The Conquering Truth

Mother Teresa is considered one of the great humanitarians of the 20th century and is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic church. But she did not really help many of the people that she talked about helping. The help she gave was very different from the way it was described by her and others and she often taught doctrine contrary to Roman Catholic teaching. But in the end, according to the Roman Catholic church, she is a shining example of what it means to be Catholic. And they have no problem with her unorthodox doctrine, her false help and false promotion, or taking the millions that she funneled into the coffers of the Roman Catholic church.
If you listen to our podcast often, this should come as no surprise to you. Roman Catholicism is a false religion that leads many to hell. According to the Westminster and Second London Baptist Confession, the Pope is that Antichrist. It should come as no surprise that the “saints” of this false church are false as well. And this is very relevant to us today, as many conservative Christians follow and listen to Catholics like Matt Walsh and Candace Owens or JD Vance. We should remember that Roman Catholicism ultimately leads to death and darkness and separation from God.
Listen to the audio version here: https://theconqueringtruth.com/2025/05/the-hypocrisy-and-heresy-of-mother-teresa-ep-219-audio/
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Timecodes
00:00:00 Danger of Charities
00:06:58 What She Got Right
00:09:28 Her Ministries
00:19:24 Twisted Theology of Suffering
00:26:03 Need for Conversion
00:33:53 Roman Heresy
00:37:48 Private Letters
00:43:21 Protecting a Pedophile
00:44:43 Applications
00:48:12 Finances
01:03:53 Miscellaneous Issues
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A little over a month ago, Dan Horn had a debate with Pastor Rich Lusk about Paedobaptism and the place of children in the church. After the debate was posted on YouTube (see link below), there were a number of comments that seemed worth responding to. A couple of the comments are from credobaptists, but most are from paedobaptists whose viewpoints seem to diverge from orthodox Presbyterian views and lean more toward Federal Vision.
Dan Horn vs. Rich Lusk on Children in the Church:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4rcocRXATE
Listen to the audio version here: https://theconqueringtruth.com/2025/05/pedobaptism-debate-response-ep-218-audio/
Timecodes
00:00:00 The Debate
00:00:45 The Position is Cold?
00:11:44 Israel Drank of Christ?
00:25:55 Children Praying?
00:33:11 Christ's Baptism?
00:40:57 Born Again?
01:00:27 Baptism and Priesthood?
01:16:31 Covenant Community?
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How can we think about pain and suffering from a Reformed perspective.
While suffering exists because of sin, both sin and suffering are part of God’s means to glorify Himself through his Son. Because of this, those who seek to glorify God with their lives must approach suffering not only as God’s decree, but as one of the ways that He glorifies Himself.
In this episode, we discuss why suffering exists, how God uses suffering to constrain sin, how maturity and suffering are tied together, and how suffering for our sin differs from suffering for the sake of righteousness.
Please join us as we discuss this important topic.
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Replacement theology is a derogatory term often used by dispensationalists to accuse those who believe in Covenant theology. Specifically, they claim that covenant theology teaches that the church replaced Israel. And while Christ does say to national Israel that the kingdom of God will be taken from them and given to another who will produce it’s fruit, the way that is fulfilled is through the people established in Christ himself, the true Israel. One of the other issues with Dispensational eschatology is that it teaches that the church is a “parenthesis” in Israel’s history and that every spiritual promise given by God will be fulfilled in physical Israel, which is clearly not true.
So here’s the question: What is right about replacement theology and what is wrong about it?
In this episode, we look at the promises made to physical Israel which were fulfilled and acknowledged in Scripture. We also look at the promises that were clearly made to be fulfilled through Christ and his body, not in a “parenthesis”, and not by the church completely replacing Israel either, but by the substance, which is Christ, taking his place as the root and head of true Israel and bringing all that the Father has given him to the blessed promises of his glorious salvation and redemption.
