Daily Devotional for Wednesday May 19, 2010

Why Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Priscilla Presley are on a Conveyor Belt Straight to Hell

(Luke 14:23; Titus 1:16; Galatians 6:1-12)

Why Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Priscilla Presley, and millions of others are on a conveyor belt straight to hell! Knowing that there is the better percentage of two full generations living today that don't go to church, were not raised in a Christian home, and have no spiritual foundation to their lives, I am motivated daily to bring these people the Truth of God's Word and the hope and love of Christ before they fall into the hands of the many cults and false religions that exist today. Let me help you understand something. When man sinned and his relationship with God was broken, there became a void in man that only God can fill. Deep down, sinful man knows something is missing in his life, something that the things of this world can't fill, and he begins a search to fill that void.

Everyone who lives has to deal with the trials, the pain, the challenges of living in this sinful and fallen world. Those who have no spiritual foundation to their life will spend their teen and young adult years trying to fill that spiritual void with the things this world promotes such as alcohol, drugs, relationships, sex, money, career, material possessions, and all the other temporal things of this life. It is usually when a person hits their 30s that they realize that the things this world offers simply do not fill that void they have in their life. That is why during their 30s and 40s so many people begin to explore the spiritual side of their life.

Those of us who know Jesus Christ as our Savior, who know the Truth of God's Word, have the ONLY answer these people are looking for. That void in their life is there due to their broken relationship with God their Creator and can only be filled by being reconnected to God their Creator thru faith in His Son Jesus Christ. What upsets me more than anything else is to watch the cults and false religions of the world boldly and aggressively market themselves to the lost and hurting in this world as the answer they are looking for. They don't do this by creating their own subculture and hoping people will come to them, they actively go out and pursue people, using the resources of this world to reach them with their lies and false hope.

Let me be blunt. While we have become content with building beautiful buildings with all the modern conveniences and technologies of the world for our people to enjoy, while we have set up our own TV, radio, music, and publishing empires to preach to ourselves, the cults of the world like the Mormons, the Jehovah's Witnesses, Kaballah, Scientology, Moon's Unification Church, the false religions of the world like Islam, Buddhism, B'hai, Hindu, and the many New Age philosophies, are reaching out to the lost and hurting in this world through secular TV, radio, music, advertising, and publishing vehicles that reach the world's masses each day.

We have forgotten that Jesus told us to, "Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled." (Luke 14:23 KJV) At some point it became too much work to go out and reach people and much more financially profitable to simply preach to the choir. So we abandoned the world, retreated to the subculture we created for ourselves to enjoy, and in the process have left the souls of men to the scavengers of satan who are having a field day leading the lost into eternal damnation, while we sit in our $20 million buildings singing about going to Heaven.


One of the fastest growing cults today is Scientology. As I have shared with you in the past, cults and false religions are nothing new to the time we are living in. Man has been trying to find ways to fill that void created by his broken relationship with God since the very beginning. You don't go too many chapters into the Book of Genesis until you come to the story of the Tower of Babel. That story is literally about men who decided to create their own religion. The cults and false religions of this world are all traced back to the hearts and minds of men who lived in rebellion to God.

The Mormon cult came from the imagination of that pedophile murderer Joe Smith, another pedophile murderer Mohamed dreamed up what we know of today as Islam, Mary Baker Eddy created the Christian Science cult out of her blackened heart, and Charles Taze Russell created the Jehovah's Witness cult. Every cult and false religion can be traced back to a man who lived his life in rebellion to God and created the cult or false religion out of his imagination. The Truth, the Christian faith actually started in the Garden of Eden and comes directly from God Himself, the very God who created the heavens and earth and made man in His own image.

