Week 22: How to Witness to a Mormon | December 7, 2025 Sunday School

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Turn in your Bibles, the second Corinthians chapter #5 this

morning. Brother Vince, would you grab my

clicker right there on the back shelf and bring it up?

You like that, Brother John? That was good.

I've been practicing that for the last few weeks.

Yeah, yeah. You could toss it up here, but

thank you very much. Drake May himself.

All right, thank you. The Second Corinthians chapter

#5 And we're going to be looking this morning as we finish our

miniseries on the Church of Jesus Christ, the Latter Day

Saints, the Mormons. We're going to be looking at how

do we witness to a Mormon? We've talked a lot about the

Mormon Church. We've talked a lot about the

fallacies of their teaching. But here's the thing, What

happens when you get a on your door and there's two young men,

probably in their very early 20s who have come to their door or

come to your door and they want to talk to you about Jesus

Christ. Well, how are you going to be

able to witness to them? Because again, if they say elder

so and so on that name tag, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter

Day Saints, they are lost. They do not know the true Jesus

Christ as their savior. How do you interact with them?

What do you do? What do you say?

What do you do if you meet a Mormon who works at your

workplace or someone at a place that you've had some

opportunities to talk to them and they believe that they're a

Christian just like you? Hey, you're a Christian, I'm a

Christian. We go to different

denominations, but we're just the same, aren't we?

Well, of course, as we've seen the last several weeks, the

answer to that is an emphatic no.

We are not the same. We're not just talking about

some subtle denominational difference.

We're talking about preaching the truth against preaching

error, as they do in the Mormon church.

And so how do we share the gospel with these types of

people? Well, as I've mentioned you

before, remember that large flow chart that we had that showed

how someone could make it to the Kingdom?

And of course there were three levels of kingdoms as well.

And the celestial Kingdom, the terrestrial Kingdom and the

terrestrial Kingdom, those three different kingdoms, how does

someone come to know that they are going to be part of the

Kingdom in the Mormon church? Well, before we get to what I

want to show you this morning, I have a video that we show you

that's very much in the vein of the same gentleman who gave us

the video from the Jehovah Witnesses of probably about a

month or two ago. Do you remember when he asked

that young man that Jehovah Witness said can you in 3

minutes I'm dying? Can you tell me how that I can

know I'm going to have him? Does the same thing with a young

woman. I would like to tell you,

certainly she seems like she's a little bit flustered by the fact

that she only has about 3 minutes to be able to explain

this. But the issue is not necessarily

this man is kind of putting her in a time crunch.

It's trying to illustrate that it should be easy to explain

what salvation is. And that she is representative

of many Mormons who have no idea what it means to even be able to

go to the Kingdom and helps us to understand how we have an

opportunity to be able to reach them with the gospel.

So if we had that, Brother Scott, let's go ahead and show

that. The foundation of Mormonism is

idolatry. Their God lives on a planet

called Kolob or his multiple wives.

They preach another gospel 1 of salvation by works and they have

another Jesus, the brother of Lucifer.

They only pay lip service to the Bible because they have their

own so-called holy book which denies the existence of hell and

allows Adolf Hitler to make it into the 3rd heaven. 3 times

this young lady looked to her friends to be rescued.

Finally they got the hint and took her away before she heard

the biblical gospel. Do you think there's an

afterlife? Yes.

Are you a Christian? Yes, have.

You been born again. I've been baptized.

It mean born again. So I'm a member of the Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

The question for you. There's a knife in my back.

I've got 3 minutes to live. How can I enter the Kingdom?

How can I get saved? What should I do?

I've got 3 minutes. I'm dying.

Enter the Kingdom. Well, you need to.

I got 2 1/2 minutes quick 2. And a half minutes.

I'm dying. I'm going to teach you about

Jesus well. Do it because I've now got 2

minutes you. Need to accept Jesus as your

savior? How do I do that?

Allow His atonement to work through you.

Accept Him, and let accept that he died for you, and that He

took upon him all of your sins, and then just.

Is that all I have to do? Also allow yourself to

understand that. One minute, Oh my gosh, blood

straining out of my body. I'm going, you know, I've, I've

come talk to him. Over there.

Go talk to him over there. I'm a fornicator, I'm a liar,

I'm a thief. I've broken the commandments.

I know I'm a big trouble on judgement day.

I think I'm going to go to hell. And what have I got to do again

you? Just have to accept Jesus and be

baptized and follow him and follow.

Hey I got 40 seconds, how do I get baptized?

