Scientology in Light of the Bible

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The title of my sermon tonight is Scientology in light of the Bible Scientology in light of the Bible now this is a false religion that people have been asking me to preach against for a long time and so finally I decided to break down and and preached this sermon and honestly a lot of the things that are preached in this sermon will cross over to a lot of other false religions because frankly there's no new thing under the Sun the devil operates in the same ways over and over again and just keeps repackaging the same false doctrines and so there's going to be some crossover especially with Mormonism with Catholicism with Hinduism because they have a lot of the same beliefs as this false religion of the Church of Scientology he say wasn't just people in Hollywood.

Well actually six miles from here there's the church of scientology right up off of forty fourth street and indian school road and this religion is primarily associated with Hollywood because the founder of this religion actually purposely sought out Hollywood stars he made a list of Hollywood stars that he wanted to recruit to the religion because he had this idea if i could get the Hollywood actors on board with it then other people want to be cool like them and there are a lot of people who do follow these Hollywood stars as role models and what people don't understand is that these actors are not really the people that they're pretending to be in the movies I know that sounds real basic but honestly they see these actors portraying these really cool characters and maybe there's some kind of an action hero or a spy or some kind of a super intelligent person they don't realize that these actors in real life many of them are some of the stupidest people that you'd ever meet a niche and if you actually watch an interview with these people they're not as cool as they are in these movies you know the big poster child of Scientology is Tom Cruise and if you actually listened to an interview where Tom Cruise talks about Scientology.

You're gonna walk away saying this guy is an imbecile.

Yeah right now he looks real cool in the movies and everything but he's an idiot same thing goes for Brad Pitt or the recipes be the same thing goes for the female you know stars that everybody who's and AHS over there is a writer that's writing the script that these people are performing that's not really their words that's not really who they are when they're acting in the movies it's all an illusion but let's just start out with some of the basic teachings of Scientology and I just went to their website Scientology door go straight to the source and right away when i clicked on their beliefs one of the very first things that they come out with is that Scientology holds man to be basically good man is basically good now right away that flies in the face of biblical doctrine that's the exact opposite of what the Bible teaches you're there in Romans 3 i'll get to that in a moment but the Bible says in Jeremiah 17-9 the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it.

What does the Bible mean by the heart it means that which is inside of us who we are on the inside that they think is basically good.

The Bible says that the heart is deceitful above all things so it's deceitful more than anything and it says it's desperately wicked Ecclesiastes 720 says for there is not a just man upon the earth that do with good and sinneth not look at Romans 310 as it is written there is none righteous no not one there is none that understand it there is none that seeketh after god they're all gone out of the way there together become unprofitable there's none that do with good no not one their throat is an open Sepulchre with their tongues they've used deceit the poison of ASPs is under their lips whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness their feet are Swift to shed blood destruction and misery in their ways and the way of peace have they not known there is no fear of god before their eyes this a description of mankind is what people are like.

And is not basically good man is a sinner now why is mana center will go to Romans chapter 5 and the Bible explains why men are sinful why man is not basically good are inherently good the Bible says in Romans 5 12 wherefore as by one man talking about Adam sin entered into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned look at verse 15 but not as the offense so also is the free gift for if through the offensive one many be dead do you see that through the offensive one many be dead much more the grace of god and the gift by grace which is by one man Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many look at verse 19 for as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous talking about Jesus the Bible is clear isn't it there by the by one man's disobedience the many were made sinners death passed upon all men now we're not punished for Adam sinned we're not suffering for his sin but because he passed on to us the sin nature we said and as a result of our own sin we pay the punishment for that which is death unless we receive salvation through Jesus Christ and we get that free gift that we just read about in verse 15 so the Bible teaches very clearly that man is sinful by nature because of the fact that Adam sin and death has passed upon all men for the Dolph's in Ephesians 2 3 you don't have to turn there says among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh of the mind and we're by nature the children of Wrath even as others so we have a nature that is a sinful nature that comes from Adam we are not basically inherently good no we're basically inherently a sinner now if we look around at the world we see that to be true if we look at Scientology.

