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Send us a textThe story of Esther is a story of the Emperor of ancient Persia, who married a beautiful Jewish girl named Esther who had been raised by her cousin, Mordecai. The latter two persons were captives, taken from the city of Jerusalem and brought over into the kingdom of Persia.In the court of this Emperor was a very slimy character named Haman who became the Prime Minister of the kingdom. As time passed, antagonism had developed between Haman and Mordecai. Haman, wanting to rid the empire of Mordecai, created a fiendish plan to destroy all the Jews in the kingdom. What he did not know was this: Esther, the queen, was a Jewess. Mordecai became aware of the plot and prevailed upon Queen Esther to brave the disfavor of the king by going to him without invitation, to plead the cause of her people.The whole story becomes of fascinating interest and meaning to us when we discover that this is not merely a story of the ancient past, but is also a divinely inspired, magnificently accurate portrayal of what is going on in each of our lives at this very moment. Each of us is a king over a kingdom; the kingdom is each of our lives. The spirit persons of each of us who have been born again have been made alive in Jesus Christ. This is the queen that has come into your life. Mordecai, in this story, is a figure of the Holy Spirit moving to preserve the fruit of the Spirit in our kingdom. And slyly at work in us is Haman -- that which the Bible calls the flesh, the SARX, tricking us into believing that the only way we will ever get what we want is by choosing our own way and ignoring the life of Jesus Christ within us. This will be our Pastor's sermon for today.Support the show

In this lesson, we delve into the profound significance of John 1:14, a verse that stands at the heart of Christian belief. "The Word (Logos) became flesh (Sarx) and dwelt (tabernacled) among us." But what does this truly mean? How can the eternal Logos, the Word of God, take on the form of temporary flesh? Join us as we explore this paradox and consider what John means by using the Greek term ‘Sarx' for flesh. What are the implications of this statement? Finally, we'll uncover the rich imagery of the Tabernacle from the book of Exodus, understanding how John portrays God's presence as now dwelling—'tabernacling'—among us in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. This exploration not only deepens our understanding of scripture but also enriches our faith journey. Join us in this insightful study of one of Christianity's most essential truths. -------------------------------------- www.figtreeteaching.com Support Fig Tree Ministries: https://donorbox.org/support-figtree-ministries Fig Tree Amazon Portal: https://amzn.to/3USMelI Class Handout: https://www.figtreeteaching.com/blog/the-word-became-flesh YouTube: https://youtu.be/rEhyI1X5RiQ Hebrew Word for 'Good News' - Basar - https://youtu.be/yjamiXfkkow Exodus Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaBz_NhYH3F424Ak91PV9hamPetSpEpU Jesus Birthday during the Feast of Tabernacles? https://youtu.be/QQxbIAvHj38 References: Jewish Annotated New Testament: https://amzn.to/46lwX0J John A. Sanford - Mystical Christianity https://amzn.to/3WnPd4T

Tuesday PM - 08.06.2024 - Pastor Kevin Bradford - "SARX" by GBFPC

Are Jains Vegan? What Do Jain Scriptures Say About Dairy? By Christopher Miller, PhD at ArihantaInstitute.org   Original post: https://www.arihantainstitute.org/blog/47-are-jains-vegan-what-do-jain-scriptures-say-about-dairy   Related Episodes: 363: Freedom from the Chains of Eating Meat by Fr Donatello Iocco at SARX, posted at All-Creatures.org   Arihanta Institute's mission is to build a world-class online institution for deeper learning of the Jain tradition, its principles, and how these principles apply to daily life for the benefit and well-being of individuals and society in light of today's most pressing concerns. Their courses taught by world-renowned scholars and other community leaders, and the curriculum is comprised of six areas of learning: Animal Advocacy and Biodiversity, Climate Change and Environment, Jain Philosophy, History and Anthropology, Social Justice, Yoga, Self-care and Spirituality, and Professional Ethics. NEW Vegan Studies Initiative A groundbreaking online program focused on promoting and enacting veganism as an expression of multispecies nonviolence. The initiative interweaves graduate-level academic training, live and self-paced online learning courses, and public conferences and guest speaker events. Their mission is to educate, empower, and connect everyone who is passionate about reimagining and co-creating a world in which our values and actions converge. The Vegan Studies Initiative will have a free monthly speaker series, online classes open to the public, and an accredited masters program for those who want to dive deep into vegan studies.  First Course Offering: Jainism, Veganism, and Engaged Religion Free Monthly Speaker Series: July 17, Toward a Plant-Based Food System The Vegan Studies Initiative is dedicated to pursuing a future of compassion and consideration for all.    How to support the podcast: Share with others. Recommend the podcast on your social media. Follow/subscribe to the show wherever you listen. Buy some vegan/plant based merch: https://www.plantbasedbriefing.com/shop    Follow Plant Based Briefing on social media: Twitter: @PlantBasedBrief YouTube: YouTube.com/PlantBasedBriefing  Facebook: Facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing  LinkedIn: Plant Based Briefing Podcast Instagram: @PlantBasedBriefing   #vegan #plantbased #plantbasedbriefing #jainism #nonviolence #compassion #dairy #veganism #vegetarianism #spirituality

