Sermons of Love

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September 27, 2021 My Testimony: Breaking the spirit of religion
Are You Pardoned or Paroled?
A religious spirit: Do you lack joy in life? Would you rather skip church, prayer, and scripture reading? Do you focus most of your energy on doing the right thing and abstaining from the wrong things?    When people operate out of a religious spirit they attempt to earn salvation.     The spirit of religion is a shift from joyful obedience in God and a transformed life, to simply doing the right things and abstaining from the wrong ones.
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August 29, 2021 What are the Gifts of the Holy Spirit?
1 Corinthians 1:2–8
To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 1:2–8
Background:

Corinth is a seaport filled with dock workers, streetwalkers, thieves, ruffians.   Pagans who worshiped Bacchus, the demon god of wine and orgies, with no sense of sexual morality.
Now brought into the kingdom of God through Jesus, but have no idea how to live. They don’t know the moral laws of God.  They have to be instructed not to visit prostitutes, for example.
Brash, immature, boastful, yet Paul calls them Holy and Sanctified.  And there is not one gift lacking among them.
Sometimes it is easier to reach and disciple pagans than it is to teach the religious.
Caution:  Beware of Elitism. You are not God’s ONLY chosen vessel 😮 🙂
1 Corinthians 12:1–11
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. 1 Corinthians 12:1–11
1 Corinthians 12:27–13:3
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts.
And I will show you a still more excellent way.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 1 Corinthians 12:27–13:3
1 Corinthians 14:1–5
Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, and above all that you may prophesy.
For the person who speaks in another language is not speaking to men but to God, since no one understands him; however, he speaks mysteries in the Spirit. But the person who prophesies speaks to people for edification, encouragement, and consolation. The person who speaks in another language builds himself up, but he who prophesies builds up the church.
I wish all of you spoke in other languages, but even more that you prophesied. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in languages, unless he interprets so that the church may be built up. 1 Corinthians 14:1–5
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July 26, 2021 What is Truth?
WHAT IS TRUTH?
Revelation vs. Natural Knowledge.
“For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Corinthians 2:11–14, ESV)
What is a World-View?
A world view is what people believe about what is True and what is Real? Belief Systems can be Strongholds of the Mind and of the Culture
What the World Thinks is Truth verses what they believe is Fantasy, Superstition and/or Personal Opinions.
Taken from: ScholarsCorner.com/reaching-the-west. See also:
https://www.givehim15.com/post/july-20-2021 (praying for the unsaved)
The Western Worldview – Scientific Materialism.The World is a product of Chance, Natural forces, and Evolution without any divine involvement. The Ultimate truth is that there is no truth. Since there is no Creator, there is no purpose to life, there is no design, and there is no ultimate meaning to this world.
The Western Belief Structure – Scientific Empiricism. Reality can be verified through experimental demonstration. Anything that cannot be tested and demonstrated empirically is merely an opinion (IOW not true). Therefore: Leads to Relativism
They believe God can’t do miracles, or there is no God. So, anyone who claims there is a God and there are morals is just annoying.
In debates, we are playing baseball and they are playing football: we can’t agree on the rules of the game. Anyone can dismiss the bible because there is no ultimate standard of truth!
What Jesus Believed:
“The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.” (John 10:33–39, ESV)
“He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 16:15–17, ESV)
In the Scriptures, God revealed himself as He is. He is the Living Word. He communicates by the Spirit and gives Revelation.
WHAT IS TRUTH?
"Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” (John 17:15–17, ESV)
“Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.” (John 15:20–21, ESV)
Our Task:
“the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. (2 Corinthians 10:3–6, ESV)
“And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers (2 Corinthians 4:3–
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June 21, 2021 Persecution: A Promise from Jesus
A Tag-Team Sermon with Gary Fine.
Blessed Are The Persecuted
Gary’s Notes:
2 Timothy 3:12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and imposters will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Matthew 5:10-12 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (11) Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. (12) Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for
So they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
The reason for persecution - Righteousness .
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake……
“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all
kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.
The response to persecution - Rejoice
“Rejoice and be exceedingly glad….”
