Posted on 01/23/2014 5:10:18 PM PST by restornu
Evangelist and author Dr. Ravi Zacharias addressed the topics of faith, family and freedom in a gathering at the Tabernacle on Temple Square on Saturday, 18 January 2014. “We must build our lives on things that are eternal,” Zacharias told more than 3,000 gathered in the Tabernacle in his message titled “Lessons From History, Building a Nation Under God.” During his speech, he related lessons learned from the Bible and compared them to modern-day events.
This is the second time Zacharias has spoken in the Tabernacle and his third visit to Utah since 1994. Zacharias is founder and president of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with offices in Canada, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong. The event was presented by Standing Together, a network of evangelical congregations in Utah, and hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to promote religious freedom.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles greeted the large audience of religious leaders and “friends of all faiths” in the historic Tabernacle, which has been the setting of worship and inspiring music for 150 years. “World leaders and men and women of many faiths have spoken here, including Dr. Zacharias in 2004,” said Elder Holland. “We’re very, very happy to have him back.”
“I say that, in part, to assure many who may be wondering whether tonight’s gathering of evangelicals and Latter-day Saints under the same roof is being interpreted as clear evidence that the apocalypse is upon us,” he quipped. “Who knows, it may be.”
Elder Holland said those in attendance had a “shared love of Jesus Christ.” “But in an increasingly secular world and facing the attack on religious faith and religious freedom that we see all around us, it is imperative for the extended Christian community to acknowledge that what we have in common is so far-reaching and so potentially powerful in addressing the ills of society and of the soul that the very least we can do is know and understand each other better than we do,” he added.
Zacharias said we have a common cause in trying to create a good moral soil in this culture. “Moral soil is very critical in which reasoning and art can flourish,” he said during an interview at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Sandy. Zacharias expressed concern about what happens “when the nation is led in a rabid, secularistic way of thinking.”
He voiced disappointment in the way academics are treating religious thought around the world. “The key is what we ultimately do with our children,” Zacharias said. He urged parents to guide their children through the “mine field” they encounter in the media, even at a younger age than ever before.
“Before we can clean house in a nation, we actually have to do some soul searching of our own house — what is going on in the house of the Lord, what do we believe, why we believe it and the centrality of God’s purpose for our life,” he said during the interview.
“We have lost our moorings,” Zacharias told the diverse audience in the Tabernacle, as “we live beyond our moral means and our fiscal means and spiritual means.”
“There is only one angle at which you can stand straight and many, many different angles at which you can fall,” he said.
Zacharias travels 200 days a year sharing his message of the gospel of Jesus Christ as a Christian apologist. During an interview earlier in the week, he shared one of his favorite scriptures, which states, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ” (Romans 1:16).
“The gospel gives purpose,” he told the Tabernacle audience. “We don’t change people’s lives. Only God is big enough to do that.”
“We talk so much about one’s rights that we talk so little about what is actually right,” Zacharias stressed to the crowd.
He encouraged the audience to read the scriptures. “Open the scriptures and make a commitment to read the Gospel of John,” Zacharias said. One of his favorite scriptures found in John was instrumental in his conversion to Christianity at the age of 17 while he was growing up in India. He was given a Bible while hospitalized following a suicide attempt. It reads, “Because I live, ye shall live also” (John 14:19).
“Most people cannot think for themselves anymore,” he said. “The world out there is caught in this vortex of relativism.”
“We will never change the outside until we change from within,” Zacharias concluded. “Redemption is prior to righteousness.”
Gospel singer and songwriter Fernando Ortega of Albuquerque, New Mexico, performed during the program. Temple Square organist Bonnie Goodliffe provided the prelude music.
During his visit to Utah, Zacharias also spoke to students at Brigham Young University in Provo.
“I am sure many enjoy the performance and how he was able to weave his fiery darts!”
If you didn’t like it, maybe Zacharias wasn’t capitulating to the “all religions are equal” chorus after all. Though the article you posted would suggest otherwise. You should post a transcript or, perhaps, a link to the video. If Zacharias was whipping the LDS in their own tabernacle, it would be very fun.
“This is the Jesus I worship and learn about in the Bible...”
You mean the standard works of the LDS. The Bible is not a polytheism affirming work.
You are funny these people aren’t alive is this all you have?
the Ravi has been invited several times to Brigham Young to undermine the LDS
How much more can we do for those who like to take swipes at us??
Ravi Zacharias on Mormonism and his speech on the LDS Mormon Tabernacle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWLzHt8ImyE#t=11
“You are funny these people aren’t alive is this all you have?”