Topics: The Flesh, Sarx, Flesh, Soma, Sinful Nature, NIV Mistake, The Flesh is Not You, The Flesh is Not Your Flesh, Three-Letter Word t-h-e, Adam and Eve Didn't Need a Sinful Nature to Sin, Don't Need Sinful Nature to Sin, Christians Sin Without Sinful Nature, Divine Nature, NIV Changed Sinful Nature Back to the Flesh, Most-Read Translation, Two Natures, Sharpie Line Through Sinful Nature, Spirit is Willing the Flesh is Weak, Matthew 26:41, Prooftext to Claim Your Body is Weak, Prooftext to Say You Can't Trust Your Body, His Own Body Became Sarx, We Were in Him and We Were in the Flesh, He Became Sin and the Flesh, God Sent His Son in the Likeness of Sinful Flesh to be a Sin Offering, Romans 8:3-4, Jesus Condemned Sin in the Flesh to Meet Righteous Requirements of the Law, Perfection, Not About Your Spirit Fighting Your Weak Flesh, Jesus' Spirit is Willing to go to the Cross to Prove the Flesh is Weak, Greatest Challenge Not Your Flesh, Tell Baby Their Flesh is Their Challenge, Greatest Challenge is Understanding Grace of God and Our New Identity, Demonic Forces Want You to Have a Civil War With Your Own Body, Your Flesh Wants to do Things Against God, The Flesh Does Not Your Flesh, God Crated Your Flesh to Have Wants, Lust of the Flesh, 1 John 2:16, Mind Governed by the Flesh is Death, Mind Governed by the Spirit is Life, Romans 8:6, We Have the Mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16, Your Flesh is an Instrument of Righteousness, Romans 6:13, Desires of Your Flesh Against Desires of the Spirit, Galatians 5:17, For the Flesh Desires what is Contrary to the Spirit and the Spirit Contrary to the Flesh, Capital S, They Are in Conflict With Each Other, You Don't Do What You Want, Those Who Belong to Christ Have Crucified the Flesh With Its Desires, Galatians 5:24, Can't Crucify Yourself, Since We Live By the Spirit Let Us Keep in Step With the Spirit, Romans 7, Proof of Sinful Nature, Sin in Our Flesh, Must Fight Our Flesh, Miserable Man, Romans 6:14, Sin Will No Longer be Your Master, Sin in His Members, Hamartia, Power of Sin, No Condemnation in Christ, Romans 8:1, Set Free From Sin and Death, Romans 8:2, Flesh is Blameless, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, Knit Together in Mother's Womb by God, Psalm 139:13, Temple of Holy Spirit, 1 Corinthians 3:16 & 6:19, Care for Your body Like Christ Cares for Church, Ephesians 5:29, Your Flesh is a MasterpieceSupport the showSign up for Matt's free daily devotional! https://mattmcmillen.com/newsletter