His website and it tells us that man's basically good it doesn't take long to look around the world and figure out that's not true is the worlds away a wicked place the world is filled with suffering and misery and the world is filled with violence and horrible things now maybe not if you're living in Hollywood and a little bubble you think everything's wonderful all I actually Hollywood's filthy place by God standards but they might think it's wonderful and they're sick kind of way but the bottom line is though this world is full of destruction and misery as the Bible said it would be it's amazing to me how someone can say well I've seen too many horrible things in the world to believe the Bible anymore you know if you see horrible things in this world that's just make you believe the Bible more to the Bible told you that man is deceitful and desperately wicked and that the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty that's what the Bible said would happen why are you surprised when you see that but in Hollywood that's where the big scientology church is that you know we went to the hospital at the hollywood presbyterian hospital there and just walking distance right there was that big giant blue building the church of scientology and it has this cross on it as its emblem and I'm just asking myself why would the church of scientology have a cross on it when it denies the Lord Jesus Christ the church of scientology has nothing to do with Jesus but yet they want to ride on his coattails by using that symbol of the cross know that cross represents Jesus dying on that cross for the sins of mankind and providing salvation but the first point on the statement of faith on Scientology's website is that man's basically good and that is spiritual salvation depends upon himself at the exact quote man is basically good and His salvation depends upon himself well that cross represents depending on Jesus not depending on yourself neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.

So you say well how can Scientology you know look around.

World and see all the destruction and misery that the Bible describes and then walk away saying that man is inherently good you know what is their explanation for why the world is so messed up what is their explanation for all of people problems well the reason that they're messed up according to Scientology is because they have these other spirits living inside of them these parasites alien spirits living inside them now in order to understand what that means I'm gonna have to you know explain to you some of the doctrine of Scientology ok now here's the thing about Scientology it's a lot like Mormonism in the sense that they don't just walk up to you and start coming out with all the really weird stuff they start out with a lot of stuff that sounds good that makes sense that sounds really reasonable and they slowly draw you in and it gets weirder and weirder and it's like the frog and the hot water you don't notice how weird it's getting because it's a gradual progression and you get so emotionally invested in it that at that point it's kind of too late for you to back out psychologically so they don't come out with this really weird stuff right away but this is what they believe I listened to actual audio of the founder of l ron hubbard himself explain what I'm about to explain to you from his own mouth Jesus standing there explaining it and is this common knowledge but this is what they tell their members hey don't look at this stuff don't you know because here's what L ron Hubbard said he said if people are exposed to these advanced teachings too soon it could actually cause them physical pain or death so you know just a disclaimer here I hope nobody falls over dead when I explain these teachings because you know he said that some people could sell for a pulmonary embolism for example if they hear these teachings too early you know before they're ready.

So he talked about people could literally fall over dead from hearing these things and when I give you these teachings you'll understand why but anyway here's the source of the trouble folks.

According to the.

Church of scientology about 75 million years ago.

Ok there was this tyrannical King names emu ok and this tyrannical Kings emu was actually the king over a whole galactic federation there are a lot of planets involved in this Federation in fact each of these planets had about a hundred and seventy eight billion inhabitants each which is pretty substantial okay well he was voted out of office as being the leader but before his term of leadership ended he had this scheme to imprison a lot of these various creatures these aliens you know from these other planets that he presided over he wanted to get rid of a lot of these beings so he devised a plan whereby they could be captured and frozen okay and then transported to Planet Earth ok now planet earth in those days was not known as planet Earth it was it wasn't start with a TI don't remember what he called it but anyway I they were transported in airplane these spaceships but they looked a lot like nineteen fifties airplanes because remember L ron Hubbard's coming up with all this in the fifties so basically old by the way the way that they lived on these other plants is a lot like the united states in the fifties 75 million years ago but the streets the house and everything was similar to nineteen fifties la ok and the plane he literally said he literally said that these spaceships literally looked like and were shaped like any name the aircraft of the fifties you know of a commercial airliner so these commercial airliners came to earth with all these alien beings that were frozen in cryostasis ok but I feel bad for people just walked into the sermon and have no idea what I'm talking about that's what you get for showing up late so you know he brings all these beings right and he takes them to these you know volcanoes around hawaii and basically thought them out and he sets off these nuclear bombs which kills them you know course so he blow them all up with nuclear explosions but obviously that's not going to get rid of their souls though you know all these billions of alien beings that he brought over the scum of the Galactic universe that you want to get rid of say bring him over he blow them all to smithereens with an atomic blast in hawaii all right and then their souls are released up into the air but he was ready for that obviously he knew that just destroying the body doesn't get rid of the soul ok so he had these giant magnetic devices that would basically act as like a soul vacuum and suck up all the souls of these creatures so he sucked up all these billions of of refractory spirits okay and he basically brainwash them he put them in a reg occation program where they're brainwashing they're released again into the earth.

