Tag: Jewish Laws

There were two Families who lived across the street in this particularly neighborhood.
One day they got in an augment over some little foolish thing that happen and vow to never speak to each other again (As long as they would live)

A few years would go by and both couples started having children.

One day they notices that there children were playing together in the fount yard.

This infuriated the parents to see there children playing with those people across the street.

They would go and get the children and tell them they were never to play with the People across the street again.

Only to find the children in the front yard playing again with the children across the street.

The Parents knew they needed to do something to stop this with those fitly no mans who lived across the street.

So the parents on the right side of the street started to build all kinds of play things in their back yard for there children

The parents on the Lift side of the street saw what the pigs across the street was doing and started doing the same in their back yard.

Never would there children play together again!

Time went on and the children grew-up and were ready for School. The parents on both sides of the street made sure that there children would not attend the same school so they all went to a different private school.

Time again moved on and the oldest of these children now made ready for collage.

At Collage both of these young adults met many of new friends, one day the Girl from the right side of the street met a wonderful boy who she fell in Love with.

And the Boy from the Left side met a wonderful Girl who he fell in Love with.

They Loved each other so much they did not want to even go home when the semester was over, So they decided to register and go to school all year long, studying and cramming there curses so they could both finish get Married and start a life of there own when School finished

Funny neither of them every talk much about there family back home.
But the day came and they graduated; now they planed to get married. They were surprised to learn that they both came from the same state, and even more surprised to learn that they lived in the Same City.

What a coincident they said to each other.

The Girl told here Boyfriend the street she lived on and the Boy said why my parents live on that same street.

He told the girl his parent house number and she said why that is not far from where her parent live

They just could not understand how they had never met before, living so close to each other all this time.

Until they drove down the road and seen that they were neighbors across the street.

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How many of us today go to Church and never talk to each other. How many times do we pass each other by with not so much as a smile, a hello, a good-by, or a go and drop dead.

We are supposed to be representing God on this Earth, but some times we tend to represent only Satan in Christ clothing.

God said in all that you do, do it to the Glory of God!

Our Question today is “How do I give God the Glory”?

Let us pray !!!!!!

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The Sermon today will be taking from the Scripture found in 1 Corinthians: 10:31:

The King James Bible:
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Twenty Century New Testament Bible:
Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do everything to the honor of God.

Bible in Worldwide English:
So, whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to bring praise to God.

Do all to the glory of God.

Point #1 Is it possible to honor God in how or what we eat?

The Bible says yes it is possible!

In the beginning God created everything Good; it was perfect just out of the creator’s hands

Genesis 1
29: And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

 

We don’t need a preacher to understand what we just read? What we read is God gave to man his food, and it was not the beasts of the earth, it was the fruit that grew on trees, God call it meat.

For this reason you will find many Adventist who are vegetarian and not meat eaters. Not that there is anything wrong with eating Clean Meat.

The diet of man was altered after Sin entered into the Human family.

In the scripture we are told; God said I have given you every herb bearing seed & and every fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for Meat.

When God uses the word Meat; is does not mean animal flesh.

When I was growing up sometime we would get a young Coconut to eat and cut them open, and eat the Meat of the coconut on the inside, the fruit inside was conceded the meat of the Coconut. It is no part of any animal but the Meat of the Fruit that God had giving this is what God was saying

So where did Man start eating Flesh or animal protein.

Let go back to the Book of Beginning and see what happen

Genesis 6
5: And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6: And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7: And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

I am glad we have men Like Noah / even though he was called a Fool by the World Standards He Remained Faithful to Gods Laws. Out of the hole World God found only Noah righteous

We are not going into the story of Noah, because of time; let’s just take a look at what happen.

We know that God told Noah to build an Ark because he was going to destroy the earth with a flood. God gave Noah the plan for the size of the Ark, why because he knew it would have to hold a pair of all the beasts of the earth.

Lets pickup on the story where God is calling the animal and they are going on into the Ark.

Genesis 6
19: And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20: Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

Let dig a little deeper here into what is happing and see if we can shade a little more Light on this subject

Genesis 7
1: And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

2: Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

God say to Noah Clean beast by sevens and un-clean by two. That is 14 of every clean the male and female and two of every un-clean one male and one female.

Did God make a distinction between what animals were clean and unclean back in the time of Noah?

So why do we hear men preaching today and telling us we don’t have to worry about those Jewish Laws, we can eat anything we want, just put a little more gravy on it. It is ok to eat what God said is an abomination, because those Law’s were for the Jews only.

Were those laws for the Jew only and not for us today? Was Noah a Jew?

Do you know there are a lot of similarities between Jews and Muslim?

One similarly is that neither one will eat Pork,

Do you know why?

