R380 How To Prevent Cults from Invading Your Home

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He takes on a remarkable subject about how to move and invading the home as we had the book of Ephesians and Matthew for today's message. Another were available for you connecting online right now@dewonline.org at any time that GWN online.org now Dr. Don Wilton I believe that God would have me this morning to preach on a subject that is absolutely vital and critical to the whole how to prevent cult from invading your home. How to prevent cult from invading your whole turn with me to Ephesians chapter 5 in verse 22 Ephesians chapter 5 in verse 22 wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior, now's the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without studying or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless in the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself often role no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church, for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and the two will become one flesh.

This is a profound mystery.

But I'm talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you must also love his wife as he loves himself and the wife must respect her husband, children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy a long life on the earth father's do not exasperate your children. Instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord that I want you to turn with me back to Matthew chapter 24. Wonderful to hear all those pages turning Matthew's gospel chapter 24 and verse 23. This is what Jesus said Matthew chapter 24 in verse 23. At that time if anyone says to you, look, here is the Christ all there. He is do not believe it. For false Christ's and false prophets will appear not may appear could possibly appear they will appear and what will I do. They will perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect if that were possible.

See, I have told you this ahead of time, said the Lord Jesus Christ. Might he write these words on our hearts today. What is occult. We hear all different kinds of definitions about Cold Stone quick. The people who say this and they're all there are people who say that people normally associate cults with Jim Jones People's Temple in the jungles of Zion. I was in California and 39 people what happened in Switzerland last year.

Some of the radical groups are like the ribbon sun Myung Moon in the Unification Church, which is unapologetically a cult, but there are many cults, many people from cults come knocking on your door during the week.

They ride bicycles around the community. They are many times wonderful people. In fact, some of them are some of the finest people that you could ever meet upon the face of the earth.

They espouse family values that have television commercials that that he corrected the very heartbeat of everything that we all because they talk about things that all are of value they talk about important thing they talk about principles and and about ethics and about morality. They have an American look about them.

Psychologists define cults as any group which deviates from cultural Knoll fact, the word comes from the word culture rule and it's a deviation from the norm. In fact, cult is a shortened version if you please.

Of culture rule so anything that deviates from the norm of culture, but it goes further than that dictionary.

If you want to look it up defines the code as a group of followers. I don't like that definition because of that were the case, every body would be a member of the cult.

Even supporters of the Atlanta Braves would be a member of the Carlton and some of you might say well they all what seems to be the problem but it's not just a group of followers. Dr. Walter Martin who wrote the book the rise of the cults. This is what what he determined was occult for a Christian limit quoted for you a cult is a group of people polarized around someone's interpretation of the Bible and is characterized by major deviations from Orthodox Christianity relative to the cardinal doctrines of the Christian faith, particularly the fact that God became man, in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. What is happening. Dear friends, is that the cults are not a thing of the parts. Most of us breathed a sigh of relief when over 700 people killed themselves in Guyana. We said that could never happen again in America, people are to educated American rock 'n' roll is a Christian nation and get time without number. We see the tragedies of of Waco, Texas, and David Koresh we see what's happening in New York with the ribbon sun Myung Moon will literally thousands upon thousands of people are being every diary into buying in to these mindsets and things that all major deviations not just from culture but from the word of God. What is occult. I think in order to try and determine what it is.

The Bible would have us to do in order to prevent a call from infiltrating our homes. We got to understand what a cult really is any share with you just eight blocks of occult briefly this morning.

We cannot do justice obviously number one concerning Jesus Christ. If you were to say today pasta.

How can I know if occult is occult. You must begin at the point of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible says God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.

Now that would begotten is key because it means that Jesus Christ is the only one of the kind there is none like as unto him. He alone is Lord he is the one who is the son of God, he is not bliss, then God, he is God. And if you want to know what occult believes you go and begin to talk to them about the Lord Jesus Christ. When someone knocks on your door and you have the time to engage them in a conversation focused the attention on the Lord Jesus Christ, but never be surprised that the first thing they will tell you is that they believe in Jesus Christ. Most cults will tell you they believe in Jesus Christ and that's how they take the wind out of the sails of evangelical Christians, but it's what they believe about Jesus Christ. That is the most significant thing even the devil believes in Jesus Christ. My friends say he believes in Jesus Christ but it's what they believe to be true about Jesus Christ based upon his word number two concerning theology, see friends if you going to find out what they believe about Jesus Christ again to begin to uncover somewhat of an understanding of this theology. You see, they doctrine finds its root and its source in different mean the Jehovah's Witnesses. For example, they claim that one cannot understand the Bible without their publication. The May 1, 1957 watchtower magazine stated in our quote God has not arranged for that word to speak independently or to shine forth life-giving foods by itself. Where does this theology come from the Mormons in their publication. The pearl of great price.

