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So I'm. Going to encourage you to open
your Bibles, please, to Revelation chapter #22 and I
will warn you that we will be looking at Revelation chapter
#22 at the end of the lesson, so you'll have it open for a while.
It's not that I have forgotten it, but it is just the fact that
I am making sure that we have ourselves ready for where we
will be at the end of of the message.
But I do want to give us a little bit of a review because
obviously we were not able to have our class last week and we
were looking at introducing the Mormons a couple weeks ago and
we saw from Galatians chapter 1 and 2nd Corinthians chapter #11
we saw a couple problems with Mormonism, didn't we?
Just from the Word of God, Just a very basic study because
Galatians chapter 1 says beware another gospel, which is not the
gospel. It is a perversion of the
gospel. If anyone is to preach any other
type of gospel, it may be another gospel, but it's not a
saving gospel. It is a false gospel.
We saw that from Galatians chapter #1 two weeks ago.
And then we also saw from Second Corinthians chapter #11 not just
to beware a false gospel, but to beware false teachings about
Jesus Christ. And just because someone names
the name of Jesus Christ does not mean that they are talking
about our Jesus, the Jesus of the Bible.
We saw this back with Islam, didn't we?
Several weeks ago? We saw that Islam Quam does name
the name of Jesus Christ. They admit that Jesus Christ is
a real figure. In fact, they call him the
greatest of all the prophets and try to make it sound like that
should be good enough. But you and I both know that
calling him the greatest of all the prophets is not something
that is actually holding him up high.
It's actually, well, keeping him very low.
Gotcha, guys. And so understanding that helps
us to be in the place where we get to say, even with Mormonism,
OK, they're saying all of these different things about Jesus and
we will reject those. What kind of things were they
saying? That Jesus is the spirit brother
of Lucifer, That Jesus was the first born spirit child of the
Heavenly Father. The Godhead consists of three
separate gods, not one Trinity. Jesus atonement actually
occurred primarily in the Garden of Gethsemane, not at the cross.
Jesus visited and ministered to people in the Americas.
After his resurrection, Jesus progressed to godhood through
obedience as part of eternal exaltation, meaning this that
Jesus was not originally God, but became God.
And so we may be talking about Jesus, they may be talking about
Jesus, and we may be talking about Jesus, but we're not
talking about the same Jesus. And that's why you have to be
very careful when going through videos and online materials
about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the
Mormons, because often times they'll portray Jesus in such a
way in those two-minute or three minute videos, as you say, wow,
that's really God honoring wow that they're really speaking
very highly of Jesus. But then once you kind of get
under the surface, you start to realize that there are the
doctrines of devils that are being promoted by the Mormon
church. And so Galatians one the other
gospels are not the gospel. First Corinthians are rather 2nd
Corinthians 11. The other Jesuses are not really
Jesus. And so that brings us to where
we are here today with a very many great contradictions of the
Mormon church. And we had a video that you
might have seen last week. And I know they got shown very
early on in Sunday school before the other sermon was shown.
But one of the first one they showed was a cartoon.
I don't even remember seeing that cartoon last week.
Did anybody see that? All right, some of you did tell
me you were awake last week. All right, good.
Ironically, I wasn't all right at that moment, but I was trying
to wake up, all things considered.
But there's a cartoon that was shown that talked about all the
different types of doctrines that come from the Mormon
church. And you look at that cartoon and
it looks like maybe it was made somewhere in the 70s.
And I tried to verify its authenticity from the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
And I will say I was not able, no matter how much I tried to
verify its authenticity as being from the Mormon church.
However, everything that was in that video were very real Mormon
teachings. The fact that God Elohim was
from the space station planet Kolob, but where he was
originally from, they Mormons don't talk a lot about Kolob.
You could imagine why. All things considered, if they
lead with that, probably a lot of people would head for the
hills. And it's a good reminder to us
that false teaching doesn't rear its head at the 1st that false
teaching will start with that, which seems reasonable.
And then once the hook is set, then you start to realize the
things that are false. And so the Mormon church isn't
going to come right out and say, you know, Elohim was from the
planet Kolob because a lot of people would say, well, goodbye,
all right, I think that conversation is done.
