Giving the Gospel to Gen Z

The Eternal Word, the Incarnation, and the Deity of Christ

What's up guys, how you doing tonight? Good good. Yeah, I'd love to talk with you guys if you have a few minutes. Are you guys LDS or. Oh, yeah, what's your name? Tyson what's your name? I'm Spencer. Spencer.

Did you guys grow up here in Utah? Yeah. Yeah. Oh down in Payson. So how long you've been LDS for? No, it's kind of raised that way. We'll go to BYU. You be you cool and you guys have just been like lifelong friends or whatever.

Oh sweet sweet, have you ever heard the gospel presented to you by an evangelical Christian before. No. No, not the LDS gospel from an evangelical Christian have you ever. Tyson are you gonna go on a mission.

Maybe how old are you? You're 20. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha whole families in the faith. Yeah, pretty much. What about you Spencer? What is your family? What changed that for you. You don't know. And I took a little deeper of a dive.

Gotcha understood. Let me let me tell you guys this in John 1 verse 1 through 3. It says in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. All things were created through him.

There was nothing that came into being unless it was created Through him and the word we know in John. It's it says the word became flesh and dwelt among us referring to Jesus. Yet dwelt among us not the game among us.

It's not a little sus there. But um, the beautiful thing about that is is because in that scripture it's showing us that Jesus Christ has eternally existed as God. That he was not the spiritual offspring of heavenly father and heavenly mother.

But instead that he always was God. Yeah, and it says that Jesus took on flesh and died on the cross for our sins like what what do you know about sin Spencer Tyson tell me Why are they bad you think.

Sin, the Law of God, and the Need for a Holy Judge

Yeah, it's something that's against God's character it says in I believe in in first John it says that sin is a transgression against The law of God. So God is a holy just and righteous God. So he loves right?

You know, God is a loving God, but he also hates because he loves right? I love babies. Therefore I hate abortion because it murders babies in the womb that are separate human entities from the mother just for example, right?

You can love and hate. So God doesn't look upon sin with favor, but we're all born sinners because we come from Adam. That's what the Bible says. It says no one understands God. No one seeks God all have gone astray.

So since we are sinners that means God will judge us right, so I'll give you an example. Like have you ever lied? Spencer Tyson, yeah. There we go, right. Yeah, what is what would you call someone who's lying all the time a baller.

You're funny, you know exactly you would call that person a liar. And it says liars do not have their part in the kingdom of heaven, but they're part of the lake of fire. So God condemns that oh, so just one lie, right?

Christ's Sacrifice, Righteousness, and Salvation as a Gift

There's one lie God since he's a holy just and righteous God. Our destination is hell, but the beautiful thing about Jesus is that he's the eternal God who took on flesh. Died on the cross for our sin.

So he took my sin and placed it on the cross because it required a sacrifice. But the only sacrifice that can appease the wrath of a holy just and eternal God is the sacrifice of an eternal God. So now I have peace with the father.

Right because of the blood of Jesus I inherit his righteousness. He took my sin on him and now when I stand before God, I'm closing the righteous robes of Christ. There's nothing that I can do for it.

I can't work my way into salvation. It's a gift from God. That's what it says in Ephesians chapter 2. Yeah, I was a I was a well, I don't know about that. I was a horrible sinner my friend. I didn't do just rooms.

That's it. Yeah, absolutely. It's called pharmakia in the Bible bro. Yeah, you need Jesus. We all need Jesus man. Trust me you did. Oh, yeah, trust me. I did a lot more drugs than just rooms when I was 15 14 years old I was doing really bad things.

Experience, Mormon Testimony, and the Authority of God's Word

But knowledge doesn't come from pharmakia, which would be sorcery in the terms of shrooms, right knowledge. Yeah. Yeah, I've had very cool experiences that I'm sure you you've seen I absolutely understand what you're talking about.

So, I mean if you think about it this way in the LDS faith. They say pray about it. If you get a burning in your bosom, then you know, the Book of Mormon is true. Yeah, I think you switched it for something else.

Because now you have a experience of feeling that you are going towards for truth. You're using your feelings just like the LDS Church does. But then can you lick tree frogs, can you lick you can lick a tree frog?

I mean there's people that scrape this. Yeah. I mean there's people that take the tree frogs but what they do is they they take like some of the Saliva like the the gooey film on them and then they turn it into a dust and they smoke it.

Yeah. So that's don't give me any ideas. We don't live anywhere close to where you can do those things. I know yeah, but but what I'm saying to you is is the Bible clearly tells us that our experiences don't determine truth.

It's God's Word that determines truth. Well, we got a show to go to but I appreciate the way. Yeah, I know. Thank you guys. Thank you Spencer. Thank you, Tyson. You guys have a good night. Okay, you too.