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Last Sunday morning I preached a sermon called
Hinduism in light of the bible, and this Sunday morning, I'm going to cover another major
false religion of the world, and that is the religion of Buddhism. Now, just a quick review
of what I said last Sunday morning about which religions are the most popular in this world,
or which religions have the most followers. First of all would be number one, Christianity,
with about 2.3 billion followers, and of course that's counting all branches of Christianity,
not just truly saved bible believing Christians. Secondly would be Muslims at 1.6 million,
er, billion, I'm sorry, 1.6 billion, and then atheism has about 1 billion followers. That
would be number three. Number four would be Hinduism, what we talked about last week,
1 billion followers, and then Buddhism has about 500 million followers, the vast majority
of which are, of course, in East Asia, but it's becoming more and more prevalent here
in our western world as well. Now the first thing I want to point out about
Buddhism is that number one, it is a non-theistic religion, meaning they do not believe in a
creator God. Now that's why we turn to Romans 1 to start with here, because I feel that
this passage describes Buddhism very well. It says in Verse number 18, "For the wrath
of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of man, who
hold the truth in unrighteousness, because that which may be known of God is manifest
in them, for God has showed it under them. For the invisible things of him from the creation
of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made. Even his eternal
power and [God head 00:01:42] so that they are without excuse, because that when they
knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations
and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."
The bible often uses the word 'fool' or 'foolish' about the person who does not believe that
there is a creator, God. Now, one of the most famous verses in the bible, Psalm 14:1, says,
"The fool had said in his heart, there is no God," but most people don't usually quote
the entire verse there. This is the whole verse.
It says, "The fool had said in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt. They have
done abominable works. There is none that do it good." That's the full verse, and that
ties in perfectly with what we see in Romans Chapter 1, how the belief that there is no
God, the denial of our creator, leads to corruption and abominable works and all manner of wickedness
as we see in Romans Chapter 1, but notice, picking up there in Verse 22 of Romans 1,
it says, "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory of
the uncorruptable God into an image made like the corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed
beasts and creeping things, wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
lust of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who changed
the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the creator
who is blessed forever. Amen." What do we see here? A denial of the creator,
the fool saying in his heart that there is no God. This is what the 500 million followers
of Buddhism represent. Now, not only that, but it talks about the fact that they then
would make an image of man as a replacement for God, or even an image of animals and four-footed
beasts and creeping things. This is what we would know as idolatry. Go back to Exodus,
Chapter Number 20, Exodus Chapter 20. See, idolatry is a major feature of Buddhism. They
don't just deny that God exists and deny the creator, but they also have a lot of idolatry
in their religion. The most famous idolatry associated with Buddhism
would be the image of Buddha himself, and you often see those statues that are usually
made out of metal, a molten image, where you have Buddha sitting cross-legged lotus style,
and he's got a big smile on his face or a very stoic look on his face or all the different
styles of Buddhas that you see. Often you'll see Asian people that will wear a jade Buddha
around their neck at the end of a necklace as well.
This is a huge feature of Buddhism. You go to restaurants that are owned by those who
are Buddhists, you go into the homes of Buddhist people, you'll see all manner of idolatry,
molten images, graven images. This is a big part of the religion. How does God feel about
idolatry? Look what the bible says in Exodus Chapter 20, Verse 4. This is one of the Ten
Commandments. The Second Commandment, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that
is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them,
for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me."
Now isn't it interesting that those who make graven images and molten images are associated
with those who hate God? Why? Because of the fact that people don't want to acknowledge
God. They don't want to believe in the true God of the bible, so they form and fashion
their own god, and that's why those two things are associated there in Exodus Chapter 20.
You don't have to turn there, but in Isaiah Chapter 30, if you would, you turn to First
Corinthians 10. You go to First Corinthians 10. In Isaiah 30, Verse 22, God uses very
strong language in his condemnation of idolatry, graven images, molten images. Listen how God
speaks about idolatry. He says in Isaiah 30, Verse 20, "Ye shall defile also the coverings
of the graven images of silver and the ornament of thy molten images of gold. Thou shalt cast
them away as a menstruous cloth. Thou shalt say unto it, 'Get thee hence.'" I mean, that's
pretty strong language condemning idolatry in the book of Isaiah.
It says in First Corinthians 10, Verse 14, in the New Testament, "Wherefore my dearly
beloved, flee from idolatry." Jump down to Verse 19. "What say I then? That the idol
is anything or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? But I say that the things
which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God. And I would not
that you should have fellowship with devils. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the
cup of devils. You cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the table of devils."
Even though Buddhism denies, the first point is that they deny the existence of the creator.
All types of Buddhists, all denominations of Buddhism deny a creator god, non-theistic
religion, but although they do deny the creator, they do believe in various deities or basically
demons that they will worship and things like that, although they don't believe that any
of them is really God or the creator, and so they worship these devils.
That's what the bible says about idolatry in First Corinthians 10, that idolatry is
the worship of devils. It is the worship of demons. Now, secondly, about Buddhism, besides
the fact that they deny the existence of the creator … and by the way, that's why Buddhism
is becoming so popular in the United States today. That's why amongst a lot of those who
live an ungodly and wicked life, Buddhism is appealing to th-. They don't want anything
to do with the God of the bible, and as our country becomes more and more atheistic, and
as children are being brought up in school with atheism and agnosticism, well, Buddhism's
a perfect fit. Hey, you can be spiritual, but without God,
without believing in God, without acknowledging the God of the bible, or really without believing
in any god, no creator. This is why Buddhism is on the rise in the west in the last century,
and especially in the last few years, but secondly this about Buddhism.
The goal of Buddhism is to achieve what's called nirvana, which literally means extinguishment.
That's what it means in the original language, the word nirvana. Now basically, the goal
of Buddhism … you're not going to believe this … the goal of Buddhism is to die and
never come back, just to be dead, just to be gone. That's the goal. Now a lot of people
misunderstand this thing. Oh, nirvana, that's heaven or that's this wonderful place or a
wonderful state that you get to and it's so great.
No, no, no, it's just to die and never come back. That's the goal. Now, I'm not going
to re-preach my sermon from last Sunday morning where I covered Hinduism, but I want you to
understand that Buddhism comes out of Hinduism. Hinduism goes back a lot further. Hinduism
goes back to at least 1,000 or 2,000 B.C., whereas Buddhism came around 500 B.C. Nobody
knows the exact date. It started in India, so it takes a lot of the same things from
Hinduism and carries them forward into Buddhism. They also believe in the concepts that we
talked about last Sunday morning with karma and with the reincarnation and the constant
cycle of being born and dying and coming back and so forth, all that stuff that we talked
about, and that's why I preached the Hinduism sermon first, because that's the basis of
Buddhism. That's where this comes from. You have to understand that the goal of nirvana,
and if you would turn to Proverbs Chapter 8, Proverbs Chapter Number 8, the goal of
nirvana is to basically die and never come back. The goal is to escape the cycle of keep
on coming back. Now, I don't know about you, but that's not really aiming very high. The
goal is just to die. It's just to be gone. You say, "Why in the world would somebody
have that as their goal? Just to die and be gone and cease to exist?" Because Buddhism
teaches that all of life is suffering. All of human life is suffering. Everything about
our li- … everything that we do, everything that we experience, is all suffering.
The best thing that we could do is just be gone, just to die and never come back, and
that's what nirvana is. Now, inevitably, when I preach about this … Let me just stop and
say this before I get any further. Inevitably, when I preach about thi-, g-, here's what
people will say. "You just don't understand Buddhism. You just don't understand Hinduis-."
No, I understand it and I reject it. Whenever you preach against false teaching
and expose lies, people will just try and say, "Oh, you just don't understand." No,
I understand it and I reject it as false and think contrary to the bible, as being contrary
to everything that is righteous in this world. I reject it. People will say the same thing
when you talk about the big bang and evolution, and you talk about how ridiculous and foolish
they are and how contrary to science they are. "Oh, you just don't understand the
big bang." No, I understand it and I reject it.
