1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,280 or contact us at my libertybaptist.org or just look 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,760 us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,080 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,960 We're going to continue with our study of Mormon doctrine today, 8 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,880 and we started last week by looking at the Godhead. 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,880 And then we saw that the Trinity is not the Trinity to the Mormon 10 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,640 church, even if they use the term Godhead, that what they 11 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:38,960 believe about the Trinity is not what the Bible says about the 12 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,040 Trinity. They may talk about the Godhead, 13 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,360 but they believe that Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, three 14 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,040 different gods. And of course we know that is 15 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,760 not what the Bible teaches. And then we looked at their 16 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,960 doctrine on Elohim the Father and on Jesus Christ and on the 17 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:53,880 Holy Spirit. And today we're going to look at 18 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:55,680 a lot of other doctrines. In fact, we're going to give 19 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:57,840 you, I believe, 8 of them in very quick fashion. 20 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,560 But I will say this this morning, 1st Corinthians 14 21 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,600 verse #33 says this. For God is not the author of 22 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:09,280 confusion, but of peace. As in all churches of the 23 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,680 Saints, Bible says God is not the author of confusion. 24 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,000 So let me ask you this by order and process of elimination. 25 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:18,680 If God is not the author of confusion, then who is? 26 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:22,080 We're going to look at, and that's correct, by the way. 27 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,480 We're going to look at some of the Mormon doctrines today, some 28 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,000 of the major Mormon doctrines apart from the Godhead, Father, 29 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,600 Son, and Holy Ghost. And if you get to the place 30 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,280 where your head starts to swim a little bit and you get to the 31 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,920 place where you start to wonder what on earth is pastor talking 32 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,680 about, explain these doctrines. First of all, that's the way I 33 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:42,720 felt this week, being able to study for this lesson. 34 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,840 And #2 if it's that confusing, let me ask you, who is the 35 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:51,160 author of that confusion? Remember, salvation is so simple 36 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,040 that a child can understand and be saved, but yet it's so deep 37 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,400 that you can explore its depths your whole life and never mind 38 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,000 out all of the wondrous truths of what salvation is all about, 39 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,280 but yet must have childlike faith to accept and listen. 40 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:07,480 You must not have childlike faith. 41 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,200 You must have Mensa candidate faith to understand some of the 42 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:12,880 things we're saying today. Because you're going to look at 43 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,960 a chart in just a few moments and say, I don't know how anyone 44 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,120 could possibly understand that. But when you have layer upon 45 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:24,600 layer upon layer upon layer of falsehood built up for almost 46 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,320 200 years, the end result is this complete and utter 47 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:31,880 confusion. So we see that the Mormon church 48 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,240 that the author of confusion is Satan. 49 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:36,760 So the first of the doctors we're going to look at this 50 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,640 morning is mankind. What do the Mormons believe 51 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:42,200 about mankind? In Mormon thinking, all of 52 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,520 humanity are children of the Heavenly Father and of again the 53 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,600 Heavenly Mother, believing that Heavenly Father once again is a 54 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,360 man of flesh and bones. And that through sexual union 55 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:58,520 between Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother, spirit children 56 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,240 were created. And then over time, those spirit 57 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,400 children would receive bodies and would come to earth. 58 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,320 By the way, it's one of the reasons why the Mormons believe 59 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,000 so heavily in having large families. 60 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,120 Why is that? Well, because they need to make 61 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,560 sure there are vessels, there are human beings for the spirit 62 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,360 children that are just waiting up in heaven to have a chance to 63 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,560 be able to come down here to earth. 64 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,320 It's the role of families on earth to provide bodies for the 65 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,760 Spirit children to inhabit and go through the probationary 66 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:31,520 testing here on earth to determine their worthiness to go 67 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,600 back and to live with the Heavenly Father. 68 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,480 Now this is totally in contrast to what the Bible says, that we 69 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,920 were not spirit children just floating in the ethos before we 70 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:44,760 came to earth. Well, I would submit to you 71 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,160 Isaiah 44, verse 2. Thus saith the Lord that made 72 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,600 thee and form thee from the womb. 73 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,560 Isaiah or Zechariah 12, Zechariah 12, verse one, the 74 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,680 burden of the word of the Lord of Israel saith the Lord, which 75 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,320 stretches forth the heavens and layeth the foundations on earth 76 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,360 and formeth the spirit of man within him. 77 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:07,600 What does the Bible say? That when you were created, that 78 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,880 spark of life that took place at the moment of conception, that 79 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,560 is when you became who you are. By the way, that's the reason 80 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,079 we're so adamantly opposed to abortion. 81 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:18,600 Why? Well, because that child is a 82 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,079 life now. Did God know who you were before 83 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:22,840 the foundation of the earth? Absolutely. 84 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,440 Did God in his omniscience understand the beginning from 85 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,840 the end before the beginning? Absolutely. 86 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,200 Nothing has taken God by surprise here in this world at 87 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,840 any juncture, at any point. However, to say that we were 88 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:40,520 preexisting before we existed is not what the Bible says, but it 89 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:42,240 is what the Mormon church teaches. 90 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:48,240 Now listen, originally Mormons taught that Elohim was Adam in 91 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,800 the Bible and that Eve was his spirit wife here on earth. 92 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,840 Now modern Mormons deny this. Today they say that is not true. 93 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,320 However, it was taught by previous Mormon presidents who 94 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,920 we'll see in just a few moments reminding you they are 95 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,560 considered prophets. So previous prophets said Adam 96 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,840 was God. Current Mormon prophets say Adam 97 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:12,120 was not God. But let me ask you this, Who was 98 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:13,760 the one that received the revelation from God? 99 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:16,720 Apparently they both did according to the Mormon church. 100 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,760 So did God reveal something incorrectly to the first 101 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,920 prophets, but then correctly revealed correctly later? 