1 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:08,520 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Lewis 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,200 Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,520 County in Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Lewis as he 4 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,920 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:42,240 There is not one situation that you can run into in this life 6 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,640 where you can't see it covered in this word. 7 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:47,880 Nothing. But if you do read any books 8 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:53,280 other than this, make sure that those books line up totally with 9 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,240 this. Not well, some of it does, but 10 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,880 some of the questions, some of it just cause you to think 11 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,000 outside the box. No, we don't need to think 12 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,000 outside the box. We need to think inside the 13 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,680 word, not outside the box. What challenge are you facing 14 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,960 that God's Word hasn't already covered? 15 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,080 In today's message, Pastor Lewis declares that no situation 16 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,240 you'll ever face is left out of this book. 17 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,000 Every trial, question, and need is spoken to here. 18 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,760 If you read anything else, make sure it lines up completely with 19 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,960 Scripture. Books that partly agree or push 20 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:33,240 you to think outside the box can pull you away from the truth. 21 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,840 His Word is enough for every moment of life. 22 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,960 How do you keep God's Word as your final authority in every 23 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:43,200 situation? Now here's Pastor Lewis in First 24 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:47,600 Timothy Chapter 4 with today's edition of Living Waters of 25 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,680 Grace. Please turn in your Bibles to 26 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:55,120 First Timothy chapter 4. Can you imagine when we are with 27 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:00,040 the Lord and we are with Him for eternity, how it's going to be 1 28 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:04,040 long worship time with the Lord? It's going to be an endless 29 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,039 Hallelujah to the King, and we can have that here now, being in 30 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:11,160 the family of God and being in Christ Jesus. 31 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:15,840 Our worship time should be a endless Hallelujah to the King 32 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:16,840 even now. Amen. 33 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,400 OK, let's pray and then we're going to go into the word of 34 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,520 God, Amen. Father God in Jesus name. 35 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,000 Lord, we do thank you. We thank you, Father, because 36 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,520 once again, as we have, and we thank you that you have given us 37 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,880 your word, not my word or anyone else's word or you've given us 38 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,760 your word that we have the truth in front of us, Lord, that we 39 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,920 can read it every day. But we thank you, Lord, that we 40 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:44,400 have fellowship with you, Lord, when we spend time in your word. 41 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:48,720 And now, Father, I ask you, Lord, for your power, your 42 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,000 anointing. I ask you, God, that you would 43 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,240 just be with us today. Your word says we're two or 44 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,280 three are gathered in your name that you would be in the midst 45 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,040 of us Lord, there's a lot more than two or three here today, 46 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,200 Father, we pray that you would just be in the midst of us today 47 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,240 that your love would just be over pouring. 48 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,080 We pray Father that your power Lord would just drench us did 49 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:11,560 anointing and that it would not only bring the truth of your 50 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,320 word and reveal the truth of your word Lord, but that it 51 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:18,160 would be a cause us our hearts to be receptacles Lord to be 52 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:22,320 able to receive your word and that it would grow in US Lord 53 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,760 and cause us to grow and to look more like your son Jesus Christ. 54 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,320 Father, help me. I need Father for you to speak 55 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:34,680 the words Lord for you just use me as an instrument of Labor for 56 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,400 your will and for your work in Jesus name we pray Amen. 57 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:44,520 So this is a letter that Paul has written to his beloved son 58 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:49,280 in the spirit Timothy. And it's a very instructional 59 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,760 letter, highly instructional. And I love reading these kind of 60 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:55,280 letters. I love reading these kind of 61 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,840 epistles because it gives us very clear instruction as to 62 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:03,480 what it is that pleases God and what it is that we are to be 63 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:07,600 looking to God for the work that he's doing in us. 64 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,200 So it's like a father who was sitting down. 65 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,400 And I thought about that even this past week as I was sitting 66 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:15,840 down with my father. It's like a father sitting down 67 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:20,519 with a young son and he's giving him instructions in life and 68 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:24,360 giving him instructions on the things of the Spirit, things in 69 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,080 the Spirit. Timothy's a young pastor and he 70 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:31,920 needs the instruction from his mentor and his father in the 71 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,200 faith. So it's almost like if you can 72 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:38,640 picture Paul sitting there and Timothy basically sitting at his 73 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,280 feet and listening to the instruction that Paul has 74 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:45,440 received through spending time with the Holy Spirit. 