Because they both had the same great Grand Father, the patriarch Abraham who taught his children of Gods Laws!

Not because they were Jews or Muslim but because they were his Children; and Gods Law was the delight of his Life.

The Jewish line came from Abraham Son Isaac who begat Jacob now known as Israel, The Muslim line came from Abraham other sons Esau & Ishmael

Now if it is understandable to be able to Give God Glory in what we eat, it is also understandable to believe we can Dishonor and not give Him Glory in what we eat and that is by eating what God said is an abomination to Him.

Isaiah 66:
16: For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17: They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.

If you have any drought as to what animals are Clean or Unclean just go to the Book of Leviticus and read in chapter 11:

1 Corinthians 6:
19: What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

20: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Where now is also the augment for abortion?

When is the Woman that said it is my body and I can do what I want with it. WRONG, God said your body belongs to him, he bought you with a price whether you like it or not. Now he will not force his way on you, but he will let you choose to do right or wrong that is a choice he has giving you.

Point #2 Can we Honor God in our Relationships.

1. Life is built on Relationships

Can we bring Honor to God by having friends?
Yes we can, God did not create us to be independence of each other, we were created to be social, in other words to have relationships with other.

One of the worse things that can happen to someone is to be totally isolated, put away from everyone else. We were not made to be alone; we need the fellowship of others in our life to be totally happy. When we are a Friend to others or as Jesus said a neighbor to others we give God the Glory.

Mathew: 22:39:
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Why?
Because It give Glory to God.

Just the opposite is true if you do not love your neighbor, you do not bring Glory to God

► God holds the Marriage relationship as a Most Holy Thing.

It was giving to mankind in the garden before Sin, when God took the one Man and one Woman and joined them together, and they two became one flesh.

What God has joined together let no Mankind separate or come between.

Let me ask you a question? Can Sex bring Glory to God ?

When in the confines of the Marriage relationship even Sex can bring Glory to God. It was Gods way of forming the bond between the Man and the Woman, for God said and they two shall become one flesh

The Intermit relationship between the Man and Woman forms a strong bond and holds them together, but even it is not complete!

There is one missing element, and that is the need for his creator to be part of that relationship. That brings Honor to God in the Home and the Children of that Home will also bring Glory and Honor to God.

Because they will learn of Him by the example of the Parents, Children watch everything there Parents do, and imitate there very actions and words.

If they are words of Love and cheer of compassion and Faith, they too will have the same. But if it is words of hate and violence words of markery and slander they will become exactly like the Parents and that brings dishonor to God.

Marriage is a commitment to each other a way of saying I love you and want to be part of your Life. It is a way of saying I Will Always Be There for You

That is what God is telling us; when he is part of that relationship he will always be there for you, if you accept him into your Life.

In the Marriage relationship; if Sex brings Glory to God, Then the opposite must also be true.

Sex outside of the Marriage relationship brings Dishonor to God

Adultery is when the Marriage relationship is Broken.

In other words when the Covenant, when the Agreement, when the Promise, is made Void by one of the parties involved in the Marriage relationship and that is by Sex whether Physical or Mental is committed our side of the Marriage Relationship the Vow is broken and bring dishonor to God.

Satan loves nothing more then to destroy the Family, because there are two things that came out of Eden, One was the Marriage; our relationship to Each Other, and the Sabbath; our Relationship with God.

Satin will stop at nothing to break our relationship with God and with each other.

He attacks our very Homes when we are the lease expected; so we can dishonor our Creator

We are attacked everyday by the T.V. in our Homes, every time you look there is a Sex seen on the tube. Just about every Movie you see will has at lease one seen with people having Sex.

Most of the time T.V., Magazines, and Movies don’t give Glory to God

You open the News paper and there are pictures of Woman in there undergarments, the same with a magazine from JC Penny or Sears. All to lead your Mind away, and into a place it should not be and to help you break that covenant relationship you made.

By Far the worse Magazine you can have in you Home if you have Men or young boys is a Victoria Secret magazine.

It is Pornography at the first stage (it opens the door to Sin in young boys)

Look at what Jesus said in Matthew: Matthew:5:28:
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Please notice here there is nothing wrong looking at a beautiful Woman. That is not the problem; it is what a man does in his mind when he looks that is the problem.

There were a sect of Men in Israel that were called the Burse and Bleeding Pharisees. Why because they believed that to look at a Woman was Sin.

And so to keep from Sinning if they were walking and a Woman was coming down the other way, they would cover there eyes, thus running in to Buildings or in a Ditch

As Paul Harvy would say now you know the rest of the story… Burse and Bleeding Pharisees

To look at a Woman is not Sin but to “Undress her in your Mind is Sin”.

