Jesus took the twelve aside, He said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things which are written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be completed. For He will be delivered over to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and mistreated and spit upon, and after they have flogged Him, they will kill Him, and the third day He will rise again.”
Luke 18:31-33
“But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”
Luke 16:31
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And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him. But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” (Luke 23:27–31)
The Greek word katholikos means “general,” “universal,” or “pertaining to the whole.
While we do not confess our faith in the Roman Catholic Church, we do confess to believing in the catholic, or universal, church.
there is only one church, because there is only one Lord.
“Though there have been many Christian communities spread out across different times, places, and cultures, they are all mysteriously united in one Spirit. Each local gathering of believers is a full expression of that mysterious catholicity.
the church of Christ is ‘catholic’ in at least 4 ways:
1. It’s for everyone! the church includes every kind of person:
Galatians 3:26–28 ESV
for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith . For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
this means that when a person is converted, whatever defined that person BEFORE Christ, is now subordinate to the new defining mark of membership in the company of Jesus’ followers.
what is most true of the christian is that he is united to Christ by faith and is spiritually, phsyciall, visibly, practically conneceted to his poeple.
2. The message of the gospel is universal.
The gospel is not addressed to one particular social class or ethnic group. It is addressed to every imaginable human being.
one author writes: “There is nobody in the world for whom the message of Jesus could be irrelevant.”
furthermore, we can also say here that the church is catholic because it only has one universal message.
Paul writes to the galatians
Galatians 1:6–7 ESV
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
there is only ONE message.
As John Stott said: “to turn from the gospel of grace is to turn from the God of grace.”
3. Speaks to the human condition.
The deepest human needs are addressed in the gospel. The message of Jesus doesn’t just speak to a special part of life—the moral or spiritual part, for example. It speaks to the whole person, body and soul, individual and social. It is a catholic message because it embraces the whole person in a word of grace and truth. The gospel is as broad and deep as human life itself.
4. Transcends Time.
The body of Christ is the most inclusive community imaginable because it includes not only those who are now living but also all believers who have ever lived.
i hope this brief overview helps you understand and appreciate the word ‘catholic’
After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything, he rose and followed him. And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” (Luke 5:27–32)
The LORD is my rock. (Psalm 18:2)
When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples, saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.’ ” So those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them. (Luke 19:29–32)
Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. (Genesis 24:67)
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (Psalm 19:1)
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning. 
(Lamentations 3:22–23)
And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” (Exodus 3:3–4)