The results of persecution - Growth .
“….. For they persecuted the prophets before you.”
The rewards of persecution Heaven .
“…. For great is your reward in heaven.”
You can see from the video how Satan has blinded the minds of unbelievers, turning cross of Christ from a symbol our liberation into a symbol of oppression.
Jeff’s Notes:
Jesus said:
They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. (John 16:2-3)
Contemporary Examples of Persecution in the USA: teachers, bakers, military members.
A Manhattan math teacher has been "relieved of his teaching duties" after speaking out against what he's rightly characterized as the critical race theory "indoctrination" students at the private school are being subjected to.
A high school football coach who led a Massachusetts school district's team for nearly a decade was fired in early 2021 after he raised concerns about the use of critical race theory in his 7th grade class...
A math teacher at a private school in Manhattan has been put on leave for the rest of the term for speaking out against Critical Race Theory.
114 Nurses being fired from Houston Hospital for refusing the experimental “vaccine” which is showing signs of major health complications at a far higher rate than is allowed by approved vaccines.
Commander of Space Force fired for questioning Critical Race Theory.
Baker in Colorado having death threats for refusing to place homosexual messages on wedding cakes.
Note: the Baker won his case in the US Supreme Court as part of his religious liberty, but that isn't stopping the death threats he faces for his loyalty to Jesus. A teacher was reinstated by the courts for violation of his religious liberty, but the school board wants to impose gender confusion on the teaching programs.
Teacher Tanner Cross was suspended from his job as a gym teacher at Leesburg Elementary School in Virginia after he spoke out against two proposed school policies related to transgender students at a Loudoun County School Board meeting “ I’m a teacher, but I serve God first and I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because it’s against my religion. It’s lying to a child, it’s abuse to a child, and it’s sinning against our God.”
You are not allowed to QUESTION or Disagree with this indoctrination into a satanic push to destroy God's image in humankind.
What we are experiencing is nothing compared to what is happening to our brothers and sisters in China and other places around the world ---- YET.
We would like Peace, but the problem with evil is that it will not let you rest until you agree with it and consent to its demands. The problem is in the nature of the Satan. Because he cannot
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March 22, 2021 Why in the heck does God need our prayers?
Looks like my Mic dies at 25 min.
Why in the heck does God need our prayers?
“After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.”” (1 Kings 18:1, ESV)
“When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?” And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals. Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”” (1 Kings 18:17–19, ESV)
“And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of the rushing of rain.” So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel. And he bowed himself down on the earth and put his face between his knees. And he said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” And he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go again,” seven times. And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.’ ” And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel. And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he gathered up his garment and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.” (1 Kings 18:41–46, ESV)
It is about a distance of 10 miles that Elijah ran to get to Jezreel before Ahab’s horses and chariots.
God said he would send rain. Why did Elijah have to pray, and that 7 times?
Givehim15.com - March 11, 2021
“Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.” (James 5:13–18, ESV)
God is Sovereign, he can do what he wills. Why does he desire and require our cooperation and participation?
Faith or Fatalism:
Fatalism: God is Sovereign. He will do whatever he wills, so why bother praying? Extreme Calvinism and Islam are similar in this regards towards God.
God is indeed sovereign and sometimes he acts without human participation, but often it is for judgment of a rebellious people. Even then, he relents when people repent.
“Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.” (Jonah 3:4–5, ESV)
“When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.” (Jonah 3:10, ESV)
“The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.” (Psalm 115:16, ESV)
The Truth is that God’s will is for our victory, our healing, our deliverance and for salvation, but there is resistance in the earth and the atmosphere.
“Thy will be done on earth, as it is already being done in heaven....”
“Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities,
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March 22, 2021 Why in the Heck Does God Need our Prayers?
Why in the heck does God need our prayers?
“After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.”” (1 Kings 18:1, ESV)
“When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?” And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals. Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”” (1 Kings 18:17–19, ESV)
“And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of the rushing of rain.” So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel. And he bowed himself down on the earth and put his face between his knees. And he said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” And he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go again,” seven times. And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.’ ” And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel. And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he gathered up his garment and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.” (1 Kings 18:41–46, ESV)
It is about a distance of 10 miles that Elijah ran to get to Jezreel before Ahab’s horses and chariots.
