Almost every moment of every day we are being bombarded with information.
Much of that information tries to change us.
It comes from relatives, friends, advertisers,
and religious and political propaganda.
Most of us fight against all of this pressure.
The truth may be out there, but how can we find it
with all the noise that surrounds us?
And here I am, one more voice in all the babble. Why should you listen to me?
Please give me a few seconds to tell you why.
I have nothing to sell, and no person to promote.
This makes me different to most religious salesmen.
In this video, I will not argue over the hundreds of issues
that separate so many religious believers.
I am here for one reason. I want to promote the teachings of Jesus the Christ,
the only son of God.
Whenever I mention Jesus
most Christians assume that they too are promoting Jesus.
"Oh, yes," they say. "God bless you. I don't need to listen to you, because I've already heard it.
"I'm a Christian too!"
Like me, they can see flaws in others, but they cannot see flaws in themselves.
They strongly believe God is on their side...that they are right even if no other person is..
Maybe you ARE right.
But wait a minute or two before you decide.
I dare to say that the whole world --and that almost certainly includes you--
has never met Jesus, or has met Him and rejected Him.
And I will give you evidence to prove this.
You won't like it, but you will not be able to refute it.
Jesus compared Himself and His teachings to a cornerstone
or a solid rock that is used as a foundation for a building.
He said that the religious leaders would reject the Cornerstone
or replace solid rock with the sands of religious traditions.
Like the religious leaders who killed Jesus, religions everywhere will talk about prayer,
praise, helping the poor, fasting, sexual morality, Bible prophecy, miracles, exorcisms,
almost anything you can identify with modern-day Christianity.
But referring to all these people, Jesus said that, when He comes to judge the world,
He will be ashamed of them.
He will confess that he never knew them
and He will throw them into a dark place, where there will be weeping, wailing and the grinding of teeth.
I am not talking about some crazy cult leaders
or religious fanatics with weird doctrines.
I'm talking about the most respectable religious leaders of the day.
Men who had been chosen by the laws of their religion..
Jesus said they will be locked out of heaven for one simple reason:
They did not welcome God's ultimate revelation to the human race...
His message of hope, brought to us by his Son.
The religious world today, like the religious world in Bible times
will not be condemned for what it teaches; it will be condemned for what it does not teach...
what YOU are very likely not teaching...and that is the teachings of Jesus.
For more than 40 years, I have listened to religious people in many countries
as they talk about how to be saved from hell.
I listened closely, and agreed whenever I could find truth
in what each of them had to say.
You can be sure that I have heard your plan, or one very much like it.
Yet, not one of them seriously takes into account the teachings of Jesus.
Do you understand what I am saying?
Not one of you starts or finishes with obedience to Jesus Christ, the only begotten son of God!
Every single one steers me away from the teachings of Jesus
and into the teachings of some human replacement.
Everywhere I look, there are dry wells and clouds without water, as the Bible predicted.
Oh, there are many many wells and many clouds
each claiming to have that much needed water.
But they are all dry, all empty, all counterfeits.
Jesus said it would be like this in the days before He returns.
He compared life today to the days of Noah and the days of Lot.
In the whole world, God found only one family that was faithful in the days of Noah.
Then He asked Noah to work faithfully for literally decades
building a boat, far from water, and with not a drop of rain in sight.
It was a huge task, but Noah obeyed.
He gambled his whole life on this one strange message from God.
There were no healings, no feeding of the multitudes, no resurrection from the dead.
Just a conviction that God wanted him to build a boat.
We have so much more today. We have, in writing, what Jesus did and what he said.
All of human history is measured from the year when Jesus was born.
But what have we done with His teachings?
Don't tell me about your faith, if it contradicts what Jesus taught.
Abraham was convinced that there were hundreds of believers in Sodom.
Why do you think he thought that?
Surely it was because the cities were full of people who were respectable.
They must have been at least superficially religious.
We hear much about the awful sinners that were in Sodom.
But Jesus said nothing about religious heresy or sexual abominations in Sodom.
Instead, he talked about everyday average people...the ones who married and raised families...
the ones who planted crops and built houses...
the ones who filled the shopping malls every day, buying and selling.
They were all destroyed with fire from Heaven, because they were all fakes.
They talked religion, but did not really care about what God was saying.
We are living in those times today.
Everywhere there are religious fakes.
Some sound very pious, very convincing, very spiritual and emotional.
But they do not have real answers to the needs of our souls.
It is because NO ONE has the truth
that there are so many denominations in the world today.
Every new guru knows that no one has yet hit on the answer.
They are all bluffing. They are all teaching trivia.
The world is lost in the dark, both inside and outside of the churches.
Each new kid invents another trivial teaching.
and says it will fill the emptiness that they found
in all the other formulas.
I don't have a new formula.
All I have is the old one.
The one that you and all the others have pushed aside for so long.
The one that has been left out of every church and every plan of salvation.
The missing Cornerstone.
Friends, the Creator of the universe sent his only son, Jesus.
He sent him, to give us the answers.
You may have heard something like that before. But it always stops there.
What they give you as an answer is little more than a fresh coat of paint
over the same untreated rust that eats away at your soul, and at the souls of everyone else on the planet.
Until we... you... they see this, we will never look for, much less find, the real thing.
In this series of videos, I will look at the answers that Jesus has given.
You will see how they expose every other plan of salvation
as being worse than counterfeits.
Most, are clear contradictions, teaching the opposite of what Jesus taught.
I ask you to listen, asking yourself one question over and over:
Is he saying something that supports what Jesus taught?
Or is he saying something that contradicts what Jesus taught?
And every time you find yourself reacting to what I say,
ask yourself as honestly as you possibly can,
"Am I reacting because of my loyalty to what Jesus taught?
"Or am I reacting because I have a problem with what Jesus taught?"
You may be surprised by your own answers.
Thank you for listening.
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