There's the thing. I don't go around claiming that everybody who rejects Christianity doesn't
understand it. I believe that are many people in this world who understand the gospel perfectly
well and choose to reject it, but it seems that people who want to prop up these false
religions of atheism and the big bang or whether it be Hinduism or Buddhism, just like this,
"Oh, you just don't understand." No, I do understand it. This is what Buddhism teaches.
They teach that the goal is to never come back, to stop this endless cycle of reincarnation,
which, by the way, doesn't even exist. They believe that Buddha today has ceased
to exist, I mean, the person Buddha, who started this religion. He's gone. He died and he said,
"I'm never going to be born again." By the way, that's a bad thing to say, when the bible
says you have to be born again … [inaudible 00:12:17]. That's the first thing according
to Buddhism, according to the legend, the first words out of his mouth as a child were
that he is the greatest person in the world and that he will never be born again.
Now that's a wonderful thing to say. I'd prefer 'mama' or 'dada' out of my kid's mouth as
the first words, but according to legend, that's supposedly the first thing that he
ever said. This is what they teach. Everything is suffering,
and so the way to end suffering is to enter this state of nirvana. Now they can enter
nirvana in their lifetime, as Buddha supposedly did, where he just didn't suffer anymore,
but then he didn't reach the full nirvana until he died and never came back. That was
the ultimate goal. Now what does the bible say about that? You're
in Proverbs 8, but let me read to you from Job 3. This verse is the first thing that
popped into my mind when I heard this. Job 3:20, "Wherefore is light given to him that
is in misery, and life under the bitter and soul which long for death." Are you listening?
"Which long for death and it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures, which
rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave." I mean, that's Buddhism
right there in the bible. Anyway, look at Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse
32. "Now therefore harken unto me O yea children, for blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear
instruction and be wise and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me. Watching
daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors, for who so findeth me findeth life
and shall obtain favor of the Lord, but he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul.
All they that hate me love death." That's the goal. Now what does the bible,
on the other hand, teach as the goal? What is our goal? What do we receive when we believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ as our savior? People say, "Oh, you know, heaven, nirvana, whatever."
There's even a place called … help me out, Zsuzsa … Teavana? Is that what it's called?
Zsuzsa: Yes. Steven: There's a tea shop, a place where
you to go drink tea, and it's called Teavana. I guess you just go in there and die and you
never come back. You go in there and all desire for tea is extinguished. I don't know how
they make any money, because you walk in there and you go to buy the tea and then your desire
is completely extinguished as you reach that nirvana and then you just die and you never
come back. Anyway, people have a mistaken concept of
what this nirvana is. It's death. It's death worship. "You don't understand." I do understand
it and I reject it as false and satanic and I'm going to expose more of it as we get into
the sermon. We're going to get to the band Nirvana. Just sit tight.
Anyway, what does the bible teach, on the other hand? The bible teaches in Psalm 16:11,
"Thou wilt show me the path of life. In my presence is fullness of joy. At thy right
hand, there are pleasures forevermore." That's what the bible teaches. Hebrews 12:2, "Looking
unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before
him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne
of God." First Corinthians 29 says, "But as it is written,
I have not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love him." Thank God for heaven. Thank God for
all the blessings that we will enjoy as Christians. Thank God that we don't live a life where
we just say, "It's just all suffering and the goal is just to never come back, just
to be dead." That's what we seek. What a bizarre religion, when you think of it in that way,
and that's really what it's teaching. Basically, you've heard the saying, 'life
sucks and then you die'? This is like life sucks and if you're lucky, you die. That's
the goal is to die. It's bizarre and wicked, but on to the band Nirvana. Now, like I said,
the word nirvana in the original language literally means extinguishment, and what they
mean by that is that all desire is extinguished. You don't care about anything because they
claim that the reason why you keep getting reincarnated and coming back is because you
want to come back. You have all this desire that's unfulfilled, so you got to get to where
you just don't care and then you won't come back anymore. Once you realize that nothing
matters and yourself doesn't really even quite exist, and blah blah blah, then you won't
come back. It means extinguishment. Isn't it interesting,
and who knows who the band Nirvana is? Let me just say this. When I was a teenager at
Victory Christian School, every single kid listened to Nirvana. This was one that was
just universal. If you asked for the top three bands out of virtually any student when I
was a teenager, Nirvana was in the top three. It was usually number one. I mean, this was
the most popular band. Who's about my age? I'm 33 years old. Am I
telling the truth about when you were a teenager? I mean, this band was huge in that era, in
the '90s. It's amazing how in his suicide note, and we're going to talk about suicide
in regard to Buddhism, in his suicide note, he put this quote, "It's better to burn out
than to fade away." Now a lot of people would look at that and say, "Oh, he's just talking
about as a musician. He wanted to end his life while he's at the pinnacle. He doesn't
want to fade away and become this burned out old rock star or whatever."
He said, "Better to burn out than to fade away." No, this is actually the teaching of
Buddhism, to burn out, extinguishment. You see, his suicide note, there's an image of
it online. You know what it says at the top, who the suicide note's made out to? To Boddah,
B-O-D-D-A-H, and this was his imaginary friend, Boddah. Sounds like Buddha. He's talking to
this demon named Boddah. He's naming his band Nirvana and he writes a suicide note that
says better to burn out, which would be extinguishment, than to fade away.
At his funeral, a Buddhist monk chanted. This was a Buddhist funeral for Kurt Cobain and
his daughter, Frances Bean, scattered Cobain's ashes into McLane Creek in Olympia, Washington.
He maintained a constant interest in Buddhist philosophy. The band name, Nirvana, was taken
from a Buddhist concept which Cobain described as freedom from pain, suffering and the external
world, a concept that he aligned with the punk rock ethos and ideology.
Cobain would regard himself as a Buddhist during different points in his life, so when
you're going to go out and say, "Oh, I'm going to listen to Nirvana," you're listening to
some satanic music by a guy who committed suicide and who followed the wicked teachings
of Buddhism. Now, what is the relationship between Buddhism
and suicide? Well, let me give you a quote from a very popular Buddhist. This is a Vietnamese
Buddhist; he's very famous. His name, and I'm sure I'm going to pronounce this wrong
because I don't know Vietnamese, Thich Nat Han, is the best I can do with it. This guy,
Thich Nat Han, he's 88 years old, vegan, buddy of Martin Luther King, Jr., author of 100
books, etc. Turn to Matthew 17 while I read you this quote. Here's the quote from one
of the great, most popular Buddhist teachers of our day, this Vietnamese Buddhist, author
of 100 books, famous popular well-known Buddhist, and he's referring to all these Vietnamese
Buddhists who were committing suicide by throwing themself into the fire.
Let me read for you his quote. "To express will by burning one's self, therefore, is
not to commit an act of destruction, but to perform an act of construction." It's very
constructive to throw yourself in the fire, according to this wonderful, wise budd- … "You
just don't understand Buddhism, Pastor Anderson, you ignorant uneducated fool. That Thich Nat
Han is so much smarter than you'll ever be." See, it's very constructive to throw yourself
in the fire. Let's finish his quote here. "To suffer and to die for the sake of one's
people." No, somebody already did that. His name's Jesus. You don't need to throw yourself
in the fire. That's not going to help your people at all, and why don't you throw yourself
in the fire, buddy? You're 88 years old eating a bunch of vegan food. You haven't thrown
yourself in the fire yet, but you like it when other people do it.
Here's what he said. "This is not suicide. Suicide is an act of self destruction. This
self destruction is considered by Buddhism as one of the most serious crimes. The monk
who burns himself has lost neither courage nor hope, nor does he desire non-existence.
The monk believes he's practicing the doctrine of highest compassion by sacrificing himself
in order to call attention of and to seek help from the people of the world."
This is actually a wonderful … it's not suicide. "You just don't understand Buddhism."