But once the teaching starts to set in, the Mormon church
doesn't say, you know, Jesus and Satan were spirit brothers with
one another, because most people would say, I don't think that
sounds right. Even people that don't know a
lot about the Bible would probably question that thought
process. But this are these are the types
of things that are taught and that was shown and portrayed in
that video last week. So we ask ourselves this
question. We know that they're wrong, but
why are they wrong? And all of this focuses on on
the founder of Mormonism, the founder of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints, and that is Joseph Smith.
So our lesson today is called Joseph Smith and Counterfeit
Christianity. And you see right here, Joseph
Smith, the founder of the Mormons, He was a man who found
the golden plates from God at age 17.
From his life not only emanated the Book of Mormon, but also the
other books that doctrines uncover.
That's again one of the reasons they would say, well, we're
Christians like you are. You believe the word of God and
we believe the word of God. The problem is to them the Word
of God is the Bible and the Book of Mormon and the Pearl of Great
Price and the doctrines of covenants.
And three of those came from the mind of Joseph Smith and are not
the word of God. He was a martyr and a hero to
the Mormons, but he was also a polygamist, a petty thief and a
practitioner of the occult. He married somewhere between 30
to 35 women in his life, the youngest of those being 14 years
old. Now, we think of polygamy and
certainly polygamy was a great part of the Mormon church.
And you often find when the Mormon church has any kind of
pressure, particularly political pressure or PR pressure, they
have this amazing change of thought where they had a
revelation from God where they would change, for instance,
polygamy. They were not allowed to become
a state, the state of Utah while polygamy was being promoted.
Well, and then lo and behold, the president of the Mormon
church had a revelation that all of a sudden polygamy is not good
anymore. Well, isn't that politically,
politically expedient? We find in the 70s and into the
early 80s that there was a lot of confusion and a lot of bad
press for the Mormon church because of the teaching that if
someone had dark skin that they were the brethren of Lucifer and
that they could not have part and parcel in the Mormon church.
This was starting to be reported.
This is starting to be taught. Of course, there was a lot of
negativity about that. And lo and behold, revelation
that, well, maybe that's not the case anymore.
And so you find this over and over with the Mormon church that
they are not actually tied to the word of God.
No matter how many versions of the word of God, they have four
of them and they still are constantly changing and start
constantly doing things. But that goes all all the way
back to Joseph Smith, the revelator himself, who received
these golden plates and that was followed for about 20 or so
years before he was killed, martyred, however you want to
look at it, however, that he was lynched for his beliefs.
Now we know of Joseph Smith, but the second president of the
Mormon church who you were also likely familiar with is Brigham
Young. Now, why are you familiar with
Brigham Young? It likely is because of Brigham
Young University. And so we are familiar with them
because of college athletics or you're familiar with them just
because of the College in general.
But once the Mormons arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley, they
arrived with Brigham Young because Joseph Smith died in the
Midwest. And so they continue to migrate
into Utah. They build what is now known as
Salt Lake City, UT. And much of the modernization,
much of the what we see today of the Mormon Church, a lot of the
secrecy, a lot of the temple worship, a lot of those types of
things were started by Joseph Smith, but they ended up really
being modernized and really put into practice by Brigham Young.
And so Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, both together, we're not
just the founder and the 2nd president of the Mormon church,
but really much of what you see today emanates from these two
false prophets. So what does Mormonism look like
today? So we see the past there, but
what does it look like today? Well, the Mormon temple, the
grand temple that you see in Salt Lake City remains today.
And the headquarters of their church are located across the
street. Again, the Mormon Church is
very, very concerned with public relations.
They want to look good in the public eye and they want to look
like believers. They want to look like fellow
Christians, which they are not. Fellow Christians with us.
That's why you're probably likely very acquainted with the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir. What do they do?
Well, they're online and they have specials on television and
they do all different types of music.
In fact, sing some of the great hymns that we are familiar with.
Why? Because they are trying to be
one in arms with us. Some of you might remember the
Winter Olympics in 2000 were held in Salt Lake City.
