 Amen. So Deuteronomy chapter number four, we're in American heresy tonight. Before we get into the topic for this evening's sermon, Deuteronomy, this is Moses speaking here. So Deuteronomy is basically Moses giving, he's been speaking for several chapters and he's going to continue speaking to the children of Israel. It's basically, Deuteronomy means the law again. So he's basically giving a final warning to the children of Israel before they go into the promised land. So he's not, as he says in Deuteronomy chapter four, he's not going with them. We know why that is, but he's not, you know, God said that he's not going to go over the Jordan. That's when Joshua took over and we see the book of Joshua detail, kind of the handoff there and Joshua taking the children of Israel into the promised land. But I mean, there's about 50 sermons just in this chapter alone, but Moses is giving some warnings here to the children of Israel before they go over into the promised land, even though Moses is not going with them. So he's kind of giving his final warning to the children of Israel. Look down at verse number 26 before we start the sermon tonight. I mean, just a couple things here. I mean, I don't know how people can miss that, you know, the children of Israel being in the promised land was a strict condition on them following the word of God, the statutes that Moses is literally giving them again right here. Okay, look at verse 26. If you don't believe me, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land. Wherever you go on to Jordan to possess it and you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly destroyed. He's literally telling him, you're going to go over there and you're going to, you know, you're going to, the Lord is going to, you know, I mean, look at all the things he says here. He's like, those people are stronger than you. You know, I'm just going to paraphrase the whole chapter for you here in two minutes, but he's like, those people are stronger than you, the Lord's going to give you the victory, but if then you abandon the Lord and you start worshiping the gods that they worship and all these things, he's like, you know, then you're going to be few in a land of all these powerful people and God's not going to be there for you and you're going to perish off the land. All right, because what was the thing that allowed them to get the victory when they went into the land? It's that the Lord fought for them. All right, whether the Lord was on their side was the variable that meant victory or defeat. All right. So look at verse number 27. It says, now he's talking about the curse that's going to happen to you if, you know, you abandon the Lord. He says, if the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, he shall be left few in number among the heathen and whether the Lord shall lead you. So you're going to be amongst these powerful people. He says they're more powerful than you are and you're going to be there few compared to them. And then it says, and you shall serve God's lowercase g. It's like, look at this curse that's going to come upon them. The work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. So he's saying, like, you're just going to become like servants to like a tree. You're going to become like these people that just worship rocks, you know, and just, you know, that's one of the, the, the ironies of mankind right there. Or that's the, the funny things about mankind is left alone. They'll start literally worshiping a piece of wood or a moon or the stars as, you know, he says earlier in the chapter. So tonight's topic of the American heresy series is made the main topic of tonight is going to be the religion of Hinduism. All right, Hinduism. Now, Hinduism, you're going to see, I'm going to talk about Sikhism and Hinduism together. But and I'll kind of point out the differences. And I was actually going to do a separate sermon on Buddhism. But it's so much the same that I think it would just be a huge waste of time and kind of get boring. So I'll try to just touch on that a little bit tonight as well. But one of the claims about Hinduism, and I think that it's interesting that the Bible brings this up is one of the claims about Hinduism and their scriptures is that it's one of the oldest religions on the face of the earth. Agree. Agree. Because it says old as idol worship itself. So what you can see here from this curse that this curse that Moses is warning them about, it's saying what is he saying? If you abandoned the Lord, the one true God, you are going to end up worshiping rocks and trees and moons and stars and all this. You're going to end up worshiping the creation, not the creator. It's a curse. It's a curse. So we could just deduce from that curse right there that as long as men have been abandoning the Lord, this type of thing existed. So you can see why Hinduism and this this religion that has so many different gods and just lower case G was what we would call those gods that are that are not gods. They're just works of men's hands. They're just paintings. They're just things that men have invented themselves. It's literally a curse from the Lord God Almighty because they've abandoned him and they've turned to these things. So Hinduism's old. Agree. It's as old as man. You know, it's as old as Cain. It's as old as man abandoning the truth, the truth of the one true God. So we're going to talk about Hinduism tonight. There's a lot of Hinduism in our area here, especially in West Fresno. There's a lot of Hinduism. More so in this area, it's Sikhs, not so much Hinduism, but I'm going to kind of explain to you the difference. So Hinduism is kind of that you can kind of look at it like Hinduism is is the Catholic Church and the Sikhs are like the Protestants. You can they came out of you know, the Hindu religion. So that's why you'll see so much similarities between the two. Alright, so look, Hinduism is generally this I just kind of break it down for you. They believe they believe in Hinduism can believe in many gods. Most Hindus believe in many gods. And but there's one big God called Brahmin where that