Teodora Coman, George State și Radu Vancu sînt cei trei poeți nominalizați la premiul Radio România Cultural pentru poezie. Am stat de vorbă cu ei despre cărțile lor publicate în 2023 și despre cum au primit vestea nominalizării.Teodora Coman a publicat anul trecut volumul „piesă de rezistență”, la Editura Nemira, în colecția Vorpal, o carte care pune în centru corpul în sala de fitness, în căutarea validării de către ceilalți, și totodată chestionează tăios presiunile care vin asupra lui în lumea contemporană. Un volum muncit ca un corp la sala de sport, un corp de cuvinte.Teodora Coman: „Am tot revenit, am tot șlefuit. Așa se face munca asta. Iei distanță, revii, corectezi. E metoda clasică, nu e nici un secret. Dar, într-adevăr am revenit pe text aproape cu duritate, așa cum se procedează la sport: nu te menajezi, cînd ridici greutatea, o ridici, nu te prefaci c-o ridici.” George State este nominalizat la premiul Radio România Cultural pentru poezie cu volumul „Sarx”, apărut la Editura Nemira, în colecția Vorpal. George State e și traducător, a transpus în română opera poetică integrală a lui Paul Celan și a tradus o selecție din poezia lui Georg Trakl. În „Sarx” îl vedem în ambele ipostaze. A avut ideea de a revizita cîțiva poeți din canonul universal și de a-i aduce într-o formulă poetică actuală, formulă ce se bazează pe vocile și temele lor. Totodată, poetul-traducător chestionează prin acest volum noțiunea de originalitate.George State: „Ideea acestei cărți, Sarx, a fost să-mi inhib vocea. E o întrebare: e important ca un scriitor, ca un poet să aibă o voce, să fie recognoscibil imediat pe pagină, sau să fie la răspîntia și să fie depozitarul și cutia de rezonanță a unor voci străine? Nu știu. Pariul pentru mine în ceea ce privește această carte a fost tocmai de a nu avea o voce, de a împrumuta mai multe voci și de a nu fi original.”Radu Vancu este nominalizat la premiul Radio România Cultural pentru poezie cu volumul „Kaddish”, apărut la Casa de Editură Max Blecher. Radu Vancu pornește de la o poveste reală și cutremurătoare. Poetul Radnóti Miklós a fost ucis de naziști și aruncat într-o groapă comună. Soția lui, Fanni Gyarmati, îl recuperează din groapa comună și-i găsește în buzunarul de la piept carnetul cu ultimele poezii. „Kaddish” e un lung poem despre memorie, despre credința în puterea poeziei de a recupera totul și despre puterea poeziei de a învinge moartea.Radu Vancu: „Cam asta am cerut poeziei, să fie un fel de înger pronominal, un fel de îmbrățișare, care să adune la un loc oameni, de-o parte și de cealaltă a morții și să facă din moarte un detaliu. Și, oricît de patetic sună, cred că așa se întîmplă lucrurile, cred că poezia chiar are forța asta.” Apasă butonul PLAY! pentru a asculta întreaga emisiune.O emisiune de Adela Greceanu  Un produs Radio România Cultural  