102 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,680 Now we know what the Bible says about this. 103 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,640 Deuteronomy 18 verse 20. But the prophet which shall 104 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,960 presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded 105 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,080 him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, 106 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:38,920 even that prophet shall die. It was so serious in the Old 107 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,000 Testament if someone said they had a word from the Lord, but 108 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,640 yet did not have that word from the Lord, they were proven false 109 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,080 that they were to die. And So what do we see that the 110 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,760 Mormons over and over did? Just like Jehovah Witnesses, 111 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,640 they keep saying this is what God says, but then they turn 112 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,960 around say, oh, just kidding, God didn't actually say that. 113 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,120 He actually said this. That's coming up on this side 114 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,920 over here and over and over that's the case. 115 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,520 But where's the confusion coming from? 116 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:08,080 It's not God who's the author confusion, but rather it is 117 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:09,680 Satan. So first of all, we see that 118 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,920 they are far, far off on the issue of mankind. 119 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,440 Next we have salvation. Salvation. 120 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,760 Salvation is completely and totally by works. 121 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,880 Remember, those Spirit children in these bodies are on a 122 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,280 probationary period while they're here here on earth. 123 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,880 They have got to prove themselves that they are worthy 124 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,240 to enter one of the kingdoms later on. 125 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,000 Now this is according to their articles of faith. 126 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:37,240 It says this. We believe that the first 127 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:41,000 principles and ordinance of the gospel are first, faith in the 128 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,920 Lord Jesus Christ. Second, repentance. 129 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:48,160 Third, baptism by immersion for the remission of sins, 4th. 130 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:52,680 Laying on of hands to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 131 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,920 Nephi 25 or second 2525, verse 32 says this. 132 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,720 For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children 133 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,720 and also our brethren to believe in Christ, to be reconciled to 134 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,000 God. For we know that it's by grace 135 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,040 that we are saved. After all we can do. 136 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,360 Now let me just say that last phrase again. 137 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,320 It's for by grace we are saved. And really at that point we 138 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,640 would all say Amen, isn't it? Because that's what the Bible 139 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,560 says is by grace that we are saved after all we can do. 140 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,960 Basically you have to be able to do all you can and then God's 141 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,560 grace fills in the blanks. What is that? 142 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,920 That is completely and totally a works based salvation which is 143 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,880 contrary in every way shape or form to the word of God. 144 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:43,840 The prophet Moroni related grace and works when he said yay, come 145 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,800 unto Christ and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all 146 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,360 ungodliness. And if you shall deny yourselves 147 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:54,160 of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind, and 148 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:58,560 strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his 149 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,280 grace he may be perfect in Christ? 150 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,640 And if the grace of God you are perfect in Christ, you can in no 151 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:08,880 wise deny the power of God. Moroni 10, verse 32. 152 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,240 So again. You do everything you possibly 153 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,240 can do, and once you know you do everything you can do, then 154 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,520 God's grace will be real in your life. 155 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,600 But again, that's not even the definition of what grace is. 156 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:25,120 Grace is receiving that of which we do not deserve. 157 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,040 Grace is what saves us, and it's us accepting the gift of 158 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,680 salvation. Not that we have achieved grace. 159 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:34,480 Not that we have earned grace. Listen, if you earn grace, you 160 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,640 don't have grace. If you have achieved grace, you 161 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,840 don't have grace. But this is what the Mormons say 162 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:44,400 over and over and over again. So what do the Mormons teach 163 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,320 about salvation? Let me just say this. 164 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:48,440 This is about to get weird, all right? 165 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,640 There's no other way to be able to explain this but that. 166 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,120 This is about to get very, very confusing. 167 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,320 So we have our first video that we have queued up, and I want 168 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:56,720 you to watch that. And then I have a very 169 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:58,560 interesting slide I want to show you as well. 170 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,000 This one get to heaven. What is life like there? 171 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,320 They gleaned from biblical passages about there being a 172 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:08,200 heaven and there being a hell, and they've debated what those 173 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,480 might mean for individual followers of Jesus. 174 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,440 But a near consensus existed among American Christians. 175 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,200 Heaven was small. It was for the elect. 176 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:23,480 Most people wouldn't be there. I was taught that Christ would 177 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:27,000 have a mere few trophies of his mission to the world, while his 178 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,480 antagonist would have countless millions. 179 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,640 My situation appeared more precarious than a ticket and a 180 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:35,320 lottery. Caleb Rich. 181 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:40,640 In February 1832, while working on their inspired translation of 182 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,360 the Bible, Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon had a remarkable 183 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,840 vision of the afterlife, organized not into a single 184 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,200 heaven and hell, but into degrees of glory. 185 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:55,880 When he printed the revelation, William W Phelps assumed most 186 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,600 Saints would rejoice over it. The vision is the greatest news 187 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,680 that was ever published. A man, William W Phelps. 188 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,240 Other Saints, like Phoebe Peck, encourage their friends to 189 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,520 prayerfully consider the new teachings. 190 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,720 These things are now in print and are going forth into the 191 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:14,600 world. You perhaps will have an 192 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:18,440 opportunity of reading for yourself, and if you do, I hope 193 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:20,920 you will read with careful and a prayerful heart. 194 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,640 Phoebe Peck. But not everyone found it easy 195 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,920 to accept the new revelation. As missionaries went out to the 196 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:31,640 branches, they sometimes encountered serious concerns. 197 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,680 Ezra Landing and Geneseo denied the vision and other members 198 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:38,200 joined him. Brother Landing said the vision 199 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,480 was of the devil and he believed it no more than he believed the 200 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,480 devil was crucified. John Murdoch. 201 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:49,320 It may seem strange to modern Latter Day Saints why the vision 202 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:53,240 prompted such strong reactions among early LDS converts, but we 203 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:57,680 have to recognize that that vision was received in a time of 204 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,240 deep theological debate and argument. 205 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:05,280 Rival Christian groups, the old guard Calvinists and a renegade 206 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:09,920 group of Christians, fought over the question of the afterlife. 207 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:13,040 Those renegade Christians were called universalists because 208 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:18,640 they taught that God's power and his patience, his mercy, would 209 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:20,920 eventually save the entire human family. 210 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,600 And this is an idea that was radical. 