They announce in our quote on page 64 we believe the Bible to be the word of God. As far as it is translated correctly.

What is that mean in terms of their theology.

It means my friends that they regard the book of Mormon, the doctrine and covenants, and the pearl of great price as being far more reliable than the word of God? The one, Jesus Christ. Question number two. Theology.

What about the Unification Church, led by sun Myung Moon, in its book divine principle on page 9 and I quote the Bible. However, is not the truth itself but a textbook teaching the truth. We must not regard the textbook as absolute in every detail. What about Christian scientists. I'm going to quote for you on page 139 of the book science and health of the key to the Scripture, a material and mortal sins, stole into the divine record with its own if you darkening to some extent the inspired pages.

No wonder that Christian science founder Mary Baker Eddy are you uses all these means and methods to remove the hue and the darkness of the inspired pages in any way that she seems fit. What is there theology. Where does it come from number three concerning leadership essay leadership is the third characteristic and prep. Perhaps the greatest hallmark of occult, always a charismatic leader will be in the same trip. Whether it's Jim Jones.

Whether it's David Koresh. Whether it is Smith whether the sun Myung Moon. It doesn't matter who it is where they come from Dove in California. There is always a charismatic leader who rises up to form a cult. What is he doing he has accepted to undertake Christ's aborted messianic mission. One of these leaders say these leaders say that they have received a special revelation from God, whether it be the angel Moron I whether it be they were on a mountain somewhere, whether it be they had a vision whether it be they would doing this so doing that. The fact of the matter. If you want to know if occult is occult.

Always look for a charismatic leader.

There is always going to be somebody somewhere who is going to claim that I have taken the place of Jesus Christ. All there is a proverbial denial of John 14 verse six when Jesus said I alone am the way the truth and the life no man can come unto the father but by me. Number four concerning freedom, concerning freedom cults will always take away human freedom. The denial of the individual to exist. First Corinthians chapter 7 and verse 23 you will board for the price do not become the slaves of man do not bow down to any man.

The Bible says thou shalt have no other gods before me. That is idolatrous and when you have no other gods before you, you maybe become the subject to a denial of the special relationship that God gives to you with Jesus Christ as an individual person. I've got some good news for you today my friends my relationship with Jesus Christ is not based on what I do fall over with anybody. It is a personal one on one eyeball to eyeball relationship with a personal Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And it is through him that Otto will praise all homage adoration. It is the Lord Jesus Christ occult takes away their freedom.

Number five concerning isolationism concerning isolationism. One of the hallmarks of a cult who tried to invade your home is that they would try to shut down your individuality within your home and they would cause you to retreat Your parent care today and you say will how do I know if my child could become prone to cults. If your child increasingly was drawers shot so you talking about a prime candidate. There many other offshoots of that related to depression and suicide and all other kinds of things but we talking about cults your folks, we talking about the home. One of these people do that. It is an asset versus you mentality it costs versus the world they cultivate a kind of pseudo-elitism through the cultish personality they put parents against children, grandparents against their their parents and all in all it does in the does it divides a Sunday number six concerning belonging belonging as a six mark of occult. You see, they establish a brotherhood. Everybody wants to belonged on three people do that, we gravitate to those areas where we gain the belonging most of all I'm in a talk about what to do about this in just a moment in the light of God's word.

They have a brotherhood in the sisterhood. They create a paranoia with regard to anybody else, and it was in the context of their particular organizational cult that one achieves unity and oneness to the exclusion of everybody and anything else number seven concerning the saw occult is always characterized by bizarre, whether it is the way they cut their hair, the clothes that they wear the manner with which they sing.

The content of the songs they sang the sacrifices they might.

I remember being up in Canada in Alberta Canada many years ago and dealing with cults updated one of the characteristic hallmarks was the issue of sacrifices you see what they do folks they go back and they study the Old Testament and they take out certain things that they believe would be uplifting and edifying to their group and one of those things are sacrificing many cults today are getting into animal sacrifices and I hate to tell you this but it's true. Many cults today go to extremes in getting the human sacrifices. We know that which Crofton Satanism the cult and I'm not preaching on the subject at this point in time, but they were involved in all kinds of bizarre acts, but there's 1/8 final but not conclusive mark of a cult concerning love. Love is always the single factor emerges in the middle of occult dear friends, most of the time love related to occult deals with human sexuality in different forms. You can go from the sublime to the ridiculous. There are extreme forms and there are mild forms they may share a couple of you concerning cults and the matter of love human sexuality, one of the groups, many of them believe in the no gender approach. One of the things the cults want to do in your home is they want to tell your children that if you want to be a real man you need to look black and behave like a woman then I going to tell your daughter that if you want to be a real woman. You need to look black and behave like a man. One of the agendas of the cults, my friends, is to eliminate Leo and femaleness it is to deny the very essence of the creation of God. That's one of the great battles we are facing in the world today there is the other extreme, which is free love. That means that your body doesn't belong to you. It belongs to anybody and everybody else. This came out of some of the hippie movements and existed all the way back into the Roman Empire times. This is the ultimate promiscuity. This is the ultimate sexual revolution but finds its expression within a cult that would seek to infiltrate into the homes and to destroy the lives of men and women and boys and girls.