Sebastian hat seine Begeisterung für Ultradistanzen auf dem Rad erst recht spät entdeckt, und war davor hauptsächlich auf hohen Bergen unterwegs. Auch sein Zugang zum Radfahren ist anders, denn eigentlich ging es ihm in erster Linie um die besondere Erfahrung in der Natur, um die Herausforderung und das Abenteuer. Doch aufgrund seiner allgemeinen Fitness und seiner mit Wetterfestigkeit gepaarter outdoor Erfahrung meisterte er seine ersten Ultracycling Rennen, gleich mit sehr schnellen Zeiten. Und so erwachte auch der Wettkämpfer in ihm.Nach dem Bohemian Border Bash, dem Transbalkan Race, dem Basajaun und dem Two Volcano Sprint war Sebastians Motivation am Höhepunkt, und rückblickend betrachtet vielleicht sogar ein bisschen zu groß – denn für die Saison 2023 hatte er sich richtig viel vorgenommen. Man merkt an seiner Rennplanung ganz deutlich, dass er öfters mit Robert Müller trainiert und ein paar Auszüge aus Roberts „reiner Lehre“ angenommen hat: Viel hilft viel!Christoph und Flo unterhalten sich mit Sebastian über seine mega Saison 2023, wo er das Atlas Mountain Race finishen und das Unknown Race sogar gewinnen konnte. Besonders vom Unknown gibt es viele spannende Einblicke. Als Saisonhöhepunkt erreichte Sebastian das Ziel des Transcontinental, doch dort gab es dann Diskussionen mit der Rennleitung, die ihn und Anatole Naimi wegen „Nebeneinander Fahrens“ sogar aus der Gesamtwertung nahm. Sebastian schildert uns die Geschehnisse, und kann das mittlerweile sehr objektiv einordnen. Wir alle sind irgendwie über diese Entscheidung verwundert, doch Sebastian beklagt sich nicht, vielmehr denken wir über mögliche Präzisierungen des Regelwerks nach. Denn niemand will gegen Regeln verstoßen, allerdings sind diese so vage formuliert, dass es viel zu viel Interpretationsspielraum gibt. Nicht erlaubt ist nebeneinander Fahren für „extended periods of time“, doch ob es sich dabei um 15 Minuten, 1 Stunde oder 3 Stunden handelt, weiß niemand.Weitere Themen, die wir heute besprechen:- Was wird das Unknown Race 2024 bringen, wo Sebastian mittlerweile im Organisationsteam aktiv ist?- Wie lange dauert die mentale Regeneration nach einem mehrtägigen Ultra Radrennen?- Ist es erstrebenswert Sponsoren und Unterstützer zu gewinnen, und geht es dabei noch um Leistung, oder um eine große Community und kreatives Marketing?- Wie lauten die Ziele für 2024?Link:Sebastian Sarx auf Instagram: www.instagram.com/sebastiansarx+++++Werbung⏐Informiere dich jetzt auf drinkag1.com/sitzfleisch zu gesundheitsbezogenen Angaben und hole dir AG1 im Abo nach Hause, ganz ohne Vertragslaufzeit. Sichere dir bei deiner AG1 Erstbestellung einen gratis Jahresvorrat an Vitamin D3+K2 & 5 Travel Packs! +++++Gewinnspiel zum Live Podcast und zum Neusiedlersee Radmarathon: In der heutigen Sitzfleisch Episode haben wir eine Gewinnfrage für euch!Denn wir sind am 19.4. mit einem Live Podcast zu Gast beim Neusiedlersee! Ihr könnt Eintrittskarten zur Show sowie Startplätze für das Zeitfahren oder den Marathon gewinnen. Infos dazu hört ihr im aktuellen Podcast. Schickt uns die richtige Antwort an: sitzfleisch [ at ] christophstrasser.atEinsendeschluss: 31.3.2024 um 23:59 Uhr

Topics: Repent, Repentance, Unrepentant Sin, Repent of Your Sins, Hebrews 10:26, Deliberate Sins, Numbers 15:27, Non-Deliberate Sins, Wages of Sins, Romans 6:23, Reprobate Mind, Living by the Flesh, Sarx or Soma, Loss of Salvation, Remorse for Sins, Spit you Out, Depart From Me, Nobody's Perfect, Flesh Takes OverSupport the showSign up for Matt's free daily devotional! https://mattmcmillen.com/newsletter

A trigésima oitava meditação sobre a Carta que mudou o Mundo, a maravilhosa Epístola aos Romanos, o apóstolo Paulo no capítulo oito faz uma comparação de escolha para nossas vidas: Kata Sarx ou Kata Pneuma? O que prevalece em nós? Segundo a carne ou segundo o Espírito? A nossa vontade decide qual dessas opções: uma conduz para lei do pecado e da morte, a outra para lei do Espírito e da Vida! Qual você escolhe? Convido você a assistir o vídeo com esta mensagem no Youtube, se inscrever no canal da IBPG, ativar o sininho, e compartilhar com seus amigos para que a Palavra de Deus possa abençoar vidas, assim fazendo permite que a Mensagem do Evangelho exposta no canal da Igreja alcance mais pessoas.

