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BE WARNED: Excessive use of foul (yet KJV Biblically accurate) language!
This guy must be a pervert. Some of his other videos suggest this.
This is both funny and sad.
FUNNY:
Can you see this sermon done as a SNL skit? Maybe with Will Farrell as the Pissing Pastor? I think that I would laugh so hard I would pee my pants. (standing up of course)
Or could you imagine the object lesson you could give for this sermon…! It is a built in sermon illustration! AWESOME!
SAD:
This is immensely sad because this guy is preaching his own doctrine and not God’s Word. The immediate context of every person that “pisseth against the wall” is death and destruction on their heads. (1Sa 25:22, 1Sa 25:34, 1Ki 14:10, 1Ki 16:11, 1Ki 21:21, 2Ki 9:8) This guy is a very poor student of the Word. There is actually more of an argument against peeing on the wall than for it! Although clearly that is not even the point. The point is destruction against the men in those families or towns!
This is also sad because this shows the world that Christians are unloving and strange and more concerned about the way we pee over the condition of our hearts. This is evil masquerading as Christianity.
It must be stopped.
The only way that I know how to counter things like this is through love. I will show the love of Christ to the people in my context so that they will know that I Christians are not like that. I will spread love in my town so that all will know and see the love of Christ. No cliche. This is the power to change the world.
Go out and Love!
Psalm 1:2 ” But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.”
Do you read this verse and think BORING…
There is a good chance that you do.
I have.
I have even recently.
I was taught to think that it is boring to delight in the law of the LORD.
I was taught to act like I was getting ready to lift a heavy burden. I see this verse the same way that I see all the boxes on moving day. As only work that will not end even after I have filled the truck… With this verse I am on my own and I am supposed to like it because I am a good Christian…
Recently I ran into a pastor who explained this verse in similar terms.
He said delight in the law of the LORD is like following the speed limit.
We know that it is good to follow it.
And that’s it. No other explanation.
I was let down.
Dissatisfied.
Hungry.
Heart broken.
I came across a Truth of God and all I got was a face full of rules and vague moralizing. I got the “rules of the road” instead of a passion for driving. I got a let down, a heart break, a hag instead of a princess. I yolked to the burden that carries men to the grave
All because I missed a crucial part of this verse.
Psalm 1:2 ” But his DELIGHT is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.”
Yeah, its right there. Delight. Take joy in it. Love it. Yearn for it. The law of the LORD us for us to want. It is not a dusty book in some other realm that makes no sense and has nothing but codes and meaningless trivia in it. We treat it like that. But it is actually more like water to a tree. Deep cool satisfying water for the roots that are stuck in this arid dry earth. (read the rest of the text Psalm 1)
Sure it is open-ended.
It leaves you with something that you know you don’t have yet.
It leaves you wanting more…
Philippians 2:5-8 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
So this whole same mind thing seems impossible, but Paul is not a fruitless writer. He has a definite direction he is trying to take his writing. He has a certain goal for his readers to see and take part in. We cannot have the same mind as each other. There might be 100 readers who think totally different or there might be just you and I yet we will not think the same. We will never have the same mind. We will always differ. We will always be enemies if we try to relate to only each other.
We need a universal mind.
W e need One Mind to plug into.
Like an eternal source of power, knowledge, and like understanding. We need instant access. We need confirmation of Truth. We need some one to understand how strange we really are and be OK with it. To borrow from Neil Young, “we need some one to love us the whole day through…”
We need Jesus Christ.
He is the Universal Mind that makes all agree. He is the One to make all things One. He is the one that does more than bridge the gap, but fills every space Universal between the entire gulf. He is the Only one.
If we all have Christ mind than we can all have the same mind. I don’t have to have your mind. i only have to have Christ’ mind. This is the only mind that matters. For when the universe rolls into Him I will be ready I will come into Him Universally and gain what every human heart longs for.
I leave you with Neil Young’s song.
Philippians 2:1-4 Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
What does it mean to be like minded in Christ? Paul writes for all Christians to be like minded, but i think that he must be absolutely nuts for such a demand. I mean seriously, who can actually have the same mind as anyone else? Let’s examine our culture a little bit and see if there is any compatibility with this truth.