A lot of the medal trophies were held in front of the temple.
Why? Public relations?
To be able to have that good look where these athletic
winners are there and the close-ups are there with them in
front of the Mormon temple. They are absolutely obsessed
with the look of Mormonism, as well as looking like they are
fellow believers with us. It is from Salt Lake City that
the office of president has been passed from Brigham Young to 16
other men. Now, as of a few weeks ago, the
president of the Mormon church was a man named Russell Nelson.
However, you might have noticed in the news that the Mormon
president passed away. And when a Mormon president
passes away, there's a secret conclave that takes place, in
some ways very similar to the Catholic Church selecting a
Pope. Not exactly the same, but the
secrecy that takes place and how it's done.
And as of Tuesday, the Mormon church has selected their next
president, president, which is a man named Dallon H Oaks.
The president, listen to this, is the head of the church.
He is a modern prophet, seer and revelator, meaning this, that
God speaks directly to the president and whatever he says
is the word of God. OK, that's a very dangerous way
to look at anything, let alone we know we have the word of God
that has been settled for us and what the word of God says is
what it is. But not only are the four books
that they have not enough, but then you have the constant new
revelation that can come from your president.
They also have two members of the First Presidency that also
assist the president and then the Quorum of the 12 apostles.
They believe that they have continued the 12 apostles today,
that the 12 apostles who passed away from that time, there was
no apostleship, but they have resumed apostleship today
through these 12 apostles. There's also the Quorum of 70,
each with the president and all types of other councils.
And then at the local level they have stake presidents and the
stakes are kind of like a diocese to the Mormon church, so
that as you have different wards, that's what they call
their churches wards. Wards make up a stake, and those
stakes make up bishoprics. And then you end up looking at a
whole nation as they all all worship together.
So Speaking of worship, what does Mormon worship look like?
Well, a typical Mormon attends a worship service and Sunday
school classes on Sunday. These meetings take place in
Ward Chapel. So I forgot to show you that a
few moments ago. But that is the temple there in
Salt Lake City, of which you are probably very well acquainted.
But then we also see that this is a typical LDS ward and it
looks very much like a church, doesn't it?
And looks in many ways, again, the desire that they have.
And this is different from the Jehovah Witnesses.
The Jehovah Witnesses kind of shy away from being other like
other Christians because they believe that other Christians
should be avoided. But the Mormon church, although
they don't associate with us as Christians because, well, they
are not, but the same time they have this intense desire to be
able to look like Christians and even their wards, if you looked
at that, you would say, well, that kind of looks like a
Baptist Church, doesn't it? You might not even know any
different. But that is a typical LDS ward
and there are several in the area, the closest one being in
West Bridgewater to us. Meetings of the ward and the
stake are held regularly on Sunday.
The service and meetings would look very much like a typical
evangelical church. There is a sacrament meeting of
the whole ward where hymns are sung, they have communion of
bread and water, prayers are spoken and speakers present,
teaching. But no Mormon ward has an
official pastor like we would be familiar with ourselves.
Now, you might have just caught something that I said, and it
may have sounded very strange to you.
And that's communion of bread and water.
How many of you heard that? Now I think of bread and water
and I think of prisons. What I think of.
Not necessarily the communion, but in my studies looking at
Mormonism, and I thought, you know, why would they say that
communion would be bread and water?
Because it seems pretty clear in the word of God that it would be
unleavened bread in the fruit of the vine.
Why? Because each of those are
symbolic of the perfect body and the perfect blood of Jesus
Christ. And just as a reminder here, I
know who I'm with today, but we probably should just remind
ourselves anyway that when we take the Lord's Supper, as we
often do a couple times a year, we take the Lord's Supper, that
we are not actually taking in Christ's body and blood.
He said this due in remembrance of me.
And so we don't believe in transubstantiation as the
Catholics do, that it literally becomes Christ's body and blood
and the bread and the wine that they use disappear.
They're not even there physically, chemically, they are
gone. We don't believe in
consubstantiation, of which Lutheranism believes, of which I
was brought up when I was a child.