Another group would believe in polygamy.

Polygamy means that a man can marry as many wives he wants to wait as I get this from they get it from their theology folks they get it from the divine revelation to the leader where the leader decides that he's had a revelation from God that they need to multiply and have as many babies buys many women as possible. What's the reason for a polygamist approach to occult mentality. It is so that the souls of those who are in captive can inhabit the bodies of those who are born so that they too can be elevated to the celestial city, no different from Hale-Bopp, no different from wanting to die so that you can be scooped up in the U-Haul trailer that follows Hale-Bopp, and therefore be elevated into the kingdom of God, polygamy, my friend finds its root in a perverted and a twisted theology and you go back and you are what is a believe about God. What you believe about Jesus Christ. Where is there theology is the charismatic leader powerful questions and forgive the eruption will be back with those answers and Dr. Don Wilton here on The Encouraging Word in just a moment Dr. Don Wilton to remind you that were available to pray with you and for you to connect with great resources any time at this phone number Chinatown store near cell is 866899 word that's 866-899-9673 were also connecting on our website@twonline.org that's DEW online.org. Now back to today's great teaching with Dr. Don. There are other groups who believe in the seed of David.

Jim Jones was locked at a church I served in south Louisiana we had a man in our community who wrote me letters threateningly send everything you could imagine.

For about four years of my six year ministry until one Sunday morning he dropped dead at the age of 44 outside of these are but before this man dropped dead outside of his home in that little community in Louisiana he began to create a cult that was based upon the seed of David. Basically this theology which comes according to him through a revelation of God means that he is the seed of David. What is that mean in terms of human sexuality. It means exactly what Jim Jones did.

It doesn't matter if she's your wife, she must sleep with me because Jim Jones said the greatest blessing in her life would be to receive the seed of Jim Jones or to receive the seed of the cult leader, thereby appropriating and developing and reproducing the seed of David, thereby retaining Abraham a covenant I don't have time to getting all this theology folks, but I can tell you something. It's not based upon the word of God there are others who practice extreme celibacy. One of the tragedies of this latest effort was that we know that many of the men were concentrated in muted they will all kinds of practices that came out of the skull group and it all comes down concerning love Jesus Christ theology. Theology leadership freedom isolationism belonging bizarre acts and love what is a goal amount. Well, it amounts to four things a mathematical equation. If you say what is occult. You gotta think of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

I cult addition.

Does the religious group under consideration add to the word of God through indispensable publications that claim to give the Bible clear meaning or through present-day direct revelation from God. That's addition number two subtraction does the examined group. The cult subtract from the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ by making him less God than his father all by elevating man one day to become lacking that subtraction number three multiplication does this group multiply the requirements of salvation by making works.

A necessary condition for redemption. The Bible says, for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourself is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast. Do they multiply the conditions for salvation and full division does this group in question. Divide the loyalty of its members between God and itself and its leaders. Does this group make devotion to the organization a test of faith and consider adherence to itself the vehicle for salvation for its followers, God said, thou shalt have no other gods before me.

So how does this all boil down beloved this morning. What can we do to prevent a call from inviting who I want to give you non-action word nine things that you and I can do number one.

Pray we need to pray for one another.

I know it's simple and yet it's so profound. We need to pray for one another. Folks number two love all that's a magic word is not love just love one another.

Make sure that in your home. Love is the name of the game. If you're not loving your mom or your dad, your son or daughter, your brother or sister revisit the issue of love. I'm talking about just good old-fashioned down-to-earth. I love you. Number three belong. That's the third action word develop a sense of belonging.

Number four gather gather gather together embrace it speaks of embrace. It speaks of warmth number five teach number six memorize memorize. We forgotten what it means to remember Scripture number seven disciple number eight. Cultivate conviction.

Number nine.

Invite others to come in here the word about the Lord Jesus Christ.

Invite others in that invitation continues.

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Next are you ready to give your heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Why don't you pray this prayer with me right now. Dear God, I know that on the center and I know that Jesus died for me on the cross today, I repent of my sin and by faith I receive you into my heart. In Jesus name, my friend. I welcome you today into the family of God. This is exciting news.

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