75 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,200 And if you remember the last thing that was discussed in 76 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:53,720 chapter 3 verse 16, the verse says and without controversy 77 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:58,920 great is the mystery of godliness or God likeness as it 78 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,120 was God who was manifested in the flesh. 79 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:05,560 He was justified in the spirit and he was seen by angels and he 80 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:09,640 preached among the Gentiles believed on in the world and 81 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:11,960 then he was received up into glory. 82 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,920 And we talked about that the last time that we talked about 83 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,840 first Timothy. But it's this doctrine of faith 84 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:24,480 that we believe that Jesus was God in the flesh who came to be 85 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:28,760 an earthly example for us to be able to actually see the word of 86 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,120 God. But now here in in chapter 4, 87 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:36,400 Paul gives Timothy a warning and gives him a prophecy. 88 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,320 He starts it off with a prophecy as a warning. 89 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,760 And this is something that he's talked about before about these 90 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,400 doctrines coming into the church back in in chapter 1. 91 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,120 He said, preach no other doctrine, Timothy, don't preach 92 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,560 anything else other than the doctrine that we have given you. 93 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,120 And Galatians says, if anybody preaches anything other than 94 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,320 what we've given you, let them be accursed. 95 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:02,080 I don't care if it's an Angel. If they come and preach anything 96 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:07,160 other than what we have given you, let them be accursed so 97 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,120 early. Here in this particular letter, 98 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,080 we see that Paul's giving another warning. 99 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:13,880 So let's take it up in verse one. 100 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,160 Let's read it through to verse 5. 101 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,200 He says. Now the Spirit expressly says 102 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,560 that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, 103 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,480 giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 104 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,360 speaking lies and hypocrisy, having their own conscience seer 105 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:34,920 with a a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain 106 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:40,320 from foods which God created. To be received with Thanksgiving 107 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,360 by those who believe and know the truth. 108 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:47,360 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be 109 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,000 refused if it is received with Thanksgiving, for it is 110 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,000 sanctified by the word of God and prayer. 111 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,280 So we look at this and we say, well, Paul says that the Spirit 112 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:02,680 expressly says. And, and what that word can also 113 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:06,280 mean is that the Spirit explicitly says, or it clearly 114 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,440 says, or it clearly points out Timothy. 115 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,760 I don't know if it was a situation where Paul was looking 116 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,760 in the Old Testament, was reading some old prophecies, or 117 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,000 if it was something recently that Paul had been praying about 118 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,920 and the Spirit revealed this to Paul. 119 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:25,760 And it was probably both. But he says the spirit expressly 120 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:30,440 or it clearly says that in the latter times, deceiving spirits 121 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,080 and doctrines of demons, the people will heed to these 122 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:35,840 things. Some are going to depart from 123 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,440 the faith, and they're going to give heed to these deceiving 124 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,840 spirits and doctrines of demons. So when he says in the latter 125 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,400 times, that's much different than talking about the latter, 126 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:48,760 the latter days, he's not talking about the end times. 127 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:50,640 This is the church that is beginning. 128 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,000 Paul had planted many churches and he's saying that in the 129 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,960 latter times after my departure when I'm gone, as he spoke about 130 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,640 in Acts chapter 20 when he was talking to the elders and 131 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:04,680 Ephesians. He says after I leave here, 132 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,400 they're going to be men who are going to come in with all these 133 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,400 deceiving doctrines and teaching things. 134 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,080 They're going to be wolves and sheeps clothing. 135 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:18,000 And Paul is saying here that in that latter times, after these 136 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,760 things, after this point where the churches have been 137 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:24,400 established in the latter times, they're going to be people who 138 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,880 are going to come in and they are going to bring deceiving 139 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:33,799 spirits and doctrines of demons, very powerful words, deceiving 140 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:38,000 spirits, doctrines of demons, not just false doctrines. 141 00:08:38,159 --> 00:08:41,799 He's saying that they're going to have their origin and demonic 142 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,480 warfare, demonic power, demonic influence. 143 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,520 And he's talking about the fact that these these people are 144 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,760 coming in with spirits that are and given doctrines that are 145 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:56,440 going to be contrary to the word of God. 146 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,440 There's going to be doctrines that people are going to come in 147 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:03,120 with and cause you to question what you know about the truth. 