God said he would send rain. Why did Elijah have to pray, and that 7 times?
Givehim15.com – March 11, 2021
“Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.” (James 5:13–18, ESV)
God is Sovereign, he can do what he wills. Why does he desire and require our cooperation and participation?
Faith or Fatalism:
Fatalism: God is Sovereign. He will do whatever he wills, so why bother praying? Extreme Calvinism and Islam are similar in this regards towards God.
God is indeed sovereign and sometimes he acts without human participation, but often it is for judgment of a rebellious people. Even then, he relents when people repent.
“Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.” (Jonah 3:4–5, ESV)
“When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.” (Jonah 3:10, ESV)
“The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.” (Psalm 115:16, ESV)
The Truth is that God’s will is for our victory, our healing, our deliverance and for salvation, but there is resistance in the earth and the atmosphere.
“Thy will be done on earth, as it is already being done in heaven….”
“Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,
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December 28, 2020 Praise Him! (Anyhow)
Herod murders babies in Jerusalem, Pharoah orders murders of male children in Egypt. When God is about to send delivers, Satan motivates worldly powers to destroy that generation. We are living in a time such as this when the shedding of innocent blood is considered a good thing. How should we respond? Praise God (Anyhow).
-- Jefferis Jefferisp Monday, December 28, 2020
Since Amazon is blocking Parler, I have added the video to my new Youtube Channel.
Herod murders babies in Jerusalem, Pharoah orders the murder of all the male Hebrew children in Egypt. When God is about to send deliverers, Satan motivates worldly powers to destroy that generation. We are living in a time such as this when the shedding of innocent blood is considered a good thing, and corrupt rulers and perverted courts oppress the people. How should we respond? Praise God (Anyhow).
The Situation in Israel at the time of John.
Focus verse:
To give to His people the knowledge of salvation By the forgiveness of their sins, Because of the tender mercy of our God. (Luke 1:67–79)
Matthew 2:1–18
Exodus 11:4–7
Isaiah 26
“Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof. You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?” (Habakkuk 1:12–13, ESV)
“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.” (Habakkuk 3:17–19, ESV)
To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions would be very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy... The Constitution has erected no such tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with corruption of time and party, its members would become despots. - Thomas Jefferson
Letter To William Charles Jarvis.
Monticello, September 28, 1820.
At the same time the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having, to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. - Abraham Lincoln
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October 14, 2020 A Different Take On The End Times
How many of you have read “The Late Great Planet Earth” or any of the “Left Behind Series”? Both of these books were greatly influenced by Dispensational Theology.
Dispensational Theology, most typified in the Left Behind series of books: a great apostasy will take place in the Church, in Israel the Temple will be rebuilt, Israel will be granted a temporary peace by the Anti-Christ for 3.5 years, a Great Tribulation will follow for another 3.5 years, before which the believers will be “raptured” out of this world, and then Jesus will return at the end of this 7 year period to establish a millennial kingdom. This popular theology of the end times is informed primarily by the Dispensational interpretation of the book of Daniel and Jesus’ discourse in Matthew 24 (and parallel passages in Mark and Luke).
John Nelson Darby said there were 7 Ages of the Church corresponding to the 7 Churches in Revelation. The idea was that the last age of the Church was Laodicean, which in the book of Revelation was a cold and apostate church.
“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.” (Revelation 3:15–17, ESV)
This view has been common in modern evangelism, and that we in America are in the last days. It tends toward a type of fatalism, but this theology has no biblical support other than this one guy’s interpretation to make it fit his doctrine of Dispensationalism.
In truth, the 7 churches in Revelation are representative of those churches at that time and of churches today. No one can say that the Chinese church is Laodicean when they are going to prison, being tortured and even dying for their faith. While we might say that many churches in America are apostate and unrepentant.