In fact, when I was confirmed, I had to be able to explain what
consubstantiation was. And it's basically, again, 1/2
Catholic teaching that, yes, that when the pastor blesses the
bread and the wine, it is Christ, body and blood, but yet
it is also still the bread and the wine.
But we would believe that it is symbolic, it's a memorial.
Why do we believe that? Well, because that's what Jesus
said and it is still very important.
It is still a wonderful reminder to us in First Corinthians,
teaches us in First Corinthians Chapter 11 that those who took
it without really having introspection in their life
found that they had some very great difficulties in their life
because they took it unworthily. And so just because we look at
it as the Bible does, as a memorial, doesn't take away from
the beauty of what the Lord's Supper is.
But now I hear as I'm studying bread and water.
Why bread and water? Well, listen to this.
This is from the Doctrines and Covenants chapter 27 verses 2
and 3. Joseph Smith says it Mattereth
not what you shall eat or what you shall drink when you partake
of the sacrament. If it so be that you do it with
an I single to my glory. So basically Joseph Smith said
to the Church of the Latter Day Saints that you know what I
believe it really doesn't matter what you take as the elements of
the Lord's Supper. And so Joseph Smith's words have
overruled the word of God. That's pretty normal for what we
see from Mormonism, isn't it? And so they say, listen, it
doesn't matter what you use for the Lord's Supper.
And I've heard people say the same sometimes as believers.
And it does matter again, because that unleavened bread
symbolizes the sinless body of Christ and the fruit of the
vine. No degradation that comes from
alcohol as as that alcohol degrades.
No, no, not at all. It's the fresh fruit of the
vine. That's what we see.
And that's what I believe is very clear in the word of God.
But church leaders have the Mormon church leaders in Salt
Lake City have asked to use water because it is inexpensive
and universally available, meaning this listen, not every
place could buy grape juice. Some of these foreign missions,
they're not able to get grape juice in, but just use water.
It's OK. It's not a big deal.
And of course, we made mention of, I believe a couple weeks
ago, the fact that the Mormon church has somewhere of assets
around $300 billion. I think they could afford to
make sure that places have grape juice in these other countries,
but yet they've conveniently changed the word of God.
Now, again, this isn't my message, but I'm going to take a
brief time out here just to say not Joseph Smith, not bring them
young, and by the way, not we either have the authority or the
ability to change the word of God to fit our own situations.
Well, I know what the Bible says, but stop right there.
You don't want to finish that sentence.
I know what the Bible says, but I believe, well, stop right
there. Listen, you don't get to have a,
what is it called a private interpretation of the word of
God. Know what the word of God says
is what goes and no man can just have a revelation and say, well,
it really doesn't matter what the elements are.
Well, I mean, I guess at this point when you're making
everything else up, you might as well just go ahead and do that
too. But we understand that it's so
far unbiblically from what the word of God says that we just
reject that out of hand. Other classes that take place at
the typical ward chapels teach on topics from the Mormon
scriptures. They have something that looks
very much like Sunday school that we have.
They have general meetings of the state, biannual, biannual
conference in Salt Lake City, which is broadcast around the
world. And I have found myself in each
of these three studies we've done, we've done Islam, Jehovah
Witness, and Mormonism so far. And I found myself really diving
deep on YouTube for each of them to just find out what is
believed and what is being said and what's being spoken.
And I found that when it comes to Islam that, well, there's
really no central core. And so because of that, you have
all kinds of different videos that are out there from all
kinds of different beliefs. And be honest with you, there's
a lot of infighting within Islam about the different types of
laws and the different. Types of ways to look at Islam,
Jehovah Witnesses, well, they believe the internet's the
devil. And so they're not really making
any videos on on online. And everything we found was from
lds.org because remember they had a revelation that lds.org
was safe. You can look at lds.org, but you
couldn't look at the rest of of the Internet.
But Mormonism is very active on YouTube, Mormonism very active
on social media, Mormonism very active on TikTok, believe it or
not. And there's a lot of families,
there's a lot of young women that are on there that are
trying to show this, this Mormonism life that's out there
and show how appealing it is. But what they don't show, again,
as I mentioned a couple weeks ago, the seedy underbelly of
what Mormonism truly is, the falsehood, that's about it.