Find somebody who has the authority to baptize.

I can't move. I'm dying.

I've now got 15 seconds. Here.

We're going. To call somebody.

Quickly. I'm under pressure.

I don't. So you can't help me, cannot get

up. I am.

I'm dead. It's all over.

I've gone to hell and you couldn't help me.

No, you didn't go. Dead.

I'm dead. No, you didn't go to hell.

Oh yes, I did. Oh, you just went to the spirit

world. When Jesus said he said fear not

humorous power to kill your body and cast your soul into hell.

Fear him. Jesus said that he said the

place where the fire is never quenched and the worm never

dies. The Bible speaks to the lake of

fire and I'm terrified while I've gone.

Let me let me share with you a couple of thoughts.

Remember the thief on the cross? Yes.

Did he get baptized? I.

Don't remember. No, you don't.

I. Think so.

He was nailed to the cross. He couldn't go anywhere, he

couldn't do anything. Right, OK.

All over. Yeah, sorry.

No, no, it's not. He has another chance.

I. Don't.

I've gone. Hey, thanks for talking to me.

Bye bye. I kind of added that.

I kind of added that music in there, if you like that.

No, that was no, that was the way that it came.

But no, it's again, very illustrative of the fact that

there seems to be some answers that sound like something that

we would say, but then when you dig below the surface, you

realize, oh, this, there is no salvation.

But hey, that's OK because there's still a chance you're

die, you're dead, but you you can still make it somewhere

else. And again, that flow chart that

we showed you before. And I want to make clear as we

go through these things, you think, well, how on earth am I

going to reach a, if I don't remember all of these things

that we have learned? How am I reach Jehovah Witness

if I don't remember all the things we've learned?

I, I'm sure that you're not going to remember all the things

that we've gone over in, well, 22 weeks of trying to talk about

false religions and Islam and Jehovah Witnesses and Mormons so

far. But I do believe there's some

things that will help you here this morning, specifically with

the Mormons, but also that we could apply several of these to

some of these other cults and world religions as well.

So let's go ahead and start looking at these and we'll first

look at #1 which is this Start with the sinlessness of Christ.

Start with the sinlessness of Christ.

You know, it's often better to start with someone that you

have, or let me put it this way, it's it's often better to start

when you're talking with someone with something that you might

have in common to bring common ground.

Now we're not talking about hiding the truth.

This is what the Mormons will do is that they will try to hide

the ball from you and not actually tell you about all of

these other things. I'm just talking about in the

course of a conversation. Why don't you start first with

something that you might have in common and then when you have

common ground, be able to show where the differences are.

One of those places that you can show common ground is with the

sinlessness of Christ because of the Mormons will at least give

lip service to the sinlessness of Jesus Christ.

Now do they believe that he is the Jesus Christ of the Bible?

No, they believe that he is the brother of Lucifer.

They believe that he is not very God like Father, Son and Holy

Ghost as the Bible teaches. Yet there is a place that you

can kind of have a starting point with them talking of the

sinlessness of Christ. Now God's Word shows us that

Christ was sinless in every way, and that's why we're starting in

Second Corinthians chapter 5. Look at verse #18 with me, if

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you will. It's a great place to be able to

start 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 18.

And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by

Jesus Christ, and have given to us the ministry of

reconciliation. By the way, why do we need to

reach the Mormons? Because Jesus Christ reconciled

us to the Father, and we now have the ministry of

reconciliation to bring other people to Jesus Christ as well.

The ministry that I am in is the.

Very same ministry to be honest with you that you are in the

ministry of reconciliation. I'm in full time quote UN quote

ministry, but really we're all to be full time ministers of the

ministry of reconciliation. Verse 19 To wit, that God was in

Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their

trespasses unto them, and has committed us to the unto us the

word of reconciliation them we are ambassadors for Christ, as

through as though God did beseech you by us.

We pray you in Christ's stead be reconciled to God, for he hath

made him to be sin for us who what knew no sin, that we might

be made the righteousness of God in him.

So where can we start with a more?

But we can start with the fact that Jesus knew no sin and the

sin of the world was placed upon him.

And reconciliation therefore comes through who Jesus Christ.

And you'll find some common ground here with a Mormon.

Now again, they take that very basic truth and run in an

opposite direction of what the Bible teaches.

But you could take them there and help them to understand what

the the sinlessness of Jesus Christ means.