Lighting yourself on fire is constructive? It takes great courage? Okay, look what the
bible says in Matthew 17:14. "And when they were come to the multitude, there came to
him a certain man kneeling down to him and saying, 'Lord have mercy on my son for he's
a lunatic and sore vexed, for oft times he falls within to the fire and oft into the
water and I brought him to thy disciples and they could not cure him.'" Then Jesus answered
and said, "O, faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall
I suffer you? Bring him hither to me," and Jesus rebuked the what?
Audience: Devil. Steven: The devil, and he departed out of
him and the child was cured from that very hour. You see, the bible associates throwing
yourself in the fire with being demon possessed. That's what we see here and so that ties in
perfectly with everything else we've seen. Now, these Eastern religions of Hinduism,
Jainism, Buddhism, they're all technically against suicide, but they make exceptions,
like for example, if you're these Vietnamese Buddhists throwing yourself in the fire, that's
fine. That's great, actually, but also, they all make an exception for starving yourself
to death, like that's okay. I'm going to explain to you a little bit later why it's okay, according
to them, to just sit there, not eat, and starve yourself. That's fine. That's not suicide.
I mean, that's constructive, once again. Not only that, the Buddhists today, because
right now on this point, because remember, point number one was the fact they deny the
creator, they deny God, and as a result, they have abundance of idolatry. Point number two
is that nirvana is the goal of basically dying and never coming back. It's a death worship.
It's a love and pursuit of dea-, and they can call it whatever they want. That's what
I'm calling it. That is what it really comes down to, but
in regard to that, the Buddhists literally worship Buddha's dead corpse, literally. You
see, when Buddha died, or as they would say, he reached pare nirvana, complete nirvana,
when Buddha died, they actually cremated his body and they made sure to divide it up into
as many small pieces because they wanted to put it in all these different shrines where
his dead corpse could be worshipped in as many places and by as many people as possible
so that they could literally bow down and worship the dead corpse of Buddha.
Thank God for the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. I serve a risen savior. He's
in the world today. I know that he is living, whatever man may say. (singing) Sing it! (singing)
Okay, or you could worship the dead corpse of Buddha and you know what? Just go to Sedona,
because there's a place in Sedona where they have one. Now, I don't know if you can worship
literally the dead corpse of Buddha in Sedona, but it will be the dead corpse of some Buddhist
saint, some famous Buddhist monk, because they have these things all over the world
that are called stupas. You can't make this stuff up. It's called stupa; that's stupid,
but anyway, these things called stupas, and the closest one that I could find, and no,
I didn't go there, and no, I'm not going to go there, but there is a stupa in Sedona.
It's funny. Here's what somebody wrote online about the stupa. "I believe that it should
be a requirement that if you come to Sedona, Arizona, you have to visit the Amitabha stupa
before leaving. No matter what your faith, religion or beliefs in a higher power may
or may not be, this is a place to reconnect with yourself and others and it is a sight
to be seen and felt." This stupa in Sedona. This is what a stupa is. A mound-like or hemispherical
structure containing Buddhist relics, typically the ashes of dead Buddhist monks, and it's
used by Buddhists as a place of meditation. If you're lucky, you can go to one of these
really cool stupa … the 'supah stupa' over in East Asia. Okay, I made up that term. It's
really not called that, but I call the 'supah stupa' the one where it's actually Buddha's
dead corpse that you're worshipping. Then there's the lesser stupa in Sedona where you're
just worshipping some other dead corpse of some Buddhist monk of bygone era.
That was number one, the denial of the creator God. Number two, this seeking after nirvana,
which we saw play out so well in the life of the lead singer of Nirvana, but let me
give you some other scripture before I get into the third point. Let me give you some
scriptures on Christ's resurrection. The bible says, if you would turn to Romans 8 … this
is such a great scripture … in Romans 8, and then we're going to go to Hebrews 7 after
this. This is what sets apart Christianity from
Buddhism, from Hinduism, is that we're not worshipping a dead corpse, and when you look
at the Catholic church, they parade around a dead corpse. That's what they bow down to
and worship, a molten image of a dead corpse. We serve a risen savior, and so we worship
the Lord Jesus Christ. He's alive. He hears our prayers. They worship Buddha, but they
don't believe Buddha can hear their prayers because they realize that Buddha is dead.
That's the goal. Look at Romans 8:31, "What shall we say then
to these things? If God before us, who can be against us? He has spared not his own son,
but delivered him up for us all. How shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies it. Who is
he to condemn it? It is Christ that died. Yea, rather that he is risen again who is
even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness
or peril or sword?" "As it is written for thy sake, we are killed
all the day long. We are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things
we are more than conquerors through him that loved us, for I am persuaded that neither
death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to
come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love
of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." This is the truth. This is the gospel of Jesus
Christ as opposed to this false religion of Buddhism where you go to Sedona and bow down
and worship a literal dead corpse. Hebrews Chapter 7, Verse 22, the bible says
this. "By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament." I was thinking about,
when we were filming Marching to Zion, we talked to these different rabbis and we talked
to Rabbi Mann. This is one of those wonderful things that ended up on the cutting room floor
just because there's only so much you can pack into a movie, but Rabbi Mann thought
he was so clever because he said, "You know, what you Gentiles call the Old Testament,
we call the Only Testament." Pfft. I got one for Rabbi Mann. What you Jews call
the New Testament, we call the Better Testament. It's what it says, right? Hebrew 7:22, "By
so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament, and they truly were many priests
because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death, but this man, because
he continueth forever hath an unchangeable priesthood, wherefore he is able also to save
them to the ever most that come into God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession
for them." Flip back just a few pages to Hebrews Chapter
4, starting in Verse 12. "For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than
any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing and sunder of someone's spirit and
the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are
naked and open under the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Seeing then that we have
a great high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the son of God, let us hold
fast our profession, for we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling
of our infirmities, but was at all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let
us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace
to help in time of need." That's the God of the bible. That's our Lord
Jesus Christ. That's what we believe in as Christians.
Let's talk about the practice of Buddhism. What's Buddhism all about? How do these people
think that they're going to get to this state of nirvana? That's the goal, remember, nirvana.
Now in order to understand this, one thing that I've heard Buddhists say is that we Christians
believe in a god who created something from nothing, and that's the truth.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth, and we believe that he created
it from nothing by his own word, by his own power, that God is the creator. The concept
of Buddhism, on the other hand, is to make nothing from something. Isn't that great?
Instead of making something from nothing, their goal is to make nothing from something.
Oh, so deep, so wonderful. Now they say, "You Christians, you value great
creativity and you value going out and creating things and making something," starting a business
or writing a book or just building family, whatever, just going out and making something
out of your life and being creative and building something and making something from nothing.
You're not going to believe this stuff. This is what Buddhism teaches … to cease activity
is the goal of human life. To cease activity is the goal of human life, according to Buddhism.
Okay, so let's get into the three categories of the practice of Buddhism.
First of all, they have their moral precepts that they follow, the rules by which they're
going to live their life, but they're not really rules. These are just suggestions.
With God, it's the Ten Commandments, and then Jesus said, "If you love me, keep my commandments,"
but with Buddhism, these are not imperatives. They're not really rules or commandments.
These are just things that you can do voluntarily that are going to help you live a happier
life and things are going to go good for you. There's the moral precepts. Then there's the
mental concentration that they work on, which we would know as meditation, and then of course,
there's wisdom, gaining wisdom, which is to finally come to grips with the fact that there
is no self. That's their ultimate wisdom. We'll get into that.
Let's start with these moral precepts. They give the actual layman of Buddhism … the
layman just pretty much has five moral precepts that he needs to follow, not to be the monk,
but just to be the layman. These are the five. Number one is not to kill. Okay. Number two,
don't steal. These sound familiar. Number three, refrain from sensual misconduct. Of
course, that's not defined, so that's, I guess, open to interpretation, whatever you think
that means, unlike God's clear commands to flee fornication, thou shalt not commit adultery,
not to look on a woman to lust after her and so on and so forth.
