Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona.
One of the teachings of Hinduism is that you are God. You just don't realize it yet and you need
to realize that you yourself are God and then you can enter the unitive state where you merge with
God or become one with God. Now I'm going to read for you from one of the Hindu scriptures known as
the Upanishads and I'm going to start in the Mundaka Upanishad part 3 verse 2 where it says
as long as we think we are the ego we feel attached and fall into sorrow but realize that
you are the self the lord of life and you will be freed from sorrow when you realize that you are the
self supreme source of light supreme source of love and transcend the duality of life and enter
into the unitive state so notice here that it's saying that you are the lord of life you are the
supreme source of light you are the supreme source of love that's you you're God also a little later
on in the same Upanishad it says not even through the study of the scriptures can the self be
realized the self reveals himself as the lord of love to the one who practices right disciplines
in the mandukya Upanishad it says brahman is all and the self is brahman so over and over again
it's telling you you are the self and the self is the lord the self is brahman it says later on in
the kena Upanishad the self is not someone other than you and it repeats that three more times on
the same page but then just a few pages later in the same Upanishad it says the self is brahman
and then in the titariya Upanishad it says those who deny the lord deny themselves those who affirm
the lord affirm themselves so over and over again this book is teaching that you are the self the
self is not someone other than you and that the self is god the self is the lord the self is the
supreme source of life the supreme source of everything in the universe so this new age teaching
that you are god that i'm god it comes from the false teaching of hinduism it's actually demonic
because it was satan in the bible who wanted to be god who said i will be like the most high
and it was said unto him yet thou shalt be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit so this
teaching of wanting to become god or believing that you are god is demonic this is exactly what
the devil tempted them with in the garden of eden when he said ye shall be as gods knowing good and
evil anytime a religion is telling us that we're god or that we can become god or merge with god
or become a god we need to understand that this is coming directly from the devil this is his
oldest trick in the book