This Week's Message

ANOTHER JESUS: MORMONISM

Nobody gets fooled by a fake $100 bill printed in purple ink. The counterfeits that work are the ones that look almost exactly like the real thing, and the same is true of what we believe.

We kicked off our new series, Cults & Counterfeits, by looking at Mormonism (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). In 2 Corinthians 11:3–4, Paul warned the church about anyone preaching “a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached.” Counterfeits don’t create new words. They redefine old ones. So the test for any teaching is simple: does it add to, take from, or rewrite God’s Word?

Mormonism uses familiar words like God, Jesus, Scripture, and grace, but gives them very different meanings. It teaches that God was once a man, that Jesus and Lucifer are spirit brothers, and that grace comes “after all we can do.” But Scripture shows us one eternal God, a Savior who is God’s one and only Son, and a salvation that is by grace through faith, not by works. On the cross, Jesus said, “It is finished.” The big reminder: “Grace isn’t God finishing what you started. It’s God raising what was dead.”

Maybe you have friends, family, or coworkers who believe differently. Don’t argue over words. Ask what they mean, and be kind, not quarrelsome. Know the real Jesus so well that another one sounds foreign.

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