Myths Christians Are Tempted To Believe

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Well, I've been in first Thessalonians on Sunday nights, but I've been away, and I've just been thinking about a variety of issues
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So tonight I'd like to talk about some common myths that Christians are tempted to believe
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Now this could probably be a long series, and I don't think I'm going to do that. It could be probably a
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Pretty big book. I guess we could do that as well Robert Muto said to me by the way
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Mark and Miss Muto. Thank you for singing leading and playing with enthusiasm with Verve did you like that let's put some enthusiasm in it.
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This isn't a biblical word, but do you know what? enthusiasm means and Theos ism to put
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God into something Okay, I Have you have to get used to me again?
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I know and I have to get used to you Works both ways once I preached a sermon in South Central Los Angeles It was mostly black folks there, and they were hooping and a hollerin, and I would say something.
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It wasn't even profound it was just biblical and it was amen and preach it chief and way to go and kind of feed off that and then literally a
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Week later. I go to Grace Community Church and preach and teach for Bill Shannon And I teach the exact same thing and I was thinking this really went over well at this other church
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And so I don't get to speak here very often and so I'm gonna preach and they were just stone -cold
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Kind of like what you look like right now Far away, there's like a barrier between us
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Crazy, so here's what we're going to do instead of me preaching a regular expositional sermon will be in the text
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But it's gonna be more topically driven and as you know on Sunday nights My questions aren't always rhetorical like they are on Sunday morning, so let me ask you just to start
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I'll if it's going well. I'll go a little bit longer if it's not going well, then I'll cut you off It's true
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What do you think are some common myths and tell me? About the common myth and then why it's a myth and I'll try to repeat it
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So in case anyone's listening on the tape or radio So what would be a common myth that a lot of Christians believe
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Yes, do you know what I give you a raise
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I can't believe you're only gonna be here a few more weeks Okay, that would be a myth why well we know why
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I'd be a myth and I won't belabor the point pardon me Seriously when you think
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I'm perfect and when you Think that I can meet all your needs and be there for you and do all these things
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You are going to be woefully disappointed and if Jesus is enough for you. You'll love this church
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But you have to remember that the elders That's one of the reasons why we have a plurality of elders because one person just can't do it all
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One person is not capable to do it all and so that would be a myth But that's not on my list, but I personally like the myth.
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Okay next I Have about eight or so myself, so if you think it's gonna be a pretty short service.
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I have plenty yes Okay, that's really a good one.
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I should have put that in there, and maybe I'll just add that for the show. I'm not led I Am not led what's wrong with that Brian?
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People say I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna evangelize because I'm not I wasn't led okay.
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It's good Christian lingo to cover Disobedience I wasn't led and the one I always like to use is when you tell your children to clean their room and you come
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Back an hour later, and it's not clean, and they look at you, and they say well daddy I wasn't led by the
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Spirit to clean my room Okay, I guess
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I'm now led to get out the whacker, but that's part two Okay Next yes, oh you know what
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I should put that on there for sure that God loves you less when you sin God couldn't love you more nor could he love you less because he loves you in Christ Jesus John chapter 17.
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I will read this one because it's such a heartwarming Theme in the scriptures and heartwarming truth
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We love justification by faith here Don't we the reform doctrine as the
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Reformers would say the Reformation? Stands -or -falls on the doctrine of Christ's righteousness credit to our account and Christ's righteousness credit to our account and our sin credited to Christ account confirmed by the
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Resurrection We stand and fall the Reformers said based on justification by faith alone.
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I believe that truth it is a Genuine truth it is often repeated in the scripture, but it pales in comparison
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Numerically to the concept of in Christ in Christ in Christ in Christ Redefeasion sometime in Christ union with Christ is talked about more than justification by faith two very important doctrines
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And so to think that when God saves us based on Christ's work And he redeems us by his blood the ransom price was himself
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He reconciles us we are enemies with God, and then we are reconciled through Christ death
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We have earned God's wrath and the Son propitiates are satisfies the wrath of God so now we can become friends all these great truths
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Drive us to the fact that we are so in Christ that when
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God sees us He sees Jesus Now the corollary is also true and people struggle with this.