He. 726 and 27 you want to turn there, but it's for such an high

priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate

from sinners, higher than the heavens, who needed not daily as

those high priests to OfferUp sacrifice first for his own sins

and then for the peoples. For this he did once when he

offered up himself. Listen, even Mormons would

acknowledge that Joseph Smith was a sinful creature.

Even Mormons would acknowledge that he was not sinless, as

Jesus Christ was sinless. So again, this gives you a great

jumping off place in a conversation with them.

Because Christ's perfection is found for the true Bible

believing faith as well as Mormonism.

A person who begins with this doctrine meets a Mormon on

common ground. But if you're talking to a

Mormon, ask him if he believes about Jesus perfectionism.

Let him express his understanding until you start to

hear the differences emerge between that and Christianity.

And then when that moment arrives, ask simple questions

that reveal how other Mormon beliefs are inconsistent with

this conviction. So allow them to talk about a

little bit as they do talk about Jesus, and you started this

common ground, you'll start to hear things that are not common

ground. You'll start to hear things that

are unbiblical. And this gives you places to be

able to have conversation and to be able to start to show them

the truth. You might even ask how your

friend understands Jesus's perfect words, because if Jesus

was perfect and sinless. His words were.

Perfect as well, so you could ask them, well, how do you feel

about Matthew 2435? Heaven and earth shall pass

away, but my word shall not pass away.

If the perfect Jesus established his gospel forever, then why

does it need to be restored? Why was Joseph Smith necessary?

Was Jesus's promise incorrect? Was Jesus lying when he spoke

about this? It was Jesus just not

understanding what the truth was.

Listen, any of those things would be problematic.

It just happens to be that Jesus was who He said He was, and the

gospel does not need restoring, because the gospel has always

been. If your Mormon friend says,

well, God needs new prophets to bring new revelation, you can go

to Hebrews chapter 1, verses one and two.

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God, who at sundry times in divers manners spake in time

passed under the fathers, by the prophets, hath in these last

days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of

all things, by whom also He made the world.

Jesus is the one who speaks to us today.

He is the living Word. We have the Word in front of us.

We don't need something new. And Jesus Christ is perfect.

And so being able to start there, you'll start to see, as

you discussed, the cracks emerge in their belief, and you follow

those cracks as they go along, and then you're able to talk to

them about other biblical doctrines as well.

Now #2 goes in hand, in hand with #1 and that's this.

Show them the sufficiency of Christ, sufficiency of Christ.

Christ isn't just perfect. He is perfectly sufficient to

meet the needs of mankind. Meaning it's this, It's Jesus

and nothing else. That's what salvation is.

It is not Jesus and self. It is not Jesus and work, Jesus

and money, Jesus and membership, Jesus and baptism, Jesus and any

of those things you know, Christ is sufficient to save us without

any of our help. Listen, Mormons don't believe

that. That Jesus just got the ball

rolling. But you need to be involved in

your own salvation. This isn't just Adam Rivero

talking. This is their own prophets who

say this. For instance, Listen,

immortality has been accomplished by the Savior's

sacrifice. Eternal life hangs in the

balance awaiting the works of men.

That was Spencer Kimball, the 12th LDS president, back in the

1980s, a book called The Miracle of Forgiveness.

It even has the page page 208. So if you have that at home,

just go to page 208 and you'll find it.

But listen, blasphemous immortality has been

accomplished by the Savior's sacrifice.

Eternal life hangs in the balance awaiting the works of

men. Meaning this Christ's sacrifice

was not sufficient. Christ's sacrifice wasn't

enough. Christ needs you to be able to

save yourself. That's a blasphemous statement.

That's a blasphemous thought. And the the Jehovah Witness, or

rather the Mormons, will give lip service to the fact that

Jesus is perfect, but he's not perfectly able to save you.

He needs you like Uncle Sam. I need you, Jesus.

I need you to be able to finish your salvation.

There's nothing biblical about that whatsoever.

When Paul addresses the false teaching about Jesus to the

church at Colossus, we don't know exactly all the details of

this false teaching, but we do know this.

He paints a picture of the fullness and sufficiency of

Jesus Christ. So why don't you turn to

Colossians chapter 2? This doesn't necessarily talk of

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Mormonism, but certainly it does give us a better understanding

of the sufficiency of Christ. Colossians chapter #2 We'll look

at verse 8 to start. Beware lest any man spoil you

through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of

men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Now look at this. For in Him.

Now who's the Him? Well, you can go back up to the

previous verse. What's the last word of verse #8

Christ. For in him that would be Christ

dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily meaning this

Jesus is God. There is no contradiction.