211 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:28,120 Universalists challenge traditional Christians, and 212 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,240 traditional Christians fired back. 213 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,560 They argued that this could lead to social or religious chaos. 214 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:35,920 What would it mean to moral order if people thought no 215 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,000 matter what they did, eventually they'd be saved? 216 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:42,400 Even Brigham Young initially had concerns about the vision's 217 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,000 teachings. My traditions were such that 218 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,760 when the vision first came to me, it was directly contrary and 219 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:52,280 opposed to my former education. I said, wait a little. 220 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,800 I did not reject it, but I could not understand it. 221 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:59,200 Brigham Young. The 21st section of the Doctrine 222 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,560 of Covenants encourages us to follow the prophet in patience 223 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:05,480 and faith. We sometimes forget the patience 224 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,240 part. Like Brigham and perhaps others 225 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:13,000 of the day, we can sometimes benefit by realizing that we 226 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,840 have to grow into the revelations. 227 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,440 We have to grow an understanding, impatience which 228 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,880 will strengthen our faith and help us to realize that the Lord 229 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:28,040 does in fact direct His Church. Rather than rejecting the vision 230 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:32,120 or leaving the church, Brigham Young took time to wrestle with 231 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,760 it and ponder its teachings. I used to. 232 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:39,120 Think and pray to read and think until I knew and fully 233 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,600 understood it for myself. Brigham Young. 234 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,800 It seems in retrospect that the people were not nearly so much 235 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:50,440 afraid of what the vision actually said as what they 236 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:53,960 thought it might mean. The 76th section of the Doctrine 237 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,760 Chemist neither teaches the kind of universalism where everyone 238 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,880 will be saved without the need for obedience, nor the kind of 239 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,160 restrictive salvation where only the very few elect are saved. 240 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:11,000 It clearly reveals to us our loving Father in Heaven who 241 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:16,200 truly desires to give all of His children all of the blessings 242 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:22,920 and knowledge and joy He has, depending on the laws each of us 243 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:27,400 is willing to obey. It wasn't until Nauvoo, when the 244 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:31,680 Prophet Joseph Smith and others started teaching about 245 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:38,640 exaltation in more precise and more dramatic ways, did Doctrine 246 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:42,040 and Covenant Section 76 take on a new light. 247 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,000 And they could come back to that revelation with new questions. 248 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,520 What does human potential actually look like? 249 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:49,640 What does God have in store for his children? 250 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,520 What has Christ made possible for all of the human family? 251 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:57,240 No text in all of our revelations presses that 252 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:00,160 question more poignantly than Doctrine and Covenant Section 253 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:10,920 76. So to say there are several 254 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:13,520 problems with what you just saw would be an understatement. 255 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:19,400 First, you see that their whole video was about the revelation, 256 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:23,560 so-called given to Joseph Smith, of what exaltation salvation is, 257 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:25,720 including the three different levels of heaven. 258 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,320 And did you notice both the professor and I use that term 259 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,440 loosely from Brigham on University, as well as the man 260 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:37,200 who was of the 70 apostles or the 70 leaders of the Mormon 261 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,080 church? They made the false dichotomy of 262 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:44,160 Christianity had basically boiled down to Calvinists and 263 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:45,960 universalists. They keep talking about the 264 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,600 elect over and over again that that really that the choices 265 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,000 between those two were the only choices. 266 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,400 May I remind you, if that was the only two choices, well, that 267 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:56,560 would be a problem. Why? 268 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,640 Because the Calvinists believe that there are the elect who are 269 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,280 saved no matter what they do, Irresistible grace, irresistible 270 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,440 salvation, which the Bible does not teach. 271 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,240 But then on the other side, you have the universalist, which 272 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,920 today will be Unitarian Universalists, which basically 273 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:13,840 believe, well, whatever you want to believe. 274 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,920 By the way, they don't believe what we believe and wouldn't 275 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,520 tolerate what we believe the word of God says, but everyone 276 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,560 else can all gather together. They give this false dichotomy, 277 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,920 these false choices. We're really there is this 278 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,800 middle ground, which is the well biblical crown that for by grace 279 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,120 ye are saved. Whosoever shall call upon the 280 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,760 name of the Lord shall be saved. So there's that, that false 281 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:38,560 choice that was made there and telling Mormons that really the 282 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:42,160 only way is this other way, which is there's three different 283 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,640 levels of heaven. But did you also notice that 284 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,600 they mentioned that at the beginning that Joseph Smith had 285 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,240 this revelation? There was a lot of confusion, 286 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:53,240 but that as time went on that they were able to understand 287 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,440 more and change the teaching more, refine the teaching more. 288 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,280 Can I ask you, was there any time in the Word of God where a 289 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,680 prophet gave a message that over time he says, well, let me 290 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:04,120 refine that message a little bit. 291 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,720 Let me change that message a little bit to make it more 292 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,560 understandable, more palatable. Listen, when it was thus say at 293 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,760 the Lord, thus say at the Lord, that's all that there was. 294 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:15,440 We saw this on Wednesday night, The burden of the Lord, thus say 295 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,920 at the Lord. That is what it is. 296 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,840 And so the Mormon church is kind of like a moving target. 297 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,080 It's just, well, eventually we'll get it right. 298 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,560 Eventually we'll hone it in. And the Jehovah Witnesses call 299 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,120 this the greater light, meaning that as they get closer to the 300 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,560 end times, they understand the prophecies more. 301 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,240 Those are both false. You never see in the word of God 302 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,600 where a prophecy was made. And then, well, they kind of had 303 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:38,920 to tweak it to make sure they got it right. 304 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,200 No prophecy was needed to be tweaked for Jesus Christ to be 305 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:46,440 born, to live, to die, for all of the prophecies that came true 306 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:50,800 of Jesus Christ, birth, life and death and resurrection, none of 307 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,880 those had to be tweaked even a little bit to be able to be 308 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:55,920 fulfilled. And this is what is said here. 309 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:00,040 Now, what is the Mormon view of salvation as well as heaven and 310 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:01,680 hell? Well, it's very simple. 