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Here's what you struggle with maybe more than some when I obey
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He loves me more See that's the evangelical myth when
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I obey he loves me more when I sin He loves me less both are false because he couldn't love you anymore
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He gave you his best the son the blameless son to die on your behalf in the high priestly prayer the true
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Lord's prayer in John chapter 17 why don't you turn your Bibles there? I think this would be beneficial for you
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John 17 Just toward the end to think about the love of God for us is the love of God The Father's love for the sons, this is an excellent truth
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That is misunderstood in evangelicalism. I in them John 17 let's go up to verse 20.
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So we get the paragraph thought here If you're ever reading a Bible commentary and you see a word that looks like periscope
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But it look but it's really pericope. It's pronounced. How is it pronounced? No Steve.
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You can't do it Pericope, thank you. You should my friend go to Southern Seminary. I Heard of a professor that might be there in the fall teaching preaching class and practicum.
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It's just a rumor This is a
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Pericope this is a thought this is a paragraph if you will and it says in verse 20 of John 17
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I do not ask for these only but also for those who will believe in me through their word
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John is being is getting this Inspired by the Spirit of God breathed out of what
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Jesus prayed as far as I know if you back up you're gonna find John sleeping and so we believe that God has
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John write this through the Direct inspiration of the Spirit of God and he says in verse 21
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That is Jesus that they may be all one just as you father and me and I and you that they may also be in us
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So that the world may believe that you have sent me the glory that you have given me
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I have given to them that they may be one even as we are one I in them and you and me that they may
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Become perfectly one so that the world may know that you sent me and love them even as you loved me
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That's why Puritans write whole commentaries on this chapter You love them even as you love me now, how can that possibly be?
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Father I desire that they also whom you have given me may be with me where I am
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To see my glory that you have given me because you love me before the foundation of the world.
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Oh Righteous father, even though the world does not know you. I know you and these know that you have sent me.
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I Will continue to make it known that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them
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And so the doctrine of union with Christ in Christ in Christ in Christ Means that when
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God the Father sees you He really sees Christ and so he sees us as perfect positionally
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Acceptable positionally that doesn't mean we don't sin practically, but we have Judicial forgiveness
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I have a gavel in my office because I have to make a lot of rulings between Sheep, and they come in and I have the gavel just kidding.
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I have it for this reason because I like to teach judicial Forgiveness I declare you what?
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Not guilty, but there's also parental forgiveness when you sin
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Contrary to the guy at 430 on WV and a people the people and Bob George and whoever the new guy is
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They say that since you have Judicial forgiveness, which I believe and you believe you don't need parental forgiveness
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They teach against parental forgiveness And so if you've already got your sins forgiven and you sin against God as a
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Christian There's no need to ask for forgiveness, but just try it sometimes That's like try not to breathe for as long as you can
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Maybe that's not the best thing to do tonight But The pressure in the air forces you to breathe the pressure we feel with our conscience after we sin
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It almost forces us to ask for Forgiveness and we confess and then we feel good and we experience the fruit of our obedience and so we believe in both judicial forgiveness and Parental forgiveness think about it for those of you who have little kids or maybe older kids when your child sins against you
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You don't kick them out of the family Do you I mean the one time when my dad said okay, you can drive the car and You know if you ever get in an accident or whatever just you know
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Let me know if you ever ding the car or something And I remember I I was pulling into the driveway and scraped it alongside of the garage it was one of those super tight garages and and I just thought maybe you wouldn't really see it
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I can't remember if I got spanked, but I I think that's when
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I learned the phrase You're not too old to be spanked at 16 But here's the thing he was disappointed
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He was sad But he forgave me and to this day. My name is still
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Mike Avendron So we have forgiveness in Christ And if you obey
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God doesn't love you more And if you disobey God doesn't love you less because of the union you have with Christ excellent one, okay?
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I'm having fun next I have some of my own, but do you have any others? Mr.. Cooley, I know you've got some give me your best
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Obedience is legalism. It's not like this could be something from your new book All right obedience is legalism now normally
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I'd ask Steve to tell me why that's the case But since he's paid to be good, and you're good for nothing.