There is no question about that whatsoever.

And ye are what's that next word?

Complete in Him which is the head of all principality and

power. We are complete in Jesus Christ.

No, we do not complete ourselves after Jesus gives us a head

start. Jesus is not the one who gets

the ball rolling. And then you are the one who

saves yourself so that you can become a God and have your own

spirit children and populate your own worlds.

No, no, we see that we are complete and Jesus Christ He is

sufficient as these New Testament passages model.

You want to move your Mormon friends or those Mormon

acquaintances that you meet who are on your doorstep from

Christ's perfection to His sufficiency.

Help them to understand that Jesus Christ is enough.

Ask questions again to be able to understand exactly what they

think they need to do to be able to help themselves to eternal

life, to salvation. Ask questions.

We'll talk more about that in a few moments.

But you can find passages like these and others that would show

that the sufficiency of Christ is real.

We just saw this morning's brother Vince read several

different passages for us, that when Jesus died on the cross

that the veil was rent in twain. The Bible says it was ripped in

two. What does that mean?

That the work was done, It was complete, It is finished.

Wasn't saying that Jesus was giving up his life, He's giving

up the ghost. That would happen later.

It is finished. What was the finished?

The work that was done, paying the atonement for our sins, that

was what was finished. He would give up in the ghost a

few moments later. But the idea is this, it is

done. It is sufficient.

We can't help ourselves to get to heaven.

We get in the way of getting ourselves to heaven.

We're the ones that have been the stumbling block to

ourselves. Even accept Jesus Christ in the

1st place. We are not the answer, we are

the problem. We are the one that needs

saving. And so point out how sufficient

Christ is #3 as you go, define your terms.

I've said this before, I'll say it again, because Voltaire was

an atheist. He was a not a very kind man.

He hated Christians. But he has this one quote that I

really like. So I use it all the time.

And I've used it since Bible college.

And it's this. If you wish to converse with me,

define your terms. If you wish to converse with me,

define your terms. Now I've lived through this in

my life growing up, as I've told you before, I was a Lutheran

before I became saved and then became a Bible believing

Baptist. I went to a Christian School.

And so people would ask me for a long time, they would say, are

you saved? And my answer would be yes,

meaning I thought I was going to heaven, but was I saved the

Bible way? Well, the answer is no.

So they would say, are you saved?

And then they would mean are you saved by faith through Jesus

Christ. When I'd say I was saved, I

meant something like this. Well, I'm saved because I was

baptized as a baby and I'd take the Lord's Supper.

I would even say I would save by grace through faith because

that's what the Lutheran Church would say.

Martin Luther made a big deal about that even while still

holding to the sacraments, giving eternal life.

And so we see the Bible does not teach that.

So we would be saying the same things.

The Baptist and myself as a Lutheran, we would say the same

thing, but we meant 2 completely different things.

So as you're talking with a Mormon, you remember that video

that she used, terms that would seem to suggest that we were on

common ground, but yet we are not on common ground even in the

terms in which she would use and we would use.

For instance, I would say, I believe that Jesus is God.

A Mormon would say, great, so do I Jesus is so important to our

faith. I would say, well, I believe

that salvation is a work of grace.

And that Mormon would say, so do I Unless it's by God's grace, I

have no hope. I would say I believe the Bible

is God's word. And the Mormon would say so do

I. The Bible is central to our

faith. You would seem like men.

We're the same person. It would seem like we believe

the same thing. And that's why you have to be

very careful when speaking to the Mormons to be able to

understand that although they might be trying to build that

common ground, there really is no common ground to be able to

be found when it comes to the issue of who Jesus Christ is,

who God the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost is, what salvation

is, what baptism is. She used a word I believe

atonement, that they wouldn't understand what the atonement

truly is, that they use the same terms.

But don't be fooled by that. Listen, Mormons are taught that

there are 6 different meanings for the word salvation. 6.

Salvation for physical death, salvation from sin, being born

again, salvation from ignorance, salvation from the second death,

exaltation or eternal life. All of those are baked into the

cake when they use the term salvation.

So listen, you could talk about are you saved?

And they could be thinking about any of those things.

So you have to be very careful when you talk to them.

Here's what it comes down to. And I will tell you, this has

been so good for me, going through these lessons and being

able to understand better how to talk to the cultists, to be able

to better talk to those who believe in false religion.

Because a lot of times in dealing with these types of

folks, I have found that I have taken more.