Scientology is a cult started by a science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard. In 1950, he wrote a book called Dianetics, a modern science of mental health that became very popular. His first book on Scientology was written in 1951 and the Scientology cult, one of mind control, was formed in 1953. Jesus Christ is referred to by Hubbard simply as a "legend." Man is seen as an immortal being, called a Thetan, descending from a race of uncreated omnipotent gods. Salvation is achieved thru a process called "auditing," where engrams (memories of past pain and unconsciousness that create energy blockage) are removed. Until all engrams are removed man is constantly going thru reincarnation.

I am always amused at people who reject the story of Christ and God's simple plan to redeem fallen man, yet buy into the wild theology of cults like Scientology. Christianity requires that you use your God-given intelligence to make the choice to accept Christ as your Savior based on reality. Cults like Scientology requires that you abandoned all intelligence and blindly believe wild stories based on no facts. I have to be honest with you, I will never have enough faith to believe the fantasies of Scientology, but many who are hurting and lost and looking to fill that spiritual void in their life, will.

Scientology has always appealed to people in Hollywood. People like Cruise, Travolta, Alley, Presley are visible Scientologists. Sadly, these people have bought into a lie from the pits of hell, and like all who follow this lie, they will spend eternity separated from God if they do not turn from the lie of Scientology and to the Truth of God's Word. Scientology appeals to the Hollywood crowd as well as successful people for 3 reasons. First, like all people, they are looking to fill that spiritual void only the God of the Bible can fill. Second, Scientology has a financial structure in place that basically allows you to be as god-like as you want, depending on the amount of money you have. For those who are successful and can afford it, they are able to buy their god-status. Third, like all cults and false religions there is no personal accountability, no right and wrong. You are basically free to live your life however you want, decide for yourself what is right and wrong, and live without any consequences. This is obviously appealing to people, since nobody likes to be confronted with that nasty word . . . sin.

Because of their fame, people like Cruise, Travolta, and other well-known Scientologists will always have the false hope merchants like Oprah there to give them a forum to encourage others to join their cult. Not surprisingly, the other night O'Reilly gave the Scientologists a platform on his program to share their lies with people. Now you see why I am so passionate about what we do each day here on the Internet and about expanding the reach of the Liveprayer TV program. Even though Clearwater, Florida is the secondary headquarters to the Scientology cult (Los Angles is their primary headquarters), I have used my program often to BLAST this cult and expose them for what they are. Unlike Oprah and O'Reilly who give them a forum to lead people into their deception, I warn people of this cult and explain to them not only why it is a lie from satan, but that following this lie will lead them into everlasting damnation.

I love you and care about you so much. This Devotional today is to warn people of the hideous cult of Scientology birthed out of the depraved mind of L. Ron Hubbard and to challenge the church that we are in a war for the eternal souls of men and women. Scientology is NOT some harmless organization out to help people, but it is a tool of satan that is leading its followers into everlasting darkness and eternal separation from God. Pray for Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Priscilla Presley, and all of those who follow this cult. Unless they turn from the lie of Scientology and to the Truth of God's Word, the moment they die they will be eternally lost for their rejection of Jesus Christ.

I pray that you will not neglect the commandment we have from our Lord to share the hope and love of Christ and the Truth of His Word with those you meet along your journey. The Lord didn't sit in a church and wait for people to come to Him, HE WENT TO THEM! Christ is our example and we need to not only follow His example but His words to, "Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled." (Luke 14:23 KJV)

This is not complicated. We have the better percentage of two full generations of people out there who have never been to church. They are living their lives void of Christ and His Truth. We know they have a spiritual void that at some point they will try to fill. That is why now more than ever we need to be bold and aggressive in letting people know that there is only ONE TRUTH in this world, there is only ONE ANSWER for their problems, and there is only ONE WAY to fill that void in their life...FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST!

God's desire is that none be lost, that all come to repentance. May that become our desire as well. Those who follow cults like Scientology are on a conveyor belt to hell. Let us bring them the Truth of God's Word and the hope and love of Christ, so that they can get off before it is too late and get on the conveyor belt to HEAVEN!!!