Number four would be not to lie, and number five would be to refrain from intoxicants
which would lead to a loss of mindfulness, specifically drugs and alcohol. These are
their five moral precepts. Now it's interesting that some of them are similar to the Ten Commandments,
but what's missing? Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee
any graven image. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Remember
the Sabbath to keep it holy. Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment
with promise that it 'may be well with thee and thouest may live long on the earth'.
There's no shadow of the first five there. They're just taking the second part about
basically doing right by your neighbor. That's pretty much the only part that they seem to
retain. Now a major teaching of Buddhism is what's called the middle way. Now go to Revelations
Chapter 3. The middle way. This is what Buddha figured out on his path to enlightenment or
awakening. While you're turning there, let me just tell
you who Buddha was, okay, just so you can understand this. His real name was Siddhartha
Gautama, and supposedly, legend has it that he was the son of a great king in India, so
he was a prince, and he had all these prophecies and all these signs and wonders about his
birth. I told you about his first words a little bit earlier in the sermon, but he had
these wheels imprinted on his hands and on his feet and so forth, and some Hindu prophet
had said that he's going to become a great religious leader, or he's going to become
a great warrior king, one or the other. Obviously he took the religious path.
This guy, Siddhartha Gautama, he basically decides one day that he's going to go outside
the palace; his parents had tried to keep him a really sheltered life. They didn't want
him to go the holy man route. They wanted him to be a great warrior conqueror, so he
decides to go out of the palace and he goes out and he sees these great four sights of
a sick person, an elderly person, a dead corpse, and a wandering holy man ascetic.
When he sees these four examples of human suffering, he decides that he's going to renounce
everything and seek after a spiritual goal and become a wandering ascetic holy man himself.
He leaves the palace, renounces everything, shaves his head and goes out wandering as
a poor, begging mendicant. He goes out and he does this, and at first
he tries this route of just extreme asceticism where he's just going to just suffer, and
so he got to the point where he's not even eating anything and he just keeps getting
skinnier and skinnier, and he's eating so little and he's starving himself, and he becomes
completely emaciated, but he doesn't reach his goal. He's not awakened. He's not enlightened.
A child offers him a bowl of rice pudding and he decides to take it, and survive. He
eats the rice pudding and he continues his quest for awakening and enlightenment. Finally,
of course, to make a long story short, he sits under the great fig tree and he's not
going to get up until he's enlightened. He achieves this great awakening under the fig
tree where he realizes that all of life is suffering and that the greatest goal is just
to realize we can't hang on to a-, and he just let go, just died, just be done with
it. There is no self, whatever. He's sitting under there and he has this great
awakening, and he's tempted to just sit there and never get up because he's there. I mean,
he's at nirvana. Might as well just starve to death under that tree, just sit there,
totally at peace, no desire, no suffering, and just slip off into pare nirvana, but no,
he must teach the people. He's like 40 years old, approximately or whatever,
so he gets up and he goes out and he finds all these wandering messed up Hindus that
are already worshipping Satan and mixed up and punishing themselves and living this bizarre
ascetic life, and he goes and he starts to teach them and he spends basically the next
40 years until he's about 80 years old gathering disciples and teaching them all this garbage
that culminates in, today, 500 million people being deceived by Buddhism.
He goes out and teaches all this and so on and so forth. One of the great things that
he understood at his awakening was what Buddhists call the middle way, and it's so amazing how
this concept has just really permeated into our society today, where everybody wants to
be a moderate. Have you noticed that that is held up now as just the ideal? Everything
is just moderate, balanced, and these things, and look, of course there's a place for moderation
and balance. Don't get me wrong. Obviously there's a little bit of truth in
every lie, but this idea of just everything that's bad is extremism. Have you heard this?
Where it's just like, "Oh, you're an extremist. Oh, you're fanatic," or, "Oh, you got to stay
away from this extreme-." "Oh, these extremist Christians, these fanatics, these zealots
are," … extreme this, extreme that and, "We need to be moderate." Politically, everybody
wants to be a moderate and Christian. They want to be a moderate Christian and a moderate
this and that. What does the bible say? Revelation 3:15,
"I know thy works that thou are neither cold nor hot. I would thou work cold or hot." Then
because they are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, "I will spew thee out of my mouth."
God is not just advocating across the board the middle way, the lukewarm way, the moderate
way, across the board, and what they teach with the middle way is they just say, "Well,
we don't want to go through a life of extreme self-indulgence or of extreme asceticism,"
but then beyond that, they say, "Well, even in our doctrine, we don't want to be too
extreme." When we say that there's no self, that we don't really even exist, we don't
want to go too extreme with that, but we don't want to go too extreme affirming the self
either. The middle way. Do things exist? Do they not exist? Eh. Half.
It's like it's the middle way, and you can see how this doctrine creeps into Christianity
as well where people are always looking for the middle way, and the middle way is also
known at the Hegelian Dialectic, for those of you who have heard of that. That's the
middle way, thesis, antithesis, synthesis. This middle way is this teaching of alway-
… "We don't want to go to these extrem-," but look, God is a god of extremes. Heaven,
hell, those are two really extreme places. I mean, think about, and plus, we don't
want to half believe in Jesus. "Well, you know, we don't want to affirm Jesus too much."
No. We believe in him with all of our heart, so when it comes to our doctrine, we'll go
to an extreme of talking about how we believe in Christ with all of our heart, and that
Jesus is the way, the truth and the … not some middle way. No, Jesus is the only way
and these other religions are false. They're not kind of false; they're just false.
When we live our lives, we want to live a life that is godly and righteous. We don't
want to be half in, half out. We don't want to be like Eutychus in the Book of Acts who
fell out the window because he was half in and half out. We want to get all the way in.
You've heard a lot of Christians described as having one foot in the world. Have you
heard that? Hey, he's living for God but he's got one foot in the world. That's not where
God wants us to be. God wants us to live a life that is hot, that
is on fire for God, and not to be lukewarm about our Christianity. Now, of course, are
there certain areas of life where moderation is taught by the bible? Yes, but it's taught
by the bible. Where the bible teaches, for example, give me neither poverty nor riches.
Feed me with food convenient for me … where the bible talks about things of that nature,
but not the Buddhist philosophy of our doctrine being lukewarm, of our beliefs being the middle
way, half in, half out. Or politically, the middle way, or, "Oh, how
do you feel about the sodomites?" "I'll take the middle way." "What do you think about
freedom and liberty in our country?" "Oh, the middle way." Taxation? The middle way,
but this is what our country is like now where the middle way is exalted, and anyone who
takes a firm stand and gets firmly on the side of right, of righteousness, of goodness,
of godliness, is considered extreme, fanatic, zealot, right?
Audience: Right. Steven: And condemned for not taking the middle
way. This is Buddhism. This is not Christianity that teaches the middle way. When we see their
moral precepts, we see a basically halfway moral teaching, because it's not even 'thou
shalt not steal'. It's not even 'thou shalt not kill'. It's like, well, these aren't really
commands. It's this middle way of, "Well, they're kind of suggestions. They're rules,
but you don't have to do them." They'll frequently break these rules and so forth.
For example, the monks are supposed to be celibate in Buddhism, but then they're like,
"Well, it's more important to become a Buddha. It's more important to achieve awakening than
to follow our vows," so once they get real high up, then they have some illicit you know
what going on, and that's just all part of reaching nirvana, folks, and that's more important
than our vow to celibacy. This is in Tibet, where that goes on.
This is wickedness. Don't take a middle approach on stealing and murder and adultery. Zsuzsa,
I'm just going to take the middle way in regard to my vows to you. I mean, isn't that just
ridiculous? "You just don't understand it." Yes, I do. I reject it and the bible condemns
it. That's their moral teaching, is to follow
these moral rules, and look, obviously some of these are great. Yeah, don't kill, don't
steal, don't lie, refrain from sensual misconduct, don't drink, don't do drugs. I mean, I agree
with that. I'm not against that, but just because something has one thing right doesn't
mean that the whole thing is not wickedness. Even a broken clock is right twice per day.
