F4F | You Remind Charity Kalstrup of Toilet Paper

Welcome to another installment of fighting for the faith.

My name is Chris Roseboro.

I'm your servant in Jesus Christ.

This is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God.

So have you ever heard?

Somebody say that Ephesians 2 10 says you are God's.

Masterpiece.

It doesn't really say that.

Yeah, we have an example of that today and this is a weird one.

Okay, I gotta I gotta let you know before we get into it from time to time.

There are things that I find as I'm preparing for episodes of fighting for the faith.

There are some things that just leave me scratching my head going.

What did I just watch?

This.

Caught my eye because the thumbnail sketch had a picture of a woman that I'm not really that familiar

with.

Her name is Charity Calstrop and it shows this woman holding a

roll of toilet paper and it apparently.

And I kid you not she's comparing you and I to toilet paper.

What.

So I have kind of a dark interpretation of what it is that we're gonna see.

So I Don't know how else to prepare you for what it is that we're about to see.

But I would note that this one's a weird one and along the way we will deal with that idea that somehow

Ephesians 2 10 says you are God's.

Masterpiece.

No, it really doesn't say that so let's whirl up the desktop and let's get into it.

Shall we?

All right.

Yeah, that's in the Opera House and let's do this.

I will pull up my web browser and here's Charity Calstrop.

She's holding a roll of toilet paper.

And.

Let's let her.

Explain what this is all about.

Here we go.

You remind me of this toilet paper.

Fine.

I'm in pain already.

Wow.

You remind you remind me of toilet paper.

Good.

Grief, that's terrible.

What an awful comparison and how is this a Christian teaching again?

Let's continue out why on today's Young Life podcast brought to you by Dean Shropshire ministries.

I'm Charity Calstrop, and I'm so excited to hang with you.

All right, she's gonna hang with us and you remind her of toilet paper.

Okay, so here's the deal.

So maybe about a month ago I sat down.

I know it's kind of TMI to use the restroom and I have an amazing

team.

Like a housekeeper service that cleans my house.

Charity, you are aware what toilet paper is used for and.

You're saying the people in your audience remind you of toilet paper.

This seems like some kind of satanic mockery.

Yeah that I'm listening to and so I sat down to use the restroom and I was so

shocked to find This most incredible toilet paper.

I don't know if you guys have seen this this.

Incredible toilet paper.

What?

Incredible toilet paper.

This is Charmin brand, but when you tear it, it doesn't tear straight.

It tears.

Like curved and I was like, oh my gosh 2024 is like my

favorite year ever and I don't know if this was out in 23 and I just didn't have it but I just like literally was

like in awe of this toilet paper and the fact that it was curved like who Came up with that

that.

Who cares?

It's.

Toilet paper.

You wipe your bum with it and it ends up in the toilet and you flush it.

Who cares if it tears straighter if it's curvy.

It's so unique.

That is so creative.

And honestly toilet papers.

Toilet paper.

But I like the soft toilet paper and like I like things that are unique because I'm unique.

You're unique you oh.

I'm in pain.

You know that text in 2nd Timothy that talks about the days will come when people will not endorse sound doctrine.

But having itching ears they will accumulate accumulate for themselves.

Teachers who will tell them what their itching ears want to hear.

She wants to scratch the itching ears of the people in her audience.

But I don't know if she's succeeding.

Here if I were a member of her audience, I would really be offended that she compared me to toilet paper.

What on earth is this?

Back this up just a little bit.

That is so creative and honestly toilet papers.

Toilet paper.

But I like the soft toilet paper and like I like things that are unique because I'm unique.

You're unique.

You were made in God's image.

He created you so unique.

And so when I saw this toilet paper, honestly, I.

Would know we humanity was originally created in the image of God, but I got to show you something here.

That one so when people talk in general like this, oh you were you were unique you were made in the image of God.

They are ignoring Man's fall into sin and that's part of how people scratch itching ears.

So in Genesis chapter 1 it legitimately says this that God said let us

make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the

Livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

So God created man in his own image in the image of God.