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What would you say? Anybody is obedience legalism
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Maybe we need to define. What is obedience, and what is legalism, but what would you say I? Would have to say if I'm speaking honestly that I'm sure our church
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And I'm sure me in particular as leader and one of the leaders get dinged with this by people
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Bethlehem Bible Church is legalistic So what is legalism and what is obedience and is obedience legalism mr..
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Johansson, please?
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See aren't you glad you came tonight? Because this is interactive Okay, excellent answer legalism most strictly most biblically is
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Adding works to the gospel So you say it's not just Jesus's works.
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It's Jesus's works plus Jesus paid it almost all and I have to add something whether that's my good works whether that's my faith whether it's something
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He did most of it, and I supply a little bit and so when you read about Galatians and other passages where Paul is after the legalist most technically
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It's I'm adding works to the gospel But we'll learn next Sunday morning here even at Bethlehem Bible Church with Romans 14 and 15 first Corinthians chapter 8 and 9
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That legalism in modern parlance is you have extra biblical rules about?
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dating about alcohol about No devotions No breakfast.
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I mean you could have all kinds of special rules designed to Make God more happy with you if you do them, but they have nothing primarily to do with the
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Bible So if I read this verse to you, where does this come from has the Lord as? Great delight in burnt sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the
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Lord behold to obey is better than what? Sacrifice and to listen than the fat of rams 1st
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Samuel 15 22 Samuel said that God likes obedience in light of the cross in light of your salvation
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He's saved you to obey you can read first Peter and really get the sense that I'm supposed to obey not to keep my
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Salvation, but because God saved me I want to honor him with what up with what I do and So what happens is if you don't like the scriptures that talk about you can't sue other
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Christians first Corinthians 6 Matthew 18 Tell it to the church step three
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Then they'll say you know what a good way to deflect things and to get away from the issue is well
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That's legalism, but obedience is never legalism Legalism is outside the
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Bible man -made our women made rules to Attach themselves to the scripture for hyper
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Spirituality and so if someone said to me Obedience is legalism well when people say Mike you're legalistic.
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I like to ask them well I don't want to be that's for certain, and I think it'd be sinful to be legalistic
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Please tell me where I'm legalistic so that I could change But usually it relates back to biblical issues about obedience and so Steve I really like that one
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Okay, it's all about how I feel tonight, and what I like Okay before I go to my list any others
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Only the elect come on Sunday night would that be a myth oh? No, let's just keep going in My category be only the elect sit up front first three rows
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He's like I'm gonna move up one. He's like my foot was on the chair in front of me Yes Okay, as an excellent one the church should be serving me
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And you know isn't it really neat that a side benefit of ministry in the church is the church does serve us
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Right as we love one another. There's a reciprocal fashion to it and even as we look this morning in the passage in Psalm 139
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When we obey Scriptures and when we serve one another there's just this no it wasn't it was in 1st.
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John chapter 3 That's where it was to love one another the two great commandments to love the Lord and love one another but if you walk in here saying this is what
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I Expect out of a local church. I'm always suspect. This is what you better do for me now
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Christians are immature some are immature and some don't know and so I want to be patient with them and teach them
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But the church doesn't exist to serve people Primarily it serves to exalt
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Christ Jesus and then in light of that then we serve one another And so it's often said and of course do
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I want to be more loving the answer is yes But it's often said that I heard people say well
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Bethlehem Bible Church is unloving By the way, that's an easy thing to throw out because it's really bad
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Right. It's the second greatest commandment. So it must be the second greatest sin If the greatest commandment is the greatest sin then the second greatest commandment must be the second greatest sin you don't love people
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So it's easy to throw that out But when people say that who are in the body then I want to well
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I'll tell you since you're here tonight and maybe I should just be honest on When if I'm walking according to flesh,
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I want to spiritually whack them But if I'm a walking according to spirit, I want my to put my figurative arm around them and say listen
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That's not the way things work around here because friend you're part of the church
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And when you say Bethlehem Bible Church isn't loving and you're a member you're saying you're not loving
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So please I need more people like you to love other folks Now it can be as easy as how do we treat people on Sunday mornings?
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I just met with an elder a week ago And he said, you know, we have a lot of visitors at our church the great preaching there, by the way sound doctrine
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We have a lot of visitors, but they don't stay. Do you have any advice on how to get people to stay?
