Eating, Drinking & The Sabbath | Straight Bible
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1 hour and 16 minutes
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186.3473
Summary
Jesus eats and drinks with publicans and sinners, and the scribes and Pharisees question why he is doing so. What does this have to do with religion? What does it mean and why does it matter to the religious system?
Transcript
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Here's Natalie Spooner firing up the battle ropes.
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Hard to believe you get all of that with one membership.
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Planet Fitness, the official gym of Hockey Canada.
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Like, that's literally the accusation of the Pharisees.
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So let's dig into this, man, because this is a crazy thing.
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They accuse him of being a wine-bibber, which, like, today would be like a wino, which would be like an alcoholic.
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I don't know if he nicknamed him that or if those two names are just compatible.
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As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the receipt of custom and said unto him, follow me.
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That was the great thing about all these disciples, dude, is he called them and they followed.
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And it came to pass that as Jesus sat at meat in his house, that's Matthew's house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples.
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And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, how is it that he eats and drinks with publicans and sinners?
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When Jesus heard it, he said unto them, they that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick.
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I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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So let's just notice a couple things real quick.
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We noticed that Jesus is not afraid to be intimate with sinners.
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You know, sometimes you hear that maybe in church circles that like, oh, you know, don't be around that.
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And it might get on you, like that sin and that all that might get on you.
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There's a balance in this, but Jesus is not afraid to be intimate with sinners.
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But the religious system that's always watching him, notice how it's always watching him.
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That religious system is baffled by this, right?
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They're saying he's eating and drinking with sinners.
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Like, like if you were to say, oh, I saw Bobby at the party, man.
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This is not the culture of their man-made religious system.
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Our concept of religion is that, like, you just be really sweet and don't say cuss words
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We see it where, like, homeless people come in.
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We go through phases where we get a lot of homeless people.
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And, like, the people in the back, they'll be doing Bible studies.
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And they'll be very offended that, like, homeless people are back there.
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I let her know that there was a group coming in at 10.
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It was a Bible study group that's a little uppity.
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She goes, don't believe anything that lady says.
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I saw her get kicked out of Spanish Springs the other night.
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Is people just, they don't, they're like, yeah,
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I want you to come to church as long as you're just like me.
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Like, I want you to come to my Bible study as long as you're just like me.
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And they're offended to see you like vibing with sinners and stuff.
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I'm eating and drinking with the publicans and sinners, but I'm not doing keg stands.
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I'm not doing like all this crazy stuff that happens at parties.
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He says, they that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick.
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I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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This is another, this is going to kind of, this is going to be another example of the same story.
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We're going to, we're going to probably tell this, I think in three different stories.
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And after these things, he went forth and saw a publican named Levi.
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That's Matthew sitting at the receipt of custom.
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If you can say that it's a funny thing when people talk about like Christian businesses,
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we don't really have like a model of a Christian business in the Bible.
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So they're like a Christian business biblically is like a business that doesn't exist anymore.
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Right now, if you're saying that like we're a Christian business in the sense that we're
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obedient to Christ and like, that's how we model our life, then that's great.
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But we don't necessarily have examples of like Christian business in the scripture.
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So this, so this feast that's being talked about, it's at Levi's house.
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And there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
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Public and Levi made a great feast in his own house.
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And there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
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But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples saying,
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why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
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And Jesus answering said unto them, they that are whole need not a physician, but they that
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I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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I know we've talked about this before that Jesus plus is wicked.
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We talked about that last week that the I must be single.
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It must be about Jesus and you're coming to Jesus with the mindset of I'm sick and I need
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If you're like, no, no, everything's good in my life.
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And I'm just going to add Jesus to my life and it'll make it better.
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What's interesting about this is it's Matthew that wrote it.
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Remember Matthew and Levi is the same name, same guy.
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Jesus looked like he just liked to give a lot of nicknames, huh?
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He was, you know, the guy who like gives a lot of nicknames.