311 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:03,480 In fact, it's so simple. Looks something like this. 312 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:07,280 You say, Pastor, I can't read all of that. 313 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,319 I understand because I actually have scanned this and put this 314 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:13,400 together. And this is not a chart here 315 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,359 that comes from the Latter Day Saints Church, but it is a chart 316 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:18,920 that has been compiled using. All their teaching. 317 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:21,640 Do you see where it starts? If you were in the top left 318 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:27,560 corner with heavenly fathers and mothers, these are the those who 319 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:31,760 are in Kolob, as it mentions there that the the heavenly 320 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:36,440 deities that there are have real physical sexual union which 321 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,520 would breed spirit children. Some are unfaithful, some are 322 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:41,600 faithful. They have probation here on 323 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,080 earth in this life. Then there's the spirits in 324 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,160 prison. They have an opportunity to be 325 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,960 faithful or unfaithful, reject or accept. 326 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,040 Some eventually go to outer darkness or hell. 327 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,440 But then there are on the right side three different levels of 328 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:57,840 heaven. There is terrestrial, there is 329 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,040 terrestrial, and there is celestial. 330 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,920 And there are some spirits who are also in prison who are 331 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:08,200 receiving physical judgment mission work that is supposed to 332 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,120 be done to the spirits in prison by other spirits who have been 333 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:13,560 in prison. Eventually you can make it if 334 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:17,600 you are faithful enough to the Celestial Kingdom, Lower, middle 335 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:21,400 and upper celestial Kingdom. And if you are at the top of the 336 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,680 celestial Kingdom, guess what? You become exalted to godhood 337 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:30,200 and then it all starts over again with your own part of the 338 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,800 universe that you will populate with heavenly Father and 339 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,400 heavenly as heavenly Father, heavenly Mother, and that you 340 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,040 have spirit children. And the cycle starts anew again. 341 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,840 This is one of the reasons why being sealed in marriage in the 342 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,840 Mormon church in a temple is so important, because you're not 343 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:49,320 just being sealed in marriage here in this world, but also all 344 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,000 the way to the celestial Kingdom. 345 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,440 If you make it so that you as husband and wife and listen 346 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,440 husband and wives as well. Because there's a lot of talk of 347 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,400 polygamy being no longer part officially of the Latter Day 348 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,960 Saints Church, but is very much alive and well in not just the 349 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,920 Latter Day Saints Church, but also fundamentalist Latter Day 350 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,840 Saints churches as well. They may not say it in all of 351 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:11,520 their websites. You're not going to see a video 352 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:15,040 as nicely put together as we just saw about polygamy, but be 353 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:16,840 sure that it is alive and well today. 354 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:18,920 Why? Because they have to get to that 355 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,920 top corner. They have to be able to have a 356 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:25,280 spirit family that can repopulate their own world. 357 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,760 This is salvation in the Mormon church. 358 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,920 This I I know you know this already, but it needs to be 359 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,360 said. This is not salvation. 360 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,880 There is nothing about this that is even remotely biblical. 361 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,880 There's nothing remotely about this that's even understandable. 362 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,880 It's incomprehensible to even be able to put together. 363 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,840 But when you add the Bible and the Pearl of great Price and the 364 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,400 doctrines and covenants and on top of them all, the Book of 365 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:54,960 Mormon, you have this confusing mishmash of three levels of 366 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:59,200 heaven, hell, and all of these different off ramps here and 367 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:00,040 there. It's enough. 368 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:02,960 Enough to make your head spin. But again, who is the author of 369 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:04,640 this? Well, it's obvious that the 370 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,240 author of it is Satan and Satan himself. 371 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,000 But we also see #3 the church actually went a little bit ahead 372 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,040 there. I made a mistake on my slides. 373 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,120 The church is next. The Mormons teach that there are 374 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:19,000 only two churches. There is the Church of the Lamb, 375 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,640 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and the 376 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:25,200 Church of the Devil. The Church of the Lamb is their 377 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,440 own church, which they teach is the only true and living church 378 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:29,720 upon the face of the whole earth. 379 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:33,760 It is the same organization, according to them, that Jesus 380 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:35,600 Christ and the apostles were part of. 381 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,320 It's just after the apostles passed away, there was no longer 382 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,920 a church and it was revived by Joseph Smith. 383 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,200 Now remind you, we're not going to go back there, but we could 384 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,600 go to Matthew chapter 16 and we found that the gates of hell 385 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,200 would never prevail against the church, correct? 386 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,200 That there was no time, that there were no believers, there 387 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,040 was no real church. And by the way, when I'm not 388 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,520 talking about the Catholic Church, you know, when people 389 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,200 talk about the church that capital, see, that's what we're 390 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,280 talking about. We're talking about real 391 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:08,360 believers in real churches. Yes, that they were active all 392 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:11,800 throughout history, But but the Mormons will say that there was 393 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:16,560 this 1716 hundred year period where there was no active church 394 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,680 at all. There were no real believers 395 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,320 until Joseph Smith came along and changed everything. 396 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,840 One of the key scriptures they use is from Doctrine and 397 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,160 Covenants section one, verse 30. And it says this. 398 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:31,400 And also those to whom these commandments were given might 399 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,440 have the power to lay the foundation of this church and to 400 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,720 bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only 401 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:41,320 true and living church upon the whole face of the earth which I, 402 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,160 the Lord and will please, speaking under the church 403 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:45,960 collectively and not individually. 404 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,960 What is he saying? The Mormon Church is the only 405 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,200 church. There is no other church. 406 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,880 And so while they might have those advertisements, they might 407 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,320 want to talk about being fellow Christians, fellow believers, 408 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:02,120 yet really that many ways. This is simply a way for them to 409 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:06,480 lower barriers and invite people to investigate what it means to 410 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,080 be a Mormon. But really, when you get deeper 411 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,040 in, you find out, listen, there are no other churches. 412 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,600 There is just the Mormon church, the Church of the Lamb. 413 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,640 So what is the other church? Well, according to them, it's 414 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,360 all other churches. It's all other believers, true 415 00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:23,560 believers, and it's the Church of the devil or the great and 416 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,560 abominable church. Every other church, 417 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,120 denomination, creed, religious society without exception. 