Listen to the audio version here: https://theconqueringtruth.com/2025/04/is-replacement-theology-biblical-or-a-dispensational-boogeyman-ep-216-audio/
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Timecodes
00:00 Replacement Theology
09:57 Shadows to Substance
15:20 Divorce of Israel
28:49 Not All of Israel
52:39 All Israel Will Be Saved?
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One of the biggest disagreements between Baptists and Presbyterians is related to baptism, it’s administration and what it means within the church. And these differences in practice are tied directly to differences in how God’s Covenant and the covenants that He has made with men are understood.
One primary difference that we want to concentrate on is that the Baptist view has more of an upward focus, looking at how each of God’s covenants with man reveals or discovers the Eternal Covenant of Grace whereas the Presbyterian view is more downward focused with their description being that the Covenant of Grace has different administrations in the time of the law and the time of the gospel.

Because of these different focuses, Baptists and Presbyterians see the effect of continuity and discontinuity very differently, with Baptists looking for those details to be expressed in physical vs spiritual typologies expressed as the earthly covenants with man reveal the heavenly Covenant of Grace (for example: circumcision of the flesh being fulfilled through circumcision of the heart, physical offspring pointing to spiritual offspring, physical households pointing to spiritual households, etc). Alternately, Presbyterians look for continuity and discontinuity within the earthly covenants. (physical households continuing, circumcision becoming baptism, etc).
Most of the differences in this episode are found in Chapter 7 of both the Westminter and the Second London Baptist confessions of faith. In the Westminster, this chapter is titled, “Of God's Covenant with Man” and in the SLBC it is titled, “Of God’s Covenant”
Note: While we are focusing on real differences that we believe affect the church and doctrine in real ways, we are also grateful for the many areas of agreement that exist within the larger body of Christ. We also believe that it is through wrestling with God’s word and doctrine with the guidance of the Holy Spirit that greater unity will come.
Listen to the audio version here: https://theconqueringtruth.com/2025/04/covenant-theology-baptists-discovery-vs-presbyterians-administration-ep-215-audio/
Timecodes
00:00:00 Confessional Differences
00:12:51 Purpose of Sacrificial System
00:20:58 Abrahamic Covenant
00:32:53 Sacrificial System
00:52:53 What the Covenants Reveal
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When you consider the fact that God calls those He has called out front the world, a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and His own special people, it should be obvious that He intended the church to be the ideal form of community. What group could have more in common and closeness than one made alive by His Spirit and called for His purposes into His family and household?
But when we look at the world, we can see a different picture. While the church has a greater sense of community than the world, it does not seem to be a light to the nations in this regard. In fact, over the last sixty years, the American sense of community has been breaking down. And while some people want to accuse technology of causing this breakdown, in most cases, technology only facilitates the things we already desired.
One of the things that has happened in the church is that we have shifted our focus from God saving the church as one body to be his bride, and instead have almost exclusively focused on God saving each of us as individuals. And because a strong sense of community requires one to focus, not on himself but on the group and what they hold in common, this singular focus wars against the sense of community that God desires for the church.
In this episode, we want to look at the ways that God has designed the church to be the model community for the world, and how the practices He instituted and called the church to should strengthen rather than weaken this sense of community. Please join us as we discuss this very necessary topic.
Listen to the audio version here: https://theconqueringtruth.com/2025/04/gods-blueprint-for-community-how-the-church-should-lead-the-way-ep-214-audio/
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Timecodes
00:00:00 What Is Community
00:03:09 The Church's Example
00:10:43 Small Groups
00:13:58 Our Mission
00:26:05 Authority
00:34:53 Shared Vision
00:45:36 Disasters
00:56:33 One Body
01:06:05 Hospitality
01:14:29 Impacting the Community
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Sharing the gospel is central to the Great Commission. But doing so on a day-to-day basis is more complicated than we often want to admit. It’s definitely more complex than just memorizing the Romans Road or learning a three-step approach for door-to-door witnessing.