I wouldn't even say necessarily a combative stance because I'm

not trying to combat them, but I would say this, that I was

certainly more willing to win an argument than wanting to win

their heart. It's almost like I wanted to

prove to them Jesus was God. And really, that's not the

point. You say, well, that's not the

point. Well, of course they have to

understand that Jesus is God to be saved.

But the real point is not to just prove them that Jesus is

God. I win and they still go to hell.

The point is I want them to understand they need to accept

that same Jesus to be saved. And so because of that has

helped me to understand that the way that I approach this ought

to be a lot different, meaning this you ought to ask a lot of

questions, come into these conversations like you know

nothing about Mormonism. And I'm not saying lie.

I'm not saying to try to present yourself falsely, but ask

questions to understand what they believe.

And in doing so, that will help you to be able to define your

terms. Here's where you can find hope

and comfort in the fact You say, well, pastor, I don't remember

what I was supposed to say to Jehovah Witnesses.

We looked at the witnessing to Jehovah Witness about, you know,

a month and a half ago. I don't remember what I was

supposed to say from that. You know, what do I do?

Well, here's what you can do with a Jehovah Witness you can

do with a Mormon. Listen, you can do with anybody.

Just ask questions. Just ask them questions.

For instance, you talk a lot about atonement.

What does that mean to you? Have you ever been baptized for

a dead person? Why did you do that?

Where do you see that in the Bible?

Can you explain to me why you think they're modern prophets?

Why don't the prophets always agree?

I know some Mormon prophets have taught that Adam was God.

Do you believe that by asking questions rather than just

making accusations, you can draw out a person's heart and

understand more about who they are and where they're coming

from and to be able to have a better biblical conversation,

all while being able to know where they're coming from

without having to remember. Oh, what did the Mormons

believe? How is it different than Jehovah

Witnesses? I don't remember.

I don't know what to say. We'll just ask them and even

just say, you know, I know there's some similarities

between the Jehovah Witnesses and the Mormons, but maybe can

you tell me a little bit about that?

You say, well, would they be insulted?

I think they would probably just say, well, we're not like

Jehovah Witnesses. They they'd say, well, and we'll

start giving you and now all of a sudden you have some things to

talk about because you have asked questions because you'll

start hearing things. You say, Nope, that's not in the

Bible. That's not in the Bible.

That's not in the Bible. This gives you points of

conversation, ask questions. Proverbs 20 verse 5 says, as

Proverbs 20:5

counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of

understanding will draw it out. Meaning this, that you are not

going into an adversarial, combative situation with this

person. What are you trying to do?

You're trying to draw the error out of them so that you

understand why they believe what they believe so that you can

then give them the truth. Again, we're not talking about

hiding the truth. We're not talking about

listening to error and saying, Oh yeah, well, Oh well, well,

God bless you and walking away. We're talking about having a

real conversation and being able to present the truth to them.

But don't you think you have a better opportunity to be able to

talk to one of these people with that type of comfort, with that

type of situation than being confrontational?

I've told you 2 stories about dealing with Jehovah Witnesses.

I've dealt with a lot more Jehovah Witnesses, the Mormons,

over the years. But I've talked to you about one

that was more combative, that was out here on the parking lot

where they were trying to win me to Jehovah Witness to be a job

witness in the parking lot of the Church of which I pastor.

And I had to tell, and I started with this.

I said, listen, you know, don't give me the new world

translation because that's a corrupt translation.

Now I'm right in that. But you know where that

conversation went? Nowhere.

It would absolutely nowhere because I shut them down before

we started. The best conversation I've ever

had with Jehovah Witnesses, as I mentioned to you before, was

when I was in Vermont and I saw three of them sitting there.

They're really the saddest looking people I ever saw.

A mother, a father and a teenage daughter.

And it was hot and they were sitting there and that you could

just tell they were like, is our hour done yet?

You know, they were waiting to get out of there.

So I bought them bottles of water at the store, a cold

bottles of water and brought it to him.

I started talking to him and I started asking him questions and

I talked about different things and I asked him, you know, you

know, why would you? Because I tried to give him a

track and they said they'd, you know, they wouldn't take.

I said, why would you not? Why would you not take a track?

I don't mind taking one of your pieces of literature.

You know, we had a good conversation here, dude.

Why would why would you be afraid to take a little piece of

paper that, well, we're not allowed to do that.

Where, where does it say in the Bible to be able to do that?

Can I tell you, I still wonder if I had an impact on them that

day more than anyone else ever talked to.

