Matthew Stuckey here from Verity Baptist Church Manila providing another video on
reasons why we are not a cult and one of the big tactics you see from a call is
to isolate people from society and we talked about how they take away
knowledge from people they also isolate them so not only do they not have a
source of knowledge they also don't aren't around other people that can show
them that what they believe is wrong or to get them help or to get them out of
that crazy situation so they isolate them from the rest of the world this is
a big big tactic from cults now we know that with Jonestown because they
literally went to Guyana and just established their own little colony away
from the rest of the world and they completely isolated themselves from the
rest of the world now oftentimes we as Christians we are accused of being in a
cult and were accused of isolating everyone from the rest of society they
say if you're in a home school your children that look at you you're called
you don't want them to be around other people you're isolating them etc etc and
things such as that but you know that's that couldn't be further from the truth
because that Verity Baptist Church Manila we isolate ourselves less than
anybody else in the entire world okay because see the Bible says to go ye into
all the world and preach the gospel to every creature we as a church the vast
majority of our church members are soul winning every single week and we
encourage people to go out in the community and spread the gospel and to
you know preach the gospel to people so look our members are out and about every
single week knocking on every door and talking to people about what they
believe so they we talked to plenty of people that have every opportunity in
the world to tell us and sometimes they do they tell us why they don't agree
with what they're doing they give us an alternative view but obviously you know
we do believe the Bible and this is our final authority but we're not isolated
at all and see this is one thing that you know kind of even more mainstream
cult such as the Amish do where they isolate themselves from the world and
see that's a dangerous situation because they've taken away the key of knowledge
from people and now they isolate them so those people really don't have any
access to the outside world and that is a reason why the Amish retain a large
percentage of their people because they're isolated from the world they're
scared to go out into the world they don't know what they're doing and so
this is something that cults are very famous for this is not something that we
as Christians do it although because Jesus throughout his whole life was just
out preaching the gospel to everyone he didn't isolate himself at all now is
there a shred of truth to what they're saying well there is a shred of truth to
what they're saying because we do teach that you're not supposed to be friends
with the world we do teach that you're not supposed to be unequally yoked with
unbelievers but that doesn't change the fact we're still supposed to be out
knocking the doors and preaching the gospel and talking to people and at
Verity Baptist Church Manila and at like-minded churches that's what we do
we don't isolate from the rest of the world in fact we go out there to just
talk to everybody and look we basically let anybody come to our church you know
anyone's welcome we invite anybody who is not just a complete hardened
reprobate weirdo hey we invite anybody to come to church we want them to come
to church we want them to learn the Word of God we want them to grow and so we
don't isolate ourselves at all it's not like it's tough to be able to visit
Verity Baptist Church Manila we want you to visit we encourage people to visit
one time and see if it's the right church for them and so you know what a
cult does though is they're very selective about who they let in to their
call why because they got to make sure that they can brainwash this new person
who's not going to question what the authority or what the church or what
this organization is doing and see that's a problem with people like
Charles Manson they wouldn't just let anybody into their cult obviously they'd
be very selective because they need to brainwash people but you know a lot of
religions do the same thing as they do in fact most religions in the world
they're very isolated because of the fact they don't go out there and preach
the gospel like the Bible commands them to but we as believers we're told to go
ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature look we
couldn't be further away we couldn't be further away from isolating ourselves
than anybody we're out preaching to everybody and when it comes to our kids
that are homeschooled look they're not isolated from the world they're not
sheltered because when they go soul-winning they see what everybody's
doing they see the effects of alcohol they see the effects of drugs and
smoking and you know families without a mom or families without a dad and broken
homes and things like that they see the effects they see what the world's like
look they're the last people in the world you have to worry about being
isolated but you know there are people that you would look at in churches that
they don't seem isolated they've got this big mega church but in reality they
are isolating themselves from what the outside world is actually like we don't
do that at Verity Baptist Church Manila thank you and God bless