418 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:30,640 Is a lump together as part of the second category. 419 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,880 They are man made, lacking priesthood authority, teaching 420 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,080 corrupted and incomplete doctrines, and ultimately under 421 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,320 the influence of Satan. The Book of Mormon calls it the 422 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,760 mother of harlots, the whore of the whole earth, and says there 423 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,160 are two churches only one is the Church of the Lamb of God and 424 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:48,600 the other is the Church of the devil. 425 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:52,240 Wherefore whoso belongeth not to the Church of the Lamb of God 426 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,080 belongeth to that great church which is the mother of 427 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,400 abominations. First Nephi chapter 14 verse 10. 428 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:03,200 So again, they do want to have this idea that we are all 429 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,720 together, but it just seems to be that that is more for PR. 430 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,720 It is more to be able to get people to lower their defenses. 431 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,080 But once you get involved in the Mormon church, you will find out 432 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,920 that there is no salvation in any other church. 433 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,280 It is only through being a Mormon because the only the 434 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,400 Mormon church is teaching that, which you see up on the board 435 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,800 just a few moments ago. And by the way, I would even 436 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,920 agree with that. Only the Mormon Church is 437 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,720 teaching those teachings. But it's because they are 438 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,640 totally and completely unbiblical #4 you see the modern 439 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,640 prophets, the modern prophets, the president is always a modern 440 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:39,720 prophet. They have had 20 presidents over 441 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,200 the years. I just mentioned they just 442 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,720 elected their 20th president a few weeks ago. 443 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:48,440 It is a office that is held, and from election until death, 444 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:53,280 Joseph Smith reestablished the office also of 12 apostles, 445 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,680 being those 12 apostles having passed away. 446 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,680 Joseph Smith reestablished the 12 apostles as well as a council 447 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,280 of 70. Remember that gentleman that was 448 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,960 kind of overlooking the city, and he was of the council of 70. 449 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,800 And they go back to Exodus chapter #24 verse 9, where Moses 450 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:14,720 brought 70 of the Jews, Jewish men, Jewish leaders up to Mount 451 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,040 Sinai. We saw that in Exodus chapter 452 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:21,320 #24 and so they have in their own minds recreated this as 453 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,400 well. But again, the problem is this. 454 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,000 Even the modern prophets do not agree with each other. 455 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,240 For instance, they have the issue with Adam and Eve. 456 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:35,560 Also, Joseph Smith prophesied in 1832 that a Mormon temple would 457 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:40,840 be built in Independence, MO within a generation 1832. 458 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,760 Now we can all maybe quibble about how much a generation 459 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:45,160 would be, but let me ask you this. 460 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,280 Do you believe a generation to be around 200 years? 461 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,680 I would say that be a big stretch on the word generation, 462 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,920 wouldn't it? Well, there still is no temple 463 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,760 of the 200 temples that are built around the world. 464 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,520 There is no temple in Independence, MO. 465 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,840 It was a false teaching by Joseph Smith. 466 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:07,280 Again, we saw what the the rule is. 467 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:10,760 That is, if you are wrong in one, you are not to be listened 468 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,200 to. It can't be Well, you know the 469 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,920 best baseball players have a batting average around 303 470 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,120 fifty. Look, as long as you got a good 471 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:19,520 batting average as a profit, you know you're okay. 472 00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:23,280 No, you got to bat 1000 as a prophet because why? 473 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,240 If you're speaking for the Lord, the Lord makes no mistake. 474 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,160 And so there is no room for interpretation. 475 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,360 There is no room for wiggling. And over and over and over 476 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:34,600 again, Joseph Smith has been proven wrong. 477 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,720 And we'll look at a little bit more about what the modern 478 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,560 prophets have said even into the 1970s and so on. 479 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,400 But what is modern prophet? What does modern Mormonism say? 480 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,920 How do they explain this away? Well, they don't talk about it 481 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,320 very much, but when they do, they have said the prophecy 482 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,080 didn't fail. It's delayed, made by 483 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:56,360 persecution and disobedience and generation doesn't mean 40 484 00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:58,320 years. It just means whatever will 485 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,160 happen in God's time. But again, what does that mean? 486 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,840 Just that changing of the revelation, the changing of the 487 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,800 prophecies. Just hey, hey, once we get a 488 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,280 little bit closer, we'll understand a little bit better. 489 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,880 Nowhere do you find a prophet ever acted with such behavior. 490 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,840 But the modern prophets are held up in essence as gods. 491 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,800 The modern prophets are held up as the Pope, as God Incarnate. 492 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,400 No, they wouldn't say that, but they believe that when he 493 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,280 speaks, he speaks. Ex cathedra, just as the Pope 494 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,960 does whatever he says is the law. 495 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,200 And so in essence they have 4 books. 496 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,480 They have again the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of 497 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,120 Great Price, and the doctrines and covenants. 498 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,080 But they also have the. Words of the. 499 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,040 Prophets as well. And I want you to listen to 500 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,560 something I believe is very chilling and it comes from one 501 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,200 of their own and it's just a clip about a minute and a half. 502 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,000 And so if we'll go ahead and run that, I think you'll find it 503 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,680 quite interesting along with this subject. 504 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,960 The world is full of so many self help books, so many 505 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:01,160 self-proclaimed experts, so many theorists, educators and 506 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:05,320 philosophers who have advice and counsel to give on any and all 507 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,280 subjects. With technology today, 508 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,320 information on a myriad of subjects is available with a 509 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,840 click of a keystroke. It is easy to get caught in the 510 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,760 trap of looking to the arm of flesh for advice on everything 511 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,840 from how to raise children to how to find happiness. 512 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,960 While some information has merit, as members of the church 513 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,600 we have access to the source of pure truth, even God himself. 514 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:34,880 We would do well to search out answers to our problems and 515 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,320 questions by investigating what the Lord has revealed through 516 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,040 His prophets. With that same technology today, 517 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:46,560 we have at our fingertips access to the words of the prophets on 518 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,520 nearly any subject. What has God taught us about 519 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,520 marriage and family through His prophets? 