this God is not he's not everywhere and all powerful. He is everything kind of thing. So they kind of create this one main God that is the creation. Whereas the Bible is very clear that God is not the creation. He is the creator. He made the creation. Alright, the scriptures of Hinduism are called the Vedas. That's their their their scriptures that are going their claim to be so old. And look, I don't have any problem with that that they're old. They're thousands of years old. Another concept in Hinduism that's kind of a main construct is Dharma. I don't know if maybe you've heard that in pop culture this word Dharma before but that's kind of the the ethics of the Hindu culture. You know this idea that you should do right that you should you know you should be a righteous person. You should perform the moral law. It's basically this duty the Dharma to Hinduism is this duty to do the right thing. And you're going to see look I'm just going to you already know but I'm just going to give it away. It's just super works based. It's like that's all it is. It's just works based but there's two things that I want to point out that are unique about Hinduism that flow into Sikhism and Buddhism that we have not talked about before. So they do believe the Hindus believe in the immortal soul. Okay, they believe in the immortal soul and you're going to maybe I should have done this one before Scientology but they believe in the immortal soul in the sense that your soul is immortal and just reincarnated into another being or another creature. Okay, then they believe in the moksha which is basically the the the ultimate immortal state. You know this is if you've ever heard of Nirvana not the not the rock band okay not the wicked evil you know band from that was that the 80s or 90s that people still wear t-shirts today. I mean like the guy committed suicide and like was devil worshiper and it's like what in the world but anyway not to but Nirvana is the Buddhist state of moksha. It's like you've you've done so good in your life that you finally get to this state where you are one with God and you know it's the ultimate state like you got you know if I do bad as you know as a as a Buddhist you know I'll come back as a bug or something bad right and you know if I do good I'll come back as something better and then I just get better and better and better and better and then Nirvana. Alright so Hinduism is the same thing but Hinduism is kind of the original gangster of this theology Hinduism was kind of the the start of it and Buddhism came out of Hinduism I think it was like the fifth century Buddhism came out of Hinduism so that you know the guy that became Buddha I can't remember his name but the guy that became the Buddha you know he of course he got to the he got to that level right it's kind of like it's kind of like Elron Hubbard right I mean are you noticing a pattern here is like you get to level eight in Scientology and they're like oh yeah you know you're still all messed up and you're like alright well where's level nine I'm here to write another check and they're like it doesn't exist but Elron Hubbard got to 15 like what so you know you got these religious leaders in these you know false religions that achieve these high states and that's the idea so they do they will say they believe in the immortal soul but they believe in reincarnation all that to say that we'll talk about that a little bit more and the idea of reincarnation is to reach this top state where you become one with the the Brahma God whatever you want to whatever you want to call it all right now Hinduism originated in you know northern India and it you know thousands of years ago I guess and Sikhism in the 15th century Sikhism what we see around here that came out of Hinduism in 1500 and something okay so that's where you know Sikhism came from now Sikhism has a little bit of a couple of twists on Hinduism the main difference between Sikhism and Hinduism is that Sikhism will claim to be monotheistic so they're they're going to be like no there's not all these different gods there's only one and that's it but they're still very like all inclusive and universalist if that makes sense so there's standing from the Bible looking at both of these there doesn't seem to be a lot of difference from a biblical standpoint but I will say this just just having soul winning experience with Hindus and with Sikhs Hindus are more likely to let you preach the gospel to them because because of the fact that they believe and I'm not saying that they're more receptive to get saved I mean I've seen I've seen Hindus saved we have seen Hindus say but I'm not saying they're more likely to get saved they're just they're more likely to listen because they believe in this plethora of gods they kind of believe this idea and they'll even tell you at the door they'll be like oh we believe that all you know it's it they kind of believe this philosophy that we all call God a different name you can have your own gods and I can have my own gods and like Hindus some will have six gods and they say that there's up to like 33 million different gods that you could have I don't know you know where they come up with that number but the point is there's no set amount of gods so that's why you'll see Hindus that are just like open to hearing about Jesus and the gospel and hey if somebody is open here in the gospel I'm going to tell it to them all right so but there are some things that we need to kind of check you know some boxes we need to check when we know somebody comes from this type of background all right all right so 15th century we see Sikhism come out of you know it's kind of the the reformation of of Hinduism right and there was a man named Guru Nanak so if you've ever heard the term Guru you know Guru's comes from this idea of this religious expert or this religious teacher in Sikhism or Hinduism and this one named Nanak started the Sikh religion all right the Sikh religion has throughout history said 10 main Gurus I guess but basically Sikhism is this the fundamental beliefs I'm just going to read this to you of Sikhism are articulated