Hindus in Southern Pakistan coming to Jesus

By Jeremiah Love —

A Hindu student recently came to a pastors’ seminar in Southern Pakistan.

“I am a follower of hindu god,” he decalred.

If a person wanted to attain salvation and become spiritually powerful, they had to endure years of suffering and torture, he said. He believed that by causing pain they would receive supernatural power and that many demons would come under their authority and obey their commands.

Then the student sat down with dozens of other religious leaders and heard the Word of God preached by an American via WhatsApp and translated by a Pakistani Christian who organizes such meetings in villages of Southern Pakistan.

He learned that a person can repent of their sins and come into obedience to God. He understood that those who obey God will inherit eternal life in heaven, where there will be no suffering, sorrow or pain, but everlasting joy and peace.

“Now I realize that the religion I followed was leading people astray and away from God,” he said, per the translator. “But thank God, I am no longer a follower of darkness. I have become a follower of the living Christ Amen.”

A famous Hindu preacher who practices khade tapasya, deliberately standing for an extended period of time, often years, without sitting or lying down. Hindus who inflict this brand of asceticism will sleep with a suspension holster, perhaps like the one seen in the photo (provided by the translator).

In the Hindu belief, there is no such thing as grace, unmerited favor or salvation by forgiveness. Your reincarnation into a higher caste (and ultimate union with the deity) comes from your works on the earth such as fasting.

The man cleaning his feet is also a Hindu, expecting a blessing by doing that.