520 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,320 What has He taught us about education and Provident living 521 00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,120 through His prophets? What has He taught us about 522 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,760 happiness and fulfillment through His prophets? 523 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:08,200 What the prophets teach may to some seem outdated, unpopular, 524 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:13,320 or even impossible, but God is a God of order and has established 525 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,120 a system whereby we may know His will. 526 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,000 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His 527 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,240 secret unto His servants, the prophets. 528 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,000 At the opening of this the dispensation of the fullness of 529 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,000 times, the Lord reaffirmed that He would communicate with us 530 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,240 through His prophets. He stated my word shall be all 531 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,920 be fulfilled, whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my 532 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:43,520 servants. It is the same doubt that that's 533 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,360 a cult just from listening what you just listened to and turn it 534 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,680 off turn it back on the 1st 30 seconds. 535 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,880 I think we'd all say hey, that's actually sounds pretty good. 536 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,560 You know, it's, you know, we don't need to, to look at all 537 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,280 these other entities that we look to the Lord for the 538 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,720 answers. But probably at the 32nd mark 539 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,600 and on is where it all changed, wasn't it? 540 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,120 Because all of the answers to life's questions are found with 541 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,360 the prophets. By the way, that's not Elijah, 542 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,640 Elijah, Isaiah, major and minor. No, no, that is the 20 543 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:18,080 presidents as well as the group of three as well group of 12 and 544 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,200 the group of 70. All you have to do is research 545 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,200 what they've said. All you have to do is research 546 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,240 how they've spoken on a multitude of subjects and you'll 547 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,200 get the answers to life's questions because either you can 548 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,840 hear from God or you can hear from the prophets. 549 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,200 That's what he said at the very end. 550 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,920 And that is chilling language. To be able to hear that a man 551 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,080 would be willing to stand in front of likely thousands who 552 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,120 were there at that gathering, that they had to be able to 553 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,760 stand in front of them and basically say, when you listen 554 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,320 to me, you're listening to God. That is dangerous. 555 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,640 And there is no doubt that that is cultish behavior. 556 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,520 Second Corinthians verse 11, verse #13 through 15. 557 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,960 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers transforming 558 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,960 themselves into the apostles of Christ, and no marvel. 559 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,840 For Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light. 560 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,040 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be 561 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,920 transformed as the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall 562 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,960 be according to their works. Second Peter, chapter one, verse 563 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,040 3. As according to his divine power 564 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,240 hath given unto us all things that pertain in the life and 565 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,040 godliness, through the knowledge of him that is called to us, 566 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,280 who's called us unto glory and virtue. 567 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,920 You know what you need, not the prophets, you know what you 568 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,600 need, not the apostles, the presidents and all of them. 569 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,800 You have the Holy Spirit who lives inside of you as your 570 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:38,680 teacher. You have the Word of God as your 571 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:39,960 guide. That's what you have. 572 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,120 And the Lord has brought others in our lives. 573 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,760 Didn't we just see that Paul said in First Corinthians 574 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,320 chapter 4, you have 1000 instructors, but you have one 575 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,800 Father in Christ. But even he wouldn't have said 576 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,680 that he was the one and he was an apostle. 577 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,440 He spoke for the Lord, but even he wouldn't have had this 578 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,040 cultish behavior that they have, and they have no part of it. 579 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,640 Paul spoke for the Lord, but yet had a different regard because 580 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,480 he understood the Lord is the Lord and I am not. 581 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,880 But they believe that they speak for the Lord because they 582 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,080 believed in essence they are Lords themselves. 583 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,920 So we also see #5 the modern priesthood. 584 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,320 We'll go through these fairly quickly. 585 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,080 He believes that he and his companions, Joseph Smith, have 586 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,800 received visitations from various apostles and prophets on 587 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,800 their own. In 1829, Smith and Oliver Cowdry 588 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,080 claim that John the Baptist appeared on to them and laid 589 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,920 hands on them to confer the Aaronic priesthood upon them, 590 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,240 The priesthood of Aaron. This has been lost, according to 591 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,200 them, during the great apostasy that followed the death of the 592 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:47,400 apostles and now is available to Mormon men who are over the age 593 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,600 of 12 to be able to become part of the priesthood of Aaron. 594 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:55,840 Also, they claim that later on that Melchizedek appeared unto 595 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,280 them to be able to give them that Melchizedek priesthood. 596 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,440 Now this is blasphemous and the reason why we'll turn to Hebrews 597 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,480 chapter #7 let's go ahead and look at that ourselves. 598 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,200 If we get through this all the way, we get through it. 599 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,760 But I want you to see this in the Word of God, the Melchizedek 600 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,760 priesthood. There's the Aaronic priesthood 601 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,760 that be the priesthood of the Levites, but then the 602 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,040 Melchizedek priesthood. They want to remember. 603 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,000 Remember where we first find Melchizedek? 604 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,440 We find him in the Book of Genesis, don't we? 605 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:24,640 When he was talking and visited with Abraham and we see that 606 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,520 Abraham offered him tithes of all. 607 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,080 I mean, I've said Hebrews 7, Hebrews Chapter 7. 608 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,320 Yeah, I didn't want to say that, all right, but yeah, I knew it 609 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:37,880 was your fault, but I didn't want to tell you, all right. 610 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:46,520 But Hebrews, Hebrews chapter, chapter #7 For this Melchizedek, 611 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,760 king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham 612 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,000 returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him, to 613 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,200 whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being by 614 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,320 interpretation king of righteousness, and after that 615 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,040 also king of Salem, which is king of peace. 616 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,400 Now, who was this Melchizedek? Well, first of all, we see that 617 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,040 he was offered tithes by Abraham. 618 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,120 By the way, tithing is before the law, we find. 619 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,000 Isn't that interesting? But that was offered by Abraham 620 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,560 to Melchizedek. But if you're still not sure who 621 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,520 this Melchizedek is, look at verse #3 he's without father, 622 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,800 without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days 623 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,920 nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God abideth a 624 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,760 priest. Continue and you'll find this 625 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,080 all throughout chapter #7 and we won't go through forsake of 626 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,200 time, but you could read the entire chapter. 