in the sacred scripture you know Guru Grant Sahib include faith and meditation on the name of one creator so it's monotheistic all right but then it teaches this and you compare this with Christianity unity of all humankind engaging in a selfless service striving for social justice and for the benefit and prosperity of all an honest conduct and light and livelihood while living a householder's life so this Guru is worshipped as the Supreme authority of Sikhism and considered to be the final and perpetual Guru of Sikhism and as the first Guru of Sikhism this Nanak contributed a total of 974 of these Proverbs or hymns or whatever they want to call it but anyway the point is it was invented in the 15th century by this guy and the main difference is that it's monotheistic versus polytheistic or you know whatever however many they want but let me just say this and many of you probably thought this when I talked about you know the Scientology last week where it was invented like in the 50s you know a religion that is invented in the 1500s you have to ask yourself and I don't understand why more people don't ask themselves well what about the people before this all right this is why it is so important that you understand that Baptists are not Protestants Baptist we did not we did not if you read any Wikipedia article or anything on Baptists and most things on the internet about Baptists they're going to tell you that Baptists came out you know of the Reformation in 1600 something or whatever the point is Baptists are not Protestants and this again is why that you know it's really why doctrine is so important as well I mean there's many reasons doctrine is important ultimately because it's the truth but doctrine is so important because we could never see the trail of Baptists if it wasn't for doctrine because Baptists you know we call ourselves fundamental Baptists today but Baptists have had many names you know throughout history and down to you know Jesus Christ you can definitely trace the doctrines that we hold to in the Bible back to groups of people back all the way back to Jesus Christ and this again doctrine is important and it's also why the trail of blood is so important because these trails these people these wall denzians and all these different names of people that that you know held to these doctrines that we hold to today that many times their doctrines and their history was written down in terms of their persecution and that's why the trail of blood and doctrine is so important because look if I'm following something that came out of a truth that came out of the 16th century my question is well what about before that if this isn't something we're not following something that was invented by some guy that was invented by Martin Luther you know a few hundred years ago we are following the doctrine of John the Baptist we are following the doctrine of Jesus Christ we are following the doctrine of the apostles as they're written in the Bible and the trail of blood and those doctrines that those people in that trail of blood were persecuted for they document the proof of that all right they document that history but that's why it's so important you know that's one of the reasons that you know once we start giving up doctrine think of it this way once we start giving up doctrine we think about the trail of blood and you think about all the different martyrs throughout history all the way back to Jesus Christ and you think about how we are connected to all of them then you think about if we would start giving up doctrine today and guess what you know what would you become unsaved if you just like put your head down and just like you know compromised on all your doctrine no you've not become unsafe but you know what you would be unrecognizable to history we as a church as a Bible believing ministry would not be able to be recognized by the people two hundred years down the line when they look back and say where were the Christians then oh well I guess they just had all their their heads under their their desk or they were just hiding at that time but that is how and that's why Hebrews eleven is in the Bible that's why Hebrews 12 verse number one is in the Bible so we can look back at these martyrs and at these persecutions and see you know what there was the doctrine you know the martyrs mirror is all people being bad or being being persecuted basically for being Baptist for refusing to add even baptism to the gospel to refusing to add anything to the gospel but that's why it's so important so anyway all that to say this Sikhism was invented in the 15th century now let's talk about the aspects these two main aspects I want to talk about tonight about Hinduism and Sikhism that shares okay so the soul is immortal but it's only immortal through reincarnation alright so being reborn you know you you live a life and you live this works-based life and if you do good you're reborn into something that is closer to God closer to divinity or you reborn into something that is further away alright Sikhs believe that heaven and hell are also both in this world where everyone reaps the fruit of karma they refuse to refer to good and evil stages of life respectively and can be lived now they refer to good and evil stages of life respectively and can be lived now and here during our life on earth alright so look you according to karma karma is this idea that you reap what you sow and we'll get there in just a minute but first of all you're just reincarnated again and again Hindu deities are the gods and goddesses in Hinduism deities in Hinduism are as diverse as traditions and a Hindu can choose to be polytheistic pan theistic monotheistic you can about tell where a lot of this stuff goes to alright this is why you see a lot of people that are in the reprobate culture today that are you know just like they just hate the God of the Bible you see that a lot of these people like embrace things like Buddhism embrace things like Hinduism so like I said in Hinduism there's at least six gods but you could max out at 33 million alright but basically if you go down to Deuteronomy