about this the more we see that it has probably been going on for several hundred years and possibly all the way back to the beginnings of Catholicism. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of this type of sin. Many scriptures tell us about the sin of Sodomy and the sins against children. By not allowing their church leaders to marry as God intended the Catholic church has allowed their priest and nuns to prey upon the innocent and each other.

How can there be any doubt that the Catholic church is not of God and is not the bride of Christ.

Steve McCool

Holland A. D. 1570

The misery of persecution continued, so that almost nowhere liberty could be found for an upright Christian soul. Herein also those of Haarlem, in Holland, incurred guilt; which appeared in the year of our Lord 1570, for then they laid their hands (which they had previously several times imbrued in the blood of the saints) on a God-fearing woman named Anneken, the daughter of Jan Ogiers, and wife of Adriaen Boogaert, who thirteen years previously had betaken herself from the darkness of popery to the true light of the Gospel, and, in proof that she desired to be a disciple of Jesus, had been baptized upon her faith, leaving and renouncing the pope and the Romish church, and, on the other hand, accepting and confessing Jesus Christ as the Son of God, and His church (namely, the cross-bearing church of the Anabaptists) as His beloved bride, wife and own body, by which she was then recognized as a member and fellow sister.

When she in her imprisonment could by no means be turned from her faith, the rulers of the city of Haarlem, concluded her trial and, on the 17th of June, A. D. 1570, publicly in court, pronounced sentence of death upon her, namely, that she should be drowned and buried under the gallows.

From: MARTYRS MIRROR of the DEFENSELESS CHRISTIANS

By: T.J. Van Braght

I John 4:1; “ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”