Now go to Act 17.
I have showed that scripture, John 1-12 and also Galatians 3-26, to many hundreds of Mormons
out soul winning.
Because the Mormons are a major religion, you know, they claim to have 14 million members
and they say, "Hey, everybody's a child of God.
We're all God's children."
In fact, that is one of the most core teachings of Mormonism.
In fact, Mormonism is built on that teaching because they believe that there is a multiplicity
of gods in the universe.
They believe that there are billions of gods and people living on other planets and so
forth.
And they believe that the God of our planet has all this multitude of wives up in heaven
and has produced basically all these spirit babies that have come down to this earth and
that every single human being on this earth is a spirit baby of Heavenly Father that has
been given the privilege of having a human body.
You know, it's very strange.
In fact, we have a Mormon lady who picks up milk at our house and she said, "Thank you
so much for bringing God's children into this earth."
Because we have eight children, so she thinks we're just, you know, "All right, heaven,
we're ready for another one, you know, keep sending them down."
But in reality, according to the Bible, life begins at conception.
You know, when my wife and I physically come together and conception takes place, that's
where life begins.
But Mormonism teaches that life already exists.
We were all alive up in heaven once.
That's what they teach.
And then we came down here and became babies, you know.
But it's false.
But listen, the whole basis of Mormonism is this teaching that we're all God's children.
We're all the children of Elohim, what they call God.
They like to speak foreign languages.
But I basically, I show them this verse and I say, "Well, this right here says we become
a son of God when we believe in Jesus."
That means people who don't believe in Jesus are not sons of God.
And I've only had one person ever be able to answer that.
I mean, I've told it to hundreds of Mormon, I say, "What do you say to that?"
"Well, I just, I just still believe that we're all God's children.
I just still believe."
It's like, do you have any verse on that?
Do you have any scripture on that?
And they never have except one time, one time I had a person say, "Yep, I've got a scripture
for it that we're all God's children."
And they took me to Act 17.
And I'm going to show you why this is a scripture that's being twisted by the Mormons today.
This is like a twisting within a twisting.
But anyway, Act 17 verse 28 says, "For in Him we live and move and have our being, as certain
also of your poets have said, for we also are His offspring.
For as much then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead
is likened to gold or silver or stone, graven by art and man's device."
And what they'll do is basically say, "Well, see, the Bible says we are God's offspring.
Therefore they're going to say we're the children of God therefore, because if we're His offspring
we must be His children."
Now, if we actually get the context of what, and I'm going to show you why this is wrong,
but if we actually get the context of what he's saying, he's saying that if we're the
offspring of God, we ought not to think that God is likened to gold and silver and precious
stones graven by man's device.
What is he saying?
That we as human beings are in the image of God, so therefore we should not think that
God is something inferior to us like a statue.
We are in the image of God.
But they'll say, "Well, offspring means children.
But wait a minute.
Does it?
Let's see what the Bible says.
Go to Romans 9.
Go to Romans 9 and then we're going to go to John chapter 8 next.
Romans 9 and John 8, look at Romans 9 verse 7, "Neither because they are the seed of Abraham
are they all children, but in Isaac shall thy seed be called."
So is being the seed of Abraham, does that make you a child of Abraham?
Not according to Romans 9, 7.
That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God,
but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
Let me ask you something.
Can you honestly look down at Romans 9, 8 and then look up at me and say we're all God's
children?
When the Bible clearly says that the children of the flesh are not the children of God,
the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
And then in John chapter 8, we find something very similar.
Start reading in verse 32, it says, "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you
free."
In John 8, 33, they answered him, "We be Abraham's seed, and we're never in bondage to any man.
How sayest thou ye shall be made free?"
Jesus answered them, "Verily, verily I say unto you, whosoever comitteth sin is the servant
of sin, and the servant that abideth not in the house forever, but the Son abideth forever.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
Watch this, I know that you're Abraham's seed.
So isn't he acknowledging there that, hey, physically you're of Abraham?
I know you're Abraham's seed, but he says this, "I know that you're Abraham's seed,
but ye seek to kill me because my word hath no place in you.
I speak that which I have seen with my father, and ye do that which ye have seen with your
father."
They answered and said to him, "Abraham is our father."
Jesus saith unto them, "If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham,
but now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God.
This did not Abraham, ye do the deeds of your father."
Then said they to him, "We be not born of fornication, we have one father, even God."
Jesus said unto them, "If God were your father, ye would love me.
For I proceeded forth and came from God, neither came I of myself, but he sent me."
Why do you not understand my speech?
Even because you cannot hear my word.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lust of your father ye will do.
He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth
in him.
When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.
And the Bible is real clear here that just being physically the seed of Abraham doesn't
make you one of Abraham's children.
And just saying, oh well we're all human, we're all human, that makes us all brothers
and sisters and we're all human, so God's our father, because you know, Adam was created
in the image of God and since we all descend from Adam, that makes us all children of God.
But let me ask you, is that what the Bible teaches?
No, because we've seen over and over, I think all together we've seen what, about ten different
verses that said that if you don't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you are not a child
of God.
In order to become a child of God, you must believe on the name of the only begotten Son
of God and that name is Jesus.
That's how you become a child of God.