Okay, with that, we're going to take it to the throne of grace with prayer before we begin our study tonight.

So please join me in a word of prayer.

Our Father in heaven, Lord, we come to you now with a humble heart, with one mind, and we pray that you would indeed go before

us now and bless this study that you would have your children here. Lord, I ask that you

would just remove emotions and feelings and allow your Holy Spirit to break down the barriers of

those emotions that we often have and allow your truth to be heard. And with your truth, penetrate

the hardest of hearts and allow us to learn from your truth and take heed to your truth and be better stewards of your word

and better Christians by your truth. And we thank you now for that which only you can do. And I pray and know that you will.

In the mighty name of Jesus to Christ we pray, amen.

So tonight, and with the Lord's permission, we're going to tackle a touchy topic dealing with yet another group of professing Christians called the Mormons. And now

this topic hits really close to home because they are many Mormons here on the island of Oahu

and I'm quite sure there are even Mormons or prior Mormons here with us tonight but it has to. And once again, this is not an attack on the people

involved in this practice, but we as Christians need to fully understand that this is not

Christianity or perhaps more pointedly being true followers of Jesus Christ. It's not.

One of the things that always gets lost in the understanding of what a Christian is is just that.

What is a Christian according to the Bible?

And we often hear so many groups calling themselves Christians, but they are not.

And unfortunately, Mormons also welcome this title Christian, but their doctrine proves otherwise as we will see.

But before we do so, let's biblically define what a Christian is.

And also, if you discuss with people about being a Christian that may be of a different cult, shall I say,

you need to have your definitions up front and let them know what you believe and why you believe it.

That's biblical.

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