You could look at that clock and it will tell you the exact right time, twice a day.
Does that make it a functional right clock? No, it needs to be thrown in the trash. It
needs to be replaced with a working clock called Christianity, called the Holy Bible,
but secondly, besides their moral precepts in regard to their practice, they have this
practice of mental concentration, the meditation that they do, and where they just totally
empty themself and go through these processes of sitting there and meditat-. You know what
the bible teaches about meditation? Don't get the wrong idea that meditation's
a bad word. Meditation is not a bad word. In fact, I preached a sermon a while back
called 'Thou shalt meditate', but I wasn't talking about getting in the lotus position
and emptying yourself of everything and focusing on your breathing, okay? What I was actually
talking about is what the bible talks about where it says, "This book is the law. You
shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein, day and night. Then
will God make thy way prosperous. Then shalt thou have good success. This book is the law."
He said, "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth
in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, but his delight is in
the law of the Lord and in his law, that he meditate day and night and he shall be like
a tree, planted by the rivers of water, to bringeth forth his fruit in his season. His
leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."
That's the meditation that we need. Have you ever heard this term, 'an idle mind is the
devil's workshop'? Audience: Yeah.
Steven: This is true of Buddhism. When you make your mind idle and empty yourself, you
know what they're doing. They're opening themself up to demonic influence. That's what they're
doing, because the idle mind is the devil's workshop, and that's why some of them in Tibet,
when they go into these meditative states, will often receive all these revelations of
lost scriptures and things that demons are giving them, because of this meditation.
No, we need to meditate on the word of God, not sit around and meditate on nothing, not
sitting around thinking about nothing. We need to think about the Lord and his word
and the teachings of the bible. That is the meditation of a Christian.
When Isaac was meditating in the field, when he first met Rebecca, what was he meditating
on? The word of God. That's what we're supposed to meditate … not just meditating, "Ohm."
By the way, that is the most magical word of Hinduism. "Ohm." They go, "What does it
mean?" "I don't know." They don't know. Nobody knows, but it's magical. It has power. I mean,
this is a fairy tale. This is lies that have been concocted. Cunningly devised fables is
what they are, but then beyond the mental concentration, thirdly, there's the pursuit
of wisdom. We have the moral precepts, which again are
more like suggestions, half in, half out, the middle way. They're not really condemning
drugs and alcohol totally. I mean, take a middle way. Take a middle way on murders,
stealing, adultery, whatever. Secondly, the mental concentration or meditation
which I believe is demonic. I'm not saying it's demonic in and of itself to just sit
there and breathe, but what are they opening themself up to when they're emptying themself
and doing all this? Especially when they're sitting in front of an idol and doing it,
especially when they're sitting in front of a dead body and doing it, and worshipping
these demons. But thirdly, wisdom … Now, I'm going to
close the sermon with this point because I have way too much here to … I might finish
this tonight, because there's just a lot of notes here, but go back to Romans 1 and let's
end where we began. Let's go back to Romans Chapter 1 where we started.
In Romans Chapter 1, the bible talked about people who reject the God of the bible and
it said in Verse 21, "Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither
were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened."
Now isn't it interesting that it says they became vain? Another word that's often associated
with vanity is emptiness. Isn't it? When we think about Solomon saying, "Vanity, vanity,
saeth the preacher. All is vanity. Nothing matters," that's the teaching of Buddhism,
but what does Solomon realize at the end of his philosophical undertaking in Ecclesiastes?
He said, "Fear God and keep his commandments. This is the whole duty of man and God's going
to bring every work into judgment." He said childhood and youth are vanity. He
taught that seeking after money and pleasure and wealth were all vanity and emptiness,
but wait a minute. He said following the word of God is not vain, is not emptiness. The
bible says be therefore steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,
not ceasing from human activity. No, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as
much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. It's not empty. It's not
worthless and of no value. It's not vain. It's not empty. It is of great price to the
Lord our God. It says here that they became vain in their
imaginations, and think about what's your imagination? It's what you think about. Sitting
there just vainly … 'boh'. You say, "Well, I still think it's okay for Christians to
take part in this [inaudible 00:51:08]." No, I don't want anything to do with it, any
of this stuff. Yeah, I would just stay away from it. "Well, but you know, there's a lot
of good stuff with the yoga and the meditation. You know, it doesn't have to be Buddhist and
whatever." Just stay away from it. You don't need this stuff. You want to just relax and
focus on your breathing or something, why don't you pray to the Lord or read your bible?
If you're looking for peace and calm and tranquility, you could always read your bible. You can
go out and get some exercise, go running, whatever you do to calm down and unwind and
relax, but you don't need to go to these practitioners of yoga and transcendental meditation. There
are plenty of other ways to get a good stretch, and by the way, stretching's overrated.
This is a story unrelated to the sermon. Many coaches and scientists and athletes are starting
to realize that stretching before exercise is actually harmful. It's actually not preventing
injury, and so you're like, "Well, I'm going to do the yoga even though it has roots in
this weird religion and even though sometimes my yoga teacher's saying some creepy things
and so forth," but here's the bottom line though.
It's not even as good for you as people have been trying to make it out. Maybe you just
weren't intended to sit in that lotus position. Maybe that's just a weird position for a man
to jam his legs into and maybe it's just not worth working toward. I stopped stretching
years ago, okay, and I run all the time. I never stretch before I run and I don't have
any problems just not stretching. This is not a sermon against stretching, but I'm just
throwing that in. You don't need to do this meditation. You can meditate on the word of
God. You can pray. You can read your bible. You can quote scripture, and if you want to
get a good stretch, read the literature. It's not what it's cracked up to be.
They said, "Their foolish heart was darkened," and then it says in Verse 22, "Professing
themselves to be wise, they became fools." First Corinthians Chapter 1 says it this way.
It says, "For the preaching of the cross is, to them that perish, foolishness, but then
to us that are saved, it's the power of God," but then it says in Verse 25, "Because the
foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men."
The bible says in Verse 20, "Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer
of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?" The wisdom of this
world is foolishness with God, so when the Buddhists talk about wisdom as their third
path here … I'm just categorizing it into three sections just to make it easier to understand
how on one hand, they're following their false morality which leaves out a lot of God's commandments
and is a halfway type morality, and they've got their mental concentration of training
the mind and so forth, but then on the third one they have wisdom.
But listen, this wisdom is a joke to those of us that are saved because the wisdom of
the world's foolishness with God. You know what? A lot of people translate the word 'Buddha'
as the enlightened one. You know what the bible calls us as born again Christians? Enlightened.
We're the enlightened ones. Now they've changed it … "Well, it's actually the awakened one."
No, we're the awakened ones because what did the bible say? He says, "Therefore let us
not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober." Watch means to be awake.
He says, "They that sleep sleep in the night. They that be drunken are drunk in the night,
but let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and [inaudible
00:55:07] the helmet the hope of salvation, for God is not a [inaudible 00:55:10], but
to take salvation, by our Lord Jesus Christ. He says, let us not sleep as do others." What
is sleeping? Being ignorant of the word of God.
What is it to be enlightened? It's when you understand the word of God. When you get saved
and the Holy Spirit lives inside of you, the bible calls it also being illuminated. He
says in Hebrews, "After you are illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions,"
talking about salvation. See, the light bulb coming on, the enlightenment, the illumination
comes when you receive Jesus Christ as savior and the Holy Spirit opens your understanding
of the scriptures. That is enlightenment, my friend. That is awakening.
When you want to talk about a wisdom, the bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom, meaning that Buddhism has no wisdom. They don't have the beginning. They don't
have the foundation. They don't even have the basis, because the basis is faith in the
Lord. Okay, so when they have their wisdom, it's
the stupidest thing that you've ever heard in your life. For example, I was listening
to this guy talk and he was Ivy League professor. He was explaining Buddhism, and he talked
about his wonderful experience when he was at Harvard, how his holiness himself, the
Dalai Lama came and spoke to them at Harvard when he was there, and he had the privilege
of introducing the Dalai Lama to the student body as he spoke.