He created a male and female he created them but in Genesis chapter 3

humanity rebelled against God broke the Commandment regarding not eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

and as a result of it We fell into sin in the subsequent chapters then

We read about what happened to humanity so in like in Genesis

chapter 4 It says this now Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and bore Cain saying I've gotten a man

with the help of Yahweh.

And again, she bore his brother Abel now Abel was a keeper of sheep and Cain a worker of the ground.

You kind of get the idea, but it goes on then to explain What happens

with Adam's descendants?

Okay in Genesis chapter 5 It says this is the book of the generations of

Adam when God created man He made him in the likeness of God male and female.

He created them and he blessed them and named them man Adam when they were created when

Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years.

He fathered a son in his own likeness after his image and named him Seth

so note Because of the fall.

We don't reflect the image of God like you like Adam did before the fall.

In fact Genesis chapter 5 verse 3 clearly states That he fathered a

son in his own likeness and Adam was a sinner.

So you got a problem those who scratch itching ears?

Oh, you are unique.

You are special.

You are created in the image of God we're just going to ignore mankind's fall into sin and how the scriptures

say that after After Adam and Eve fell that they're the children that they had were made in their image and

their likeness rather than the image of God, that's what the text says.

So charity is off.

Here, she shouldn't be teaching at all.

Clearly.

She's not qualified.

But we continue so encouraged to encourage people and you may be watching this podcast and you've never made Jesus the Lord

of your life.

You're not what many would consider to be a Christian or a born -again believer, and I'm gonna give you the opportunity.

So you think you're talking to non -believers.

But you're telling them they're made in the image of God without explaining sin.

You need to pray with me at the end of this broadcast to make Jesus the Lord of your life because when you connect with Him

you can connect with the true reason why you exist and why you're alive.

, you know, there's so much competition.

There's so much insecurity.

There's so much jealousy that literally has infused itself into our society.

It's like nobody feels good about them from the youngest toddler to the oldest senior citizen.

Everybody is trying to change themselves.

Everybody's trying to be something different.

And I want you to be encouraged and I want you to be reminded maybe get yourself get yourself.

Youself get yourself.

Some toilet paper like this.

Even just get some toilet paper so you can remind yourself of how special and unique you are.

Oh.

This is a reminder of how unique and valuable you are because y 'all that is unique.

Like how many years how many hundreds of years.

Have we had toilet paper that tore straight.

Who came up with the design to perforate?

So and make it curvy.

That is the best.

It's the best.

And guess what you are the best I want to show you.

You you just made it clear.

You're talking to non -believers and you're telling non -believers.

They're the best.

What you.

Some verses in God's Word, all right, here we go here comes the Bible verse twisting page.

First Peter 2 9. It says you are a chosen person by God.

You okay first Peter 2 9.

What are the three rules for sound biblical exegesis?

Context context context right?

So first Peter 3 9.

1 Peter 3 verse 9, right?

Who is this.

Is it too?

Hang on.

So let's say you're tonight.

It's a 2 -9.

There we go.

If he's first Peter 2 verse 9.

All right.

Who's this written to?

Christians or non -christians is first Peter written to Christians or to non -christians answer.

It's written to Christians, right?

First Peter 1 says Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ to those who are elect

Exiles of the dispersion and Pontius Galatia Cappadocia Asia Bithynia according to the foreknowledge of God.

So you're gonna know we Christians are just are described here as elect exiles, right?

According to the foreknowledge of God in the sanctification of the spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his

blood.

First Peter's clearly written to Christians.

Okay, so when we get to first Peter 2 9 You are a chosen

race.

Who is that referring to?

Christians not the world.

Not an unbelievers.

Christians you are a chosen race.

You are a royal priesthood you are a holy nation a people for God's own

possession so that you may proclaim the Excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into

his marvelous light once you were not a people.

But now you are God's people once you had not received mercy, which we all need by the way.

But now you have received Mercy, so this can't be shown as an

example of oh just how unique.

Every human being is this is this is language specifically that can only be attributed to

Christians not unbelievers, but we continue as you are a chosen person.

By God, you are priests of the king.

You are holy.

You are pure.

You are God's very own.

The Bible says I believe in Ephesians 2 10 that you are God's.