148 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:08,120 And anything that you hear or anything that you read that 149 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:13,360 causes you to question the truth of the doctrine is not of God. 150 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,520 It is of the devil. It is of the devil and it has 151 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,360 his roots. What he's talking about here 152 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:21,680 actually has his roots back in Genesis. 153 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:27,160 Back in Genesis chapter 2, when the evil one came to deceive 154 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:30,680 Eve, the first thing he did was made her question what God had 155 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:33,120 said to Adam. That was the first thing he did. 156 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:35,240 So I'm going to go back there and I'm going to look at just a 157 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,800 couple things just to point out how these doctrines of demons, 158 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,320 how it started back in Genesis. So we go to Genesis chapter 2 159 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:48,720 and we look at verse 16 and 17, and it simply says this. 160 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,080 And the Lord commanded the man, saying that this was the 161 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:56,040 commandment of the Lord. Of every tree of the garden you 162 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,520 may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and 163 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:04,880 evil you shall not eat, for in a day that you eat of it, you 164 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:07,320 shall die. Now that's the commandment of 165 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:09,080 the Lord. That's the word of the Lord. 166 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,400 That's the truth because God only speaks truth. 167 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,600 But look at what the devil did. Now this is when the doctrine of 168 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,000 demon comes in Luke in chapter 3. 169 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:20,880 And we're going to look right here at the end of verse one. 170 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:25,640 And he said to the woman Speaking of the serpent, who was 171 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,200 the image of the demon of the demonic spirit. 172 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:34,160 And he says to the woman, has God indeed said, you shall not 173 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:38,440 eat of every tree in the garden? Look how he tries to get her to 174 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:42,080 question what God has said. That's what doctrines of demons 175 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,520 do. They try to get you to question 176 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:48,080 the truth of what God has said. And then if you go over to verse 177 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:51,920 4, it says then the serpent said to the woman, you will not 178 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,920 surely die, for God knows in the day that you eat of it, your 179 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:01,560 eyes will be open and you will be like God, knowing good and 180 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:04,720 evil. How many doctrines are out there 181 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:10,920 where they're trying to infuse this false strength is false 182 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,520 power into people, into thinking that you yourself are God. 183 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,080 You yourself were in control of your faith. 184 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:19,920 You yourself were in control of what you do in life. 185 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:22,640 You were in control. No one else has to be in 186 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:24,240 control. Those Christians are crazy. 187 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:26,920 They're weak people. They're dependent on somebody 188 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:29,840 else or something else. But you, you have power. 189 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,640 You're your own God. Doctrines of demons. 190 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:38,800 Doctrines of demons. Listen, God has given us His 191 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:42,640 Word and has everything in it that we could possibly need from 192 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:48,280 Genesis to Revelation. There is not one situation that 193 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,640 you can run into in this life where you can't see it covered 194 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,560 in this word. Nothing. 195 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,840 But if you do read any books other than this, make sure that 196 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,200 those books line up totally with this. 197 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:05,000 Not well, some of it does, but some of the questions, some of 198 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,320 it just cause you to think outside the box. 199 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,560 No, we don't need to think outside the box. 200 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:14,000 We need to think inside the word, not outside a box. 201 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:17,760 So just make sure that whatever you read that is consistent, 202 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,880 totally consistent with the Word of God, because it only takes 203 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,200 just a little bit to take you off to the right or to take you 204 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,480 off to the left. And that's what was happening 205 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:28,400 here. And he says here that they will 206 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,400 depart from the faith. Now, that depart doesn't mean 207 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,600 that they're going to, you know, walk away from salvation or walk 208 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:36,960 away from their salvation or walk away totally from God. 209 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,400 But they will depart from the teaching of Christian ethics. 210 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,080 They're going to walk away from the core things of the gospel, 211 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,080 the core things of the truth of the doctrine of God. 212 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:48,760 They're going to walk away from that. 213 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,480 They're going to stop teaching things that are rooted and 214 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,920 grounded in the faith and start teaching other things that have 215 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,440 come in with these doctrines of demons and these deceiving 216 00:12:57,560 --> 00:12:59,280 spirits. And it says they're going to 217 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,080 give heed to those things. That means they're going to pay 218 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:03,880 attention to it. They're going to actually turn 219 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:07,400 toward those things. And after they do that in the 220 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:09,960 way that they're going to do, the way it's going to be played 221 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,600 out is that they're going to be speaking lies in hypocrisy. 