So in this episode, we want to ask two different questions about sharing the gospel: first, we want to ask why don’t we do it, and second, how should we change the way we think about sharing the gospel?
Listen to the audio version here: https://theconqueringtruth.com/2025/04/what-stops-christians-from-sharing-the-gospel-ep-213-audio/
Timecodes
00:00:00 Failure to Evangelize
00:08:36 False Fears
00:11:33 Belief in Hell
00:14:53 Disobedience
00:19:59 Gifting vs Practice
00:26:48 Different Venues
00:35:36 Hospitality
00:40:04 Ready to Give an Answer
00:49:28 Listening00:58:17 Answer a Fool
01:21:59 Using God's Word
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Many Christians would describe justice and mercy as being at odds with one another, but most confessions of the faith, such as the SLBC and the Westminster Confession, say that God is most just and He is most merciful. But if they are in opposition to one another, how can God be both merciful and just?
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Timecodes
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:57 Sproul
00:10:50 Definition of Justice
00:15:52 Definition of Mercy
00:24:51 Overlooking Sin
00:37:02 Vengeance vs Justice00:46:08 Justice in Man's Law
00:49:14 Importance of Justice
01:00:51 Mercy in the Law
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Many churches teach that Matthew 18 is the generally applicable text about church discipline and it should be followed in all circumstances. But Matthew 18 is primarily about forgiveness between brothers and when you look at other cases of discipline, such as when a man has his father's wife, there is no hint that Matthew 18 should be followed.
So when is Matthew 18 appropriate? And why is this passage so often misunderstood?
In this episode, we start out by laying out the differences between personal offenses and offenses against God. Matthew 18 is about dealing with personal offenses and because the person who believes he has been wronged has no greater authority than the brother he is confronting the process is structured to minimize slandering and false accusations. We also discuss how this is not just for brothers who go to the same church, how that works and what it looks like. After laying this groundwork, we then walk through the passage verse by verse discussing how each step is rooted in God’s desire for justice and forgiveness.
Matthew 18 is an incredibly important passage for us to understand. When we do not understand what it is intended to accomplish or how we should go about the process, we cause the church to be filled with a lack of forgiveness and injustice.
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Both of the primary Reformed confessions explicitly call the pope that Antichrist. They saw the man of perdition from 2 Thessalonians 2 and that Antichrist from 1 John 2 fulfilled in the office of the pope. So what does it mean for the Pope to be that Antichrist or for the apostasy of the Roman Catholic Church to the falling away that Paul writes about to the Thessalonians and also to Timothy?
One of the dangers of not considering these issues is that we begin to view eschatology as completely separate from doctrine. But Paul says that all scripture is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. Whether we consider the Pope to be THAT Antichrist or just one Antichrist of many, we should realize that the scope and success of the Roman Catholic Church as a heretical and evil imitator of the true church for almost 1500 years is something that the church must grapple with. At a minimum it should warn us to not grow lax in standing against the heresies of the church even when they are embodied in likable people. At the most, it should help us focus on Christ and the work that He is doing in the world, it should reframe how we view the scope and significance of the Reformation and the work that Christ has for His church in fighting for right doctrines and right practices.
So here’s the question: If you hold to a Reformed tradition have you considered what it means for the Pope to be the Antichrist? And even if you do not, have to considered why the Reformers thought the way they did?
Listen to the audio version here: https://theconqueringtruth.com/2025/03/is-the-pope-really-that-antichrist-ep-210-audio/
Timecodes
00:00:00 An Antichrist vs The Antichrist
00:06:59 Falling Away Comes First
00:23:35 Sits as God in the Temple of God
00:33:57 Mystery of Lawlessness
00:47:55 Unrighteous Deception
00:53:04 Strong Delusion
00:59:11 Later Times Departing
01:06:08 Spirit of the Antichrist
01:10:04 Christ's Coming
01:13:58 The Confession and Revelation
01:26:38 One Antichrist Shall Come
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