Ok now 75 million years ago of course you know there were no human beings on this planet but over the course of time and through evolution you know mankind developed and here's what happened when mankind developed all of these spirits floating around what he calls Satan's these Dayton's began to attach themselves to human beings okay but it's not on a one-to-one ratio it's not like one of these things attached itself to one human being or know people people can be teeming with these things and in fact people are all of us are according to Scientology you know we all have all these these alien spirit parasites living inside of us and the goal of Scientology one of the goals is to get these things out of you you know and they call this being clear you know so you go through ages of Scientology where you're pretty clear then you're clear and then you get to where you're an OT not an OG I said in OT which is an operating a time where you're like your own fate am you know I mean with you and your control your own destiny you have all these other fate hands in you messing with you and creating all these problems in you ok so what does the Bible say about this well nothing but anywho hey let's see what the helpful spent go to mark chapter 7 alright mark chapter 7 because remember man's basically good i mean madman's inherently good it's just you know it's that evil Kings emu and all these messed up brainwash Satan's that he released that are causing us all the trouble but see according to the Bible what causes us the trouble is us where the problem where centers we have a sinful nature we can't blame some outer being now when you think of these fates hands according to Scientology you can't help but think of demon possession in the Bible you know where where there are you know evil spirits demons ok but here's the difference ok yes the bible does teach that there are evil spirits nothing to do with z mu and his giant space aircraft but the bible does talk about evil spirits and demons but here's the difference though yes there are people that are possessed in the Bible but sin is not blamed on the demons all the demons made me do it there used to be a popular pan that said the devil made me do it that people would wear and in fact this reminds me of the pentecostal movement where everything is blamed on demons and they say we need to cast out the demon of alcoholism and the demon of pornography and the demon of cursing and you know all these different demons but look what the Bible actually says in Matthew and Mark chapter 7 verse 20 and he said that which cometh out of the man that defile the man for from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts adulteries fornications.

Murders that's covetousness wickedness to see lasciviousness and evil eye blasphemy pride foolishness all these evil things come from within and defile the man go to James chapter 1 quart of the Bible it's our heart that's the source of evil thoughts it's our heart that gives rise to all of these sinful things because we're not inherently good we are inherently a sinner.

That's why we need Jesus Christ to save us that way we can be forgiven of our sins and also he will create us a new creature and then we have that new creature in Christ and through christ we can do all things through christ which strengtheneth us and we can have the victory over sin in our lives we still have the Flash to deal with but we can have the victory through Jesus blaming sand on the devil is not biblical yes the devil does have an influence in this world yes there are people who are possessed and you know I believe that I've run into people that have been possessed but when people are possessed it's a very extreme case where the Bible talks about people being possessed as you know throwing themselves in the fire and throwing himself in the water cutting themselves with stones that you know this isn't just your everyday sin where does everyday send come from James chapter 1 verse 13 tells us let no man say when he is tempted I am tempted of god for god cannot be tempted with evil neither tempteth he any man but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed then when lost have conceived it bringeth forth sand and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death over and over again the Bible is blaming man we can't push the blame off on to some other spirit ok obviously this story of Scientology is just bizarre ridiculous psychotic rantings of a lunatic ok there's no question about that but when anybody just tries to blame all the problems in the world and all the scenes on demons that's false to even if it's under the guise of Christianity there's no demon of drunkenness in the Bible you're the demon of talking this of your trunk.

It's you you're the problem all the demon of pornography.

No it's the lust of your heart it's the lust of your flesh that gives rise to sin in your life now here's something else that i read on their home page of their website they said Scientology is not a dogmatic religion in which one is asked to accept anything on faith alone on the contrary one discovers for itself that the principles of Scientology or true by applying its principles and observing are experiencing the results so it's not about faith for them it's about trying it and experimenting and seeing the results for yourself it's wife called Scientology because they're basically trying to say that it's a scientific method where it's based on trial and error observe the results we don't expect you to believe well thank you for not expecting me believe that z mu story because I can't but they say it's not based on faith hey that's exactly the opposite of biblical Christianity because biblical Christianity is based on faith what does the Bible say in Hebrews 11 6 but without faith it is impossible to please him for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him the Bible says in Romans 10 17 so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God not by observation trial-and-error doing experiments no its faith in fact that's what makes it a religion.

Hey but sought you say well then why is Scientology religion.