222 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,160 As it says they're in verse 2, they're going to be speaking 223 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:18,480 lies in hypocrisy. They're going to be hypocrites 224 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,600 like Jesus referred to the the Pharisees as hypocrites. 225 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,120 They live hypocritic lives. They try to look one way and try 226 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:27,840 to act like they're one way, but really all the bondage that they 227 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,120 put on other people, they themselves can't do it. 228 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:32,280 And these are going to, the teachers are going to be trying 229 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,920 to look holy, try to look religious, but their doctrine is 230 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,960 totally contrary to the things of God, totally contrary to the 231 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:43,600 things of God. They're going to be people who 232 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,960 give heed to these things and they're going to speak these 233 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:49,360 lies in hypocrisy. And as a result of doing that, 234 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,640 look at what it says at the end of verse 2. 235 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,560 As a result of doing this and doing it over time, totally 236 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:59,480 refusing the truth, standing away from the truth, standing 237 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:03,440 apart from the truth, speaking consistently, things that are 238 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,840 evil, things that are contrary to the word of God. 239 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:11,160 After they do that for so long, their conscience then becomes 240 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:14,840 seared with a hot iron. And that's an interesting 241 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:17,480 picture. My wife and I want to go to 242 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,360 Montana and Wyoming. We like to travel and we want to 243 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,560 go to Montana and Wyoming. We want to do a dude ranch. 244 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:26,960 I know you. You're picturing me on a horse. 245 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,480 I know you are. What in the world is he going to 246 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:31,640 do on a horse? I know, but believe it or not, I 247 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:33,120 actually love horses. We we route. 248 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:35,200 In fact, our first date was a horseback riding. 249 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,600 I took a horseback riding, believe it or not, but anyway, 250 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,520 we want to go to a dude ranch because we know that on a dude 251 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,200 ranch, one of the things that they do is that they brand 252 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:48,360 cattle, they brand young horses, they brand these things. 253 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,040 And, and I never really considered the whole art of 254 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:54,280 branding or the practice of branding or what it meant until 255 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,200 I started studying this. And, and what's interesting 256 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,800 about it is that the branding actually not only burns the 257 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:05,360 flesh, the top flesh, but actually burns the nerve endings 258 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,680 so that they become numb back there. 259 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,480 They become numb back there. What I'm is what I'm told and 260 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:12,920 and they can't feel, they can't feel. 261 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,160 And I've heard people talk about having things cauterized, where 262 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,240 they lose feeling in certain areas of their body, which is, 263 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,080 and it's almost like the same thing, this cauterization or 264 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:25,520 just branding. And this is exactly what happens 265 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:30,520 when you walk in disobedience to God over a long period of time. 266 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:36,240 The conscience becomes branded, it becomes insensitive to the 267 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,160 things of God. You don't even be convicted 268 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,640 anymore. You're not convicted anymore. 269 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:44,560 Then you get further and further away and you hear his voice 270 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:46,920 further and further away to the point that you can't even hear 271 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,720 his voice anymore. You become insensitive to 272 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,480 righteousness, become insensitive to goodness. 273 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:54,960 And this is what happened with these false teachers. 274 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:59,040 Their their conscience are seared with a hot iron and they 275 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:04,160 don't have the ability to feel the truth anymore, to know the 276 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,080 truth, to be able to sense the truth they don't have anymore. 277 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:11,600 Their hearts are damaged. So he says here in verse three 278 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,560 and one of the one of the things that they begin to teach, having 279 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:19,000 this branded or the seared conscience. 280 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,200 One of the things that they begin to teach is forbidding to 281 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:27,080 marry and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to 282 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:31,480 be received with Thanksgiving. Now the forbidding of marriage. 283 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,360 So now since they have turned away from the doctrine of God 284 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,920 and turned away from the truth of the gospel, they now want to 285 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:43,240 forbid what God has given all of us a right to. 286 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:47,280 It's clear that the Bible does not teach forbidding of 287 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:50,320 marriage. It clearly teaches marriage. 288 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,160 In fact, it's one of the first institutions that God created. 