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I Could have talked about bribing or something else, but I wanted to give him a biblical answer And I said a long time ago.
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We said as an elder board. Let's not talk to each other on Sundays when
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I first got here, I would want to talk to a lot of the People regular members and engage with them and now you pretty much didn't know don't you if you're a visitor
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I'll try to come and speak with you. I can't I didn't get to all of them this morning But if you're an old -timer, you're a member the best way to see me is to become a visitor
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The best way to see me is to say Mike I have an emergency I've got to talk to you now, okay
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Or you could say Mike it's important, but could we get together this week? There's another elder
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I could meet with and the answer will be yes, of course, but on Sunday morning I'm trying to go visit the visitors because if the pulpit ministry is like this in a day of Sappy felt needs emotionalism and sentimentality every
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Sunday's a Mother's Day Then you've got to be nice outside of the pulpit And so I said to those elders will try to do what we do and that is
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Elders don't talk to one another elders go talk to people and minister to the sheep
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That's how you're gonna find out about them and secondly don't hide this will be good for some of you here today
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Don't hide behind this false thought I'm an introvert
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That's why I don't go greet people That would be another common myth by the way, the original studies in psychology had three categories introvert
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Extrovert and what was the middle one? normal We've got a mess you up because how are we gonna keep getting co -pays, but that's another story introvert extrovert normal This is like a child that hides behind When you come and say hi pastor
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Mike and they won't do it and the parent has all kinds of things I mean, I'm an expert at this because I've done them all
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My child didn't get a nap My child's got to eat my child
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Here's the one Shy Your child's not shy your child's disobedient.
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You just said to them say hi to pastor Mike and they're like this So, how do we get from that?
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From being unloving well if you're from the outside and you say you're just unloving maybe you don't understand what love is
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Love is preaching the gospel. Love is Bible teaching love is discipleship. Love is discipline.
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Love is one another's Love is the moving ministry. I was thinking about that the other day the men and the ladies who help in the moving ministry
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Who does that? You know how many people they move in the moving ministry? Backbreaking move move move.
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I just saw it man. They really are showing love To other folks. So if you're in the moving ministry,
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I commend you as love if you're in the body and you say we're not loving Enough I think then you just need to say to yourself
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Well, maybe I should make up for the differences or the lack thereof of love and other people and I ought to become more loving
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But it all revolves around what I get what I expect Versus what I can give if you let me just be blunt for a second
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Not that I'm unblunt all the other seconds That's why I could never be a pastor in California or the
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South Because they kicked me out in like two weeks because we're just too blunt here in New England God made me to be a pastor in New England Perfect blunt
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New England blunt Mike an elder when I first got here said to me I can't I can remember it like it was yesterday people in New England.
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I'd like to hit you straight on Not a lot of backstabbing, but they'll just hit you straight on.
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I thought Noted. What was
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I gonna say? What's my thought here? I? Know I'm always blunt. But what was
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I gonna say about being blunt? I don't know.
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Okay Let's let's I can't remember. I'll remember tonight at 3 a .m.
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Oh You know what? I think I remember I Want you to come to worship the King Sundays the
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God of the universe the King holds out his scepter to you and he says approach
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That's the language of Scripture well I don't really go to want to go to church today. And you know, I got some kind of games and and Basketball, I've got a new name for basketball on Sunday mornings.
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It's called basket bail Foot bail got to go worship these gods. I'm not against sports not a legalist
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But on Sunday the Lord says you get the pleasure of coming to worship me You get to sing songs about Jesus pray through the mediator
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Jesus Hear the words of Christ preached from the pulpit give to gospel -oriented ministry and serve other sheep that sometimes don't seem to Lovable and so I want you to come for the right reasons
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But if you come for no other reason than to say there's probably somebody hurting today
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That Abendroth and Cooley and the other guys can't get around to that just could use and I love you.
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I'm glad you're here Could I hug you? Could I pray for you?