chapter 27 or Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse number 27 we see that there's nothing new under the Sun it says in the Lord shall scatter you among the nations and he should be left few in number among the heathen whether the Lord shall lead you and there he shall serve gods the works of men's hands woodstone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell so the idea here folks is that all these idols and all these gods they're not gods I mean you know this but they're not gods they're they're dumb idols meaning they can't hear anything they're just a piece of wood just a rock and you're gonna end up you know a curse from God for not following him is to become an idol worshiper I mean that's when you just think of the logic of it it's if it wasn't a curse from God it would be really hard to understand I mean could you not I mean it would be really hard to understand how you know you just imagine God looking down here and seeing you know people abandon him and then just on their own worshiping the dirt or worshiping the rock or you know a cloud or the Sun or whatever I mean it's a very strange thing it's one of the strangest things about man but really we see here kind of it's explained it's a curse from God all right so now let's talk about this reincarnation this immortal soul of the Hindu of the Sikh and really of the Buddhist as well and it's really based on this idea of karma okay I'm gonna read for you a definition of karma out of you know some Hindu explanation website I can't remember what the site was but it says basically karma you have to think about it this way so here's their words karma is a concept of Hinduism which describes a system in which the beneficial effects are derived from past beneficial actions and harmful effects from past harmful actions creating a system of actions and reactions throughout a soul throughout a soul's reincarnated lives forming a cycle of rebirth so again you live a bad life and you get reincarnated into something bad I couldn't find like a scale of things I was really looking forward to seeing something like that I couldn't find anything like that but works-based you know works-based religions never have scales like that right if the Bible was truly works-based that's what we would have we would have scales we would have sin rankings we would have all these things because God doesn't want us just to wonder if we're going to go to heaven he wants us to know what it takes all right that you may know that you have eternal life so you're reincarnated according to how good you are now in pop culture you'll hear people use the word karma all the time what do they what do they use the word karma you see something bad happens to somebody that everybody thinks is you know a big jerk and they're just like yeah see that's karma well what they're doing is they're quoting some Hindu belief basically karma you know what it means it means you get what you deserve that's kind of the idea that it portrays all right but turn to Galatians chapter 6 karma is kind of a ripoff of biblical reality all right look at Galatians chapter 6 look at verse number 7 I mean karma is basically saying you get what you deserve the only difference is is that you know they add this reincarnation and say you'll you'll pay in another body or another life or another lower life form or whatever that is Galatians chapter 6 of verse number 7 the Bible says be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap in second Corinthians chapter 9 go ahead and turn to second Corinthians chapter 9 second Corinthians chapter 9 this is more of a application of this to the Christian as Paul is talking to the the church at Corinth he says but I this I say he which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully so this is kind of this concept applied to the soul winner right here all right so this concept is like hey you never go soul winning you never get by saved hey if you don't you know live the Christian life you know you're not gonna get bear fruit in the Christian life but if you go out there you just so like all the time is like you are going to see fruit that's a nice little guarantee for the Christian right there you go and you do what God wants you to do you do what you're told in the Bible and you're gonna be what you're gonna be extra save no you're saved just the same you're gonna bear a lot more fruit you're gonna reap a lot more you're gonna you're gonna if you sow bountifully you will reap bountifully but the whole point is this whether in this life or the next in Galatians chapter 6 7 is saying you know whatsoever man a man so if that also shall he reap in this life for the next the Bible says that everybody's gonna get what they have come into him the Bible is very clear about that but the problem is is that the Bible teaches that everybody's going to be judged everyone's going to get what they have coming to him the saved is going to get what they have coming to him on this earth God's gonna punish you on this earth you're gonna you're gonna reap that punishment you know in your life here on earth if you don't do what God says but like everybody else they just get off the hook you know the Bible is very clear and a lot of people have this question you know they're just like especially when you tell them that salvation is free you know you have to do is trust in Jesus and you'll be saved for eternity you're sealed you can never lose that salvation a lot of people have a hard time with that because they're just like well why does God just let all these bad people get away with all these bad things it doesn't seem fair well yeah it is true that the Bible or that the people in this life that are not saved wicked people that hate the Lord they're gonna get away with a lot of stuff here on earth but everyone will get what's coming to them the difference between what the Bible says and what the Hindus and the Buddhists and the Sikhs teach is that everyone that you know deserves punishment that is not saved is going to pay in hell not in the life of a puppy or whatever all right you're gonna pay and look you're gonna pay