Let me lay out my thesis: Jesus is not coming back for a defeated bride, but for a victorious one. One without spot, wrinkle or blemish. Why do I think that? Because of what Jesus said: “And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” (Matthew 24:14, ESV) In other words, Jesus is not coming back until we, the Church, have fulfilled the Great Commission. We will witness to all nations so that those who may be saved will be saved. And THEN the end will come.
It isn’t wars or rumors of wars, that signal the end, but a Church empowered to bear witness to Jesus among all nations.
Victorious Eschatology/Second Edition by
Harold R. Eberle and Martin Trench
Has a very different take on the End Times. I don’t agree with all of it, but it is helpful in terms of showing the flaws of Dispensationalism.
Let’s dive into Matthew 24
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will this be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” Matthew 24:1-3, RSV.
1) Jesus is being asked 2 questions, which he does not answer in a strict sequential or chronological order: when will Jerusalem be destroyed, and what will be the sign of your return?
First of all, this is important and critical to understanding Jesus’ answer. When the disciples asked about the sign of his coming, they were NOT asking about a Second Coming. They did not believe he was going to die, but to become the Messiah King like David who would drive out the Romans and reestablish Israel as a separate nation.
Jesus proceeds to give signs that are NOT SIGNS of the END: earthquakes, wars, f
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September 06, 2020 Spiritual Warfare over Truth

Spiritual Warfare in the Church over the Word
Gary has been talking about spiritual warfare in the church. One of the issues we have today is that preachers, teachers and church-goers no longer consider the Word of God that Last word on matters of faith and practice. Martin Luther broke with the Catholic Church over the authority of the Word of God in the Scriptures. He found 95 reasons that the church had put the traditions of men above the Word of God. This situation is similar to what Jesus had to deal with in the 1st C.
He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God. You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: “ ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’" (Matthew 15:3–9, ESV)
But today, many consider God's Word to be a good suggestion but outdated. We are free to reinterpret to make it fit our current day. So what God said was wrong back then, isn't necessarily wrong today. This is the problem within the church.
In the unchurched culture, the problem is a bit different. They don't believe there is any truth, much less one truth. The universe is a product of evolution by accident and there is no ultimate purpose or plan to life. No God who controls destiny or gives life meaning.
I remember reading an article back in the 1980's in Wired magazine where this woman was talking about avatars. The word Avatar comes from a noun meaning:
1 a manifestation of a deity or released soul in bodily form on earth; an incarnate divine teacher; an incarnation, embodiment, or manifestation of a person or idea.
2 an icon or figure representing a particular person in video games, Internet forums, etc.
Her point was more like the second, where people adopt characters to play games, but she was applying it to all of human life.
Her point was that identity is plastic. There is no ultimate purpose to gender or identity, so we can create our own. If there is no GOD, there is no ultimate truth, there is no right or wrong, no reason we can't decide to change our gender, no morals, no real reason that life or death matters. So religion is just an illusion or an opinion, with no basis in fact, and can safely be ignored.
We call this philosophy Relativism. All truth is just a subjective perspective. Anything goes. Do your own thing.
And church leaders who have yielded to this philosophy in the culture in order to be "hip" or current, have abandoned any pretense that the Bible is true. They do not believe in any fixed form of truth, but truth has evolved as we have become more "Enlightened" and more "tolerant." We now have "science" which tells us that the old morals of the bible are wrong. They have proclaimed "tolerance" as the highest form of love and the good, and in so doing, they have implied that because of their compassion, they are more tolerant and loving than God.
On a national level, we have pastors and priests who indulge sin with a false form of grace that confuses license with love. And so have endorsed sin as if the Liberty of Christ is a license for all kinds of behaviors, and if permissiveness was actually helping rather than bringing harm.
Why does God give us the Law? The law of God is there to protect us, not to punish us or bring us harm. If I put up a sign that says the bridge is out up ahead, and you ignore it and speed on, the signpost didn't judge your or punish you. You were punished by your own actions.
Just so, the leaders who ignore the law and encourage sin in the name of "tolerance" are n
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September 02, 2020 https://www.scholarscorner.com/reconciliation/
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FAQs about Sermons of Love:

How many episodes does Sermons of Love have?

The podcast currently has 27 episodes available.