He got up and spoke and he spoke on the great truth that Buddha understood, sitting under
the fig tree, when he understood that there is no self, because the main teaching of Buddhist
wisdom is that there is no self. He got up and expounded a great long speech of the seven
reasons why there's no self and just how much happier you'll be when you just realize that
you don't even matter. You don't even have a self. You are no one. This is so great.
He expounds this for like seven long drawn out points as the students hung on every word
from his holiness, and soaked in his wisdom, and then he got done with these seven great
points and he said, "But if there is no self, then who is it that has just explained this
to you?" Wawwwww! Then he gave this most profound answer. "Just
me." Aarrrhh! It's amazing. I mean, just because he's taking the middle way, the middle way.
My friend, the bible is true when it says the wisdom of this world is foolishness with
God. We have an anchor. We have a firm foundation. Blessed is he that heareth these sayings of
Jesus Christ and does them. He's going to be like a man that built his house on the
rock, and this word of God is unlike anything else in this world.
People say, "Well, how do you know that your religion's the right religion? I mean, what
about Buddhism? What about Hinduism? What about Islam?" Look, they're foolish and they
even compare the bible to Buddhist scripture. They even compare the bible to the Koran.
They even compare the bible to Hindu scriptures or to the Book of Mormon or to the Tao Te
Ching? It's ridiculous, because the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than
any two-edged sword, and listen, their rock is not as our rock. Not even close.
The wisdom of this world is truly foolishness with God. "Well, but if 500 million people
believe in it," … no. There are 500 million people watching the stupidest things on TV
today. There are 500 million people who are watching American Idol and all this other
stupidity, and rotting their brains on all kinds of ridiculous nonsense. Just because
500 million people believe in something does not mean a thing. Broad is the way that leadeth
to destruction and many there be which go in there out because straight is the gate
and narrow is the way which leads them to life and [inaudible 00:59:38].
Yeah, there's 2.3 billion Christians, yeah, but half of them are Catholic, and tonight
in my sermon, I'm going to go into the multitude of things that the Catholic church has taken
directly from Buddhism, and once you understand that Buddhism is from around 500 B.C. and
then you see just the crazy amount of similarities, and how whenever we look at stuff in Catholicism
and we're saying, "Where did this come from? This isn't in the bible." We're thinking to
ourselves, where, what is the basis here? You know where it's coming from? Eastern religion,
and let me tell you something, the reason why all these things are in Catholicism that
are also found in eastern religion is because it's the same devil that's behind both. You
look at the teachings of Catholicism that kind of boggle your mind, they are straight
out of Buddhism and Hinduism, but we'll go into that tonight.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Father, we thank you so much for the death
[bear 01:00:49] and resurrection of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. We thank you for
the wonderful teachings of the bible that we can meditate upon day and night. We thank
you for heaven and for the things that you've prepared for us that are beyond our comprehension.
How marvelous they are, all the joys and pleasures that await us, Lord. Thank you that we were
born in a country where we heard the gospel clearly presented and that we got saved, Lord.
Help people to bring the gospel to those that are steeped in this false religion, Buddhism,
Lord, and that they would get a clear presentation of the gospel so that they can stop worshipping
death and worshipping a dead body and serve a risen savior and have eternal life in heaven
and in Jesus' name we pray, Amen.


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This page is an overview of the old city of Jerusalem. Details of its sites are described in additional web pages.
Jerusalem, the capital of Israel and the most Holiest city in the World, is located in the center of Israel, on top of the Judean mountains (700-800M above sea level). This strategic location, first selected by King David 3000 years ago, made the city the heart of the biblical Israel and the Jewish faith, a Holy city for the Christian and Muslim faiths, and the capital of Modern Israel.
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The following photo shows the old city, behind walls, from the south. In the center, dominating the old city, is the Golden cape of the Dome of the Rock Mosque. In the background - part of the Modern Jerusalem.
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A closer look into the old city: David's Tower, near Jaffa Gate on the west side of the old city, is yet another symbol of the city.
The Temple mount, where the Golden Dome of the Rock Mosque is located, has an inner wall, covering about 1/6 of the old city area. This inner wall also includes the "Wailing Wall" (or, Western Wall), the holiest place for Jews as seen below.
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The southern side, adjacent to the western wall, is seen in the following photo. On the left side, embedded in the wall, is the remains of "Robinson's arch" which was built by Herod as a staircase and gateway into the temple. On the right - the new archaeological garden which features another entrance to the temple mount - a huge staircase. Above, in the temple mount, the Silver dome of the Al-Aqsa mosque (built in 705AD).
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Jerusalem is rich of amazing sites, and we cover many of its Biblical sites.
Check our sites gallery of the Jerusalem area. The page summarizes the sites currently reviewed in Jerusalem.
| A map of the
old city of
Jerusalem shows the sites that are reviewed in Biblewalks.com.
It uses a color code to locate the featured sites of the Holy city:
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| Detailed Jerusalem
The following Jerusalem sites are detailed in other BibleWalks pages:
Tower of David and Jaffa Gate, Zion Gate, Mount Zion, Western Wall, Southern Wall, Temple Mount, Cardo Maximus, Mount of Olives, Basilica of Agony, Yad Avshalom, Tomb of Zechariah, Tombs of Bnei-Hezir, St. Peter in Gallicantu, Mary's tomb, Ophel and Hulda Gates, Via Dolorosa, Church of Holy Sepulchre, Burnt House, Broad Wall, Augusta Victoria, Monastery of the Cross, St. Francis, Dormition, King David's tomb, Last Supper , Armenian Church - St. Saviour - Mount Zion, St. James, St. John the Baptist , Sebils , St. Anna, Bethesda, Dominus Flevit, Ascension chapel, Russian Ascension convent, Pater Noster, Golden Gate, New Gate, Lions' Gate, Flagellation, Condemnation, Roman roads, King David's harp, Mar Elias monastery, Sultan's pool, St. Andrews, Ein Karem, Muristan, Redeemer, Al-Aqsa, Dome of the Rock, Dung gate, Second Temple Gates, Jerusalem's Roman Streets, Western Wall tunnels, Kh. Tililiya, Nebi Samuel, Gihon, City of David, Shiloah Pool, Drainage canal, Givati Car Park, Tancred fortress, Light show 2010, Light show 2014.
... more to come.
The following photo covers the entire area of the old city. The temple mount is seen on the lower-right side.
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(a) Getting there
Jerusalem is about 1 hour drive east of Tel-Aviv along highway #1, and the walled old city is in the eastern side of the Modern City.
(b) Tower of David, Jaffa Gate
You can drive to the municipal parking lot just outside the walls and near the Tower of David, the medieval fortress on the west side of the old city. There you can enter the walled city through the Jaffa Gate. You can first visit the museum in the tower, where a permanent exhibition of the history of the city is displayed.
(c) Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Via Dolorosa
Walking through Jaffa Gate, into the old city and along David street. Follow the signs to the Christian Quarter to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. After a visit in the church, walk along Via Dolorosa towards the Temple Mount.
(d) Jewish Quarter, Wailing Wall
From Via Dolorosa you can turn towards the Western side of the temple mount, to the renewed Jewish Quarter.
Alternatively, you can walk from Jaffa Gate around the walls, towards Zion Gate, the Jewish Quarter, or the Wailing Wall. Another option is to take a walk on top of the walls, entering from the outer side of the Tower.
The Western Wall tunnels are also a must to see, but need to be booked in advance.
(e) City of David
The exciting new sites in town, located on the southeast side of the old city. Check the overview page and start your travel back in time to the first and second temple periods.
(f) Mount of Olives
There are many sites in the Mount of Olives area. You can get there from Mount Scopus.