Because you have committed Adultery with her in your heart

That is what Jesus was saying, if you Lust after her, if you desire her, if you long for her, if you hunger for her you have committed Sin because you have broken the covenant with your Marriage Partner.

God also liked the Marriage relationship to Himself by the Church.

The Church is his Bride

He is coming back for a Pure and Holy Bride that has not committed Fornication or Adultery with the world.

But for those who have kept themselves as a Virgin awaiting the coming of the Bridegroom to give Glory to God

Phil:2:11:
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Rom:3:23: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Jesus did say Be ye Perfect as I am Perfect, It is only as we are in Christ that we can become Perfect not in ourselves, In ourselves we are imperfect becuase we are sinners

We Glorify God in our acceptance of His Sacrifice on the Cross in Man behalf because we could not do it ourselves

The opposite it true we Dishonor God when we try to do it ourselves, it is like saying God I don’t need you

Point #3 Can we Honor God by keeping the day He blessed and said was Holy

Can Worshiping God on the 7th day of the week the Sabbath bring Glory to God?

The Jewish people had a very big problem; they refused to keep Gods Law. Jesus said; If you Love me keep my Commandment. So we may say if keeping Gods Law shows that we love Him; then by not keeping them or braking even one of them shows that we don’t really Love Him; or at lease not totally; and if you don’t love Him totally, then you don’t love Him at all. And so Jesus has no choice but to let you have your own way

 

At the restoration of Jerusalem, in the days of Nehemiah, Sabbath breaking was met with the stern discipline “Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath. , “ Nehemiah 13:18

Christ, during His earthly ministry, emphasized the binding claims of the Sabbath; in all His teaching He showed reverence for the institution He Himself had given.

In His days the Sabbath had become so perverted that its observance reflected the character of selfish and arbitrary men rather than the character of God.

Christ set aside the false teaching by which those who claimed to know God had misrepresented Him.

The Sabbath was embodied in the law given from Sinai. The people of Israel had knowledge of it before they came to Sinai. On the way there the Sabbath was kept. When someone profaned it, the Lord reproved them, saying, “How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws?” Ex. 16:28.

The Sabbath was not for Israel only, but for the world. It had been made known to man in Eden, and, like the other precepts of the Decalogue, it is of perpetual obligation. Of that law of which the fourth commandment forms a part, Christ declares,
“Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in nowise pass from the law.Matthew:5:18:”

So long as the heavens and the earth endure, the Sabbath will continue to be a sign of the Creator’s power. And when Eden shall bloom on earth again, God’s holy rest day will be honored by all beneath the sun. “From one Sabbath to another” the inhabitants of the glorified new earth shall go up “to worship before Me, saith the Lord.” Isa. 66:23.

In the days of Christ the Sabbath had become so distorted that its observance reflected the character of selfish men more than God.

They began to worship the Day, more then the Creator of the Day.

The Religious leaders virtually represented God as giving laws which it was impossible for men to obey. They led the people to look upon God as a tyrant, and to think that the observance of the Sabbath, as He required it, made men hard-hearted and cruel.

It was the work of Christ to clear away these misconceptions. The Religious leaders followed Him with merciless hostility because he did not keep the Sabbath by their traditions. He did not conform to their requirements (Traditions), but went straight forward, keeping the Sabbath according to the laws of God.

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.” Mark 2:27″

Does the Sabbath make us perfect, No it don’t, but it does make us dependence on Gods Grace, for it is by Grace that we are Saved through Faith and not of our works.

So if keeping the Sabbath brings Glory to God, then not keeping the Sabbath brings Dishonor to God.

How did the whole thing get mixed up in the first place, look at the Book of Daniel?

Daniel: 7:25:
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

God knew these things would happen, because he knew Satan would stop at nothing to dishonor Him.

He knew Men would try and bring in another day; that He God did not bless and did not make Holy.

You must understand God did all He could do for Man

1. The Sabbath Came out of Eden,
2. Marriage Came out of Eden
3. The Food God gave us to keep us in good Health came out of Eden

God did all this to keep mankind happy and healthy, why because of His great love for his Creation.

Do you know who wrote the Bible, Men who were moved by the inspiration of Gods Holy Spirit?

Do you know the only part of the Bible God did not let man write?

His Ten Commandments, He God wrote them himself on stone with his own finger. Are his laws importance can man change something that God himself wrote. I don’t think so.

What every you do, ask yourselves this first
In what I am going to eat, will it bring Glory to God?
In what I think does it bring Glory to God?
In how I worship does it bring Glory to God?

If your answer is yes then you have no problems, but if it is NO I leave you with a Choice you need to make.

Give God the Glory by your obedience to his will and live forever or take your chances with the world.

To God be the Glory, Great things He has done so love He the world He gave us His SON.