But again, this all goes back to the public relations of which
they have that they desperately want to look like fellow
believers with us. So we see that they have these
wards, but they also have temples as well.
And it's not just the temple in Salt Lake City.
Mormons have temples all over the world.
As of today, there are 201 temples on 6 continents with
more under construction. Now, I put in quotes there the
Boston Temple because of course, as you know, anyone from outside
of Boston thinks everything is Boston, right?
We live in Boston, don't we? We know we don't live really
close to Boston at all, but if you are from somewhere else in
the country, they say, oh, don't you live in Boston?
And you get to the point you say, yeah, I live in Boston.
Sure, why not? That helps.
That makes it easier. But there's Boston Temples
actually in Belmont, MA, and it is their 100th temple.
Each Mormon temple is extremely secretive.
When a new Mormon temple is opened, the very first day, part
of it is open to the public. So the public, the media are
allowed to go in and to explore a very small portion of the
temple. After that, only faithful,
practicing Mormons are ever allowed into the temple.
There are only very few people that are actually allowed
inside. They have different rituals that
take place there. One of their primary rituals is
the endowment ceremony. This ceremony happens when young
people go on their mission or before they're married.
So you know that young Mormons often go on to, they go around
the world. Young men spend 2 years, I
believe young ladies spend 18 months.
They have an endowment ceremony that takes place at the temple
before they go on their mission. Marriages take place inside the
temple. Now why is that?
Well, because they believe that those marriages that take place
last not just for life, but last for eternity as well.
Well, why is that important? Well, because remember, Elohim
had children with his spiritual wife.
That's where Jesus and Lucifer came from.
And that you in your marriage in the Mormon temple will also be
able to be married for eternity and to populate your own worlds
in the same way that Elohim has. Again, absolute blasphemy.
But this takes place within the Mormon temples, away from the
eyes of others. You also find that they have
baptisms for the dead that take place within the Mormon temple.
You say baptisms for the dead. Now, the first time I heard of
that, I thought they're taking bodies and baptizing them.
You know, that seems very strange.
But what they do is they would take someone in proxy and say, I
am going to baptize this person on behalf of my great
grandfather who has passed away with the hope that this baptism
for the dead will help them to be able to experience some sort
of life eternal. Again.
Nowhere is this found in the word of God.
I know I'm saying something to you that's so plain, fully
obvious that everyone understands that.
But this is the types of things that take place, the holy
garments, and sometimes they're called the secret underwear that
they have as Mormons. But all of those things are
things that take place within the Mormon temple, very
secretive. A lot of the background for
these things, if you were to study it, goes back to Joseph
Smith's preoccupation with Freemasonry, and you see how
deep he was into Freemasonry and into the occult in general.
And you find that a lot of that just carries over into Mormonism
and into the Mormon temple endowment ceremonies, the
special or the eternal marriages, proxy baptisms,
baptisms for the dead, the secret garments that they wear.
All of this and more take place ceiling ordinances.
They are on behalf of other people so that their marriages
and families may continue into life after death.
So with all of that being said, we have a few more moments.
Let's consider this. What is the Book of Mormon?
We talked a lot about the New World Translation a few weeks
ago, didn't we? In fact, we saw how we can show
someone that is a Jehovah Witness salvation through the
New World Translation in the sense that there are some places
where the deity of Christ can still be found.
And we looked at that a few weeks ago.
But this Book of Mormon, what is it and where does it come from?
Now? The Book of Mormon is the
foundational text of the Latter Day Saints.
It's presented as an ancient record translated by Joseph
Smith during religious revivals in 19th century New York.
Again, there were these golden plates that were found in age 24
following visions, including one with an Angel named Moroni.
