LET US GO OUTSIDE THE CAMP! (11 OF 12)
Scripture: Hebrews 13:11-14
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Let Us Go Outside the Camp! (11 of 12)
Series: Let Us
Dennis Marquardt
Hebrews 13:11-14
INTRO: The early Christians who had been Jewish struggled to accept the power of Christ's sacrifice for their sins! There was a tendency once saved to go back to those things which they once held dear as practices, things that in truth were only shadows of the greater substance found in Christ.
It can be amazing the kinds of old laws man will keep just to feel ''secure'' and have life be predictable. Yet, these old laws can be meaningless today even if they served a purpose before:
ILLUS: Young girls are never allowed to walk a tightrope in Wheeler, Mississippi, unless it's in a church.
In Blackwater, Kentucky, tickling a woman under her chin with a feather duster while she's in church service carries a penalty of $10.00 and one day in jail.
No one can eat unshelled, roasted peanuts while attending church in Idanha, Oregon.
In Honey Creek, Iowa, no one is permitted to carry a slingshot to church except a policeman.
No citizen in Leecreek, Arkansas, is allowed to attend church in any red-colored garment.
Swinging a yo-yo in church or anywhere in public on the Sabbath is prohibited in Studley, Virginia.
Turtle races are not permitted within 100 yards of a local church at any time in Slaughter, Louisiana. - Robert W. Pelton in The Door. Christian Reader, Vol. 33, no. 5.
We can follow a similar path once we embrace Christ as our Lord. If we are not careful we can begin the process of ''adding'' lots of other conditions for salvation as time progresses. Sometimes these ''things'' can be very helpful truths pertaining to living a life of faith, but they can grow beyond that to a type of legalism that demands others practice all these ''other things'' in order to be saved!
When this happens the Gospel starts to look like a list of do's and don'ts - even though some of those things should be a part of the life of a believer, they must not become conditions in ...
Series: Let Us
Dennis Marquardt
Hebrews 13:11-14
INTRO: The early Christians who had been Jewish struggled to accept the power of Christ's sacrifice for their sins! There was a tendency once saved to go back to those things which they once held dear as practices, things that in truth were only shadows of the greater substance found in Christ.
It can be amazing the kinds of old laws man will keep just to feel ''secure'' and have life be predictable. Yet, these old laws can be meaningless today even if they served a purpose before:
ILLUS: Young girls are never allowed to walk a tightrope in Wheeler, Mississippi, unless it's in a church.
In Blackwater, Kentucky, tickling a woman under her chin with a feather duster while she's in church service carries a penalty of $10.00 and one day in jail.
No one can eat unshelled, roasted peanuts while attending church in Idanha, Oregon.
In Honey Creek, Iowa, no one is permitted to carry a slingshot to church except a policeman.
No citizen in Leecreek, Arkansas, is allowed to attend church in any red-colored garment.
Swinging a yo-yo in church or anywhere in public on the Sabbath is prohibited in Studley, Virginia.
Turtle races are not permitted within 100 yards of a local church at any time in Slaughter, Louisiana. - Robert W. Pelton in The Door. Christian Reader, Vol. 33, no. 5.
We can follow a similar path once we embrace Christ as our Lord. If we are not careful we can begin the process of ''adding'' lots of other conditions for salvation as time progresses. Sometimes these ''things'' can be very helpful truths pertaining to living a life of faith, but they can grow beyond that to a type of legalism that demands others practice all these ''other things'' in order to be saved!
When this happens the Gospel starts to look like a list of do's and don'ts - even though some of those things should be a part of the life of a believer, they must not become conditions in ...
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