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Could I serve you? That's not the best reason to attend to worship service But that's still a pretty good reason
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We have drifted in our lifetimes and probably it spills into our church even as well where churches are consumer driven
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We will take a survey we will give it to the community you tell us what you want in church Really you try reading
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Leviticus chapter 10 sometime and you read all of Leviticus I read it this summer, and I just thought the precision of worship that God wants so much
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So than two young men who had a pretty big Pretty high up father. They gave strange fire to the
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Lord and what did God do in Leviticus chapter 10? Nadab and Abihu All right, here's these are mine.
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I don't think I'm gonna get through them all but that's okay Well, this is this this one is just kind of this could be like a no -compromise show number one
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I'm a visual learner When it comes to truth when it comes to learning,
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I'm just a visual learner So I need audio
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Visuals I need PowerPoint presentation. I need drama on stage
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I'm a visual learner. Tell me what the myth of visual learning is and then we're gonna look at a psalm
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I'm a visual learner. I hear it all the time Pardon me.
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Okay faith comes by hearing the message of God. Let me let me say this is the way I kind of approach it
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Well, you might like visual learning and there's something to be said for seeing something and listening
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And there's all kinds of studies of psychology that deal with behavior that have nothing to do with our men and women born good
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They just recognize behavior and studies But friends God is an inscripturated teacher
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The main he has two books in the world. Well, some say three the debated one is conscience.
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I Don't really think that counts Book one Charles Hodge said is creation.
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What does God teach you when you see something in creation? God is a
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God does teach visually in natural revelation Eric what is the first part of psalm 19 say it's okay.
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I don't know either That's why I asked you because then it make it seem like I knew and you didn't Okay, then let me just read this part in psalm 19
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I can find it faster than you the heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above proclaims his handiwork
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Romans chapter 1 says it shows his power and it shows his wisdom. God is a visual teacher when it comes to natural revelation
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But you want to know the specifics about God he teaches you through his word
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Let's go to psalm 119 and I just want to encourage you tonight in psalm 119 to make sure
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You study the Bible and I will say this was another myth, but I'll just tuck it into this one
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There is no growth for the Christian apart from Bible study
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Show me any Christian who is maturing in the Lord and I will show you a
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Christian who reads their Bibles Bible reading is a lost art.
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I'm glad you listen to your Bible on audio I'm glad you hear Bible preaching But you've got to study and I want you to realize that if you go to your biography section of your books
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And you read about Mary Slessor She was a Bible student You read about Adoniram Judson He was a
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Bible student whoever your human heroes are in the Christian faith They all studied the
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Bible and I know I'm personally Struggle with laziness and so okay.
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How do I grow in Christ? without putting the work in Well, maybe if I got zapped, you know
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If Mike could just have people come up here to this front yellow Iwana line and he just zaps them. Maybe they'll grow
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Maybe I'll just get it from kind of osmosis I'll just put the King James Version Bible under my pillow and maybe it'll just absorb in it.
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I mean, I don't know But it's through Bible study
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God has ends glorification through sanctification through means
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Bible study and so I just want to read you some verses here from Psalm 119 to try to encourage you to read the
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Bible To keep reading the Bible. I should say many of you are wonderful Bible students It's a privilege to be a pastor to many of you students, but we could all read the
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Bible more Memorize the Bible chapter 119 of the Psalms verse 9
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How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word with my whole heart.
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I seek you. Let me not wander from your commandments I've stored up my I've stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you
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Blessed are you O Lord teach me your statutes Verse 14 in the way of your testimonies.
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I delight as much as in all riches ever got an inheritance
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Ever got a big inheritance Verse 15.
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I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes
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I will not forget your word Go to verse 48.
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I Lift my hands toward your commandments, which I love and I meditate on your statutes
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And if you see me most of you know me there are some visitors if you see me just going like this
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What would you think? Would you think I'm worshiping a book? No, the only way you know about God is through the book and David is saying this is where you reveal your mind to me.
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I Worship you and your word because they're connected. I will meditate on your statutes verse 89
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Forever. Oh Lord. Your word is firmly fixed in the heavens your faithfulness endures to all generations
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You have established the earth and it stands fast Verse 92 if your law had not been my delight
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I would have perished in my afflictions Verse 97 please.