Herzlich Willkommen zur 97. Ausgabe des BiketourGlobal Podcast Season 2! Zusammenfassend kann man sagen: Sebastian hat in Marokko den Doppel Whopper aus der Radhose von Justinas gegessen. Das ist natürlich eine verkürzte Zusammenfassung, aber es zeigt, dass sich die 2,5 Stunden Gespräch durchaus lohnen zu hören. Wir sprechen über sehr viele Events, natürlich das TCR und das Unknown Race, über das Bikepacking allgemein, neue Fahrräder und eure Fragen. Viel Spaß! Shownotes Sebastian auf Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sebastiansarx/ Das Multi-Tool von Gerber https://www.knivesandtools.de/de/pt/-gerber-dime-micro-multitool-grun-31-001132.htm Quelle Musik Tropic Fuse - French Fuse aus dem YT Creator Studio Quelle Bilder Sebastian Sarx

Benjamin Sarx ist Head Coach von RRRocket. Das Team meistert die Herausforderung, aus drei Mannschaften hervorgegangen zu sein. Wir reden über die Zusammensetzung der Mannschaft, besagte logistische Herausforderungen und die Zukunftsperspektiven. (Das Spiel gegen die Rotenburg Wolverines ist bereits ausgetragen und endete 20:21 für Rotenburg, womit Team RRRocket die Saison auf dem dritten Platz beendet) Der Talk ist genau eine Stunde und auch als Video auf Facebook, sowie Youtube zu finden. 

We continue in our study of Romans 8

Click here to connect with the Our Given Purpose Ministry⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠The Bible In A Year Daily Reading Plan Thursday, May 11, 2023 1 Samuel 10:1-11:15, John 6:43-71, Psalm 107:1-43, Proverbs 15:1-3 Download or Print the One Year Bible Reading Plan   Important Greek words in this chapter include: Artos (ἄρτος), meaning bread Zōē aiōnios (ζωὴ αἰώνιος), meaning eternal life Sarx (σάρξ), meaning flesh Pneuma (πνεῦμα), meaning spirit Mnēmoneuō (μνημονεύω), meaning to remember Skandalizō (σκανδαλίζω), meaning to be offended or shocked. The Bread of Life: Discovering Jesus' Nourishment by founding writer Torrie Slaughter Torrie is a media ministry consultant who works with churches and faith driven organizations to build their ministry team. She is the Blueprint Specialist uncovering root problems to construct solutions. Want to hear more? Tune in and listen to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠A Daily Purpose Bible Study & Devotional a podcast by Our Given Purpose⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/torrie-w-slaughter/message

In our continuing series in Romans today Pastor Mark brings us to these verses in Chapter 8. Consider with us the contrasting features found there between life in the Spirit vs life in the flesh: mindset & desires; eternal destination; and attitude toward God.

In our continuing study of Romans today Pastor Mark brings us to the first four verses of chapter 8. Consider with us that there is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus because of the power of the Holy Spirit through Jesus' sacrifice in human form for the purpose of fulfilling the righteous requirements of the Law for those in Christ.

Returning to our series in Romans today Pastor Mark brings us the first of (at least) two sermons regarding this text and theme in chapter 7. Consider with us the dilemma of understanding and rectifying the apparent contradiction of what Paul wrote in chapters 6 & 8 versus this section of chapter 7. Consider with us three proposed solutions of the dilemma, the solution that Pastor Mark believes to be the most faithful manner to understand this text, and two implications for the Christian life.

Bienvenue sur "Détective Privée", le podcast qui vous montre le métier de l'intérieur et sans cliché. Je suis Margaux Duquesne, détective privée, basée à Paris. Dans ce podcast, je vous montre les coulisses de ce métier peu commun et peu connu.      Dans cet épisode, j'ai eu envie d'interviewer un détective privé, au-delà des frontières… j'ai rencontré sur les réseaux Philippe Chevalier, de l'agence SARX, basée au Québec. Intéressé aux nouvelles technologies, Philippe n'a pas hésité à intégrer dans son équipe un cyber-enquêteur, un hacker, pour l'épauler sur les dossiers techniques. Plus récemment encore, il a développé une intelligence artificielle et il nous explique comment il l'utilise.      Autre spécialité de ce détective privé : les enquêtes liées au harcèlement en entreprise. En quoi consiste ce type d'enquête et quelles sont ces méthodes ?      Enfin, on revient avec Philippe sur les affaires qui touchent les NFT, la blockchain ou les cryptos parce que moi je me demandais : y a-t-il vraiment un marché sur ce type d'enquête ?      Je vous laisse découvrir ce détective qui vit avec son temps.      Episode 14… C'est parti !   Lien de la tribune de Philippe CHEVALIER sur LinkedIn : "Je suis détective privé et ma nouvelle adjointe s'appelle Intelligence Artificielle"   Abonnez-vous :  ➡️ Apple Podcast https://apple.co/3Es4SVH ➡️ Spotify https://spoti.fi/3JbiQ1T  ➡️ Deezer https://bit.ly/3elvbCG  ➡️ Podcast Addict https://bit.ly/3ekYPIc  ➡️ Millenium Investigations https://bit.ly/32jfIR3  