(g) Mount Zion
Check our overview of sites on the south west side of the old city. Park near the Zion Gate, then visit the sites of Mount Zion.
(h) Temple mount
Explore the Temple mount, where everything about Jerusalem started. Access is near the Southern Wall archaeological park, another site to visit.
(i) Panorama view from Armon Hanaziv Prominade
The best view of the city (from a distance) can be seen from the south side, along the Armon Hanaziv Promenade. The recommended time to visit this beautiful terrace overlooking the city is the afternoons.
The first biblical reference of Jerusalem: King of Salem (Shalem, the city before it Jerusalem) blesses Abram:
Melchisedech, the king of
Salem, bringing forth
bread and wine, for he was the
priest of the
most high God,
Blessed him, and said:
Blessed be
Abram by the
most high God, who
heaven and earth."
This text tells about the conquest of Jerusalem from the Jebusites, and builds his palace and capital:
"In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah. And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke unto David, saying: 'Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither'; thinking: 'David cannot come in hither.' Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
And David said on that day: 'Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, and getteth up to the gutter, and taketh away the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul--.' Wherefore they say: 'There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house.' And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward. And David waxed greater and greater; for HaShem, the G-d of hosts, was with him.
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house."
Note that the city has over 70 additional names, such as "David's city", "Zion", "God's City".
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- 50g grated apple
- Zest of 2 oranges
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 60ml freshly squeezed orange juice
- 170g sultanas
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- 75g dried cranberries
- 50g dried dates
- 75g dried blueberries
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- ¼ tsp allspice
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
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Adjust the spices and add more syrup to sweeten, if you feel it's necessary. Place in a clean bowl and cover and keep it in the fridge until you are ready to use it.


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Micropayments – resurrecting an old idea to try and save the newspaper
|Individual bits of content that are even moderately close in quality to what is available free, but wrapped in the mental transaction costs of micropayments, are doomed to be both obscure and unprofitable.
Clay Shirky, Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content
Today's WhatIs.com Word of the Day is micropayment. It's an old idea that's getting a lot of buzz lately because of all the press the Wall Street Journal has gotten for looking at micropayments as a way to compensate for declining print ad revenue.
The idea of micropayments has been around as long as the Internet itself. Very quietly, the dead horse has risen like a phoenix from the ashes and micropayments are the new holy grail for many online (and offline) sales models. What changed? Well, a lot has changed on the backend since 2003. That's when Clay Shirky very astutely pointed out the big elephant in the micropayment room — if you had to stop and think about making the payment for online content, no matter how small the payment was, you probably wouldn't make the effort.
The newpaper people are hoping that the growth of PayPal, iTunes, EZ-Pass, SpeedPass, using a cellphone to pay for a parking meter …etc. have demonstrated that we've changed how we've gotten used to paying for things.
As far as I can figure out, the general idea with this new go-around for micropayments and online content is to test and see if people are willing to fork over small amounts of money for niche news. For instance, articles about world news might be free, but articles about local news might be put behind a micropayment wall. Today's weather might be free, but acess to an extended long-term forcast with marine reports or pollen counts might be subscription-based.
The WSJ is not the only paper considering this.
In fact, there are quite a few newspapers working with an organization called Journalism Online to try and get this idea — or some other reasonable construct, like subscriptions, off the ground. According to the Journalism Online website, the goals of JOI are:
1. To develop a password-protected website with one easy-to-use account through which consumers will be able to purchase annual or monthly subscriptions, day passes, and single articles from multiple publishers.
2. To aggressively market all-inclusive annual or monthly subscriptions for those consumers who want to pay one fee to access all of the JOI-member publishers' content with revenues being shared among publishers.
3. Negotiate wholesale licensing and royalty fees with intermediaries such as search engines and other websites that currently base much of their business models on referrals of readers to the original content on newspaper, magazine and online news websites.
4. Provide reports to member publishers on which strategies and tactics are achieving the best results in building circulation revenue while maintaining the traffic necessary to support advertising revenue.
Don't look now, but I think the elephant is still in the room.
When you're looking for information online, how many times do you just look at once source? Like…umm…NEVER. The whole key to looking for content online is pouring through as many sources of information as you can in as little time as possible.
Think about it. How many times have you backed out of free online content just because you've been asked to register or log-in to see it? If you have to stop and think about ANYTHING before you view content, chances are the abandonment rate will be high. And I don't think it's too far of a stretch to say that many people who DO make the effort to register to see content feel as if the information they're providing to marketers upon registration is payment enough.
It'll be interesting to see if how this experiment turns out.


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A customer of mine, Stacey, from Montana, made this super cute lap size quilt.
I love everything about it - the simplicity, the colors, the setting design - everything!
I quilted an echoed swirl in the sashing areas...
and little waves - changing the direction in every other block.
Even the backing is pretty!
I pretended it belonged to me.....just for a little while.
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Makeup is a way to express yourself, and have fun! It won't ever be perfect unless you practice practice practice, and if you mess up just blend and add glitter (cause that makes everything better) lol. My love for makeup started 5 years ago. It all started with sneaking this cover girl purple eyeshadow quad to school when I was in the seventh grade. My first ever makeup was from benefit and over the years I've discovered so many good brands (drug store too) and products that I love. Remember that you never need makeup, you are beautiful with or without. Just have fun and feel good!!
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Recommendation of the Hungarian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (Magyar Arc-, Állcsont- és Szájsebészeti Társoság) in the indication of supportive therapy with Avemar. Hungarian Medical Journal (Orvosi Hetilap). (2006):
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A medical nutriment has supportive value in the treatment of colorectal cancer. British Journal of Cancer. (2003):
Fermented wheat germ extract reduces chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia in pediatric cancer patients. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. (2004):
Adjuvant fermented wheat germ extract (Avemar) nutraceutical improves survival of high-risk skin melanoma patients: a randomized, pilot, phase II clinical study with a 7-year follow-up. Cancer Biotherapy & Radiopharmaceuticals. (2008):
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The internet has become something that people have constant access to nearly all day and every day of their lives. Many people are going to the internet so that they can find answers and all kinds of help instead of going in person to speak to the professionals. Life has become so busy with people having limited time to do extra activities and the little time that they have to relax, they treasure it and would not want to spend it going to a therapist office for the counseling session, and so they would prefer to do the sessions online. Other people who might have problems or a condition can be afraid or even shy to go and speak about their problems openly to a therapist or a counselor, this can be a very difficult thing, and thankfully we have the internet which is fast becoming an answer to this problem.
There is a high rise in the number of victims who are seeking the online counselor services. This allows the person who needs the services of counseling or has any inquiries about an issue to do so online through the services of an online counselor. They can be able to do so from the comfort of their seats at home as they enjoy a hot cup of tea, at a coffee shop and even they can organize for a conference set up to have a session with an online counselor. One of the benefits of online counseling services is that it protects the patients privacy and their privacy is protected. This also applies when answering an email from the counselor. Through the online counseling services, the affected people can express how they feel with ease, and they will tell everything to the therapist freely. The affected person will not shy away from expressing how they feel as they are not speaking in person with the therapist but rather through online. The online counselor can help these patients with these problems.
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With Charis Distance Education you can enroll in the same courses taught by the same instructors as experienced at the main campus in Colorado without relocating!
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Here at Village boys & girls (age 3 - grade 6) are welcome to sign up and join us! Our goal is to show God's love and share His word so that children may develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
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Friends of Volta Park is a 501(c)3 charitable organization, and all contributions are tax deductible. Your contribution will help us maintain, improve and beautify our park! You may contribute by clicking on the box below:
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A new tax bill passed through parliament will make it easier for the government to get information from the Australian Tax Office on expats across the ditch who are not paying back their student loans.
The bill also allows the government to report those caught out to the Inland Revenue Department (IRD).
Tertiary Education Minister Steven 'Dildo Baggins' Joyce claims the implementation of the Taxation Bill (in regard to, Residential Land Withholding Tax, GST on Online Services, and Student Loans) will allow the IRD to collect a further $100 million from overseas borrowers in order to support the next generation of students who need government loans.