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Oh How I love your law your Torah your instruction It is my meditation all the day your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies for it is ever with me
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I have more understanding than all my teachers for your testimonies are my Meditation I understand more than the ages aged rather for I keep your precepts
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Verse 129 your testimonies are wonderful Therefore my soul keeps them
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The unfolding of your words gives light gives light it imparts understanding to the simple verse 148 he stays up.
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I'll never forget when a professor at Master Seminary told me sometimes I pray I can operate on less sleep
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My eyes are awake before the watches of the night that I may meditate on your promise and then verses 162 to 164 just to give you a little taste of this psalm.
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I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil I Hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law seven times a day.
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I praise you for your righteous rules How about that not a prescription for the
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New Testament Church, but seven times a day. I just say God. Thank you for your instruction God teaches
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Visually through natural revelation, but God teaches through inscripturated word
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Fixed letters on a page or on a scroll or on vellum or on deerskin
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The things that we need to know about who Christ is and why he had to be virgin born and virgin conceived
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And why he lived a perfect life And died a perfect death if you'd like to grow in Christ Jesus You cannot grow without the word and you could ask the
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Lord Lord Just help me to delight in your word make it that I love studying the Bible and for what I what
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I do Here's my plan. I wake up in the morning. I try to make it every morning There are a few exceptions, but I backtrack after that I try to get up early enough that I can walk over put the boiling hot water on Pour it into the
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French press Go brush my teeth and wake up for four minutes while the coffees brewing
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Push the French press down walk over with my Bible and sit down And now
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I happen to be reading the Torah the first five books of the Bible and I happen to be reading first Peter Every single day just different Bibles same
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Bible just so I can understand the heart of Peter And first Peter and I just try to do that every single day
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It is interesting when I've been reading that passage every single day in first Peter And I know
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I'm preaching the choir because you love Bible study you love Bible reading, but we can always read with more fervency and more intensity first Peter chapter 2
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I know you know the passage put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander like newborn infants
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Long for the pure spiritual milk that by it you may what? Grow in respect to salvation if indeed you have tasted the
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Lord is Good, I think I probably said it many times of course
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I loved my kids, and I wanted to be kind to them But sometimes you know it's 3 in the morning and playing around with the kids a little bit because they won't go to sleep
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And if it was kind of bottle duty I would take care of it because otherwise Kim had to just do everything and so you know
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God has designed through evolution theistic evolution of course Just kidding just kidding that when you just go like this to a kid a
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Little infant what do they do like that isn't even the bottle son, but you just and then you do it this side
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It's just it's just this kind of root. Is it rooting? Is that what it's called rooting reflex and those kids all the time it drinking you out of house and home
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I don't even want to know how expensive for a formula is now How expensive is it Jerry? Sorry to get into your personal business
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Do I hear some kid laughing? See it's perfect. She's listening. She doesn't know what she's laughing about, but she's listening
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I Was loving when people come to a Bible teaching churches, and then they go off to Bible college like well
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What'd you learn it? It's your home church? I don't really know and then they go take the Bible entrance exam and ace it without studying
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Because if you listen God's words powerful, and it changes the way people think and they just hear it week in and week out
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That's why a common myth would be as soon as you can get rid of your kids and go send them to junior church
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No, you want them seated under the Word of God. There's only one reason we have junior church. You know that reason One and only one reason so when new visitors come in who are either immature who are who are
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Not saved we want the oxygen mass to come down to them first We'll go teach their kids about who
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Jesus is but we want to try to encourage them to get back with their family as soon as possible so the family can be together and Hear the preaching from the
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Word of God Okay, well time is zooming by so fast.
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Let's see which other ones. Do I want to do? Okay, let's do this
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Number whatever number it is number three now two it's only two
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All right Common myth number two for me, but maybe it's like eight so far for us tonight diets based on the
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Bible are good I Just happen to have one here because they send me free books to review on the radio station the
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Daniel fast the ultimate guide
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To the Daniel fast 100 plus recipes plus 21 daily devotionals We've got fruit pizza.
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I don't know. I guess that's Daniel 14. I'm not sure about where that came from I Don't think
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Daniel had pesto, but that's okay These are very popular why well because we struggle with self -control like everybody else does and We eat too much we eat the bad kind of foods
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Not everybody that's overweight has a problem with their food intake because there are other medical reasons that people are heavier
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But this is very popular that if I just go back to the Bible What were some of the other Bible books about cooking and diets that have been out there recently?
