DAILY TRUTH - “Physical Training Is Of Some Value”
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In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken continues his series on the Apostle Paul and the role of the physical body in the mind of God, and how it relates to spiritual training. In this episode, God is not calling us to a physical body, but to a spiritual one, and the Bible teaches that physical training is of infinite value, but that spiritual training is not.
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Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry because you're spending your
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cash and your lives on raising young children in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
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And one major way that you can help to expand the reach and effectiveness of this ministry
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but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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i don't think that what the apostle is saying is there's strange teachings going around
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that that if you eat vegetables it'll be good for your digestion
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god's bogus it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace
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i don't think that's what he's saying so i don't think he's knocking health which to be honest i
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mean if i was just going to lean into my personal bias then i would love to use verse nine as an
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example you know as a platform to you know to make fun of vegans and you know all those kinds
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of things which i think that's a perfect example where that that that tone of christ mockery
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vegans are a great who to fill in the you know kind of joking kind of not but all that being said
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the point is i don't think what the apostles is getting at is that health isn't a thing in the
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mind of god think of what the apostle paul says elsewhere he says that physical training is of
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some value but spiritual training is of infinite value
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have you ever heard the the expression moderation is for cowards
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right that that's the tattoo that you get when you're 20
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it's just it sounds great but it's it's it's wrong right that's foolish moderation is for
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count? What? I mean, all it takes is just a little bit of thought, you know, and you're able to work
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past that one. And what I mean is that sentiment is basically saying that in terms of prioritization
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of our effort, our energy, our time, and our talents, that basically we should only do a few
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things. And the few things that we determine are worth doing in life, we should do them all the way,
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and then everything else we shouldn't do at all and that's not actually a biblical concept
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the bible does not have that worldview the bible doesn't say there are things that are of infinite
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value you should give yourself entirely to those things and anything that does not have spiritual
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eternal infinite value has therefore no value at all and shouldn't be done at all that's not what
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the bible teaches the bible says this body that one day is going to go six feet in the dirt
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even though it's temporal it will be also resurrected that matters but even though it's
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going to die it's going to decompose it's it's your temporary uh your your life here on earth
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in this body in this age this gospel age is temporary and not only temporary but according
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to multiple other verses in scripture uh it's it's it's just a vapor it's just a moment it's
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just a breath it's like the dew of the grass it's not just there for a day and gone tomorrow
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it's there in the morning and gone by lunch that's how temporary but then at the same time
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the apostle paul says this thing that is so fleeting and so temporary is not of no value
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it would be so tempting and therefore because it's so temporary it doesn't have any value at all
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but that's actually not a christian teaching but but a heretical gnostic teaching that views the
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physical body as though it's actually a prison that's entrapping the soul and that the soul is
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pure and if it could only get out of this this this prison of the carnal evil physical body
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that's not a christian worldview that is a pagan worldview that's a gnostic worldview
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you know the bible actually says spiritual training is is of far more value than physical
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health but spiritual training being of more value doesn't necessitate that we say physical training
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is of no value we can we can attribute to physical training some value can i be frank with you for
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just a second, right here at the end. Look, some of you guys, you're financially supporting this
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ministry. And from the bottom of my heart, I say, thank you. I cannot thank you enough. However,
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some of you, you just, you can't afford it. In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it.
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Let's be honest. I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy. Our nation and our
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totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last three years due to COVID. We have
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written checks that we simply cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people change the definition
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of a recession. We are living in a recession right now regardless. Some of you are struggling
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to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store. You cannot support financially this ministry at
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