Well here's why it's a religion because they basically we're getting sued for practicing psychiatry without a license and practicing medicine without a license so they switched to being a religion basically for legal reasons see this is how the whole thing started and i'm not going 75 million years back to z mu but I'm going back just to the nineteen fifties with the sky l ron Hubbard who was this guy l ron hubbard he's a science fiction writer ok in fact listen this now he was the most prolific science fiction writer in the history of mankind and what I mean by that is that he holds the record the world record for writing more books than anyone else has ever written this guy wrote was called pulp fiction he basically was tasked to just crank out just a bunch of kind of junk fiction science just sci-fi weirdo stuff and he was paid a penny a word any work ok so basically he's just feverishly typing at his typewriter just whatever weird thing he can come up with is doing that for years.

Maybe that's what made him go crazy and come over the stuff but he's literally a sci-fi writer you know before he came out with Scientology he's just writing science fiction to the tune of just hundreds and thousands and millions and millions of words of just junk literature.

Ok cranking this step out so then he writes this book called Dianetics now I don't know about you but I i grew up in California and I remember seeing the TV commercials for this as a kid almost every day you know you need to order dianetics and all the sub was on TV all the time but he wrote this book and what it was was like an alternative to psychiatry like a new kind of sight he said you know psychiatry psychology is bad this is a better way to fix these issues but what happened was he was starting to get in trouble with the law because it was being considered quackery he had this weird little instrument where he took these electrodes up and and basically ask you questions and the little meter would move and he'd say oh you know.

Well here's the thing you're not allowed in the United States to basically just set up shop as a psychiatrist or dr. and use these kind of quackery methods that have no basis in reality it's illegal to be a charlatan like that so basically they were coming down on him and suing him shutting them down finding him because he's operating as a psychiatrist without a license or as a doctor without a license he's claiming to be able to cure these mental disorders through Scientology you know which wasn't called Scientology back then through Dianetics what it was called back then.

Ok so this Dianetics you know it's not about z mu because that member that's one where you get real deep into it before you start learning about Zemo so it starts out what they tell you when you first get into it is they talked about the fact that basically you've had these traumatic experiences in the past in your life that have damaged your psyche and you know we need to go in and repair that stuff through like a counseling session you know similar to what a psychiatrist would do except you're hooked up to this machine and they're taking notes on everything and yacht it's called auditing you know they they get that they audit you step is not the IRS they're auditing your brain ok so basically because of these legalities he ended up around 1953 turning this into a religion instead that way he could get the tax-exempt you know 501c3 status and that way he could be protected from this kind of you know scrutiny of the medical community or anything because they just started putting labels on that electronic device that they use and just say hey there's a religious artifact like a like a cross would be your rosary bead or whatever you know it says device so that's why it's known as a religion and then that's when he just started kind of just taking it down the religion route and kind of coming out with all the real weird beliefs and stuff and turning it more and more into a religion over time so they're saying hey don't have faith in it don't believe in it try it so they offer you know you go on their website free personality tests and you know they want you to try.

It and kind of get into it and and see how it goes and they want you to come tour the facility and then have a free read out with that you know free auditing session or whatever to get you in the door the first ones free but then it starts costing money ok now here's the thing about this so just try it for yourself don't believe us.

Yeah do we just try all drugs to just try it don't research what's in the drugs don't research what it's done to other people don't read all the scuttlebutt all the people who have been damaged by no no just try heroin for yourself then make a judgment I mean this is a stupid philosophy of just all just try it don't look into it and research it just try you know let years helping the judge but here's the problem with that kind of logic is that a lot of things are great in the beginning and then the long run they're bad like for example you die and go to hell because you believe in Scientology and reject Jesus but there are a lot of things that might work good in the beginning or you know I'm sure that a lot of people the first time that they tried drugs enjoyed it or had a good experience but then the bad experiences came later their life being destroyed came later and i'm just using that as an illustration of this holo try it it's free what will you know what can it hurt but they lure you in with this mild stuff and then they get you to start paying for it and then slowly after you've already paid a bunch of money after you're already locked into it then they start rolling out the really strange doctrine now look what the Bible says in Matthew chapter 10 go to Matthew chapter 10 because there are no secrets with bible-believing Christianity isn't it interesting how colts like Mormonism and colts like Scientology they always hide their beliefs and roll them out later because it's the same thing with the mormons they come to you they want they don't want to talk about the Starbase Kolob they don't want to tell you and listen the Mormons believe and if you want to know what Mormons believe let me tell you there's a cartoon on youtube just search for band.