Loans are interest-free until a student lives outside of New Zealand for more than six months.
For some living in Australia who took out student loans 10–20 years ago, their loans have doubled or almost tripled since they were students as a result of the added interest.
Expats in Australia will now be subject to Australian debt collectors, court action, and could face being arrested at the New Zealand border (aka reaching peak NZ celeb status on Border Patrol).
VUWSA President Jonathan Gee said "the wider issue here is the level of student debt, which reaches $15 billion this year."
"The government can't just make plans to rake-in student loan repayments without also planning how they will retain graduates in New Zealand by creating jobs that allow new degreed-professionals to actually pay back their loan."
Gee added, "students are an easy target when it comes to getting tough on things like student loan repayments. The new bill might scare students into compliance, but it doesn't solve the problem of retaining skilled graduates in New Zealand."
NZUSA President Linsey Higgins told Salient "NZUSA believes that there should be less punitive measures in place for students to pay back their loans."
One third year BA student told Salient that these measures have made her "less inclined to want to move overseas" without paying her loan off. She added that she is worried for her fellow students, also graduating next year, who will want to move overseas and might find themselves in this situation.


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The Third Annual DeBary Beerfest will take place Saturday, April 7th at River City Nature Park, 200 Barwick Rd, DeBary, FL sponsored by Central 28 Beer Co. and the City of DeBary. More than 30 breweries from throughout Florida will participate in the beerfest. This year will include your favorite food trucks, vendors, more shade, water and misting stations and more great craft beer. Breweries will compete in the disc golf tournament beginning at 11 a.m. with an awards ceremony and presentation of trophies following the event. The DeBary Beerfest will run from 2 -6 p.m. Ticket cost is $30 before April 7th and $40 at the gate - includes a tote, tasting glass, and beer samplings of brewery participants seasonal beers. Being this is a beer festival, attendees are mostly adults between the ages of 21+ but this is also a great outdoor family event. Since the craft beer industry has a fundamental culture of community-involvement and giving back proceeds from the event will go to St. John's Riverkeeper, a nonprofit organization that keeps our river clean and protected.
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While in TechStars, our mentors and our managing director (Nicole) recommended founders send regular updates to company stakeholders. We've taken this advice and for a while now have been sending a weekend update email to the SalesLoft crew.
Here are the items we include in this informal email:
- High level product accomplishments
- Specific development accomplishments for each individual pulled from our Trello sprint board.
- Marketing accomplishments pulled from marketing Trello board.
- Metrics on inbound leads, new product users and web traffic.
- New clients and associated revenue
- And lastly, an example of someone on the team exhibiting our core values.
At first, I'd have to carve out an hour or so to get this put together. After a couple of updates, I've been able to build repeatable process and now it takes less than 30 minutes.
Personally, writing this email helps me better understand the state of the business. It also helps everyone else stay in the loop so they can help out where needed and not lose track of our direction.
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To aid drug repurposing, a topic of considerable interest among the rare disease researchers, the authors of an article published in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine have described a novel web tool: DrugNet. The authors "built a network of interconnected drugs, proteins and diseases and applied DrugNet to different types of tests for drug repositioning". Their work is based on the principle that biological entities are intricately networked as well as being dynamic and heterogeneous. The web tool (http://genome2.ugr.es/drugnet/) provides a list of ranked drugs (active substance) based on a given disease or provides a ranked list of diseases (possibly new indications that can be pursued) for a drug query. According to the authors, Drugnet was able to "identify previously unknown drug applications extremely reliably in real situations and so these methods may potentially save a large amount of resources in the drug development pipeline". The authors believe that usage of Drugnet could potentially bring respite for patients with no treatment, especially rare disease patients, sooner as the identified drugs have already been shown to be safe and tolerable.


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Athletics Victoria XCR Series: Lake Wendouree
Saturday, 27 July 2019
Lake Wendouree, Ballarat, VIC
The Athletics Victoria Cross Country and Road Racing (XCR) race at Lake Wendouree in Ballarat on Saturday, 27 July 2019 is part of a series that runs from May to September at various venues in the metropolitan and regional areas across Victoria.
The traditional stomping ground of XCR legend Steve Moneghetti, Lake Wendouree once again provides the backdrop for this fast-paced event, with open completing 15km and juniors 6km courses.
After the race, stay on and enjoy the best the city and surrounding Goldfields have to offer, including the Eureka Centre, Sovereign Hill, the Gold Museum and the Botanical Gardens.
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Orgasm! OK, now that we have your attention:
For episode 69 (nice), we're talking all about Fifty Shades of Grey. We even defend the trilogy a little, shock!
We also play a game of Marry, Sex, Kill, because of course we do. (And we newly dub the game Wed, Bed, Behead.)
Our random recs are The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and The Great British Baking Show.
You'll want to stick around for the bloopers at the end, trust us.
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From talk to music in one touch, ROKR E8 features cutting-edge, easy-to-use controls that allow a smooth transition from phone to MP3 player to imaging device.
Motorola designed ROKR E8 to deliver an uncompromised consumer experience for music or talk. Using breakthrough ModeShift technology from Motorola, the quad-band GPRS/EDGE device presents users with only the controls they need, at the time they need them, instantly transforming from music player to phone to imaging device with the touch of a button. Simply move a thumb across the FastScroll navigation wheel to search for music (music mode), contacts (phone mode), calendar (phone mode) and multimedia (imaging mode). A perfect blend of art and science, the face of the E8 is a sleek, seamless panel that features the first haptic touch pad from Motorola, which provides vibrating, tactile feedback when the user touches virtual buttons.
ROKR E8 is designed for music. The device enables the ultimate freedom in loading songs from multiple sources and is compatible with standard connectors, software and accessories. Compatibility with Windows™ Media Player™ 11 on the PC allows users to easily transfer their favorite music onto the device, access to more than 200 online music stores and simple drag-and-drop organizing of songs, artists, albums and playlists. Discovering and downloading new music has never been easier with the ROKR E8's built-in FM radio (optional 3.5mm headphones must be plugged in) and the Song ID feature that recognizes and displays tune information2. Share music with friends over the built-in speaker, break free from wires with stereo Bluetooth® wireless technology3, or use a favorite set of standard stereo wired headphones using the 3.5 mm headset jack.
The ROKR E8 is expected to be available in Q1 2008. For more information regarding pricing and product availability in your region, please contact your local Motorola representative, or register for ROKR E8 email updates.
* ModeShift technology transforms the device from phone to music player to imaging device with the touch of a button
* FastScroll navigation wheel allows for scrolling through songs, contact and image library with the slide of a thumb
* Innovative haptics technology provides tactile response when a virtual key is pressed
* 2GB internal memory4; optional external memory support up to 4GB capacity
* Microsoft™ music ecosystem support
* 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, stereo Bluetooth wireless technology (A2DP)3
* 2.0 megapixel camera with 8x zoom, multi-shot feature, video capture and playback
* Airplane mode to play uninterrupted music in the air, even without a SIM card
* Talking phone offers a voice readout of text messages while dialing number or when receiving a call
* MIDI, MP3, AAC, AAC+, Enhanced AAC+, WMA, WAV, AMR-NB, Real Audio (RA) v10
* Crystal Talk™ technology
* Full HTML browser
* Dimensions: 115×53x10.6mm
* Band: Quad Band; GPRS/EDGE class 12
* Weight: 100 grams
* Battery: 970mAh
* Display: 2.0″ QVGA 240×320
* Stereo Bluetooth Class 2, USB 2.0 Hi-speed, GPRS Class 12, EDGE Class 12
From talk to music in one touch, ROKR E8 features cutting-edge, easy-to-use controls that allow a smooth transition from phone to MP3 player to imaging device.
* Stereo Bluetooth Class 2, USB 2.0 Hi-speed, GPRS Class 12, EDGE Class 12
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