289 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,400 But the devil, these demons, and these and these doctrines say 290 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,480 no, we got to stay away from it. If you want to really be holy, 291 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,840 if you want to really look righteous, if you want to really 292 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:03,760 look religious, don't get married. 293 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:06,960 Don't get married. No, no. 294 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:11,160 That is a doctrine of demon. It's a doctrine of demons. 295 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,800 We are to get married. Now Paul says that there are 296 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,160 people who have the gift or who have the the heart. 297 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,400 They're like, well, you know, there's two ways you can be a 298 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,760 eunuch, right? We know that the one way is 299 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,880 obviously the removal body parts, but the other way is the 300 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:28,760 fact that you just decide that you will not marry and you will 301 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:33,240 not have to deal with that kind of pleasure or be involved in 302 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,400 that kind of pleasure to be with a wife. 303 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,600 OK, that's another way, but that's not what this is talking 304 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,360 about. This is actually forbidding 305 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:43,720 people to get married. Paul says that he has the gift 306 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:48,080 to be able to do that, but if that's not you, then you need to 307 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:52,640 marry because it's better to marry than to burn with lust. 308 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,520 So marriage is definitely something that God gives us a 309 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,800 right to do. And then he says in commanding 310 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,840 to abstain from foods which God created to be received with 311 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:06,520 Thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 312 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:11,240 So now we think about Peter, who had grown up in the law, grown 313 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:16,000 up under the law, and when God began to present to him that he 314 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,240 listened. This is grace. 315 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:21,000 Now we're in the New Testament now and we're not forbidding you 316 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:25,000 to eat things anymore the way that it was in the in the law, 317 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:29,080 because it was God showing Israel his perfect 318 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,480 righteousness, his perfect righteousness. 319 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:34,640 But now all these things lead to Jesus Christ. 320 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:38,280 We don't have to do that. So that the Lord showed Peter 321 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,720 the example of all these different animals that at one 322 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,360 time Peter would not have eaten. He called him unclean. 323 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:49,440 God said don't ever call unclean what I call clean, arise and 324 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,280 eat. And if we go back again, back to 325 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:56,480 Genesis in creation, when God created these animals, he said 326 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,440 they were good. Everything God created is good. 327 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,080 So no, we don't have to stay away from these things. 328 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,120 And and it's just a matter of control. 329 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:09,200 These doctrines of demons are always doing things to try to 330 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,320 control or to instill fear into people. 331 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:16,600 It's being religious and legalistic and Paul said no, 332 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,920 stay away from that. That is not true. 333 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,600 Those are doctrines of demons for people who forbid to marry 334 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,280 and commanding to abstain from staying from foods. 335 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,880 I love Reesey peanut butter cups, so I'm glad my wife is in 336 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,120 here to hear this because now if I want to get a Reesey peanut 337 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:37,280 buttercup, listen, they look what was not good to eat five 338 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,120 years ago is supposed to be good to eat now. 339 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:44,120 They tell us at one time, don't eat beef, eat beef, don't eat 340 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:47,840 pork, No, eat pork, don't eat this, no, eat that. 341 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,200 I mean, it's always, always something that you're not 342 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:51,440 supposed to eat. You can't eat. 343 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,840 You can't eat it, you can't eat it, Paul said. 344 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,000 I got a solution. Bless it, give Thanksgiving over 345 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,680 it, pray over it, and you don't have to worry about it. 346 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:03,800 Now, I realize that there are some people, because of health 347 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:05,960 reasons that they should stay away from certain foods. 348 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,280 I realize that. But it's not that it's 349 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,200 forbidden. It's not that it's forbidden. 350 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:15,720 Spiritually that is not the reason, health reasons we 351 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,080 understand. But Paul said look, just pray 352 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,600 over it, pray over it. And so then he says here in 353 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,880 verse four, he says every creature as we said is good and 354 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,280 nothing is to be refused if it is received with Thanksgiving, 355 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:33,600 for it is sanctified by the word of God and is sanctified by 356 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,400 prayer. And one of the things that we 357 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,760 understand is that everything we do as Christians, everything we 358 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:43,160 do should be set apart, should be set apart. 359 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:48,720 In 1st Corinthians 10 and 31, he says whether you eat or drink or 360 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,440 whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. 361 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,960 That means just set apart for the glory of God. 362 00:20:56,360 --> 00:21:00,040 So marriage, eating, possessions are all spirit. 