Philippe Chevalier est détective privé, au Québec, aux commandes de l'agence SARX.   Dans cet extrait, il nous explique comment il a recruté un hacker éthique pour travailler à ses côtés, dans le cadre de ses enquêtes privées, et quelles étaient les qualités recherchées chez ce cyber-enquêteur...

Topics: The Flesh, Flesh, Sarx, Soma, Crucify the Flesh, Deny Your Flesh, Deny Yourself, Five Senses, Gnosticism, Test the Spirits, 1 John, Galatians 5, Matthew 16, Colossians 2, Ephesians 5, 1 Corinthians 15, Temple of the Holy Spirit, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Walk by Faith, Lent Support the showSign up for Matt's free daily devotional! https://mattmcmillen.com/newsletter

Topics: Repent of Your Sins, Godly Sorrow, Metanoeo, Metanoia, 2 Corinthians 7, Frontier Revivalists, Trained up in Righteousness, 2 Timothy 3, Flesh, The Flesh, Sarx, Soma, Sinful NatureSupport the showSign up for Matt's free daily devotional! https://mattmcmillen.com/newsletter

In this episode, Panelist; Michael Williams will lecture on: A Brief Historical Introduction to the Pillars, Babylon, Egypt, and Greece, Red and Blue pillars of Solomon's Temple, Pneuma and Sarx and a Brief Introduction to Kabbalah

Fr Donatello Iocco, priest at St. Ambrose Church, Toronto, reflects upon his shock at discovering the truth behind the meat industry and how his subsequent decision to go vegan brought about a sense of spiritual freedom. "After seeing what happens to the poor animals and people who work in such conditions, I decided I was no longer willing to participate in this appalling cycle of violence." By Fr Donatello Iocco at SARX: For All God's Creatures, posted at All-Creatures.org Original post: https://www.all-creatures.org/tradition/tradition-freedom-from-chains.html  Vegucated Film: https://vegucated.com/film/  A Prayer For Compassion Film: https://aprayerforcompassion.com/     What to Eat When You Don't Eat Animals (FREE GUIDE): https://www.all-creatures.org/what-to-eat.html   All-Creatures is a non-profit dedicated to cruelty-free living through a vegan lifestyle according to Judeo-Christian ethics. Their website is filled with vegan resources relating to animal issues, including bible studies, how to stop cruelty in churches, blogs, quotes and poetry, and lots of great resources for animal rights activism as well. How to support the podcast: Share with others. Recommend the podcast on your social media. Follow/subscribe to the show wherever you listen. Buy some vegan/plant based merch: https://www.plantbasedbriefing.com/shop   Follow Plant Based Briefing on social media: Twitter: @PlantBasedBrief YouTube: YouTube.com/PlantBasedBriefing  Facebook: Facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing  LinkedIn: Plant Based Briefing Podcast Instagram: @PlantBasedBriefing   #vegan #Plantbased #veganpodcast #plantbasedpodcast #plantbasedbriefing #allcreatures #animalagriculture #slaughterhouse #spirituality #catholic #church #christianity #vegucated #dairy #meat #earthlings #religion #veganspirituality #dominion #cowspiracy #compassion #prayerforcompassion    

A message to college staff about the flesh (sarx) and the spirit. Dave Patty is the founder and president of Josiah Venture, a mission organization focused on training next-generation leaders throughout Eastern Europe. Dave has lived with his family in the Czech Republic for 26 years, and is well-known in the region for his practical Bible teaching. A second-generation missionary, Dave was born in the Philippines and served in Germany before launching what has become one of the largest leadership training organizations in Central and Eastern Europe.