I'm not saying they got saved that day, but I'm wondering if I

planted something and Lord willing, someone else watered

and hopefully someday I meet him in heaven.

I pray that would be the case. But what is that?

What's the difference? Well, I was able to go define

terms. I was able to ask questions.

It was a different way of looking at it.

Listen, if I've learned anything about studying these cults and

studying these false religions, it's this, that they are so

typically mistreated when they go to a door that they are

expecting you're going to be a jerk.

Now listen, they're peddling falsehood.

I don't know that I feel sorry for them, but I will say this,

that just the fact that you treat them with just a tiny bit

of decency will go such a long way.

I've made a point to Jehovah Witnesses and Mormons and

talking to them before to say, listen, I appreciate what you do

and I stand up for the right for what you do because we do the

same. But I do say this, but we have a

different message. I support your right to be able

to go to door to door because it's what we do as a church as

well. But I will say don't be fooled.

Our messages are different. They are not the same.

And even in that, there's a little common ground.

Well, they support what we do. Well, I was able to tell them,

yeah, we support what you do in the sense that legally you

should be allowed to do it because we have the

constitutional right to be able to do so.

But you also are wrong in what you're doing.

And I want to tell you why. So making accusations or or

saying, Hey, did you know you're you're God lives on the planet

Kolob. Probably not a great way to

start. Did did you did you know, did

you know your God had a physical relations with Mary and that's

how Jesus was born? That's not a great way to start.

Now, is that a great way to win an argument?

Probably because you're going to show them how absurd they are.

Are you going to win them to Christ?

Probably not. So just define the terms.

You're not trying to win an argument, you are trying to win

them to Christ. And if in general, just remind

yourself this, don't quarrel, question, don't quarrel, don't

have a quarrel with them. Again, that doesn't mean that

you're not emphatic about what you believe, but you're not

trying to start an argument. Just ask them questions if

you're not sure you know, you know what is Mormonism like what

what, what do you believe? What, what is your church like?

You know, and as you just have an honest conversation with

them, you will find plenty of things to be able to talk to

them about the word of God because you've drawn it out of

them in a very normal conversation.

Their guard will come down. They won't be so as willing to

be able to maybe be adversarial as they were in the beginning.

Unless I'm not saying you're going to win them to Christ

necessarily. In fact, the chances are very

low that you're going to win a cultist to Christ at your door.

I'm not saying it can't happen, but I'm saying it's very low

because they're coming to be able to win you.

It's unlikely you'll do the opposite.

But what if you just push them a little bit closer to Jesus

Christ, the real Jesus Christ? Isn't that worth it?

Isn't that what we're trying to do?

So as you go, define your terms #4 show the sufficiency of

Scripture. Here's that word again.

Sufficiency. But it's not just Jesus Christ

that is sufficient. It is the Scriptures that are

sufficient. The eighth article of faith of

the LDS says this. We believe the Bible to be the

word of God as far as it's translated correctly.

Now that is their escape clause, meaning this we believe the

Bible is true, but anything we don't like, what's a

mistranslation? Isn't that kind of what the

Jehovah Witnesses did? And they did it to such a degree

that they created their own Bible.

But interestingly enough that when you interact with a Mormon,

guess what Bible they're going to use, They will be using the

King James Bible. So you will be able to have

familiar verses to be able to interact with them because you

will be on the same ground using the King James Bible as the

Mormons do. However, we believe that the

King James Bible has been preserved for the English people

is perfect, that there is no error within it.

They do not believe that about any Bible.

They do not believe that. And that is their way of saying

if something doesn't agree with them, well, that's just been

corrupted over time. Whenever there's been a problem,

they simply say, oh, well, it wasn't translated correctly.

And by the way, that's why the doctrine of both inspiration and

preservation are so important. The Word of God was inspired,

but it's also been preserved through all generations so that

we can know that we trust the Word of God when we have it in

front of us as we do man. There's a lot of verses about

this. Second Timothy 315 through 17

that from a child thou has known the Holy Scriptures which are

able to make thee wise, and the salvation through faith which is

in Christ Jesus. All scriptures by given by

inspiration of God is proful for doctrine, for reproof, for

correction, for instruction and righteousness, that the man of

God may be perfect again sufficient, thoroughly furnished

unto all good works. Proverbs 30, verses 5:00 and

6:00. Every word of God is pure.

He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou

be found a liar, and not unto his words.

Isn't that what the Mormons have done they've created three other

holy books to be able to be put on equal footing and really

greater footing than the word of God, but he said this don't add

to it. We can go to the end of the Book

of Revelation. What does it say?

