Breaking News: Justification By Faith is Not Enough

Galatians 2:21
"I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"

Obviously, if you've added anything more to the already finished work of Jesus Christ on his cross and in his resurrection, then you're confounding the gospel. You've destroyed the idea of Grace. And you are in effect crucifying Christ over and over again. As soon as you add to his finished sacrifice by the Mass, which is intended to infuse Christ into us again and again, now you've got us involved in our own salvation works. You've made it a work of salvation to come to Jesus. And as soon as you add purgatory, you're saying what Jesus did wasn't enough. You're saying justification in Him isn't complete. You're saying that Jesus wasn't sufficient enough to complete your justification. You believe your continuing sin throughout the whole process is evidence that more needs to be done to make things you've done or not done right with God.
When you say all these kinds of arguments for works what you're doing is saying Christ's cloak of righteousness cannot cover you. It's not big enough. You make the mistake of believing that it is you that God almighty is approving of, you and your works. Forgetting that it is Jesus Christ to whom the Father looks to for righteousness.
Let me put it too you straight, you better hope that God the Father isn't looking at you. You better hope he's looking at his Son Jesus covering you. Jesus better be your hope, not a purgatory purifying state where you get to work off your sins like going to the celestial gym, as if you would act any differently after death then you did while you were alive.

Justifying Grace doesn't require your cooperation in some afterlife purging process, or a continuing crucifying of Jesus and the pouring out of his blood and the consumption of his body in order to wash away your unending sinfulness. Those things were meant to serve as a remembrance of what Jesus has done for us. This is literally the whitewashing of a tomb. Everything looks clean on the outside, but it's still dead on the inside.

To imagine you can improve upon Christ is a thought sin. You are imaging that you are worthy of such a great honor. That's a sin of arrogance, it's a sin of error too, and it's a sin of shame for your sin remains still even as you participate because you place your faith in these things. Your sin remains because you've never been afforded this place of honor in which you can wash away your sin by these works in The Mass or in the afterlife. You've not been given that authority by Jesus or his Father. Again, it is not your cloak of righteousness that The Father is looking for.

The Father is not giving revelation by the traditions of men, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to accomplish that task for us. And he didn't send his Son to die on the cross in order to prop up an illegitimate magisterium of leaders and saints who are meant to add their own powers to the powers of The Messiah.

The Father does not intend that those covered by the blood of Jesus Christ should have to continually perform the works of salvation in a twisted sacrament of a Mass that attempts to re-sacrifice Christ because you just can't seem to help yourself when it comes to sin. When the truth of the matter is, even as you are consuming the body before you return to your seat, before the wafer has even melted in your mouth, you've probably already sinned again. And so, your sincerity is lost as you consume that sin again and again, taking it into yourself, because as you consume it, you know damn well you intend to sin again. You know it. You know you will, and so you find it necessary to crucify Jesus again and again because you can't sincerely obey him. And because you can accept that his righteousness covers you. You believe in your mind and in your heart that it's on you to somehow work this out. You walk up there, and you glance up at the broken body of Jesus, hanging on that cross still, and you are in effect saying to him as you glance at him, that you don't think he should come down off that cross just yet. You're not ready for him to come down yet, so Jesus, please stay a little while longer. You're saying to him that you're not ready just yet to follow him. So, Jesus, please just bleed a little longer as you try to get through this life of sin.

All these errors of self-righteousness are a perverse attempt at buying your way out of hell. All of these things are heresy brought on by the usurpers who have attempted to build a religious society that steals the throne of Jesus Christ by a works salvation.

Face facts people...You know your heart and you know your sin. And God does as well.

Romans 3:20
"For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin."

You know your sin. Nobody knows it better than you. You know it because the law told you about it. And you cooperate with the institutionalized works of salvation to sponge off those sins by your own doing. And it's entirely unnecessary. But you do it just the same.

Romans 3:21
"But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it."
Jesus Christ came down from that cross and rose from his grave to save you from your-sinful-self by cloaking you in His righteousness.

Romans 3:22
"The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe."

No man other than Jesus Christ did that or does that for you. No institutionalized religion is capable of reproducing that, not even with your cooperation. The divine law is not satisfied by your merit. You don't deserve it, and the worst part is you know it!

It is a free gift...so celebrate it yes, but don't imagine you can add to it.

Romans 3:24
"And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus"

And yet here is what the Roman Church asserts and believes to be true about Justifying Grace:

Here are summaries of these specified canons from the Council of Trent (1545):

• Canon 9: If anyone says that the sinner is justified by faith alone, meaning nothing else is required for justification, let him be anathema.
• Canon 11: If anyone says that men are justified by the sole imputation of Christ's justice or by the sole remission of sins, excluding grace and charity, let him be anathema.
• Canon 12: If anyone says that justifying faith is only confidence in divine mercy for the remission of sins, let him be anathema.
• Canon 17: If anyone asserts that grace of justification is only for those predestined to life, not for all called, let him be anathema.
• Canon 23: If anyone claims that a justified man cannot sin or lose grace, or can avoid all sins without special privileges, let him be anathema.
• Canon 24: If anyone says that the justice received is not preserved or increased by good works before God, but are merely signs of justification, let him be anathema.
  **Anathema = Damned

This is what these Roman Bishops guard and believe about Justifying Grace by Faith alone. They stand firm on these principles and assert their authority over your salvation based upon this dogma.

Friends,
They say Peter was the first Pope, Peter says we're all priests. Their own first Pope is against this dogma.

The Apostle Peter addresses justifying grace in his epistles, particularly in 1 Peter:

1 Peter 1:10-12 Peter speaks of the grace that was to come to believers through the prophets who predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory.

1 Peter 1:13 He urges believers to set their hope fully on the grace to be given them when Jesus Christ is revealed.

1 Peter 5:10 Peter prays that God, who called us to his eternal glory in Christ, after suffering a little while, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish believers, indicating grace as both a past event (justification) and an ongoing process (sanctification).
In other words: Peter did not support works of salvation and merit, but did support the idea that cheap grace is not true faith. What is cheap grace?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said this about institutionalized Grace that doesn't immediately demand obedience and true discipleship:
"Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate."

Protestant understanding on the Papacy:
Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 25, Section 6:
"There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ. Nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God."

John Wesley said in regard to the papacy,
"He is in an emphatical sense, the Man of Sin, as he increases all manner of sin above measure. And he is, too, properly styled the Son of Perdition, as he has caused the death of numberless multitudes, both of his opposers and followers... He it is...that exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped...claiming the highest power, and highest honour...claiming the prerogatives which belong to God alone."

Friends,
The history of the Papacy is founded mainly upon the desires and ambitions of rich powerful families and their armies. And that history is filled with Popes of many flavors coming and going. Even multiple Popes at one time who were excommunicating each other. At times there were no Popes which immediately undoes this idea of apostolic succession. It's all a matter of fallible faith that wants to make itself infallible by works and by merit.

It's a theater. It's pomp and circumstance. It's a seduction. It's a Vanity Fair. They exult the ministry and diminish Christ by their actions. Don't be fooled by this worship of "The Church" that was intended to be Christ's bride. Don't be snatched away by the worship of their "Queen of Heaven" who is a counterfeit disguise for Satan's deceptions.

Be justified by faith in Christ alone.

Don't take my word for it, take it from their first pope Peter...

1 Peter 1:3-5
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance THAT CAN NEVER PERISH, SPOIL, OR FADE. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time." (EMPHASIS MINE)