627 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,080 The bottom line is this Melchizedek was a pre Incarnate 628 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,800 visitation of Jesus Christ, a Christophany being that Jesus 629 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,680 Christ Christ appeared before. Who else could it have been? 630 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,560 You don't offer tithes to me. Who do you offer tithes to? 631 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,480 We offer them to the Lord. You said, well I put in the 632 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,440 plate, I give it to the church. Well you may give it to the 633 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,440 church, but who are you giving it to? 634 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,840 You're giving it unto the Lord. That's why we take it as a 635 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,600 sacred responsibility to take care of the offerings. 636 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,880 Well why? Because we're just stewards of 637 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,840 that which has been given here. It all belongs to the Lord, 638 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,560 doesn't it? And so Abraham understood, I am 639 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:15,000 giving not to some other entity, I'm giving to the Lord. 640 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,600 And we find out here in Hebrews 7, if there's any question in 641 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,280 Genesis about who Melchizedek was, it is Jesus Christ. 642 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,560 So for the Mormon church to be able to say they are of the 643 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,800 Melchizedek priesthood, they are basically saying this, we are in 644 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,120 the place of Jesus Christ. Now, where do you hear that? 645 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,760 From the Catholic Church, from the Lutheran Church, for all of 646 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,199 those different groups where the priest will say, I am acting on 647 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,760 behalf of Jesus Christ as a Lutheran, heard a pastor often 648 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,920 say, well, every week would say I forgive you on behalf of Jesus 649 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,360 Christ. Listen, that is blasphemous. 650 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,560 Nowhere do we see in the word of God could we put it this way. 651 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,239 Jesus is Jesus. As I had a professor, I don't 652 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,400 think Batova had this professor, but as I had a professor in 653 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,000 Bible college saying, I've told you this before, God's God and 654 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,640 you ain't. And that's all it comes down to, 655 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:03,760 isn't it? To be able to have a professor, 656 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,280 to be able to say, or to rather to have someone of the Mormon 657 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,560 church to be able to say they're of the Melchizedek priesthood. 658 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,040 Very clearly here it is Jesus Christ and Christ alone. 659 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:18,040 Next we have baptism. Mormons are baptized at age 8, 660 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,200 typically baptized by someone of the Auronic priesthood. 661 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,280 It is one of the four parts of the gospel. 662 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:27,080 Remember, the four parts of the gospel is baptism, faith, 663 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,160 repentance, and the laying on of hands of the Holy Spirit. 664 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,880 And after baptism, hands are laid again by the Auronic 665 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,880 priesthood. You saw that photo that I had 666 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,600 last week of them gathering around and putting hands on, 667 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,080 laying on the Holy Ghost, which again, the Bible does not teach 668 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,000 that the moment you are saved, the Holy Spirit comes to live 669 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,520 inside of you. You're sealed unto the day of 670 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,000 redemption by the Holy Spirit. And they also again pursue the 671 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,120 baptism of the dead. Remember that very confusing 672 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,120 chart we had up here just a few moments ago? 673 00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,600 Some of those who are the Saints in prison, some of those who are 674 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:04,080 locked in before they get to the terrestrial, terrestrial, 675 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,960 celestial, if they had any hope of that, if they were not 676 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,200 baptized in this life, they have to be baptized on behalf of 677 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,720 someone who's still alive. Again, to make clear, baptism of 678 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:14,800 the dead is not pulling someone out of the ground and then 679 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,680 baptizing them. That's what it sounds like at 680 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,360 first, doesn't it? That's not what it's saying. 681 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,600 It's someone going to a Mormon temple and saying I want to be 682 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,680 baptized on behalf of my great grandmother. 683 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,320 I want to be baptized on behalf of my uncle. 684 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,760 I want to be baptized upon someone for someone who lived 685 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,120 200 years ago. And again, this deals with their 686 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,360 fascination of genealogy, how they were the originators of 687 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,520 genealogy.com, which now has been sold a couple times, from 688 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,360 my understanding may still be held under Mormon holding 689 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,440 companies because there's a lot of those that are out there, but 690 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,680 yet they're thirst for genealogical records. 691 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,040 Why? Because they needed to know who 692 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,360 was where and when so they could be at baptized on behalf of 693 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,560 those people. And I, we almost hate to even 694 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,000 have to articulate these words because we understand this. 695 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,160 Nowhere in the Bible does it teach the baptism of the dead. 696 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,920 You do find that phrase in the word of God once, but yet it 697 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,680 means completely different from what they're trying. 698 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:12,000 Nowhere do you find someone in the word of God baptizing 699 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,480 someone on behalf of someone who's dead. 700 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,480 Listen, there's one life to live and then the judgement. 701 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:21,160 The Bible says once to die and then the judgement that when you 702 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,920 pass from this life, the decisions you make in this life. 703 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,520 Or what matter that there is no one that can rescue you from 704 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,560 this perdition. There's no one that can rescue 705 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,040 you from a holding cell. There's no one that can rescue 706 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,800 you from purgatory. There's no one that can do that. 707 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,920 But yet they have these awful teachings about baptism, next 708 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,720 creation. In Mormonism, Elohim was the 709 00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:45,960 cooperation of Jehovah and others. 710 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:47,520 I'm sorry, let me try that again. 711 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,160 In Mormonism, Elohim, with the cooperation of Jehovah and 712 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:56,280 others, organize the matter that we see in our universe. 713 00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:01,040 This is explained of course in Genesis chapter 1 according to 714 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:05,720 them, but also in the book of Abraham chapters 3 and 4, as 715 00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:09,040 well as in the book of Moses verses chapters one through 3. 716 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,360 Now I want you to look at this here for just a moment. 717 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,640 This is what they say happened in creation. 718 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:19,040 And there stood one among them who was like unto God, and he 719 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,360 Jehovah or Jesus. Remember, they believe Jehovah 720 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,080 is Jesus. Jehovah. 721 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,120 Jesus said unto those who are with him, We will go down, for 722 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,200 there is space there, and we will take of these materials. 723 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,640 We will make an earth where on they may dwell, and we will 724 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,840 prove them herewith to see if they will do all the things 725 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,160 whosoever the Lord their God shall command them. 726 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,200 And the Lord said, Let us go down, And they went down at the 727 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,720 beginning. And they, that is the gods, 728 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:45,960 organize and form the heavens and the earth. 