Don't add to it. Don't subtract from it.

Psalm 19 verse 7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the

Psalms 19:7

soul, the testimony the Lord is sure making wise the simple.

Psalm one 19160 The word is true from beginning from the

beginning, and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth

forever. Isaiah 820 Galatians 189 over

and over and over again, the sufficiency, the preservation of

the Scriptures. You can trust the word of God.

You can trust the word of God that you have in front of you.

We thank the Lord for that. The Mormons do not believe that

First Nephi 13, verse 26. After the 12 apostles from the

Jews under the Gentiles, they have taken away from the gospel

of the Lamb many parts which are plain and most precious, and

also many covenants of the Lord have they taken away.

First Nephi 1328, few verses later.

There are many plain and precious things taken away from

the book which is the book of the Lamb of God.

Few verses later, verse 34. First Nephi chapter 13.

The Gentiles do stumble exceedingly because of the most

plain and precious parts of the gospel which have been kept back

by that abominable church doctrine and covenants 20 verse

9. The Book of Mormon contains the

fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles and to

the Jews also. Doctrines and Covenants 42 verse

12, The elders, priests and teachers of this church.

So I'll teach the principles of my gospel which are in the Bible

and the Book of Mormon, in which is the fullness of the gospel.

What are they saying over and over again?

The Bible is not enough, but yet the Bible teaches it is enough.

Listen, you can't have both. The Book of Mormon is a fraud

and a falsehood, and all of its other books like the Pearl of

Great Price and the Doctrines of Covenants, or the Bible is what

it is. They cannot hold the Bible and

say it is one of their holy books when it so plainly

contradicts what the Book of Mormon says.

The fullness of the gospel came through these books.

That means there was no gospel. That means that Jesus Christ was

wrong. That means Jesus Christ did not

do. And again, this goes back to the

sufficiency of Christ, that He was not enough.

No, this is not what is taught. And so there is certainly plenty

of place for conversation about the sufficiency of Scripture and

also those other books as well. Listen, wait to expose

contradictions. Now, is it important for us to

expose contradictions? Well, of course, of course it's

important. But again, as I mentioned

before, don't lead with that. Don't go through and talk about

the most egregious things first. As I said, every time that I've

talked to a Jehovah Witness and I've said something about, well,

the New World Translation is a corrupt translation.

Listen, that ends the conversation.

I'm right, but it ends the conversation.

And so I've learned that that's probably not the best way to go.

In fact, the best way to go is to be able to use their own

corrupted New World translation to be able to show them versus

that still remain that show who Jesus Christ is.

Remember we saw first John 1/3 that they scrub Jesus Christ and

His exclusivity as the Son in John 11, but yet they left an

opening and John 1/3 were able to show that through the New

World translation. But don't start from that point.

This is the place I've failed many times over the years is

again as I mentioned, I've tried to win the argument but not win

the heart and win them to Christ.

Now are there a lot of contradictions in their faith?

Yes. Are they contradiction?

They contradict the Bible, their books contradict the Bible,

their books contradict their own books, and on top of that, their

prophets contradict the books and the prophets contradict each

other. Is that confusing enough for

you? There's plenty of things.

Thank you, Marcia. There are many good things.

It is confusing, isn't it? There are plenty of things that

you can show that are contradictions, but make sure

that you get the conversation to the right place before you start

to be able to expose all these things.

And This is why these in any of these conversations, there's not

A1 size fits all way of dealing with it.

And I want to be careful in how I present this because really

you just have to be led by the spirit.

It would be like saying, well, there's one way to show someone

to Jesus Christ. Well, as long as it's biblical,

you might have many different approaches because people are

different. Some people might need a more

confrontational style. Some people you start like that,

they're gone. They don't want to talk to you.

And so be spirit LED when dealing with these things.

But I will say this, when Jesus talked with the woman at the

well, did he start with this? Hey, woman, you got you had five

husbands and the man that you're living with is not your husband.

I have a feeling that conversation would never have

commenced if he had opened with that.

Now he didn't avoid it. Let's be careful about this.

He didn't say, well, the only way I can reveal who I am is by,

you know, not really dealing with sin.

He dealt with her sin, but he dealt with it at a time when she

heard that that she was pricked in the heart.

She would not have been pricked in the heart.

If he had LED with that at the beginning.

What would have happened? She probably would have just

gone away. Now Jesus knows all hearts so

it's easy for him to be able to do right because he knows every

we don't know every heart and again, that's why it's so

important to be spirit LED got to go through these quickly.