Mormon cartoon be aanndd and let me tell you something i have books in my office that were purchased at the deseret book store.

Okay i have done research with you know Mormon Church approved materials and let me tell you something everything in that cartoon is factual i have personally fact checked everything present because the cartoon when you watch it you're like there's no way they can really believe this but I systematically fact checked everything in that cartoon with stuff from their own bookstore and it all checks out it's all true that cartoon where it talks about how there are billions of God's ruling their own planets and how you know our God came down from planet near the star Kolob and all this stuff it's all it's all their band Mormon cartoon search that it'sit's it tells you what they believe it's accurate I fact checked it i don't just believe everything I hear is fact checked it with their own books.

See I always like to go to the horse's mouth you know and the truth is stranger than fiction.

You know when you go in fact check this stuff it's all true and in fact I've knocked on the doors of how many hundreds of mormons and when you mentioned to them you know the Mormon Church believes that there's multiple gods and that's not true we only believe in one God everything and then this is what i do to get them because they won't admit they're just lie to you they'll just look right in your face and just lie to you and say I have no idea what you're talking about.

I have no idea we're talking about other gods of the planets here's how i get him i say have you ever sung a song in your church called if you could hi to Kolob because they have a him that they sing if you could hi to Kolob is Kolob is the planet the other planet in the Mormon cartoon that they deny don't know what you're talking about man I've never heard of Kolob and I don't know what you know it's always ask them and every Mormon that I've ever asked if they're an english-speaking Mormon the Latino Mormons I think they seeing different songs but the the english-speaking Mormons I asked him have you ever sung song.

If you could hide to Kolob every single one of them said yes.

Oh yeah i know that song even if they'd only been a Mormon for a few months they said yeah we have sung that song I said the song talks about multiple gods in the song and it's talking about the planet kolob in the song and I start singing the lyrics and they're like yeah okay and then they'll start admitting it well okay yeah we do believe in that then why have you been lying to me for several minutes.

Anybody who's been so when he knows that they've had an experience like that with Morgan if they do in Mormon area but let me ask you this are there any secrets with the Baptist dirty secrets with bible-believing Christianity is there anything where you you come to church for a couple years and then all the sudden whoa I didn't know you guys believe that no it's all out there in the open all of it always has been always will be you know why it's always out in the open look down at your Bible there in Matthew did I have you turn 10 or 5 look at Matthew 1027 this what Jesus said what i tell you in darkness that speaking in light and what you hear in the year that preachy upon the housetops see Jesus then whisper in their ear and say hey don't tell anybody unless say you know unless they reach this level and you know once they've been saved for 10 years roll that out but isn't it funny how these false religions have that in common mormonism is like that Scientology's like that.

What's that other book that they tell you it's slipping my mind right now i want to say Hinduism where they teach you that you have to be 40 years old to start reading one of their scriptures i forget which one it is I I don't know why I'm drawing a blank on that but they tell you wait til you're 40 now I'm sorry its Judaism Judaism tells you wait til you're 40 to start studying the Kabbalah you know you're not ready for the Kabbalah until age 40 you know wait til you're 40 and so what I mean what would do we have anything like that in bible-believing Christianity no it's just all out in the open we don't hide anything you say well why do you put all the sermons online aren't you afraid that somebody's going to use your words against you know the reason that.

All the sermons are online that I preach here faithful Word Baptist Church unedited uncensored put out for the world is because jesus said preaching from the housetops he said nothing covered that should not be revealed and head that should not be known what i tell you in darkness that speak you light preach it upon the housetops there's nothing that i believe I'm ashamed of where it's like oh man let's not put this sermon on the internet too hot for the internet you know CD only or whatever her.

Hey you know let's not put that in the statement of faith let me know everything that we as Christians everything that we have bible believing Baptist teach is all open because the truth doesn't have anything to hide like the Kabbalah and the the Mormonism the Scientology look at chapter five and we'll see the same thing taught by Jesus in chapter 5 verse 14 year the light of the world a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven you have to turn there but Philippians 2 15 that you may be blameless and harmless the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom you shine as lights in the world holding forth the word of life that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I've not running bay neither laboured in vain holding forth the word of I hide it under a bush oh no I'm gonna let it shine but yet these false religions they want to hide in the darkness they loved darkness more than light because their deeds are evil.