In 1823, he found those golden plates near a hill in Palmyra,
NY, and it was the the language that was on these plates was
called Reformed Egyptian. Now there is no such language as
Reformed Egyptian, but these golden plates had that and over
a period of time he had a special pair of glasses and with
angelic help he was able to translate from those golden
plates the Book of Mormon. Now you ask yourself today,
where are those golden plates? And the answer is they don't
exist. They have a, they have
documented somewhere between 10 or 15 individuals who said that
they saw those golden plates, but that is the only record
whatsoever. Now, when you look at the
preservation of the Word of God, it's amazing how God has
preserved His word through the ages.
But I would also say this, if you had golden plates, it would
seem like, well, those would be durable enough to hang out for a
while. It would seem like that would be
something that could be inspected or look upon today.
Now, there are recreations of these golden plates that are in
many of these temples. However, there is no real record
of what took place. He retrieved these plates in
1827. Thin metallic leaves bound by
rings weighing 40 to 60 lbs, accompanied by the Urim and
Thummim for translation. Of course, the Urim and the
thumb and the Old Testament were put on the breastplate of the
priest, and that was one of the ways of which the priests were
able to communicate with the Lord.
But they take this and take it in a different direction.
18271829 Smith dictated the text to scribes like Emma Smith and
Oliver Cowdry using a sear stone in a hat, producing over 500
pages in about 60 days. So once again, these special
glasses, the sear stone in the hat.
Again, Joseph Smith had this preoccupation with the occult,
whether it was a divining rod. You know, sometimes it's talked
about divining rods using water. A seer stone was something that
you were supposed to be able to hold or you able to put in your
pocket or put in a hat and that you could receive some sort of
divine revelation. Again, none of this is found in
the Word of God. This is all of the occult.
And I believe very clearly that probably Joseph Smith did have
some visions. I believe Joseph Smith did see
some things. I believe Joseph Smith very well
experienced many of the things he thought experienced.
But I know this, it didn't come from God.
That means there's only one other option of where it came
from. I believe it was satanically
motivated and that he was open through his part in the occult
to be able to receive these things and to be able to deceive
many. Now, what does the Book of
Mormon cover? The narrative covers Israelite
migrations to the Americas around 600 BC, civilizations
like the Nephites and the Lamanites, wars, and then
Christ's post resurrection visit.
It incorporates extensive biblical quotes such as from
Isaiah in familiar scriptural language.
In fact, there is much from the Book of Mormon that basically is
just plagiarized, well from the Bible and that he just took
parts of the Bible and then move things around.
And of course, it goes without saying, there is no historical
recording of the Israelites coming to the Americas around
600 BC. We know the dispersion that took
place in Israel, and we know that that was not to the West
all the way to the Americas, that that was to the east.
That was to Assyria and that was to Babylon.
That's where the dispersion took place.
There is no record because it did not happen.
Witnesses, though, as I mentioned before, authenticated
these plates. Three said they saw the plates
through angelic vision. 8 handled them physically and
published in 1830 as the Book of Mormon, an account written by
the hand of Mormon upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi.
Smith called it the most correct book on earth and a companion to
the Bible. That's the words of someone who
is delusional, that this is the most correct book on earth.
But it has faced scrutiny over time.
Why? Because of its many mistakes,
things that were not native to that time period in the Americas
were incorporated into the writing, like horses and steel.
Things that well before Columbus was in this area would not have
been an issue at that time. But Joseph Smith and his
ignorance just adds these things in as something that was
commonplace in the Americas of which it would not.
But yet, despite all of the issues of the Book of Mormon, it
fueled growth, missionary work, and the western migration that
went from New York to to Ohio to Missouri to Illinois.
And then finally, as they got kicked out of place to place to
place to place as people did not want to have them in their
communities, they finally decided the only option they had
was to go West to a place where no one else was.
And that is why they ended up settling in Salt Lake City, UT.
Today it remains the Book of Mormon, a core scripture.
It's studied with the Bible. It is studied like the Bible and
it's other texts emphasized as in continuing Revelation and
personal faith confirmation. So you remember a few minutes
ago I said we need to go to Revelation chapter #22 and I
told you I wouldn't forget about it.
