CULT PROOFING YOUR LIFE AND FAMILY (2 OF 7)
Scripture: ACTS 17:11, I JOHN 4, II PETER 2, MATTHEW 24
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FAMILY SURVIVAL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
SERMON #2 “CULT PROOFING YOUR LIFE AND
FAMILY”
Copyright © 1997 by Dr. Rick E. Ferguson. All rights reserved. No portion of
this document may be used in any form without the written permission of the
author. Bible quotations are from the New International Version unless otherwise
indicated.
INTRODUCTION: This past March, the world was stunned and
shocked by the gruesome discovery of 39 decomposing bodies, neatly
dispersed throughout a million dollar plus mansion in Rancho Santa Fe
California, an elite neighborhood 20 miles north of San Diego. The
dead were apparently the participants in a “mass cult suicide.”
The so-called “Heaven’s Gate Cult” was led by a castrated homosexual,
the son of a Presbyterian minister. The 65 year old Marshall Herff
Applewhite... (with a name like that, no wonder the guy was
emotionally distraught.)... Applewhite had been leading a band of
believers around the nation for more than 20 years, indoctrinating them
with out-landish beliefs that were a deadly mixture of the:
? Bible,
? Christianity,
? New-Age,
? Age-old Gnosticism,
? theosophy,
? extra-terrestrialism,
? and Star Trek.
The whole story behind the Heavens Gate cult is both shocking and
scary. I mean what was the magnetism in Applewhite that would
mesmerize a 72 year old grandmother from Iowa (Jacqueline Leonard)
to leave her family and friends behind and follow this “Kook” around
the country for more than 20 years, waiting for a UFO to “beam her
up?”
Or what was there about the mysterious powers of Applewhite that
would convince Yvonne McCurdy-Hill, a 39 year old mother of 5 from
Cincinnati to abandon her children and live like a hobo and ultimately
mix a deadly concoction of pudding, Phenobarbital and vodka eat it
then asphyxiate herself with a plastic bag over her head?
CRAZY? You say... But the haunting fear that it brings is that these
peopl ...
SERMON #2 “CULT PROOFING YOUR LIFE AND
FAMILY”
Copyright © 1997 by Dr. Rick E. Ferguson. All rights reserved. No portion of
this document may be used in any form without the written permission of the
author. Bible quotations are from the New International Version unless otherwise
indicated.
INTRODUCTION: This past March, the world was stunned and
shocked by the gruesome discovery of 39 decomposing bodies, neatly
dispersed throughout a million dollar plus mansion in Rancho Santa Fe
California, an elite neighborhood 20 miles north of San Diego. The
dead were apparently the participants in a “mass cult suicide.”
The so-called “Heaven’s Gate Cult” was led by a castrated homosexual,
the son of a Presbyterian minister. The 65 year old Marshall Herff
Applewhite... (with a name like that, no wonder the guy was
emotionally distraught.)... Applewhite had been leading a band of
believers around the nation for more than 20 years, indoctrinating them
with out-landish beliefs that were a deadly mixture of the:
? Bible,
? Christianity,
? New-Age,
? Age-old Gnosticism,
? theosophy,
? extra-terrestrialism,
? and Star Trek.
The whole story behind the Heavens Gate cult is both shocking and
scary. I mean what was the magnetism in Applewhite that would
mesmerize a 72 year old grandmother from Iowa (Jacqueline Leonard)
to leave her family and friends behind and follow this “Kook” around
the country for more than 20 years, waiting for a UFO to “beam her
up?”
Or what was there about the mysterious powers of Applewhite that
would convince Yvonne McCurdy-Hill, a 39 year old mother of 5 from
Cincinnati to abandon her children and live like a hobo and ultimately
mix a deadly concoction of pudding, Phenobarbital and vodka eat it
then asphyxiate herself with a plastic bag over her head?
CRAZY? You say... But the haunting fear that it brings is that these
peopl ...
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