Topics: The Resurrection, Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ, Romans 6, Colossians 2, Colossians 3, Instrument of Righteousness, The Flesh, Sarx, Closer to God ErrorIf you want a deeper look at this topic here's another Walk Talk!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZ0Az0X0Cc

Topics: Sinful Nature, The Flesh, Sarx, Divine Nature, Romans 7-8, Galatians 5, Your Body, NIV Bible - Walk Talks Episode 3 (Instagram Live Rebroadcast 5-25-21)

Topics: The Flesh, Our Flesh, Sarx, Hamartia, Walk According to the Flesh/Spirit, Romans 7-8, Galatians 5, Sinful Nature, Be Yourself - Walk Talks Episode 19 (Instagram Live Rebroadcast 7-2-21)

Scripture Reference: 2 Timothy 1:7 2 Thessalonians 2:7 Proverbs 25:28 Romans 7:15 – 8:39 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/misfitsforjesus/support

Part 3 of the Year in Review Recording.1 hour 15 minutes of exciting conversations with speakers from previous podcast episodes and business partners of the hosts. What was hot in 2021, and what do our speakers expect for 2022?In this episode, we talk aboutContent Marketing with a PodcastLife Science Industry in AustriaContent Marketing and Social Media for B2B BusinessesHistory of the Vienna Stock ExchangeI hope you enjoy the conversation the same way I did.Who are the Experts in this episode:Christian SoschnerJohannes SarxPhilipp HainzlStefanie RöselJulia ReschVideo to the Episode: https://youtu.be/CkYOd0q9B-ATimestamps:(00:00) Christian Soschner & Stefanie Rösel – Podcast & Content Marketing(03:45) The Gary V. Content Strategy Applied at the Podcast(05:30) What Kind of Companies Can Use A Podcast for Their Marketing Purposes?(07:15) Valuations – Quo Vadis?(11:35) Macro Trends & Market Crashes(17:15) Johannes Sarx and Philipp Hainzl – How Did Life Science Evolve in the Last 10 Years in Austria – Audio Only(18:00) More than 1,000 Life Science Companies in Austria(22:35) Marinomed, Tamirna, or Valneva – Companies that started before 2008 in Austria (25:35) Expectations for 2022 – Will the Industry Move Forward at the Same Speed Like in 2020-21?(28:45) EIT Health – Co-Location Center in Vienna(30:10) In-Person Events in Austria in 2022(33:00) Stefanie Rösel – Life Science Content Marketing & Social Media(35:35) How The Pandemic Changed The Behaviour in Business on Social Media(37:16) The Digital Presence of People and Companies Matters More Than Ever(39:45) Why Online Content Marketing Matters for B2B Companies (42:41) The Most Important Platforms for B2B Companies in 2022(44:00) Biggest Lesson From 2021(45:50) Outlook for 2022 – Content marketing(46:35) How Will the Transition von Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 affect Content Marketing(51:45) Julia Resch – Vienna Stoch Exchange – 250 Years(52:35) The Austrian Stock Market in 2021 – 40% Performance(53:45) The European IPO Market(54:15) Life Science and the European Stock Market(55:40) Industries on the Austrian Stock Exchange(56:35) Investment Trends from the Austrian Stock Market Perspective(57:50) Digital Assets on the Stock Markets (01:01:35) Outlook 2022 on the Stock Market (01:03:45) Matthias & Astrid - Overview over Topics from Year in Review(01:07:35)  What was going on in Tech in 2021(01:12:35) Content Marketing for ProfilingPodcast Links:Community Partner: https://linktr.ee/lsg2gChristian Soschner: https://linktr.ee/soschnerPodcast Community: https://lsg2g.substack.com/LSG2G Twitter: https://twitter.com/LGet2getherLSG2G Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-science-get2getherPodcast Episodes: https://pod.link/1493847125Podcast Website: https://www.lifescienceget2getherSupport the show (https://lsg2g.substack.com/subscribe?)