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And as Jesus passed forth from sitting there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the receipt
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And it came to pass as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners
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And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, why eateth your master with publicans
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But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, they that behold need not a physician, but
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Now, this is what's added in this story that wasn't in the first two, but go and learn
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I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners
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Remember, he says this to the people in the pulpit, the most educated people go and learn
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what I mean by this, not go and memorize or go and have like a perfect memorization of
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What it's saying is God desires mercy and not sacrifice, right?
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He desires something in your life, something that's real and inside you, as opposed to
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some kind of external religious ceremony, right?
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Let's see where he pulled this from, because Jesus is quoting the scripture here.
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So let's pull that up just so we have the context for this.
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Because your goodness is as morning cloud, and as the early dew, it goes away.
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And when you come in, you do the thing, but then it just kind of blows away like the morning
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And thy judgments are as the light that goes forth, because I desired mercy and not sacrifice.
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And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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But they, like men, have transgressed the covenant.
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There have they dealt treacherously against me.
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And that word treacherous is like cheating, like cheating, like adultery, right?
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He's saying, I'm looking for a changed attitude of life.
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I'm not looking for sacrifice, which is just this external religious activity.
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I'm looking for mercy, kindness, loving kindness, goodness.
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That's how that word has said is what it is in the Hebrew.
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He's saying it's here in the morning and then it's gone in the afternoon.
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Like, I think we all understand that's what that's like.
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Sometimes you people at the church show, it's just fleeting.
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Knowledge of God, he says, I desired mercy and not sacrifice.
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And knowledge of God, more than burnt offerings.
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Relationship, like knowing me, being intimate with me,
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more than just like some kind of external sacrifice that you can just do.
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So if your religious activity doesn't lead you into a living relationship with God,
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Like these were all supposed to point to something else,
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which is supposed to guide them into a relationship with God.
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Which is what our time in the Bible is supposed to do.
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Our time in the Bible is supposed to lead us into intimacy with God.
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It's not supposed to make us winners of debates,
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people with flawless doctrine and flawless theology.
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It's supposed to bring us into a living relationship with the author.
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Remember Romans 12.1 is the ultimate solution to this.
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But I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
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that you present your bodies or your whole being, a living sacrifice,
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wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
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For the longest time, these dudes were able to get away with these external sacrifices,
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but they were able to live a completely different life.
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These external things that was making them sort of look holy or appear holy,
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It says you must present your whole being a living sacrifice.
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No more doing this religious activity, but living a completely other way.
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Here's Natalie Spooner firing up the battle ropes.
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Hard to believe you get all of that with one membership.
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Planet Fitness, the official gym of Hockey Canada.
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At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the corn,
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and his disciples were in hunger and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.
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But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him,
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Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath day.
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There's these guys behind the corn or something.
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Put that in your back pocket because as this story unfolds,
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Have you not read what David did when he was hungered and they that were with him,
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how he entered into the house of God and did eat the showbread,
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David did eat the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat,
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neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests.
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There's a story about David fleeing for his life from Saul,
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Like, yeah, that was temple bread for a very specific religious activity.
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Like, they're running, and they stop right at the street.
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and they're trying to run and get across the street
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Have you not read in the law how that on the Sabbath day
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Because remember, the beef is over the Sabbath.
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he's saying they treat the Sabbath as a common day.
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They're still doing the stuff that they got to do,
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I don't know if we have to go to these passages,
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He's just making these points about the Sabbath.
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and two-tenth deal of flour for a meat offering,
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If a man on the Sabbath day receives circumcision
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Like, stop letting this law of the Sabbath trap you.
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People are still beefing over the Sabbath, bro.
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Mark 2, 27 is the ultimate rule on the Sabbath.
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not being like the religious system of his day.
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Is it like unto children sitting in the markets
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and you're just looking for a specific reaction.
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We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
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We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
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is going to have to give an account of ourself to God.
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every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.
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that you're going to give an account for your life
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you're going to be pretty busy dealing with that.
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to be pointing out the flaws in everybody else.
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that I'm going to have to give an account for myself
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Here's Natalie Spooner firing up the battle ropes.
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Hard to believe you get all of that with one membership.
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Planet Fitness, the official gym of Hockey Canada.