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Either tied to weight loss are tied to cookbooks based on the Bible I mean,
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I know you can get Ezekiel 4 7 bread in the health food store Fine you're not more holy if you eat it
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Unless it's got a lot of clarified butter. Just lathered on the top a way down diet
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What would you say to someone who said listen you should only eat food from the Old Testament or in Daniel?
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You should eat kosher food only that's why we've got all these problems with high blood pressure and everything else
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You've got to go back to the Daniel diet. What's the general problem with biblical diets?
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Besides they don't work because there's always new books coming out and so that tells us that if it were we wouldn't need the follow -ups
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Yes Okay, it's ultimately not a food issue
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Okay, it's not the root issue It's not the the main issue say we could talk about even how young ladies today and young men too
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Thinking that certain body types are more pleasing to the eye or pleasing to God or whatever that's changed over the years
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What's the root issue? Okay, so to steal from one of my colleagues the only there's only two problems with this book
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It's got a wrong view of God and wrong view of man, but besides that it's pretty good Makes me hungry baked potato chips see right there in the
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Daniel fast that be Copacetic to eat yet go ahead.
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I'm looking for something else what Amelia said is correct, but I'm looking for something else Okay, so I read something
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In the Old Testament with Daniel and say okay, it's describing something that doesn't mean it's prescribed to me
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What does the New Testament say about food? Yes Okay, let's look at two passages.
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Thank you mark chapter 7 to start Mark chapter 7 I think that bodily exercise does profit true or false
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True just doesn't profit like other disciplines profit I Personally like to work out a lot because I try to study as I work out and when
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I work out I have more energy So I work out for lots of reasons I probably work out because I I like the feeling when
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I'm done or I could eat more food after I'm done There's probably a lot of other things. That's why I've got this stupid calorie counting app
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You know I can't have dinner until I go work out because I have to earn the calories or whatever But the issue with food is this
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We don't want to besmirch God's name and his goodness with all the bountiful kinds of food.
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He's given us for our enjoyment He's given us all kinds of things to enjoy and when people start telling you
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I haven't read this book So it's not fair for this one, but if she were to tell us that you can't eat these kind of foods anymore
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Then I've got a major problem Part of it is description prescription part of it is trying to put people under Mosaic law when we're not
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Israel Mark chapter 7 verse 14 and he called the people to him again and said to them hear me all of you and understand
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Means it's going to be very important when Jesus says that There's nothing outside a person that by going into him can
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Defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him
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When he entered the house and left the people his disciples asked him about the parable he said to them Then are you also without understanding?
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Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from the outside cannot defile him
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Can you remember if you go back to Genesis and now God says Noah you're able to eat meat
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It's okay. You better eat meat simultaneously. What does he do for the animals? He Puts the fear of man into them so they run away
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So they don't just go up and lick the feet of Noah and then become dinner They run the fear of man is put into them
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Because they're going to be eaten now listen to Jesus's logic here
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Since it enters not his heart, but his stomach and is expelled thus he declared all
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Foods clean I Took Karl Truman to a little net Nepal restaurant in Northampton We had yak and you want to know how good it was it was horrible, but it was clean ceremonially
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Yak how about Porpoise could you eat porpoise if it was is it legally porpoise?
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Probably not not in California or Massachusetts all foods clean He said what comes out of a person is what defiles him what do you mean what comes out of him?
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Well, he just talked about Something else that they might be thinking so he makes it clear now for from within Out of the heart of man come evil thoughts sexual immorality theft murder adultery coveting wickedness deceit sensuality envy slander pride foolishness all these evil things come from within and they defile a person
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Please turn to 1st Timothy chapter 4 and I want you to know that when you think of food
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I want you to think of the goodness of God and how your taste buds are Specifically made so you can taste from bitter to sweet to sour all in one bite because God wants you to enjoy
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It I'm just gonna give you a sneak preview tonight I have a little ritual, and if I don't get to do it because I'm out of town.
