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BBB:Your ticket to heaven

   Since Pope John Paul II set himself up as the dominant leading
figure in world politics, the Roman Catholic Church has gotten very
"evangelistic" in America, especially around the California, Texas, New
Mexico area. In the last twenty years, they have actually set up Sunday
Schools (if you can believe it) and have even bussed in children to
services, causing some irreverent commentators to refer to it as "mass
transportation."

   Their latest is a little gospel tract they put out to offset the
work being done in Chino, California. I have one here called "My Ticket
to Heaven" and this is published somewhere by a retired high school
principal, Father Joseph Bernard. It has twenty-five pages in it, and
is recommended by Father John A. Hardon, S.J., "world-renowned Catholic
theologian professor, lecturer and author of over twenty books." The
tract was printed in Patton, Pensylvania, zip 16668 (notice the 6's,
please) and the first publishing was 2,400,000 tracts. It is called "My
Ticket to Heaven." So here we have a renowned, famous, ordained
Catholic priest and theologian who is a professor (and the author of
over twenty books), who wrote this thing which has been called a
"masterpiece" by Father Bernard, called "Fantastic" by Pat Flynn of New
Jersey, and Sister Engelica from Pittsburg says "there has been nothing
like it ever before," and so forth and so on.

   What is it? "My Ticket to Heaven?"

   I will read it for you and if you want to buy the junk you can buy
it and go to hell like you were going before you picked it up. Page 7,
"Can I be sure of making it to heaven? God gave me the perfect
blueprint for getting there. He gave me exact directions, and every aid
I will need. Those directions are simply this...1. Keep your face
turned toward God. 2. Keep moving toward the gate of heaven. 3. Never
turn your face away from God. 4. Never turn around to go in the
opposite direction. 5. Never commit a mortal sin. 6. Remain faithful to
God, and if somebody asks you if you are going to heaven when you die,
you are to reply "well if I don't make it it won't be my fault" (pages
8, 9, and 10). "God gave me the job of getting myself to heaven.
Whatever is involved let us get the job done and over with. Let's get
to heaven, then my job is done. THEN I HAVE ACHIEVED THE END TO WHICH I
WAS CREATED" (page 20). There you have it. That is your Roman Catholic
ticket to hell, and if you don't believe that ticket will take you to
hell, try it. You will get there, and you will get there on time. That
is a ticket to the pit, and it will get you there as quick as the train
can travel or the plane can fly. You couldn't get to hell any quicker
than by following those instructions. The Book says, "Not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved
us." The Book says, "By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not
of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should
boast." The Book says, "To him that worketh not, but believeth on Him
that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."
Your ticket to heaven was bought and paid for by somebody else. "For
the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord." This Roman Catholic ticket, this fraudulent
passport to hell, put out by a fraudulent priest, who is no more a New
Testament priest than Judas Iscariot or Simon the Sorcerer, doesn't
have the plan of salvation anywhere in it, and it is a blueprint for
eternal chaos, but nothing to get excited about. That is Rome
yesterday, today, and forever. They never "change."