{"id":6352,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-pope-is-here\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:15","slug":"the-pope-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-pope-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on coming of Pope to New Jersey.                    Matthew 16:15-18<\/p>\n<p>                              ================<br \/>\n                              THE POPE IS HERE<br \/>\n                              ================<\/p>\n<p>     I. How come we don&#8217;t have a pope?<\/p>\n<p>    II. History of the papacy.<br \/>\n         A. Principle of apostolic succession.                 Matt 16:18-19<br \/>\n         B. Gradual increase in worldly power.<br \/>\n         C. Modern shift to spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>   III. Why we don&#8217;t have a pope.    [A Baptist response]<br \/>\n         A. Our conscience, guided by Scripture, is our leader.<br \/>\n         B. We do not need to go through humans to get to God.   1 Tim 2:5<br \/>\n         C. The church must be primarily spiritual, not political.  Rev 13<\/p>\n<p>    IV. We need earthly leaders.<br \/>\n         A. Bible endorses human leadership.<br \/>\n         B. The proper place of leaders.                       1 Peter 5:2-3<br \/>\n         C. Keep human leaders in perspective.<\/p>\n<p>     V. God must lead us.<br \/>\n         A. Any human leader is second-rate.                    1 Sam 8:7<br \/>\n         B. He leads, we must follow.<br \/>\n                                                                         #3358<\/p>\n<p> *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on coming of Pope to New Jersey. Matthew 16:15-18 ================ THE POPE IS HERE ================ I. How come we don&#8217;t have a pope? II. History of the papacy. A. Principle of apostolic succession. Matt 16:18-19 B. Gradual increase in worldly power. C. Modern shift to spirituality. III. Why we don&#8217;t have a pope. [A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1589,152,1588,1587,387],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}