We don't have anything in the Bible that were ashamed of.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ at the power of God unto salvation and there's nothing in this book that I'm ashamed of all stand up and read any verse in this book publicly and say this is true this is right i believe in it but you know it's a little embarrassing to get up and start talking about z mu putting a bunch of billions aliens in cryostasis bringing them over on 1950 style airplane spaceships thought them out in the volcanoes of Hawaii and then look at the mall and catching on their souls in a big soul catcher and then brainwashing and re-educating a relation to planet I don't get it yeah but told crews school he's not that cool ok look ok Tom Cruise is cool okay I get it but he's not that cool you'd have to be pretty cool to make me believe in that and you're not that cool Tom Cruise and John Travolta's definitely not that cool he's not even close to being cool about to give me to believe that you know by the way John Travolta is a laughingstock and by the way did you know that John Travolta's a sodomite to did you know yeah it came out a few years ago these sodomite home John Hollywood actors a sodomite potatoes and so but you know John Travolta he made this film based on one of l ron Hubbard's books because l ron hubbard after he done the Scientology gig for a while he had the itch to get back into science fiction writing so in the early eighties he put out a new science fiction book right and then basically he he pressured all of his church organization all the cult members all the brainwashed followers he pressured them all to go out and buy the book there were people who bought eight hundred copies of the book branches of the church literally doc you know somebody somebody bought eight hundred copies and then that where they're buying them and then shipping them out and selling them again and then all the churches are buying them in stock bottom in order to get it on like a best seller list and by the way another preacher recently was busted doing that because mark driscoll put out his book and then by the bunch of copies of his own book to get it on the bestseller list to build the hype and so forth so he comes out with this book gets all of his followers to buy eight hundred copies of it or whatever pumps it up it's everybody into it and john travolta gets real excited about this book is all this is the greatest sci-fi book ever like a stupid this book ever but anyway this this weirdo sci-fi book makes no sense he comes out the early eighties so John Travolta spend the next 16 years trying to get this thing turned into a movie.

I mean he spends from like the early eighties all the way to the late nineties trying to get this thing turned it into a movie and everybody's like know it sucks but but anyways trying to get a return the movie so then finally he gets some shady dishonest corrupt movie studio to turn this thing into a movie by lying to the investors and telling them it had a real big budget when in reality they were cooking the books and it was a fraud it was actually a lower budget production and they're trying to say it had a bigger budget and eventually they ended up getting sued and going out of business because it came out the fraud.

It was a fraud that that you know but anyway finally gets to make this movie battlefield earth.

Ok came out in the year 2000 I've never seen it thank God but it's considered it's considered by many people to be the worst movie of all time I'm not getting many many lists its risks it received in a war you always liked the best picture there's another award that goes to the worst movie you know it's not the Oscars but it's some other group that put these out and it wanted for that year like worst week but many people to this day consider it the worst movie of all time even Tom Cruise was just like what are you doing you know what this movie john travolt are you insane it's it's considered the biggest flop in history as being just the the mockery of the century of movies okay so he created this bizarre foolish sci-fi film I don't know what that has to do with the sermon but don't watch it.

Anyway go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 9 by the way you know there's so much to talk about Scientology I'm kind of trying to focus on the beliefs of Scientology and in my sermon Scientology light of the Bible but you know honestly there are all kinds of stories from the eyewitnesses and people who've been involved in it about how they were stalked you know they try to leave Scientology and they're being stalked and harassed and they're all kinds of stories out there and you know it's hard to know what's true and what's exaggeration but you know what I'm preaching tonight is everything preaching tonight is directly from their website or its from the mouth of the man himself.

L ron hubbard himself i mean all this is emo and I it's all out of his mouth isn't here say this in a rumor but you know you want to talk about rumors there's a lot about Scientology there are plenty of people who have been burned that will tell you all the the crazy things in the weird things but here's another thing that's on the record.

Ok they have the servants of Scientology who sign this contract to become like a servant of Scientology and they signed the country guess how long the contract is for 1 billion years so children seven-year-olds eleven-year-olds will sign a contract that they're going to speed servants of the religion for the next 1 billion years and basically they teach what you know you live forever so you know billion years what's a billion years in the scheme of eternity is considered a small sacrifice my many people just to just to you know just give us give us a billion years you know and then after that we'll reevaluate they'll I mean how weird is that to sign up and say I'm going to be the servant of signed up for the next billion years ok but here's the thing about it in Scientology and I i'm running out of time I just want to hit some key points here in Scientology you pay for these teachings.

Ok that's another thing about this you pay for the auditing sessions and then in order to get into the real deep teachings you pay for it and they get more.