729 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:49,200 And the earth after it was formed was empty and desolate 730 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,360 because they had not formed anything but the earth. 731 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,240 And darkness rained upon the face of the deep. 732 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,880 And the spirit of the gods was brooding upon the face of the 733 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,440 waters. And they, the gods, said, let 734 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,360 there be light, and there was light. 735 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,880 Listen, according to the Mormons, God didn't create 736 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,680 anything. God is a cosmic organizer. 737 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,640 God took the elements that were already there and put them 738 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,000 together. Well, who is the one who does 739 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,920 that? Well, mankind does that. 740 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,520 When we say we create things, we don't actually create anything, 741 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,360 do we? I mean, we just organize 742 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,600 materials that are already here. We can create nothing. 743 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,640 When God created according to the word of God, he created the 744 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,040 term ex nihilo, meaning out of nothing. 745 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,800 And God spoke and it was but according to Mormons that God 746 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,440 was the great organizer. He took the cosmic mess of this 747 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,960 universe and like someone trying to clean out a closet and 748 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,080 organizing it, took stuff out, put stuff in, put it in the 749 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,000 right order, made sure everything was nice and it was 750 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,600 good. But yet that's what mankind 751 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,920 does. That's not what God does. 752 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,880 And so in creation, they are completely off as well. 753 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,520 And then #8 and finally, very quickly, their view on 754 00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,480 minorities, beginning with direction. 755 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:04,800 From Brigham Young in 1852 until 1978, men of black African 756 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,280 descent, not just dark skin, were not allowed to hold the 757 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:09,720 priesthood, though they could be. 758 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,280 Baptized and considered members following Brigham Youngs death. 759 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:17,120 Successive prophets also denied temple endowments and marriages 760 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,080 to African blacks. There's no official teaching as 761 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,160 to why this is the case, but the most typical explanations 762 00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,640 involve the curse of Cain and the pre mortal existence. 763 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,320 Of course, back in 1978, I mentioned this. 764 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,880 A few weeks ago, President Spencer Kimball claimed to have 765 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,280 received a new revelation after having a lot of pressure put 766 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:41,320 against them for not allowing those with African descent to be 767 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,800 able to be a part, a full part of the Mormon church. 768 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,280 And all of a sudden when all public opinion was raining down 769 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,920 upon him, he says I got a new revelation. 770 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,360 Everyone can be the same in the Mormon church. 771 00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:59,400 Now we understand that that is absolutely atrocious to be able 772 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,360 to have that type of thought process. 773 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,160 But it is not only towards those with dark skin. 774 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,000 They've also taught over the years that Native Americans 775 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,360 we're going to look at this, Lord willing, in a couple weeks 776 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,760 when we look at the Book of Mormon specifically. 777 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,680 But they believe that those who are considered to be Native 778 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,400 Americans today are simply Jews that have traveled from before 779 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,280 the time of Jesus Christ and then also actually around the 780 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:25,360 time of the Tower of Babel, and then also some around 600 BC. 781 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:26,960 They came in two different waves. 782 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,640 However, they do believe that those Jews who are really Native 783 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:34,560 Americans, who are really Jews, that when they become part of 784 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:38,560 the Mormon church, that their skin literally becomes lighter 785 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,280 and whiter, that if they truly become saved. 786 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,480 I can't even believe it's coming out of my mouth. 787 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,360 But this is the teachings of which they have taught. 788 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:53,640 Listen, Second Nephi verse 5 or chapter 5 verse 20 through 25 789 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,880 says that the Lamanites were cursed with dark skin for their 790 00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,720 disobedience. But then Third, Nephi chapter 2 791 00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:03,360 versus 12 through 16 said that the Lamanites who turned to 792 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:07,360 follow God would have their curse removed and their skin 793 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,480 would become white and fair. Now Spencer Kimball, that same 794 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:15,480 man who in 1978 said, oh, by the way, we made a mistake all these 795 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,640 years about black people, he turns around 1971. 796 00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:23,240 Seven years before that, he says he has seen darker skin members 797 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,280 begin to grow lighter as they lived out the gospel. 798 00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:30,400 He's witnessed it himself. And he is a prophet. 799 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,600 He's heard from God. But yet the Mormon church will 800 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,800 obviously run far, far away from these teachings. 801 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,000 But you can't run from what is in print. 802 00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,320 You can't run from what has been said. 803 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,600 A prophet who is wrong once is a wrong prophet. 804 00:42:46,240 --> 00:42:49,480 A prophet who is false once is a false prophet. 805 00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:53,320 And there is no doubt by looking at just these 8 doctrines that 806 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:57,960 this is an abomination and totally contrary to what we find 807 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,120 in the Word of God. By the way, today they have 808 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,480 disavowed the belief that righteousness can alter melanin. 809 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,200 Get that? Yeah, your righteousness does 810 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,000 not alter how much pigment you have within your skin. 811 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,640 By the way, good for them for getting that right. 812 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,560 But they got it wrong for about 150 years and got about 813 00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:16,280 everything else wrong for about 200. 814 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,400 So what do we see after this? Listen, we've got to stay away 815 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:24,000 from this doctrine, but we must not stay away from these people. 816 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,960 They need help. They need to get released from 817 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:31,560 that chart that you saw of the perpetual cycle. 818 00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,280 Just hoping to be saved in a couple weeks. 819 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:35,720 Next week, we'll be in our missions conference. 820 00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,640 In two weeks, we'll be looking at the Book of Mormon, the Pearl 821 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,760 of Great Price, and the doctrines of covenants. 822 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,720 And then we'll take our final week in Mormonism to look at how 823 00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:46,040 do we win these people to Christ because. 824 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:47,920 They need. Jesus Christ. 825 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,480 Thank you for listening to the sermon from the pulpit of 826 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,360 Liberty Baptist Church. If this message was a blessing 827 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,840 to you, or if there's any way we can serve you, please let us 828 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:29,440 know by contacting us at info@mylibertybaptist.org. 829 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:34,280 Or you can visit us this Sunday at 800 Washington St. in Easton, 830 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,080 MA. May the Lord bless you as you 831 00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:38,280 grow in His Word.