The world talks about how we are moving into a new age, and it permeates our society. From Yoga, which is a Hindu form of worship, being promoted on TV and social media as the new hip way of excercising and finding peace in your life. And what is the goal of Yoga? It is based on the Eastern religious mindset that there is no personal God, that what is called god IS the Universe, the same thing shown as “the force” on the popular movie series Star Wars, where there is one force, that has both a good side, and a dark (evil) side. What does the Bible tell us about God? It tells us that God is personal and distinct or separate from His creation. It also tells us: 1 John 1:5-6 5 This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; But Yoga is part of a religion that teaches we are caught in a endless cycle of deaths and rebirths, and our current state of life is based on the amount of Karma (another idea promoted in our age) whether good or bad, from the previous life. It is works based. But in Yoga, not only are you supposed to calm yourself, you are supposed to eventually reach the goal where you still your heart, completely! It’s goal is to die! This is a clear sign that this religion is not of God, but of his enemies, the forces of death. The forces of death are at work all around us in our society. Proverbs 8:36 is another way to restate the first part of Romans 6:23. It says: Proverbs 8:36 36 "But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death." And the Bible tells us that the result of our sin is death in Romans 6:23. And this verse goes what beyond what our “scientific and enlightened intellectual” understanding allows for. This is not talking merely about the ceasing of life, when one ultimately dies, but is talking about the process of dying, of death working its way in your body. Sickness IS death! You know how when someone gets a bad case of the flu, and they are laid up in bed, thermometer sticking out of there mouth, eyes swollen, nose runny, they don’t have energy to move? What do they say? “I feel like death!” Sickness is death! And sicknesses and diseases are various manifestations of death working its way in our lives. The Bible tells us that the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life. The real God is a God of life!
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:11:34 +0000