© 04 Colin Patrick Melbourne
Saint Patrick’s Day Message by Patrick’s Brother in Christ
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
Holy Bible, 1 Tim. 2:5-6 KJV
Bothers in Arms: God’s Arms
My Mother, who was briefly a Roman Catholic, named me at birth in honour of Patrick. But it was not until I was 34 that I came to know Christ, was born again, and began to share the same Father; the same Spirit, purpose, and message, as my dear Brother Patrick.
St. Patrick was not Irish, was never a Catholic, and preached against idolatry because he was a genuine Christian: Born of God’s Spirit through heart faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. His message was salvation through Christ, not through religion.
In this article you will discover:
- The Gospel message Saint Patrick proclaimed
- What St. Patrick would say to Roman Catholics today
- God’s opinion of the Catholic Mass
- The only way to please God
- How to get to Heaven
- The sole source of forgiveness of sins
- How to be Born Again and have the Peace of God
Saint Patrick’s Message
What would St. Patrick say to the world on March 17th; the day he is commemorated? When he sees Satan marshalling religions under the demonic United Religions Initiative; setting the stage for the AntiChrist to be revealed, what would Saint Patrick declare?
It would be this:
God has come, He has come to His Creation, and He came in love and grace to redeem it from the corruption of sin.
He did not come in anger, He did not come to judge fallen man, nor did He bring religion.
He brought Life, Eternal Life, the Life you were created for: God’s Life.
Almighty God visited Earth as a man, the Lord Jesus Christ. The eternal, spoken, Living Word of God became Flesh, and lived among us.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men… And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…
Jn. 1:1-4,14 KJV
Ever since Adam and Eve chose to doubt God’s word, disobey the LORD, and trust the Serpent (Satan), mankind has been separated from God. Instead of walking in the garden of His Presence, in loving rapport and harmony, they forfeited our inheritance through doubt, disobedience, and rebellion.
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Ro. 5:12 KJV
The first couple broke trust with our Creator, trusted the ‘Father of Lies’, the Devil, which brought sin into their spirit. Each of their descendants inherited this sinful nature from them. God’s word tells us clearly that every person born on Earth; is born in sin, a child of the Devil, to live in sin, die in sin, and face God’s Judgment for our sins.
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners… Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation;
Ro. 5:19,18a KJV
A truly hopeless situation you’ll agree.
And that is the end of the story for the majority of people who have ever lived. They did die hopeless; they did perish in their sins, and are condemned to Hell. You can be certain they deserve it too. God is holy, and righteous, He judges perfectly.
the soul that sinneth, it shall die… For the wages of sin is death;
Ez. 18:4b; Ro. 6:23a KJV
God Promises The Solution
But God is more than holy, righteous, and the Judge; He is also Love, The Redeemer: The Saviour, Faithful and True.
Since The Fall, He spoke of His redemption, promising to come and make a way back for sinners. He revealed this to the Jews through the Law, various Jewish Feasts, and sacrifices, all the time pointing to Himself as the only Redeemer.
The Hebrews understood this, and waited for the Promised Redeemer, or in their tongue, ‘Messiah‘, to come and provide atonement, healing, and deliverance from the bondage of sin and decay. The Prophet Daniel spoke of Him as the ‘Anointed One‘ (Dan. 9). Isaiah spoke of Him as the Son (Is. 9) So the Jews were anticipating the coming Messiah, the Son of God, God in the Flesh. (The Greek word for Messiah is Christ, meaning the ‘Anointed One’ the promised Saviour-Healer-Redeemer.)
Satan Provides Religions
Meanwhile, mankind subsided deeper into sin. Envy, hatred, and lust replaced, joy, peace, and love. Their fallen sinful nature led them further away from God by inventing all kinds of religions, ceremonies, and rituals inspired by Satan. Instead of worshipping God their Creator, they worshipped idols, behind which are demon spirits masquerading as gods. That’s where all religions come from, and each one is idolatrous, and detestable to God.
The Jews even managed to transform God’s Message and Law into a religion: Judaism. Completely missing the point of The Old Covenant; thereby blinded to The Truth, even when He stood in the Flesh before Israel. The LORD Jesus Christ told the Jews straight, precisely who He is, I AM! (Jn. 8 and 10).
You understand what He’s telling them don’t you?
YHWH, (pronounced: Yay-Ho-Va, or in English, Jehova) is the Hebrew name for Almighty God, and it means, ‘I AM‘, or ‘I AM WHO I AM’ (Ex. 3:14). Oh rejoice you Saints, and give Him glory for revealing Himself to us!
The Jews certainly got the point, threw a collective religious fit, and picked up stones to kill him, because they said,
… because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
Jn. 10:33b KJV
You can see why God hates religion can’t you?
Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers. Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
Jer. 44:3-4 KJV
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Am. 5:21
God Provides The Lamb
The LORD was silent for 400 years between the Old and the New Covenants. Four centuries of divine silence. Then He came. Almighty God in the Flesh. Born as prophesied by a miracle, of a virgin Jewish girl: fully human, and fully God. Born under God’s Law; grew up under Law, and lived it perfectly: never sinning once. Trusting in God His Father, walking in loving rapport with Him, as we were intended to: Humble, meek, loving, and obedient.
The Lion of Judah becomes God’s Lamb.
Tried and Tested
Christ was not a robot: all day long He faced the same temptations you face. He made choices moment by moment like you do. The record of His life on Earth is an account of stunning miracles from His birth to His resurrection, and return to Heaven. But perhaps the greatest miracle; is how He lived for 33 years in this filthy, sin-sick, religious, God hating world, without ever yielding to sin for a moment, in thought or deed.
He overcame temptation, not through some supernatural shortcut, or special trick, but by simple faithful, loving obedience, just like you can today.
Christ is your Prototype: He pioneered the way back to your Creator. He made the way; He is the Way, the only Way. When His disciples asked Him how to get to Heaven:
Jesus answered, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the father, but by me.
Jn. 14:6 KJV
Not through religion, rites, sacraments, priests, Mary, good deeds, penance, or gurus, but through The LORD Jesus Christ alone.
I testify to you, it is the perfect way, the only way into the very Presence of God. You will have Heaven on Earth today if you will repent and believe in Christ.
Will you follow Him Beloved?
God’s Lamb Sacrificed For You
Having defeated Satan by obeying God, His Father, Christ laid down His Perfect Life in your place. He paid what you owe, took the guilt you bear, and was punished for your sins. All of them. God in the Flesh thinks you’re worth the price He paid.
The penalty of your sins was not ‘written-off’ like Third World debt. It was paid in full by Christ: He bore your sins, your diseases, your infirmities, your punishment. He went to Hell itself: to set you free from Satan’s bondage of sin, sickness, and decay. He took it all in your stead.
To prove your debt is paid; to confirm Christ is God, He arose from the dead, and ascended to the throne of Heaven, having provided perfect redemption for mankind.
That’s what God has done for you. How you respond to this Good News will determine where you spend eternity.
God has made a New Covenant sealed with the Blood of the LORD Jesus Christ; that whoever is willing to repent and believe in Him, will receive eternal life, total forgiveness, and complete redemption. They will be born again: translated out of the devil’s family into God’s by faith in what Christ has done.
Here’s how Christ summarised the message of the New Covenant:
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Jn. 3:14-18 KJV
Will you repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved?
Will you repent from religion and sin and embrace the only salvation available to mankind?
Will you trust the Gospel fact that Christ’s sacrifice was paid once and for all, and is enough to clear your debt to God?
This is Saint Patrick’s message to the world.
Christ: Not Corrupt Catholicism
Roman Catholicism is not Christian: God has nothing to do with it. It’s another religious satanic counterfeit designed to keep sinners from The Truth.
At its heart is the Catholic Mass: a hideous defamation, and heinous blasphemy against the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. God hates it, and so do all genuine Christians. Here’s why in detail.
Just as Satan duped the Jews, who thought they were justified through offering animal sacrifices, so Catholics have been conned into building a vile idol out of the Lord’s Supper.
The magnificent passage in Hebrews 10, concerning the Levitical sacrifices, is just as relevant to the blasphemous Catholic Mass: Listen to God.
Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Heb. 10:8-14 KJV
Oh the Glory of the New Covenant, what the Law could never do because of our sinful nature, Christ did once and for all.
Rejoice you Saints, and repent you Sinners!
Turn from useless rituals: embrace the Living God. Reject Satan’s counterfeit-Christ, and the corrupt Mass, and trust in Christ’s finished work at Calvary. Once and for all: He cried out, It is finished! and it surely is Beloved. May God help you to comprehend that now.
This is what Saint Patrick would say to the world today.
Truth: Not Traditional Treadmills
Religion is man’s attempt to remove his sin and please God through his own works and inventions: But there’s only one way to have your sin removed and please God.
…your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
Jer. 6:20 KJV
Jesus said, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Jn. 6:29 KJV
That’s too easy for religious people, they love their rituals, ceremonies, penance, and sacraments, but you see what Jesus meant don’t you? You really do want to please God, don’t you?
Then do what He says; Repent and Believe the Good News.
© 04 Colin Patrick Melbourne
You may also be interested in reading:
Why Catholics Are Not Christian
One With God or Joined to an Harlot?
Click to read Tract © Chick Publns