And more expensive as you go up the level and there are eight levels at the the OT stage you know the operating thetan stage there eight levels of teaching to get the eight teaching you can only get it aboard this certain boat you have to be aboard this cruise ship called the free wins and you have to be out in the middle of the ocean with these people for them to teach you the final stage level 8 and its really expensive obviously but but it's like you know they get you out in the middle of the ocean to tell you about it it's that weird okay but you pay all along the way now here's how it works though when he first came out with it ok one of the things was you bye week when you sign into it you by 24 hours worth.

Ok you pay you know 500 bucks or whatever and you get 24 hours worth ok what I think the best way to illustrate this is it's sort of like a gym membership.

Ok january first rolls around your you know new year's resolution i'm going to get in shape I'm gonna lose weight that you know pumps like so you buy that gym membership right and people then feel like they have to go to the gym because they've already paid for it well i paid for it i'm going to get some use out of this.

That's why some people get a gym membership because they feel like it's gonna just going to force me to work out because I you know I feel like I paid for it so i think the psychology is kind of the same here where you buy a bunch of these sessions and then you feel like why already paid for it so I'm at least going to do what i paid for you know I paid for 24 hours of this stuff and so i'm going to go ahead and do it and then as you get into it you're putting more money into it they're finding more issues that need to be fixed and you kind of just get sucked into it and and then it's sort of like a gambler you start throwing good money after bad you know and and and they get into it and you pay you pay and where your treasure is there will your heart be also.

So by getting you to pay for it your kind of now not just emotionally invested in it but now you're actually financially investment people don't like to feel like they're an idiot so when people spend five hundred dollars on some they don't want to admit like wow that was a stupid waste of five hundred dollars so they've spent 500 since like well you know maybe and they're gonna try to justify that it was a good investment did help me God helped you know and then they get deeper and deeper into it but see paying for the truth you know the Bible says by the truth and sell it not and the fact that you have to pay for these teachings is not biblical ok now i don't know about you but I've never been to a baptist church that charge me money to walk in the door and here preaching now the closest thing to that is sometimes they'll have these conferences where there's like a charge to go to the conference I I just refused to pay i called an independent fundamental baptist church across town one time and said hey I just want to come and listen to preaching tonight but i'm not going to pay.

I don't want to pay to go to church you know because it's like a conference and use the registration for whatever i'm like i'm not going to pay though and the lady litter I'm not kidding she said to me it's fine but just sit in the back that's literally what she's at that's stupid and you know Baptists are doing it they're wrong to do it by the truth and sell it not have to pay to go to church pay to listen to preaching hey and then think about how shady that is it's like it's like these videos that you see on an infomercial all then i'm going to give you all the secrets to success in business you know and I'm has been a half hour without giving you any of those secrets but I'm has been a half hour telling you how great they are but if you pay the 200 dollars i'll send you all the materials you get all the CD the DVD the books and everything look here's the thing if you really wanted people to know the truth you just put it out there is put out tell everybody the truth let everybody know but to have to buy the teachings and pay for it you have to pay now when Scientologist have been attacked for this here's what the point you will other religions you donate to like for example tightening the point to and they'll say you know this is just like tithing it.

Yep here's the difference with tithing tithing is not enforced tithing is not mandatory where the church is like heavy page ties heavy time digitized what are you doing here then.

Don't you know these lights cost money don't you know this building the rent costs money.

The chair you're sitting on costs money did you tithe my salary costs money but when have you ever heard a Baptist Church and force the tithe and make it mandatory.

Now a lot of people that hate the doctrine of tithing they'll try to act like it's mandatory or something like we're forcing you to type but you know the honest truth is I've never been in a Baptist Church that forced to tie I've never been in a church that enforced tithing or sad tidings mandatory to come here no time no Simon you know pay me you know it's never happened okay and if it is you're in there too bad church get out of that church that's weird now look I do believe and this is a whole other sermon and I preached sermons on this you can search my sermons if you want to you know I do believe in tithing ok i do believe that tithing is a commandment of God but here's the thing it's not something that's enforced by man it's something that's done willingly of your own free will.

Look it's just like we don't force you to come to church is it a command of God to go to church yeah but are we going to force you know let me ask this are you commanded by God to read the bible does God command you to read the Bible should i preach should i preach that it's a command of God to read the Bible yeah I should preach that right ok but should I force people to read the Bible no see that's the difference so nobody's being forced you can never read the Bible and still come here and listen to preaching and be a part of our church you can be a church member and never read about your not right with god you're going to get dumber and dumber but you can do that you're free to do what does the Bible say its second Corinthians 97 every man according as he purposed in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver right chair full giver not you know give me the time right.

