Watch a little television or read a magazine or scroll through social media.

You'll quickly spot modern-day idols, beauty and sex and power, anything money can buy.

Today on Truth for Life, we'll learn why these things can never satisfy the deepest

longings of the heart, but God can. Alistair Begg is teaching from Isaiah chapter 45, along

with Acts chapter 17. In pantheism, since God is everything, that means logically that God is not only moral good,

but God is also moral evil, because God is everything. Therefore, good and evil are God. And as a result of that,

there is no hope then of evil being overcome. And I think, and I would want to be very guarded

in saying this, that this is one of the reason that so many of the faces of the people that I saw

are as gloomy as they are, are as unresponsive as they appear to be. I'm not talking about

Christian believers now, where the joy of the Lord is their strength. I'm talking just about

moving amongst the masses of the Lord is their strength. I'm talking just about moving amongst the masses of

humanity. That may be completely wrong, but I'm not sure that I am, and I think it lies in this,

that when you believe that all of the sin that you have accrued, you cannot be relieved of,

that your only hope is in reincarnation, that when you are reincarnated, you sin inevitably again,

so you're stuck all over again, so you know you're going to have to be reincarnated again.

And all of that dreadful emptiness and all of that dreadful pessimism and all of that dreadful horribleness, you see, speaks volumes in

a culture. So that, let's take a disabled child. Let's take a man who limps down the street.

Why does he limp down the street, according to Hinduism?

Because of sin in his past.

That's why he has been incarnated in this way.

Now, what he needs to do is do a better job in the hope that in his next incarnation, he may

somehow or another be able to be freed from all of these things.

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