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That's fine But here's my ritual preach on Sunday morning two times Minister to the Saints probably go home and take a nap
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Ride the bicycle a little bit come back and preach again, and then I go home. It's waiting for me right now a worship experience
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That I'm gonna take a bite of that Ben and Jerry's that's home And I'm gonna say
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God that you I'm not saying Ben and Jerry's is a godly company. That's not the point.
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I don't think they even are But I'm gonna say that I could enjoy ice cream This could this could be like just you could have to eat mud to live
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You could have to eat soylent green to live glad most of you don't know what soylent green is
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But here we just get the enjoyment because God is Bountiful God is generous and so whatever he gives he gives over the top salvation over the top
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I think Lewis Perry Chafer said 33 things happen to you when God saves you it's just over -the -top When God gives good gifts, they're generously given aren't they mr.
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Johansson of James chapter 1 verse 5 you ask for wisdom generous Everything is over -the -top because God is just that good first Timothy chapter 4 it says now the spirit capital s expressly says first Peter 4 1 that in later times
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Some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons
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This is demonic teaching through people Through the insincerity of liars
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Whose consciences are seared and what do these hypocritical liars say who are demonically influenced?
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they forbid marriage and And require abstinence from foods
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It could stop right there But now look at just exactly what I was telling you that God created to be received with Thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth
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God you just don't give me your son You don't withhold any good thing and since you gave me your son.
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You don't hold anything back for everything created by God is Good and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with Thanksgiving for it is made holy by the
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Word of God and prayer Aren't you glad you're not under Mosaic law anymore when it comes to food
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See does that have a hoof or doesn't have a hoof? Is that like eat stuff at the bottom of the sea or it doesn't eat things at the bottom of the sea the other day?
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I had a lobster roll. I flew back into New England, and I thought you know what I Thought I was flying back to the
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Massachusetts State Bird I heard they changed it the mosquito, and then I thought no it feels good.
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It's not humid here It feels nice even it's nice at Logan, and I think I I think you know
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Just to celebrate I haven't had one probably in ten years I don't think I've had a lobster roll since I had one at McDonald's years ago where they had the
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Mclobster roll It's $5 .99 on like one of those split -faced hot dog buns just with some probably processed fake
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Krab on it But anyway, I had one of those I Would be sin if the tabernacle was right over there.
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It would be sin the kind of the mayo and the jalapeno thing and the
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Special sauce and it just rolling down my arm, and I was taking a bite of it And I just thought this is a lobster tail delight
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God, thank you for this You should see some of you know you want some some lobster if someone says
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Let's try to eat some food that Daniel did it seemed to do him well I wouldn't have a huge problem, but if they said you know what it's tied into the
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Bible Here's the way to do it biblically. It's all wrong It's for you the food to enjoy and to thank
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God Jews prayed before they ate and Jews prayed after they ate And I hope before you eat you just say
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God You are so generous and so good look at all this food that I have I have more than I could eat
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So don't fall for these books I'm sure more are coming right down the pipeline Because they sell because Christians are concerned about their weight, which
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I don't have a problem with being concerned We want to take care of our bodies, but we're gonna get new bodies one day anyway, all right
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Well, I've got tons more. I don't know what I'm gonna. Do I was gonna talk about these others
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But that is 55 minutes, so we're gonna pray and if you have a common myth that you'd like me to talk about Send it to pastor
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Steve, and we'll see if it's any good Let's pray Father it's good to be able to just open up your word and think through the issues of life
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And I pray for this dear congregation that you would bless them. I pray that even though as a
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Congregation we have so many wonderful Bible students not just men not just women, but young people who want to study
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I pray that you just give us a Like salt on the tastebud to make us thirstier for your word
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That we would see in that word the riches of Christ Jesus our great Savior a divine plan
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History through your your ways in mind and father when it comes to these other myths
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I pray that you would just help us to be discerning. We want to be like Bereans We know we're not better than anyone else whatever we have it's been received by a gift through faith
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We credit it all to you, but we want to be wise and and walk wisely in this world and and father
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We pray that you'd Continue to bless us as a congregation and even as we eat tonight later some of us eat some of us have already eaten this week
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Could it be father you've made us have to eat so many meals a day Just so we would realize how dependent we are on you
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And then we have a time to thank you for all this food and provision. We just have at home