the reality of the Bible is much much worse than anything that this religion could possibly eat you because look it's called it's literally called ever lasting destruction and first Thessalonians it's destruction that will last forever there's no you're there's no second chance at it you know I mean basically reincarnation it the problem is is it I mean the problem is it's not true but I mean it gives people this idea that no matter what maybe I don't need to seek truth because if I'm wrong I can just try again there is no try again there is no try again that's why the in Luke chapter 16 that story is in the Bible with us I mean if the guy the rich man in Luke 16 he's like hey I want to get out of here it's like sorry you're still you that's it you cannot pass from there to us or us to you we can't come get you and you can't get out go tell my family I already gave him the Bible they wouldn't listen even if you came back so look there is no second chance it's it's it's extra wicked in that case that it yes it's a works-based religion like many all other religions other than true Christianity are but it teaches this idea that you're gonna get another shot at it and another shot at it and another shot at it and that is a super wicked seed to plant in people's heads because you know what they won't be seeking the truth you know that you know what that is that Satan trying to take away the urgency it's Satan trying to take away the fear of the wrath of God and guess what the fear of the wrath of God is hardwired in but religions like this will cover it and they will they will block that fear that God wrote in your heart turn to Hosea chapter 8 turn to Hosea chapter number 8 Hosea chapter 8 the Bible says look at verse number 7 Hosea chapter 8 Hosea chapter 8 look at verse actually go to verse number 4 Hosea chapter 8 and verse number 4 the Bible says they have set up kings but not not by me they've made princes and I knew it not of their silver and their gold have they made them idols that they may be cut off thy calf osomeria has cast the off mine anger is kindled against them how long will it air would be ere they attain to innocence see far from Israel was it also that the workman made it therefore it is not God but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces and then here we see in verse number 7 it says for they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind it at no stock but the bud shall yield no meal so if it be yield the strangers shall swallow it up talking about a nation that turns against the Lord here they've sown the wind they're going to reap the whirlwind nations are judged on this earth it's interesting though that it's a calf they're always worshiping a cow why is that now I actually looked up and Hindus don't actually because a lot of people say oh Hindus you know they don't eat beef I mean most of the Hindus that I've worked with they they literally they don't eat they don't eat beef at all but I guess they don't really you know actually worship the cow it's just this sacred animal to them I'll read you a little quote here it says Hindus see the cow as a particular genus generous generous docile creature one that gives more to human beings than she takes from them the cow they say produces five things and they're really big on these five things milk cheese butter so those are the good things and then urine and dung those are the bad things right those are bad things the first three are eaten and used in worship of the Hindu gods well the last two can be used in real religious devotion and in penance or burned for fuel so it's talking about how they will use so that this is why they they reverence the cow so much I just think it's interesting that people end up worshiping cows in the Bible all the time all these different gods bail and all these other gods are there always there was a calf there was a cow it's almost like the same person is behind it you know what I mean so here we've got this idea that cows are sacred they produce these things I remember during I don't if you all remember this but during the COVID-19 thing there was a big thing in India and of course it says here that you know all of these things are used by Hindus even the last two the last two can be used in devotion or penance ceremonies I remember there was some of these gurus I don't remember if they were seeker Hindu but there is these gurus in India and there was this big like like thing where they're all worried about the health of people in India because they were smearing themselves with cow dung to protect against you know COVID-19 right and I'm like okay you know so there was like there was all these articles about these people in India doing this but look I mean that the Hindu majority people in India use cow dung and urine for their wellness and cure of illness since ancient times it's a normal thing that they've done because this cow is a sacred thing I mean any time I've been covered in cow dung it's been on accident all right it's it's been not a you know not something that I wanted at the time all right see the sermon from this morning all right but that's the whole thing on cows right they don't technically worship the cow but you know it's this high thing for them and most of them do not eat beef all right so the first thing that I really wanted to point out about Hinduism was this idea of they'll say oh we believe the soul is immoral but it's this idea of reincarnation that is driven by this machine karma so they believe they're like karma is kind of like this is my words not any any Hindus words but karma is like this machine in motion so it's kind of this thing that just automatically handles you know the reincarnation cycle all right but the next thing and you will notice this soul winning the next thing about Hinduism especially is this idea of universalism and you could even see that in the the description even though Sikhism Sikhism was theoretically monotheistic you could see that it was very open to things and wanting to bring all humankind together and all these different things so it's this idea of universalism that you can