Biblical Response to New Age Movement
Part 3 in Series
FILING INFORMATION:
2002060
Subject: New Age Movement
Preached
Originally: 12/1/02 – Rapid City, SD
Introduction:
A.
Talked in great
detail about the NA movement.
B.
Main points to
date:
1.
man is developing
& soon to leap into new spiritual horizons.
2.
man is a divine
being & can create his own reality.
3.
NA seeks global
economic unity.
4.
NA believes God
is all and all is God.
5.
NA believes man
and nature are on an equal level. Man is no more important than a bird; fish; animal.
6.
Some NA’ers
worship the earth.
C.
NA believes that
God is impersonal.
1.
B/l that man is
not a sinner.
2.
that punishment
is not eternal.
3.
that Jesus is not
the only way to God.
4.
Hell is only an
experience on earth.
5.
salvation
involves no more than getting in tune with the divine consciousness.
6.
No need for a
redeemer like Jesus & need to be saved from ignorance & not sin.
D.
With these
beliefs in place – it would seem almost impossible to ever convert
someone from this religion.
1.
But…w/God all
things are possible.
2.
If the gospel
could penetrate the hearts of Gentiles who participated in sensuous idolatry
– then the gospel can reach someone in the NA movement.
E.
What must we
teach someone involved in this movement?
I. God is personal.
A. If God
were impersonal – How could He
1. be
longsuffering?
a) Psa.
86:15; 2 Pet. 3:9, 15
b)
He comes about
us! Individually! No one is unimportant to God!
2.
Be
forgiving? See Dan. 9:9; Eph. 1:7;
Psa. 86:5
3.
Hate sin? Psa. 5:5-6; Hab. 1:3
II. Man is a sinner. Rom. 3:23
A.
Can be deceitful
& desperately sick with sin.
B.
Can love darkness
rather than light – Jhn. 3:16-21
C.
Before coming to
Christ – dead in trespasses and sins. Eph. 2:1
III. Salvation not through correct
thought; but deliverance from the consequences of sin.
A.
Rom. 6:23; Eph.
2:8-9
B.
It is deliverance
from God’s eternal damnation.
C.
Acts 4:12 –
found only in Jesus.
IV. Jesus is the Christ, the anointed
one.
A.
Jesus is not a “consciousness.” He is not a “quality of people.”
B.
Jesus is the
Christ: the Messiah! The Deliverer
from sin.
1.
Mt. 16:16, 20;
Lk. 9:20
2.
Lk. 24:26, 46;
Jhn. 1:41
3.
Acts 2:31, 36;
Rom. 5:6; 6:4
V. Final points:
A. Only
the bible has the message of grace!
1.
Unmerited favor
of God. Undeserved kindness. Involves getting blessings we do not
deserve!
2.
Only Christianity
has message of free forgiveness given.
B.
Humanity is not
unlimited but just the opposite – it is under the bondage of sin. Rom. 5:12
1.
Sin is a master
– deadly and deceitful!
C.
True morality is
revealed by God in the Bible!
1.
Anything else is
only an imitation, a set of ideas laid down by man that originate from the mind
of sinful man.
D.
The Bible opposes
almost all the tenets of the New Age Movement. As Christians, we should be watchful to recognize what is
false and teach what is true.
E.
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