Huh?
“How much more can we do for those who like to take swipes at us??”
What great news! You should have been posting this instead of harming Zacharias’ good name by making him out to be a sell-out. Thanks for the link, I’ll check it out and see what he has to say.
It seems like some here it would not matter if the Savior stood beside them they would still be the same ornery person!
How is haring someone when they enjoy saying unkind things that is not what Jesus taught to do to those who are gracious to you!
Jesus disciples do not engage in backbiting that is not a true follower of Jesus Christ.
One who loves the Lord tries his will to do!
John 13
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
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BTW the talk was suppose to be on standing together on good Moral soil, defending Freedom of Religion even it we disagree on doctrine etc at this time when the world hates good and wants to chase Jesus off the planet.
Instead Ravi did not keep his word Meridian Mag was gracious to someone who does not show the same in demeanor.
I did post a link in post #9
Ravi wasn't whipping anyone it was all one sided and said very little about defending Religious freedom as far as I am concern he is one of the character out Aesop's Fables.
“One who loves the Lord tries his will to do!”
One who loves the Lord Jesus does not claim that Satan is his brother, and that, if he (the Mormon) is righteous enough, he will become a god of his own planet.
“before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.” (Isaiah 43:10)
How can one correct someone if they insist on their own spin.
Jesus had a bad brother, Able had a bad brother.Isaac had a bad brother, Jacob has a bad brother.
It is a pattern that runs though out the Bible.
“before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.” (Isaiah 43:10)
This is Jesus the only begotten Son of Heavenly Father.
Jesus came directly through Heavenly Father and Mary. The rest of us came through Adam.
Lucifer did not keep his 1st estate therefore he never received a body.
Lucifer was the light bearer
All this stuff in the scriptures if folks would take the time and search them
People can be hoodwinked to day because many do not think for themselves and the tradition of men lead them where ever..
I posted this stuff too many times if folks don’t want to receive fine, it is there waiting for those who are humble and contrite and hunger for the Lord’s Word.
“Jesus had a bad brother,”
Jesus is God, and there is only one God, and therefore He had no brother:
“Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any” (Isa 44:8).
“All this stuff in the scriptures if folks would take the time and search them”
You mean the Mormon standard works. The Bible does not teach polytheism or the rampant and foul materialism of Joseph Smith, the bigamist and polygamous who married women who were even still married to other men.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
That’s how I’ve always addressed her.
There has never been any slight intended. More directly, it is a term of endearment.
I didn’t come to her thread to argue, dissent or undermine her post.
Do what you feel is best.
there was polygamy in the OT I knew about that when I was a tot in the late 40’s early 50’s that was preached before I ever heard about the Mormon existence.
It is true today people have been dumb down.
Lot of people think they can erase so many things out of history when there are people still alive who have good memories.
“there was polygamy in the OT”
None of the ancients ever married a woman who was married to another man, and I’ll remind you of this:
1Ti_3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
“Lot of people think they can erase so many things out of history when there are people still alive who have good memories.”
Yeah, like the Mormons. They really wish we’d not read the Bible or think critically about their prophets.
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We are in the last dispensation there were several before dispensations that all ended abruptly. We do not have the records or all the knowledge of why it happen... but a day will come when the Restitution all things will be made known, so just because we only have a Reader's Digest version of our Holy Bible it will all be revealed Amos 8
11 ¶Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
I truly am looking to the day when more plain and precious truths surface about the Holy Bible.
Acts 3:21 … “The times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.”
As for now The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have receive much of the Plain and Precious Truths and know there is more to come...
Which one? The one of scripture or the one of the LDS? They are not the same.
Certainly not the one the Svengali been trying to sell with sarcasm, innuendos with a tongue like Korihor!
Ah! More Mormon fables! You really need to clarify for the lurkers and readers of your posts that Mormons believe in a different Jesus than what scripture teaches. Jesus is NOT the brother of Satan as the Mormons believe. It’s lie that Satan would like people to believe that he was once equal to Jesus. Satan after all wants desperately to be like God. Mormonism is a deception of Satan.
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Yes a tongue like Korihor
Alma 30 excerpt
6 But it came to pass in the latter end of ...., there came a man into the land of .....and he was Anti-Christ,
....for he began to preach unto the people against the prophecies which had been spoken by the prophets, concerning the coming of Christ.
Same things going on today....
LOL That Mormon book of Alma may be what Mormons consider scripture but it’s not God’s word. Old Joey Smith may have been a good fiction writer but he was NOT a servant of the one true God any more than Mohammad was.
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