I have always thought of myself as an independent thinker. This was a very possessive thing for me. As possessive as a child for a new toy or a dog over a piece of meat. My thoughts were MINE. I even went so far as to think that “they” could take everything away from me but “they” could not take my thoughts. At the time, I was 17 and “they” were my parents. The thoughts, that were so precious to me were love for a girl. You could ground me, yell at me, take away my driving privileges, and generally banish me to the center of the earth, but you couldn’t get me to stop loving this girl. My thoughts were mine and no one could strip them from me. This was the one thing in the world that was solely mine, and the one thing in the world that I had complete rights to.
Now expand these observations outward and see a world that demands it’s right to think whatever it pleases. I can eat a hamburger for lunch or insist that animals should not be killed. I can like George Bush, or Hillary Clinton. I can go to church or stay home on Sunday. I can love my neighbor or take them to court. I can watch Martha Stewart or 24. I can be what ever I want to be. Our world, especially our country is a cauldron of separate thoughts and ideas all trying to mix and mingle but mostly just floating around in the pot. Where in our culture do people have the same mind? There are a few places, but they are limited and they are not always pretty. For instance, cults think the same. The military does as well. Sometimes it seems as if all the women in the world are aligned against you as if they have the same mind. But the reality is that same-mindedness is viewed as a disease that must be eradicated from the world.
Paul’s insistence on same-mindedness is something that is meant for the church to experience, and I just want to shout and ask Paul, “Have you been to church lately!?” I have witnessed this truth being abused by pastors and republicans, who say that if you don’t think like them than you are a sinner of the highest degree. As if, being of the same mind was a matter of agreeing with hymns or choruses, 1 or 2 services, immigration, tax cuts, or church audio equipment. I have been to business meetings where it was a sin to voice other ideas about a project or even to have other ideas. The church seems to have no concept of same-mindedness. There are literally hundreds of denominations in America alone because of the absolute necessity to think separately. Some churches even have the word “independent” as part of their name to clue everyone in one on right to think what they want. It seems almost as if the church itself follows this truth less than the world does. The world at least pretends to be tolerant of others and other thought!
So does Paul really mean that Christians should have the same thoughts? Can he be throwing in his lot with the rows of clone-like stale Christians who have been systematically chocking off the life that is naturally found in Christ? Does Paul want us to be “Christ clones”? Does he want everyone to show up exactly 5 minutes before the service wearing the same collared white shirt and ugly tie to leave in time for our Sunday roasts cooking in the oven? What if you aren’t middle class or white? What if you get to church in a Cadillac? Or bum a ride from your friends? How can you be same minded with people who are not the same?
The language Paul uses to describe what we should be together is undeniable. Like minded, having the same love, united in soul, of the same mind, not selfishly ambitions, not conceited, humble in mind, think that others are better than yourself, care about what others care about. These are all of the phrases in this short passage that pretty much scream out disallowing any alternate route around the Truth. Christians are meant to have the same mind. However it seems utterly impossible to actually live this truth out in real life!
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Now it is your turn:
Do you think same mindedness is possible?
Does the world benefit from this teaching?
What would this look like?
Does this even exist?
Ezekiel + The Dry Bones
August 5, 2009 in Biblical, Commentary | Leave a comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOWguZP-yx4
Ezekiel and the Dry Bones is an unbelievable story from the Bible. God brings dead, dry bones back to life. Putting together bone to bone than bringing on the flesh and the skin, then breathing His very breath into these dead bones. One of the most paradoxical parts of this story is the lack closure! What happened to the skeletons? Did they go back to their respective families? Did they go back to battle? Did they live happily ever after? When you ask these questions you can either doubt God and the legitimacy of this story or you can realize that God’s miracle is not dead bones coming to life. That is a no-brainer for God. He did that already when He created us
The miracle is that God does for our spiritual beings what He did for these skeletons! We are dead in our sin. We are powerless in our actions. We try for good, but we are continually bad. We are depraved. We are as dead in our spirits as those dry bones. We follow every distraction clicking along to the next page or signing up for the next big thing. We think half-heartedly about our souls and our spiritual condition and expect God to dispense Grace like a vending machine. But God doesn’t want to just give us our whim and fancy; He wants to make us alive. He wants to breath the Holy Spirit into our very souls to revive our hearts and minds. He wants to take us who were dead and make us living to Him.
This is the miracle that isn’t just for Israel, but for all people that God is calling! And for those of us who are alive, this is an invitation to live that life out fully and to put aside the gods of distraction, and to worship God alone!