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So then neither is he that plants anything important,
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Is it because he's speaking to the Corinthians?
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We have churches that are branches of John Wesley.
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We have churches that are branches of Martin Luther.
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So the church is described sometimes as his husbandry,
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which is given unto me as a wise master builder,
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I have laid the foundation and another builder and another builds thereon.
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But let every man take heed how he builds thereon.
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For another foundation can no man lay that is laid,
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Now if any man builds upon this foundation of Christ,
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every man's work shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it,
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The day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire.
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And the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
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This rewards and works is separate from salvation.
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Where the judgment is a condemnation and they're getting into the lake of
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This is where we receive reward or we don't receive reward.
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meaningful things that aren't found in abundance.
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you get a little messy getting it and nobody else sees it.
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But if you have the stuff that just piles up that everybody sees,
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just these giant piles of things for everybody to see.
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And then all that stuff just goes up in flames.
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it'll really keep you from judging others because you really want to,
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you really want to be focused on the fact that dude,
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there's going to be a day you're going to be gone,
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There's gonna be a day you're gonna be on your deathbed,
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there's going to be that moment where you're dying.
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All of us are going to stand before a judgment seat and give an account for
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there's so much other stuff I could have focused on,
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I want to live life in light of the reality of the judgment seat.
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Here's Natalie Spooner firing up the battle ropes.
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Hard to believe you get all of that with one membership.
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the context is probably Jewish kosher food laws,
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Paul even gets into a place somewhere else where he's saying like,
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even stuff that's been like sacrificed to demons,
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be careful eating that in front of somebody else.
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It may cause them to think that you're not a real Christian because you ate
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I know I'm persuaded by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of
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but to him that esteems anything to be unclean to him,
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if you do a thing that you're not sure if it's sin or not,
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I think a better thing for us today is because the food isn't that big of an issue.
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would be easier probably for all of us to understand.
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especially new believers and give them the wrong idea about it and destroy them or harm them in some way,
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but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy ghost.
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The culture of the kingdom of God is not a set of external rules because all things are lawful.
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and peace and joy in the Holy ghost life in the Holy ghost brings righteousness,
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It's life in the Holy ghost for he that in these things serves.
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Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men.
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Let us therefore follow after or pursue the things which make for peace or harmony and things wherewith one may edify another,
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We want rules because we want to be able to check the boxes and go get back to our busy life.
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you've got to give me all of your being and be led by my spirit.
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But it is evil for that man who eats with offense.
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It's good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine.
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It's good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine,
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nor anything whereby your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
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Happy is he that condemns not himself in that thing,
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Any motive we have outside of confidence and obedience in Christ is sin.
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Like say I'm on some Indian reservation and I'm preaching the gospel and they say,
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Nobody addresses the council here unless they hit the peace pipe.
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you guys are all going to listen to me preach the gospel.
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because that's their role for me to address them and to,
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That's clearly different than hitting the peace pipe.
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but this is where you get into this thing of like,
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do we just have a set of rules or do we have being guided?
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cause they're using that peace pipe to channel their,
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this is the warning that we give all the time on NDS.
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When people are talking about psychedelics specifically,
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I don't think any mind altering substances or spirit altering substances are okay in the Christian life.
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We walk in the spirit so that we don't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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we don't need these other things to get us in the spirit.
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I'm simply making a really wild story that potentially could happen that I think this story says be led by Christ, man.
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If you're just delving into the spirit realm through spirit enhancing substances, bad, bad for the Christian.
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I think that I really think that I think that's going to be harmful to your life.
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All things are lawful, but this is a thing that could really bring you down.
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we shouldn't think that we're right about everything and people who see things different or wrong.
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So although I may have these certain views in these certain positions,
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and I hopefully only hold those positions because of scripture line upon line and precept upon precept,
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If I'm in communication with my brothers in Christ,
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So let me be very careful how hard I'm going at it cutting these other body members because I could be wrong.
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You're going to have some disagreements with people in the body.
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Did Christ wait till you were perfect to receive you?
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Here's Natalie Spooner firing up the battle ropes.
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Hard to believe you get all of that with one membership.
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