How To Talk To A Mormon

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Yeah The good news is fortunately, I mean we can go to I mean the

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Greek I mean we understand what the text is saying So, I mean for example when we take a passage like John 1 and we say in RK in halal gas

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Hi, halal gas ain't no stone. They own we know that still the teaching carries over in English that Jesus was in the beginning with the father

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He had no beginnings eternal and he created all things that have come into being and nothing is coming to being outside of him

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So that would include Lucifer. So again that collision there between those two perspectives

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Joseph saying That they're spirit brothers, you know begotten by Elohim and one of his goddess wives in the pre -existence

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And then the biblical teaching that Jesus actually created Satan so our concern our loving concern for you guys is that this church teaches a different Jesus than the one of Scripture and And You would agree with me

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John 14 6 says Jesus says I'm the way the truth and the life and no one comes to the father Except through me

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So if you have a different Jesus other than the one in Scripture like Paul says in 2nd Corinthians 11

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He warns the church in the first century. I'm a concerned about you guys that you guys are being led away to follow a different Christ Are my concern is the same as the

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Apostle Paul's I'm concerned for you guys because I love you guys This church is teaching a different Jesus and ultimately a different gospel and if you have that then ultimately

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You're not you don't know Jesus. So would you would you I mean, I again, what was your

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Jordan, right? Yeah Again I'd love to continue talking with you guys.

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I would encourage you to look at John chapter 1 verse 1 Look at that Scripture also

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Isaiah 43 10 I know According to Mormon theology, there are many gods before God and you can become one one day

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Is that what you guys believe you've become a god? Well, I would encourage you with love, you know when you're home tonight

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Look up that passage as a a 43 10 it says before me no God was for me either shall there be an a after me

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So again that presents another collision You know, God says there weren't any gods before him and you won't become one one day

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You're very well scripted So, no, I again I don't want you to oh, yeah,

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I don't get bad vibes from you guys at all It sounds like you guys are very well grounded and you're very composed which

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I respect. Yeah, I appreciate that Yeah, we appreciate that. And the reason for this is to show I mean very honestly, we love your community.

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It's not You guys it's Joseph's Revelation. It's Joseph's teaching.

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It's the teaching of the church that we're Comparing the scripture and saying do these two things line up, right?

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I've given you a couple verses already and I think I mean you'd admit that there isn't a response

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Yeah at this point. Yeah, I know and you're shaking my faithful My friend we'd love to talk with you

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Please come and talk with us on the way out So I'm gonna talk about that for one second

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That was I think I just came in on the tail end there a great Example was he returned missionary.

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Did you ask him? I didn't know I didn't get a chance to ask him He was born and raised LDS, but he hasn't been out here to this for years.

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So, okay. He said he lives nearby Okay so that's a I think a premier example of the kind of conversation that can happen out here where Zack just got an opportunity to just Give him scripture.

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I mean on a whole host of things and they listened, you know

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I mean, obviously he was laughing as he walked away sort of trying to be playful But the truth is is the

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Word of God just got proclaimed to that man. He was given scripture The Mormon God was compared to the true

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God and he walked away Hearing scripture and you'll notice there's no response.

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He's the first thing he said was I don't have a rebuttal to that so so the reason why

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I wanted to stop for just a second to highlight that is that you guys got to witness what is Kind of the common

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Mormon apologetic which is really nothing. I have no response. It's not as though You have to be concerned that you know

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You have to be some sort of Bible scholar and know everything about everything and you know, what what will they say back? What about I'll have the answer you saw what just took place you saw what happened last night

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Sometimes there's an attempt to argue back, but it's not a coherent argument back and it's not something that actually answers the text itself

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Sometimes you just need to be here to preach the gospel You got to be in front of their community and you got to give them the

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Word of God Sometimes they'd never they haven't spent time in scripture. They haven't investigated these things As a matter of fact, they're challenged

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Not to read anti -mormon literature not to engage what the opposing side would say

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So when you come out to events like this or when you engage your Mormon neighbors and friends and family Sometimes you you are that tool of God That actually is the instrument by which they actually get the scriptures maybe even sometimes for the first time

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And so there's not I think I the reason the reason I bring it up is because there's not a lot to be afraid of First of all,

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God says he hasn't given us a spirit of fear Period but there's not a lot to be afraid of truly practically a lot of times it's people like this that it's the first time they're even hearing some of this stuff from the

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Word of God and you just need To be present and you can tell Romans 1 the revelation of God gets through Now if you're speaking to an atheist if you're speaking to a

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Mormon The scriptures testify to the truth and you can see that he took it in.

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Yeah, I mean We walk from the same parking lot I walked parallel with them all the way here turned around passed him a tract and we got into a conversation.

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There you go Praise God. I Pray for him. His name is Jordan people told me for years that you shouldn't do this kind of ministry because it was too abrasive to in your face and Not the way we reach people and I kept having moments like this

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Where I would get to give them the Word of God and they would even think about it and sometimes start crying or they would

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Give me their number so we can meet up for dinner later or something and I knew no

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I know that this is consistent with scripture and I know that God is doing something here So I'm gonna encourage you along the same way.

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I don't know what God has called you to do, but whatever it is do it Do it We got to start breaking down walls between communities and getting in front of people so we can give them the