RULDS2?

As you drive through the beautiful valley of Salt Lake City, Utah, and other parts of the "Beehive state," you may see this sticker on the back of vehicles. What does it mean? Translation: “R” = Are; “U” = You; “LDS” = Latter-Day Saint; “2” = Too. Are you Latter Day Saint too? It’s a clever way for individual members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons, to share their religion with others. My answer to this question is simply this: “No, I’m a Christian.” Someone then may ask, "Why are you not LDS?" Answer: “I have Jesus Christ. Truly, there is nothing more that I need.” According to Biblical truth, I and all who are born of the Spirit of God are in need of nothing and no one else. Christ is everything. Salvation is of Him and Him alone. Religion has never saved a man’s soul, nor will it ever save a man’s soul. (Pride says otherwise.) The most important question is this: “Are you truly free?” You will see why I pose this question by reading the following passage:

Jesus said, “…If ye continue in my word, [then] are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: [but] the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." (John 8:31b – 36)

What truths can be learned from this passage?

* The Lord’s word is a witness of the truth.
* The truth is what makes a man free.
* Every man is a servant, either to sin or to the Son.
* The Eternal Son of God, Jesus Christ, is the only person who can make a man free.

So, in light of this passage, the question is posed once again: “Are you truly free?”

The main point I am getting at is this: Who is Jesus Christ and do you know Him? Knowing Him, according to the Scriptures, is eternal life. (Read John 17:1-3) Like I said earlier, He alone is the only One who can bring you true freedom.

John 1:1-3, 14 says this of the Lord:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made…And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

Is this the Jesus Christ you know? Does your doctrine agree with what is clearly declared here, and with what is declared in the whole of Scripture? If your doctrine does not agree, throw that aside and embrace the Son of the living God, the Lord, as declared in the Bible.

Standing by Him,

One Clay Soldier among many