363 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,040 They all be spiritual issues because they're all given to us 364 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,720 to be enjoyed. But we must understand the 365 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,000 source. And the source is that it comes 366 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,480 from God #1 and it's provided by God. 367 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,760 And that's why we say prayers when we eat, right? 368 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,960 We bless the food. We bless it because we 369 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:19,920 acknowledge that it was God that created it. 370 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:21,960 And he said it was good, number one. 371 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:25,960 Number two, we bless it because God provided it and we're 372 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,440 thankful. So it's more a matter of 373 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,320 Thanksgiving. It even is just blessing the 374 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:32,920 food. It's a matter of Thanksgiving, 375 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:37,320 and we see where Jesus Christ himself, before he would eat, He 376 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,880 would give thanks for his food. When he sat down to feed the 377 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,400 5000 and Matthew 14 and 19, before he distributed the food 378 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,960 among the 5000 people, He sat them all down and he gave 379 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,040 thanks. Then he broke it and he 380 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,480 distributed. And the same thing even with the 381 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,040 Passover. When he ate the Passover meal 382 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:00,840 with his disciples, the Bible says that after He gave thanks 383 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:04,600 or when He gave thanks he break it any distributed. 384 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:08,440 It is important that we give thanks to God when you know I 385 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,880 love when I'm sitting in a restaurant and there's another 386 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,880 family that's there and we see them praying together before 387 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,560 they eat. I love seeing that I love seeing 388 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,840 that I love seeing young kids who understand that I don't eat 389 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,080 anything off this table until I give thanks. 390 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:26,240 That's a wonderful thing, a wonderful thing. 391 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,360 Give thanks. So then in verse 6 he goes on, 392 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:33,120 he says, if you instruct the brethren in these things and 393 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:35,560 what things and all the things we just got finished talking 394 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:39,560 about instructor brothers about these bad false teachers, 395 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,360 instruct them about how to look out for these doctrines of 396 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:45,240 demons and these deceiving spirits. 397 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:49,360 Instructor brethren about setting things apart for the 398 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:52,880 Lord's purpose and doing all things unto the Lord. 399 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:58,680 He says if you do that, then you will be a good minister of Jesus 400 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:00,160 Christ. Nourished. 401 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:03,160 I love this word nourished in the words of faith. 402 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,560 That word nourished. It's a powerful word. 403 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,040 It means actually to be sustained, sustained by the 404 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:13,920 words of faith, to be supplied with everything that's necessary 405 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,480 for my life, for life and living and health is all, and my 406 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,160 spiritual growth is all supplied to me. 407 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:26,160 And I'm sustained through the words of faith, through the 408 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,440 words of faith. Studying the Word of God has 409 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,960 impact on our lives in so many different areas. 410 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:37,120 Obeying the word of God has impact in our lives in so many 411 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:39,840 different areas. It sustains us. 412 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,760 It sustains us. And then he says it's a good 413 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,760 minister of Jesus Christ who is sustained by the words of faith. 414 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,160 It's a good minister that has supplied everything that is 415 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,280 necessary for life through the Word of God. 416 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,560 This has been another encouraging edition of Living 417 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:04,160 Waters of Grace. Pastor Lewis Harrell has shared 418 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:08,480 some good reminders for us to learn and walk in today as he's 419 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,360 teaching through the books of First and Second Timothy. 420 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:16,040 There are useful practices and advice that the Apostle Paul 421 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,400 offers to Timothy in these books. 422 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,440 From a fellow pastor, Paul imparts some wisdom to Timothy 423 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:27,080 about solid leadership and what some of the criteria should be 424 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,480 for leadership. There are specific passages 425 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,280 directed towards men and women, respectively. 426 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,840 And All in all, there's much to gain in coming to an awareness 427 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:41,720 of God's heart for each person and God's purposes for each one. 428 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,160 We're happy that you've taken the time today to listen. 429 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,840 We invite you to come here the next edition. 430 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,200 In the meantime, when you have some time to spare today, go 431 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:55,640 check out our website, calvarychapelonline.com. 432 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,800 There you'll find additional messages as well as a variety of 433 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:04,080 resources and information about how to meet with us in person. 434 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,880 We're also on Facebook, so you can be a part of what we share 435 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,920 there as well. 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