I haven't forgotten about it, but look at Revelation chapter
#22 verse #18 and I believe we've looked at this a few weeks
ago, but I think it bears repeating for us to look at
again today. Beware those who say they have
another word from the Lord, that the word of the Lord has been
closed for us. Why is that?
Well, First Corinthians, rather chapter 13 says when that which
is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away
with it. And I believe very clearly it
doesn't say when that who is perfect has come, because that
would be Jesus. But when that which is perfect
is come, what is that talking about?
It's talking about the Word of God.
We don't need prophecies. We don't need to have these
visions, those things that authenticated the apostles as
they went from place to place that they were really speaking
the Word of God. We don't need authentication of
the speaker in these means because you can authenticate
what I'm speaking by looking in your Bible.
You don't need me to do a miracle to show that I'm
authentically from God. You could just listen to a
message and say, well, was that a biblical message?
And that is what authenticates what I'm speaking.
But the Mormon Church has gone against what this has said.
And look at what it says in verse #18 It says, For I testify
unto every man that here at the words of the prophecy of this
book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto
him the plagues that are written in this book.
If any man shall take away from the words of the book of this
prophecy, God shall take away His part out of the book of life
and out of the holy city, and from the things which are
written in this book, he which testified these things sayeth.
Surely I come quickly, Amen. Even so, come Lord Jesus, and
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Amen. God takes a very dim view of
those who add to His Bible and those who take away from His
Bible that God's Word is settled.
That means we cannot add to it. We cannot take away from it.
By the way, that's not just talking about the Mormons.
That's talking about anyone that has the idea that they are going
to be able to make another testament, that they are going
to have another word. Again, I can't stand in front of
you this morning and say I have a prophecy from the Lord and I
need to be able to give it to you today.
Listen, head for the hills if you hear me or anyone else say
something like that because that is not what we need.
What we need is the 66 books of the Word of God taught and
preached and lived. Everything that we need that
pertains to life and godliness is found in this book.
To have another testament would be to say that this isn't
enough. To have to take another
testament and say, oh, by the way, that's still not enough.
And then we need a doctrine and Covenant.
Oh, that's not enough. And then we need to Pearl a
great price. Well, listen, once you open the
door, nothing is enough. It just has to be the Word of
God and the Word of God alone and to the Mormon Church holds
to the Book of Mormon. And now you have found if you go
to a hotel, there was a time, it still is the case that the
Gideons, and I don't know a lot about the Gideons, but I do know
this, they put a King James Bible in every hotel room that
you find. Every single hotel room around
this country has a King James Bible from the Gideon
International group. But there's been a movement over
the last several years to as well as have that Gideon's Bible
to also have a Book of Mormon. And if you go into many hotel
rooms now and you as I do, just because I'm nosy and go start
going through the drawers and try to find where that Bible is,
like I got my own, but I'm just curious that Bible's in there.
A Book of Mormon is in there as well.
And So what I do, I'll just share this with you because you
could do this as well. What I do when I find one of
those Books of Mormon, I just get one of the tracks that I
have and I put it right in the front.
So if someone's going to open that Book of Mormon, they're
going to find the truth in there too.
That's the only truth that's contained within the Book of
Mormon is that track that I put in there.
And so that's my little way of protesting, and that's my little
way of making sure that if someone does pull it out that
they do receive the truth. But everything revolves around
the Book of Mormon. Now, what we're going to do next
week is we're going to start to really break down some of the
major doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints. We're going to look at these
three other books, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and
Covenants, The Pearl of Great Price.
I've given you just a few of them already, but we're going to
take what we can find from those in more of a greater scale, and
then we're going to start comparing them to the word of
God. This is kind of the way that
we've done this series for the last few cults and religions
that we've looked at is that we try to give you an introduction,
then dive deep into the doctrine.
And then once we've done that, we ask ourselves, well, how do
we witness to these people? How do we win someone?
How are we going to get that guy that's riding down your street
on a bike with his little tie and his white shirt?
How are you going to be able to talk to him about Jesus Christ
in a way that he can understand that Mormonism is false?
That's what we're going to look at, but that's what's coming
next few weeks, All right. Thank you for listening to this
sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church.
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