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NASB | 1 Peter 5:7 casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 5:7 casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully]. [Ps 55:22] |
Subject: MARY--HONOR OR ADORATION? |
Bible Note: Part VIII MARY -- HONOR OR ADORATION? (Conclusion) 'Seven Steps to Deity 'The Voice of Mary? 'To underscore the importance of the emerging role of Mary in Catholic literature, one need only examine a recent book, a product of the Marian movement of priests, entitled Our Lady Speaks to Her Be1oved Priests. This material purports to be a collection of messages communicated by Mary from 1973 to 1977. The messages were dictated to an anonymous priest to whom Mary allegedly said: '“It is I who live, suffer, pray and act through a priest who has consecrated himself to my immaculate heart” (p. 89). 'The Virgin Mary allegedly stated: “My Son, how you need your Mother! She alone can understand and help you. She alone can hear you. She alone, through her Divine Plan, can snatch you from the hand of Satan and save you. Have recourse to me again, and I will be your salvation” (p. 88). 'It is evident from the preceding quotation that Mary’s role as Savior is accelerating to a place where it can be stated: '“Nothing shall be of interest or importance to you save living for me and with me... It is through your weakness that my strength will be manifested. It is through your nothingness that my power will be known.” 'The end-product of such teaching Cannot be ignored. it is nothing less than the absorption and possession of “Her Beloved Priests.” '“I will take possession of their lives, and gently I will transform them... Learn to let yourself be possessed by me, so that everything that you do will be done by me through you. It is necessary that the Mother act, and I want to act through you.” 'Such language is reminiscent of the world of the occult, not the theology of the New Testament. The one thing that Catholic Charismatics do not need is the world of the occult masquerading as Charismatic mysticism, imitating, and at length, discrediting the genuine movement of the Holy Spirit within the Catholic Charismatic renewal. With chilling clarity the Marian movement endorses total subjugation to Mary: '“If you remain in the garden of my Immaculate Heart, you become my property. Thus no one can ever take you away from me, because I am your defense. You must always feel that you have security. You must no longer fear either Satan or the world or the frailty of your nature ... I can defend you against the evil one, who can do nothing to harm those who are part of my property” (p. 204). 'Biblical theology underscores the fact that Jesus Christ is our defense and our security, and that Satan responds to Him, and Him alone. This is evidenced by the fact that exorcisms in the Catholic Church are done exclusively in the name of Jesus Christ, not in the name nor by the authority of Mary. She has no power over the demon world of possession. 'Let us strive, therefore, to proclaim the historic gospel of Jesus Christ which exalts Him as Savior and Lord. Let Protestant and Catholic Charismatics stand upon the unshakeable foundation of New Testament revelation. Let us together share in the fellowship of the redeemed, and turn away from all other voices and teaching not consistent with “the faith once for all delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3).' (STATEMENT DM160 Charismatics and the Cult of Mary by Walter Martin) (www.equip.org) |