just have whatever God you want and we all just call God a different name this all this idea came from Hinduism there's a lot of people who are not even religious that have this type of belief like all the Muslims because they grew up there and the Hindus because they grew up there and the you know the Chinese are into Buddhism because that's where they grew up and then you have the Christians over here in Europe and that's how they grew up they're all worshiping the same God they just call him different names okay that is one of the ideas of Hinduism and this is why you will see Hindus that are open to hearing they're doing it for two reasons when you walk up to a Hindu's door and they're open to hearing the gospel there's there's two possible reasons they're doing it number one they want to just add a belief they want to just add a God to what they believe and number two they're they're being nice they're doing a good work in in their in their mind okay they're being open to any form of God okay it's this idea that we all worship the same God he's just got different ways of revealing himself to different people and different cultures in different parts of the world turned to Luke chapter 12 but the Bible is the opposite and Christians need to remember this today this is what Christianity is losing today you know other than you know the true gospel even Christians that have the true gospel churches that are preaching the right gospel they're losing this divisiveness today they're losing this idea they're like oh we just all need to come together and stop you know we all need to forget our differences we all need to forget our differences and quit you know you know nitpicking on all these things like God the gospel and like repenting your sins aren't you kind of like you know splitting hairs on that one it's like no look what Jesus says in Luke chapter 12 I'll read for you John 14 6 which is everyone probably has memorized it says I'm the way the truth and the life and no man coming to the father but by me in Luke 1251 Jesus himself listen to this Jesus himself says suppose that I'm come together to get come to give peace on earth I tell you nay but rather division this is Jesus talking saying that to be a Christian to follow me you must divide Christians need to relearn this today Jesus divides people there is only we just studied in John chapter 10 there is only one way there's many people that are going to try to crawl up the building and go through the windows it's like no Jesus is the door and the only way is through the door Jesus is the only way so all these religions that we talk about all these religions whether they're inclusive or not inclusive of other religions all these religions that we talk about if they do not hold to the gospel of the Bible and someone dies in that religion they are going to spend in eternity in hell that is divisive that if you don't trust in Jesus Christ that's why you have to say when you're out and you're out preaching the gospel you're out talking to people and they say well faith in God how do you how do you know even heaven just have to have faith in God hey what is God's name does God have a name you get all kinds of different answers once you ask that question well it doesn't matter what God's name is yes it does matter the door is Jesus Christ there is no other name there's no other name all other ways lead to destruction that is a divisive thing but guess what we're not here to lie to people we're not here to tell people that oh it's great and and just you can believe whatever you want and you know you can believe in works and you can believe in repenting your sins and you can believe in worship salvation and you can believe that you know you can believe in tulip and you can believe in all these different things it's fine those are all you know whatever as long as you say Jesus in there somewhere you're fine no we're not here to lie to people we will divide people as we need to for them to know the truth because how loving is it to not tell somebody the truth and have them not be saved that's why Jesus said that I came to divide because you tell people that no it's not one of these 33 million gods there's one God and one mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus that's it that's the only way that is divisive and people there's gonna be people that do not like that turn to first Corinthians chapter number two so look I mean it's not complicated it's I'm sure it is a lot more complicated if you want to dig more into it but it's a workspace religion it's based on reincarnation and the idea of karma Sikhism Buddhism and and Hinduism all the same because Sikhism you know came out of Hinduism in 15th century Buddhism came out of Hinduism way earlier I think like the fifth century so Buddhism is actually older than Sikhism but it's all the same thing it's do good and you're gonna get somewhere better it's all the same idea all right now look turn to first Corinthians chapter number one and I want to kind of show you something a little bit different here you hear in this sermon series one of the things that I wanted you to see in this sermon series as we go through a lot of these different heresies as many people involved first of all they're ridiculous you will listen to these descriptions of these different religions these pagan religions these cults whatever it is and it's just it's full of ridiculousness and but guess what you are not the only one that thinks that it's ridiculous it is not only the same Christian that thinks that that Scientology story that I told you last week is ridiculous but I want to kind of show you tonight how ridiculousness is part of the design of false religion it's baked into the cake by Satan the inventor of these false religions that's why they kind of all look the same not only are they all workspace religions every single one I preach on you're like oh it always comes back to that it always comes back to worst bakes work space salvation it's always the same thing but then you see certain things like the heathen the pagans worship in the cows worship in the calves all these