Number six, share the rest that Christ brings.

This is true with all cultists. It's especially true with

Mormons because it's all about works.

There is no rest for them. They do and they do and they do

and they do. And again, you could say this

about Catholicism, you could say this about Jehovah Witnesses,

that it's all about doing works. And so because of that, there's

no real peace. But it is especially true at the

Mormons because of the hoops that they make them jump

through. They have to be able to do

things at the church level or the stake level.

They have to then end up doing things outside of their stake,

outside of their group of churches.

Then they have to do things in the temple, including being

baptized on behalf of the dead. They go through genealogies to

find people who may have died in their family in the past, and

they're baptized on their behalf.

The temple writes the temple rituals.

It goes on and on. On top of the fact that the men

from 18, I think he's 18 years old to 20.

I may be a little bit off on the on the ages, but I do know all

Mormon men are supposed to give two years to missionary work and

all Mormon women 18 months to mission work right at the

beginning of their lives. They gave their adulthood

rather. And So what are they doing?

They've been working and working and working and working and

working and working and still no promise of eternal life.

To be able to share with them that Jesus yoke is easy and his

burden is light is something they can't comprehend.

It is something they cannot understand.

So be able to share with them how you can have peace.

Well, I know for certain that I'll go to heaven someday.

To them that's unfathomable. They don't even know how that's

possible. You can show them from the

Bible. That's the case.

All the all the gospel interactions that took place in

the book of Acts. When they were done, people

said, well, I guess I'm a little bit closer to eternal life.

They never said that. They said this, I'm saved.

They came to understand that they knew Jesus Christ the

Savior. I look at the Ethiopian eunuch,

and by the time he was baptized, he didn't say, well, I guess I'm

a little closer to heaven. No, he went away rejoicing and

his life changed forever. Because there's rest that comes

with knowing Jesus Christ as your Savior.

And then #7 listen, don't ever get over this.

Share your testimony when you don't know what to do.

Share your testimony as you're listening and question them.

Find common ground. I have found over the years,

even though I didn't grow up Catholic, I grew up Lutheran.

I've been able to interact with a lot of people who were

Catholics because I found common ground in our stories.

Listen, Catholics believe 7 sacraments, Lutheran's believe

two. Guess what?

There's enough common ground there that I could show we were,

we had altar boys. I was an altar boy when I was a

Luther. Could you imagine me as an altar

boy? How cute would that be, right?

I was a 7th grader wearing the whole get up and a little limp

mustache, but it was pretty bad. So all things considered, but I

understood being an altar boy, I understood I never went through

CCD, but we had confirmation which what it was called.

So I'm able to find those things.

I'm able to talk to someone who was a Catholic or someone who

may be as newly saved, unable to find some common ground and

share my testimony. Listen, do you have much common

ground with a Mormon? No, but do you have some common

ground? Well, yes.

Here's why. If we go all the way back to

lesson 1, which seems like a a while ago, but if we went all

the way back, yeah, I feel you, Ralph.

But if we go all the way back to lesson 1, we saw there's really

only two religions, right? God and not God.

That's it. I mean, that's it.

So guess what? In the time you were not God,

you can find common ground with a Mormon.

You can maybe find, you know, listen, I wasn't a Mormon, but I

was a Catholic that I understood that I just never had peace

because I wasn't sure that I'd ever done enough.

I went to Catholic funerals and they were always telling us to

pray for the dead because know if they had gone to heaven or

not. And so I can empathize a little

bit of what you're saying. Be able some of your testimony,

listen, your testimony is the greatest weapon, if you will,

outside of the word of God that you have.

And if you don't know how to share your faith with somebody,

if you get confused, listen, just share your testimony.

You cannot go wrong saying how you got saved.

It is a wonderful thing and we say it's a weapon.

I don't mean it's a weapon in a offensive sense that on offense,

but the idea is this God has given you this life.

Share that transformation that took place and show them,

listen, I don't know that I can answer everything for you, but

he changed my life and talk about the woman at the well.

She ran away. She left her water pot down and

she didn't say, now let me explain to you the sufficiency

of Christ. Let me explain to you about his

dual nature of being 100% God, 100% man.

She couldn't explain all that. She said this.

Come see a man. He knows all things.

Surely this is the Christ. That's what she says.

Listen, if you can't say anything else, you could say

this. Surely this is the Christ.

He's changed my life and he's changed your life as well.

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