The title or the topic of this morning's message is Why Do We Believe Understanding the rules of the Truth Game, and I want to introduce this scriptural topic. By referring back to my testimony, I think I've shared a little bit of my testimony and, previous sermons. But I want to share, just when I was a child, I remember being in Sunday school class. I didn't grow up in a Christian home, but I do remember going to church and being in a particular Sunday school class and hearing the teacher teach from the Bible.
And just the sense coming over my heart and mind that there is a God. God does exist and I, and I knew even as a small person, probably 7 years old, that I am accountable to Him. But as I grew up, like a lot of people, I began to realize the world out there, my own problem with sin, my own desire to do my own thing. And I can remember about the time of junior high school, I can remember just kicking a can down the street.
And saying to myself, trying to convince myself that there was no God, trying to rehearse reasons in my mind, speaking to myself, why I believe there was no God. And it gave me comfort actually over my just my person that if there was no God, then I was not accountable to anybody and I could do anything I wanted. And I remember particularly being in a 7th grade social studies class and my social studies teacher introducing to me for the first time just the religion of Hinduism. And as we were reading and studying Hinduism, A warm sensation, I kid you not, a warm sensation came over my body.
And I just felt this peace that this was the answer to my problems. This was the answer to my God problem that made me feel guilty, my sin problem that made me feel guilty. There's something about Hinduism that really resonated in my heart. And I don't think it was the intention of my social studies teacher to bring about delusion or deceit into my life, but it was, the teaching of Hinduism in 7th grade that really began to make sense to me and to explain away what I was getting from my live-in babysitter at home who was trying to teach me the gospel....
