True Salvation Verses Doctrines of Demons
Part 4
We can be shocked by what people believe, who call themselves Christians.
We must believe that they are under the sway of The Great Deceiver.
Satan himself and the spirit of antichrist.
That he projects into the world. Now remember where we
started in second John. Jesus is presented as the Christ. The
doctrine of Christ. John tells us that deceivers will come. They will
not confess Jesus is coming in the flesh the Divine God the son.
If they don’t abide verse 9 says in the doctrine of Christ they don’t have God
no matter how much they talk about him, if their doctrine of the deity of Christ
is defective they are not Christians.No matter how many times they
affirm they are. If anyone doesn’t bring the doctrine of Christ. Don’t
welcome him in as as a trusted member of the family.
You know there are increasing movements in general Christianity to to embrace people
with a defective christology, like the Mormons, as fellow Christians.
This started with the men’s movement the promise keepers. Did you know that the Mormons were invited in because
you know they kind of use the same Bible and so in those huge promisee keeper meetings.
I remember the one it was vastly inhabited by Mormons. Who felt very comfortable around us because we
all say the same words and then we have all of our efforts to help our culture
like right to life movements.
I mean they’re right there too. They’re all for that. So if we’re not careful when we work side by side with these
people, we share the same common value or respect for life or through the family.
We forget that though they use the same words. They don’t mean what we mean by these
words. So Mormonism is the wrong way to God but it’s the most classic example
currently of what Demon doctrines look like. Let me give you a little
interview because this is fascinating to me.
Are Mormons Christians?
No. Do I know that well I’ll answer that question by an account of what John MacArthur the author of many books and
Bible commentaries. In the MacArthur Study Bible John MacArtur spent one full day with the two leaders of the
Mormon Church. The chairman of the theology Department of Brigham Young University and
the associate chairman. These two men are the Mormon Gatekeepers of Theology and John
spent an entire day with them. How it happened is these two key Mormons sat in
a room and told Dr MacArthur they believed in salvation by grace and salvation through faith and salvation in
Christ. After an entire day with them in a gracious way he looked at them he
said are Mormons Christians? They wanted to know if Mormons were Christians also. John said no. Here’s why.
This is how he explains it. This is published.
This is what precipitated his answer are Christians are Mormons
Christians. No.
The Mormon church has seven presidents that are actually like seven Apostles. They make all the
doctrinal decisions. It’s not in the doctrine of covenants in the Book of Mormon. The two Mormon theologians that
came to spent to day with me. John is writing this in first person came under the authority and commission of the
seven presidents of the Mormon church. To talk theology we sat in a room. They told me they believe in salvation by
grace and salvation through faith and salvation in Christ. They wanted to affirm those things we have in
common. Now John says there are some people that would have said wow there’s a Revival in the Mormon church but when
we got done with hours and hours of discussion with these two very gracious
men. Who had been reading through all of my books. John said they read all four volumes of his commentary on Matthew.
They read both volumes of his commentary on Romans. They had read The Gospel According of Jesus. They had read Faith
Works. They had read the sufficiency of Christ. They were drawn to me John says because they never really understood the
Bible like that. They came because they wanted to know me personally,ask questions and they said we just want
to affirm salvation by grace alone with you. We want to affirm salvation by faith.
We want to affirm salvation is in Christ. So at the end of six hours, John said
after listening to him.
And discussing he says okay, I just have three questions for you okay.
Question number one he says can you tell me about your God? We’ve talked about my
books. After 6 hours of discussion with these men at the end of the day and in a gracious way John said.
I said can you tell me about your God. They gave me a God, who didn’t have three persons
they’re unitarians. So I said well whatever we want to talk about regarding Grace and Faith in Christ.
Let’s get it straight.
We worship a different God number one.
Number two he said I have a second question can you tell me about your Christ?
They said Jesus is created by God. He is a high order of created beings.
I said well let me make this clear. We also have a different Christ and God says if anybody comes and
preaches a different Christ Galatians 1:7-9 says
7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have
preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye
have received, let him be accursed.
John said I have just one last question. I want to get to the highest heaven in other words.
I want salvation what would I need to do and the head of Theology and doctrine
of the Mormon church and his right-hand man explained it this way.
You would need to join the Mormon Church. You would need to evidence certain obediences.
You would need to be baptized with a certain kind of spirit empowered baptism in our
system.
So John McArthur said okay then let me get this clear we have a different God.
We have a different Christ.
We have a different gospel apart from those we agree.
Yet most people don’t test Doctrine against God’s word!
1.
A Unitarian is a person who believes that God is one being and rejects the doctrine of the Trinity.
Unitarianism is a Christian belief system that rejects the Trinity and the divinity of Christ, and
instead uses reason, conscience, and character as the criteria for belief and practice.
“Only one life to live and soon is past
Only what’s done for Christ will last!”
Hoping to make the time I have left count for the glory of God.
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