different things their sacred in this one it's all because you know all you know airplanes look the same because they were designed by the same type of people it's it's just all designed by Satan but ridiculousness is baked into the cake on purpose say who would believe these wicked ridiculous things that you could be reincarnated into something else we even thought of this stuff but look here's what we have to understand folks a lot of people that are Hindus and Sikhs and all these different religions Mormons Jehovah's Witnesses whatever it is all these different ridiculous false religions a lot of these people are born into these religions just like I was born into the Lutheran religion so we always need to remember that like look we love these people we love these people that were born into these religions and we want to reach them with the truth of the Bible but the point is is that they have ridiculousness baked into their cake on purpose I mean just think about the reincarnation you think about the Dianetics book a psychological book written by a science fiction or author you think about that whole story you think about the the book of Mormon and the ridiculous things in the book of Mormon just like that there were submarines after the Tower of Babel and like just crazy stuff just ridiculous things you think about the Koran where it says the earth is flat Muhammad split the moon in two and then put it back together I mean just like all this crazy ridiculous stuff meteors or if you see a meteor it's because it's a star that was shot by Satan or whatever I mean it's something like that maybe I misquoted it but the point is they're ridiculous books with ridiculous teachings you say why is that it's the same reason for multiple Bible versions follow me here you say why are they all so ridiculous because Satan he doesn't want to just corrupt the people that were born into these religions he wants to corrupt people that were not in those religions from finding the truth so what did God do God gave every man no matter who this man is no matter what this person is when they're born they had this law written in their heart they had the proof of creation all around them in Romans 2 15 God wrote the law in their heart they have this desire to seek the Lord you don't believe me I just talk into the girls that went out soul winning today and they had this child following them around this eight-year-old child can you read me the Bible again can you read me some more of the Bible can you read me the Bible they just inherently know that the Bible is truth no one showed her anything out of the Bible before they just inherently know why because God wrote that in her heart guess what she's not saying can you show me the Book of Mormon can you show me the Shiva can you show me the the Dianetics book that Eloran Hubbard wrote no she's saying can you show me the Bible she doesn't know what's in the Bible her heart's telling her that the Bible is true and she wants to hear the Bible that has to be broken someone has to go out look and people are breaking it today but children are a perfect example of this so Satan makes all these religions ridiculous so people that aren't part of any religion that have that law written in them to seek truth in their life they see this ridiculousness all around them you know what they say then somebody comes up to them this is the Jehovah's Witnesses that are out knocking doors right before we get there they see this ridiculousness ridiculousness and then when the truth comes up there is like that's just more ridiculousness it's like spiritual wolf crying it's like the boy that cried wolf he cried wolf so many times when there actually was a wolf nobody wanted to listen it's the same theory these people the Jehovah's Witnesses they come up the Jehovah's Witnesses they don't have any answers you want to talk about ridiculous you read the history of the Jehovah's Witnesses it's one of the most ridiculous things you'll ever read leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses that that they deny Jesus Christ leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses builds a mansion and remember this one builds a mansion in Los Angeles and they've they've predicted the end times I think more than any other false religion out there like they've picked a date and been wrong so many times you're just like who's a Jehovah's Witness at this point who's following this point remember the guy in 1914 or whatever it knows 1920s he goes and he builds this huge mansion Rutherford I think his name was the leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses builds this huge mansion in LA it's on like a hundred acres and he's like this is for Abraham and Jacob and the patriarchs that are going to come back they're coming back soon we have to build this huge mansion for them imagine me standing up here and telling you this like what we do this huge mansion well I will live there until they they get here that's what happened I mean it's the it's the epitome people that aren't saved that are looking at this from the outside they're like you people are all nuts for following these people you must be out of your mind it's as bad as Xenu the alien dictator I mean it's just like people look at this and they're just like what are you nuts and then somebody knocks on their door that's when they put signs on their door that says don't bring any religion here because they're sick of the ridiculousness of it because they've seen so many ridiculous things and ridiculous people that are involved in all these ridiculous baked into the cake on purpose so somebody shows up at the truth and they're like man it's all crazy get away from me that's why that's why even people that the but the devil's like but there's still the Bible I still got these eight-year-old kids who want to hear the Bible what should I do I'll make a hundred and fifty Bible versions that's what I'll do and then every single logical person with a brain in their head will take a book a that's a Bible and book b that's a Bible and set them next to each other and see that they say different things