Masterpiece you there it is Ephesians 2 10.

You are God's masterpiece.

This is a example of scratching itching ears done really poorly by the way comparing you to toilet paper.

So if we go to Ephesians chapter 2 Here's the text in question and we'll put it back

in context.

We are his workmanship.

We Who's the we there and we are his workmanship and so here here's

the word that gets translated in the bad translations as

Masterpiece the word is poema and no this has nothing to do with you being a poem or a masterpiece.

A Poema is that which is made that that is something that is a work.

It is a creation.

Okay, we are God's workmanship.

We are his creation created in Christ Jesus for Good works.

1st Peter 2 10 does not say that you are God's masterpiece.

And it does not talk about humanity in that way at all in general.

In fact when you apply the context of Ephesians chapter 2 you'll note that Ephesians 2

1 through 10 works together as a unit and What the the beginning thought here

in verse 1 is mirrored in its opposite here in verse 10.

This actually follows a Hebrew outlining Technique known as a chiasm.

So listen to how this passage works.

Paul writing to Christians in in Ephesus says this you were dead

Past tense you were dead in trespasses in sins.

Which is the state of humanity before they become Christians in Which you once walked following the course of this

world following the prince of the power of the air.

The spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience among whom we all once lived in the passions of

our flesh Carrying out the desires of the body in the mind and we were by nature children of

wrath like the rest of mankind so you'll note Ephesians 2 1 through 3

describes humanity not as God's Masterpiece, it describes humanity as dead and

trespasses in sins and by nature children of wrath Under the

dominion of darkness under the power of the prince of the air and the sons of disobedience.

And people following the passions and living by the passions of their sinful flesh.

It is not describing us as God's masterpiece.

This is a description of humanity after the fall and that's we were all of us conceived this way.

Born conceived and born dead in trespasses and sins and by nature children of wrath like

the rest of mankind.

However, the text goes on but God and I would note here in the Greek ha Theos

but God ha de Theos.

God is in the nominative.

That means God is the one who's running the verbs that follow next.

He's the subject of the verbs.

Okay.

But God being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us even while we were dead

in our trespasses Made us alive together with Christ.

And this is a tough word to pronounce soon.

AIDS.

Oh boy a sin, right.

Soon AIDS boy AO is is the word it's it and it takes five English words to translate the one

Greek verb.

God made us alive together with Christ.

This is what God has done for us by grace.

You have been saved.

And here's the next verb.

And raised us up with Him soon.

A gay role.

And that means so.

So God raised us up with Christ and God Seated us with Christ.

Sue.

Cathedral here in Greek God seated us with Christ in heavenly places in

Christ Jesus.

So God, what did he do made us alive together with Christ?

He raised us with Christ.

God seated us with Christ.

Okay, so that in the coming ages he God might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in

kindness.

Toward us in Christ Jesus for by grace you have been saved through faith and this is not your

own doing.

It is the gift of God.

It is not the result of work so that no one may boast and here we go for we

Christians, that's what this is referring to not humanity in general.

We are God's workmanship.

We are created in Christ Jesus as Christians.

For what?

For good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

So when you hear charity Cal strip here sit here and say well there it says in Ephesians 2 10 that we are God's

Masterpiece and she's clearly making it clear.

She's also talking to unbelievers.

Ephesians 2 10 doesn't apply to unbelievers.

Ephesians 2 10 only applies to Christians who have been made alive by by God.

Made alive together with Christ raised with Christ seated with Christ.

God did all of that for us.

So she's This is just terrible.

You get the idea.

It's just so terrible because she's she's scratching itching ears telling people what they want to hear and tell them how

unique they are.

You're so unique.

You're like toilet paper.

Charity Cal strip says and then she goes on to twist the scriptures and not make the proper distinctions.

This shows this woman's not qualified to teach anybody.

She needs to go back for remedial sent to remedial Sunday school to relearn if she ever learned

the actual basics of the Christian faith.

But again, I point out that comparing us all the toilet paper.

What a horrible horrible Metaphor and comparison that is if I were somebody in

her audience I would be offended that she would compare me to toilet paper.

This is.

Scratching itching ears.

Gone wrong.

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