Jesus affirms The Three Step Program.
Catholic Fundamentalism’s Three Step Program leads a believer to a higher plane. Rising to it gives a clearer view of more.
It helps to quickly review the Three Step Program. It is compiled from three instructions given to us by Jesus. His instructions should be obeyed by those who know that He fulfilled the prophecies that had been carefully recorded and passed on for the preceding thousand years:
Step 1. Jesus said: “You are My friends if you obey My commands.” (John 15: 14) His commands may be direct or implied. Both must be obeyed if we are to be His friends. If we choose to disobey His commands, His words clearly mean “You are not My friends.”
Step 2. Jesus said: “I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.” (Mt. 16: 18-20) The implied command: He is clearly telling us that He founded One Church. He put the first Pope, St. Peter, in charge. Just as The Church He Founded is still led by a successor to Peter, it also the power to forgive sins and remains immune to destruction by evil. Those who refuse The Church He Founded must let us know why Jesus would let His enemies into Heaven.
Step 3. Jesus said: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” (John 6: 53) This command tells us that if we choose not to do what is necessary to receive Catholic Communion, that we are dead. The first time He said those words, everyone but His most faithful disciples abandoned Him. Those words still divide His friends from those who are not His friends.
Those who take Jesus seriously enough to obey Him will ascend the three steps and arrive at The Church He Founded. Jesus affirms The Three Step Program.
4. Affirmation of their ascent: In Luke 8: 19-21, Jesus tells obedient Catholics how He truly regards us: “The mother of Jesus and his brothers came to him but were unable to join him because of the crowd. He was told, ‘Your mother and your brothers are standing outside and they wish to see you.’ He said to them in reply, ‘My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it.’”
One of the vainest, least intelligent decisions anyone can make is to read what Jesus said we must do in the Three Step Program, absorb Jesus’ description of those who become Catholic, and ignore The Church He Founded.
Ignoring the first three steps keeps us from being His friends. Even more importantly, His affirmation in Luke tells us that staying out of The Church He Founded keeps us out of His Family.
Our clear duty is to tell those we know: “For Heaven’s sake, become Catholic and be counted among His friends and family forever.”