But again it is a command of god it's not optional just like reading your Bible is not optional just like prayer is not optional.

Just like you know anything that God commands us not optional but that's different than them saying alright pay and will give you the teachings totally different philosophy now some people you know well I don't want to go off on that too much but you know another cult and seems like the Mormons just keep coming up when the start and the Scientology sermon but you know what that's another one that in forces tithing if you're going to get married in the temple which to them that's their way into heaven I mean that's the way to the celestial kingdom in order to participate in those rituals you have two tied and they do monitor the tithing and you have to prove to them that you type in order to take part in those rituals the endowment you know the married in the temple etc it is enforced tithing isn't it due bible-believing Christians and for styling Baptist I mean it who's ever been have you ever been in a Baptist Church where they enforce the tithing you put up your hand if anybody yeah nobody right because it's it's it's cultic it'sit's cult-like at that point okay another thing flip over to Matthew chapter 5 they have this doctrine called the fair game doctrine Scientology now this is what they get a bad reputation for one of the many things fair game basically l ron hubbard taught that certain people are fair game meaning hey these are bad people and we can do whatever to him we can attack them in any way we can harm them because they're fair game because they're you know these enemies of humanity or where and and guess what critics of Scientology fall into that category you know disgruntled members they're fair game so that's why they've been known for mistreating former members and mistreating their.

Critics they are also the most sooo happy religion in the history of mankind they are the most litigious religion they sue people at the drawback you know and I I I just laugh at the thought of them suing me for this sermon I'm not that i don't think they're going to but it's just so funny because i don't own anything and our church doesn't know anything we don't have any money someone's head comes to us and here you want my coat here's my cloak also because that's all i got but the bottom line is that you know they teach that enemies of Scientology or fair game to do whatever to him persecute them harm whatever you know whatever they decide to do what does the Bible say about our enemies Matthew 544 but ice and you love your enemies he didn't say your enemies are fair game.

Love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.

That's totally different than what they're teaching now these auditing sessions and I'm just wrapping things up but these auditing sessions they write down everything that you tell them in the audience says to ask a very personal question so the people who are being audited in these sessions are giving a lot of personal information to the auditor a lot of sensitive information to and when I heard about this I couldn't help but think of the Catholic confessional booth where you're given all this real personal information over to the priest you know every sin that you've done all forgive me Father upset but instead of telling you to say a bunch of Hail Marys they're taking notes and writing down all the stuff that you've done so then there's the issue of blackmail you know when you have a bunch of dirt on somebody that they've been given you and again it reminds me of the catholic church but they also teach reincarnation you know which I kind of alluded to when I talked about the billion-year contract so how can you sign on for a billion years because they're going to keep coming back in different incarnations ok and the you know I don't have time to go into it but the similarities with Hinduism are unbelievable because if you in the hint you upon Ishod it where it talks about you know our true soul inside of us is so good and perfect and one with the universe and it needs to be released and you know it's a lot of the same language it's just kind of the same rehashed Eastern mysticism of the the reincarnation and you know that this type of thing and so it started out with the dianetics of like Oh traumatic events in your past that's what's causing you mental problems today that sounds like just basic psychiatry right tell me about your mother or whatever and just this basic you know oh you were traumatized as a kid that's why you're messed up now I mean that's just pretty basic stuff that any psychology 101 students going to learn around right but see where it diverged into this bizarre religion is where it's not just traumatic stuff that happened to you earlier in life it's traumatic stuff that happened to you in the last life it's traumatic stuff that happened to you hundreds of years ago and their little meter is telling you know you start telling weird dreams and stuff and their little meters like no this is a true story you know because this is like a past life past experience and a lot of it goes back to that nuclear explosion 75 million years ago i mean that's that's where a lot of these issues are coming from that haven't haven't been dealt with you know I mean we're not talking going back to your childhood we're talking about going back way back ok so this Scientology bottom line is that it's a total quack religion started by a lunatic science fiction writer is nothing scientific about it don't let that cross fool you nothing to do with Jesus whatsoever nothing to do with the Bible and its teachings are contrary to the Word of God because man is basically a sinner ok his salvation comes only through believing in the Lord Jesus Christ it's all by faith it's not by science if you're looking for a religion based on the scientific method you're in the wrong place.

It's faith-based salvation and it's free for the Bible to free gift you don't have to pay for it.





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