and be like how could this be true if a doesn't equal be how could one of them equal and they're both the same how could they be true that's why there's a hundred and two hundred whatever how many hundreds of Bible versions there are because he still got this problem of the conscience that starts out with every man so he's got to corrupt the very Bible that people are going to be seeking and then you see what's corrupted in the Bible who Jesus was what's corrupted in the Bible I don't know the gospel itself what's corrupted in the Bible the divinity of Christ you look at all the things that are corrupted is all the things that would cause people to be saved and now on top of that you say well but there's more but there's more you see any person here's another thing any person can open up one of these religious books the Book of Mormon the Quran whatever it is and you could read the ridiculous things that I just shot off to you you could look at it you could read it yourself be like this is ridiculous and you just you read two pages of any one of them and they sound they sound you can just see someone wrote it it's I don't even know you just open it up yourself and you'll see you're like this is not a spiritual book but here's another problem well they can open those books and they can see the ridiculousness of those books look at 1 Corinthians chapter 2 in verse number 14 they cannot do the same with the Bible because the natural man can not understand what's in the Bible so if there is somebody that is telling them a false thing about what's in the Bible is very likely that they're going to believe it look at 1 Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 14 it says the natural man receive it not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned you say who could who could read the Bible and think that it's foolishness I have sat down with people who've explained that they can't understand Ephesians 2 8 through 9 to me they're like gift of God that's so confusing they're unsaved they're trying to understand it and then you sit down you have to explain the gospel to them that's how God designed it he designed it were someone who is saved would come down and use the Holy Spirit that is in them to preach the gospel to someone and then they get the Holy Spirit and now they can understand the Bible so it's not like they can just pick up the Bible like they could pick up any ridiculous book and see that it's ridiculous but if a false prophet is telling them that it's ridiculous that's why I mean that's why we are needed that's why we are needed to go out there and spiritually discern these things with the Holy Spirit in us it's really we're kind of like just a suitcase that rolls up to the door you know kind of carrying the Holy Spirit he's kind of the important one in this situation it's kind of like you know Jesus is the important one the Word of God and the Holy Spirit that is with us we're kind of like the suitcase that just kind of rolls up to the door but we're necessary that's how God designed it say why God designed it that way you ask him when you get to heaven but that's how it is so I mean look these ridiculous books they're providing cover including all the false Bible versions they're providing cover of the truth and that's a wicked thing about how ridiculous some so we laugh about it how ridiculous it is but it's really a wicked thing because it's spiritually crying wolf to the world and there really is the wrath of God out there it's a real thing and people need to know the truth all these things have no answers all these ridiculous things there's no answers there's no answers Hinduism has no answers JWs they don't have any answers so look one thing that all that to wrap this up let's take it back to Hinduism I kind of went on a tangent there but the reality of the Sikhs and Hindus to the soul winner is this because of this inclusivity of the Sikhs and because of this polytheistic universalism of the Hindus you may be allowed to preach to them you may be allowed to give the gospel to these people but what you need to be sure of is that they understand that it is only through Jesus that this cannot be a plus Jesus situation it needs to be you must repent of Hinduism and turn to Jesus Christ it needs to be a decision that has been made look and I've seen it happen typically with what younger people that I've seen younger people who are raised in a Hindu home save but they must understand that they can't just add this hopefully you mentioned that to everybody but they can't just add this to all their different beliefs but you know a lot of the time you're going to find out that they're just doing a good work listening to you they're just being you know that it's just another workspace religion and part of their good works is to include all ideas of God okay and look that being said if somebody is going to let me preach the gospel to them I'm still going to do it I'm going to preach the gospel to them but there will probably be a point where you kind of have to what you have to do that you have to divide so you preach the gospel and then you just make sure you give them that dividing line and then look it's up to them what they believe you're not going to be able to force anyone to believe anything so that's Hinduism it's not a huge mystery you know it's another it's a it's a workspace religion it's full of idolatry and it really pushes this same philosophies that the Buddhist and the Sikh push because Hinduism was kind of that the Catholic Church of it and then you had Buddhism split off and then you had Sikhism split off and of course each one of their their head you know it's kind of like you know John Calvin and Martin Luther and each one of their their heads I mean it can't you just see the same things and all this stuff each one of their head gurus or whatever it was achieved that high state that you know for some reason no one else is going to be able to to reach right because it's fake it's not real there is nothing reaching there there's there's Jesus Christ the door and everything else is damnation what's power heads and have a word