Bon vendredi!  :) ... Mystère mystère cette semaine!  C'est que nous avons eu la chance de recevoir Philippe Chevalier, Détective-Enquêteur privé chez Sarx, un service d'investigation et d'enquêtes. Chuck (le résalisateur du podcast) et moi étions un brin fébriles à l'idée d'avoir un enquêteur en studio, et j'avais plein de questions pour lui!  Nous avons parlé des différents types d'enquêtes qu'un détective privé peut réaliser au sein des organisations : enquête pour plainte de harcèlement, enquête pour fraude, audit de sécurité, cyberenquêtes... Vous avez peut-être déjà eu Philippe ou l'un de ses acolytes comme « faux » collègue de travail!     Vous comprendrez donc pourquoi Philippe préfère garder le mystère quant à son visage ;)    Avec générosité, Philippe nous a parlé de son quotidien, à la recherche de la vérité.    --   Pour en savoir plus sur Sarx ou demander leurs services : https://www.sarx.net/    ---   Podcast : Pour nous laisser cinq étoiles et un commentaire sur iTunes: http://apple.co/3aWCq1D    Pour suivre La Talenterie :  Site web: https://www.latalenterie.com/  Boîte à idées: https://www.latalenterie.com/idees  Chaîne YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeuRuB8iUdRBB4Ri0pFIERA?view_as=subscriber  LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/42738397/admin/  Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/la_talenterie/    Et mon profil personnel sur LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-jodoin-houle-cebs-crha-735b2049/     Un GRAND Merci à Charles «Chuck» Thompson-Leduc à la production, à la réalisation et au montage:)    Pour suivre Chuck :  LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/berlingot/  Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/chuckischuck/  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/charles.tleduc  

Pauline Christology is radically theocentric.  Paul's ultimate concern is the person of Christ.  Paul wanted to "know Him and the power of His resurrection."  Anything the stood in the way of this mandate was an offence to Paul.  

Have you ever wondered what role the small country Austria - located in the center of Europe - plays in Life Science?Then listen to the managing directors of LISAvienna, Johannes Sarx, and Philipp Hainzl. LISAvienna is a joint life science platform operated by Austria Wirtschaftsservice and the Vienna Business Agency. On behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs and the City of Vienna, it contributes to the advancement of life sciences in Vienna. LISAvienna supports innovative biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, and digital health companies in Vienna that develop and market new products, services, and processes. The platform links these companies with development partners and key customers. As a central knowledge carrier, LISAvienna provides input for decisions to advance the life sciences in Vienna and contributes to positioning the city of Vienna as one of the leading European innovation centers.If you want to learn more about the Life Science Hot Spots in the center of Europe, then this episode is for you.In this talk we discussed the situation of Life Science in Austria and covered topics likePublic FundingLife Science ConferencesInfrastructureAccess to global talent andprivate funding as well as the pharma industry.Join us for a colloquial chat over Life Science and Entrepreneurship.Conference in person in fall in Austria as discussed in the Episode:The European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and the Bioeconomy (EFIB)will take place in #Vienna this year, and is themed “Delivering the EU Green Deal: Industrial biotechnology into business”. Join the dialogue on how biotech can enable a more circular and sustainable future. As EFIB's local partner, LISAvienna is looking forward to connecting you to experts in the region. Mark your calendar for October 6-7, 2021 and join us at Austria Center Vienna - Internationales Kongresszentrum.This is a great opportunity to grow your network.Learn more about the regional expertise, potential partners and new products and services online. Many of these breakthrough innovations will be showcased at EFIB in Vienna. Image: acv.at / begehungen.dehttps://lnkd.in/euT5eReSpeaker:Christian SoschnerJohannes SarxPhilipp HainzlOrganizations:CS Life Science InvestLISAviennaSupport the show (https://lsg2g.substack.com/subscribe?)

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Donna Barton continues our series "New Community" through Galatians 5:16-26.

Aquí la palabra de Dios hace diferencia entre la carne y el espíritu en Galatas 5:16-17

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Occasion: Proper 10 Sunday, July 12, 2020 Year (cycle): A   The Collect:  O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Old Testament:  Genesis 25:19-34 [Alternate: Isaiah 55:10-13] 19 These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham was the father of Isaac, 20and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean. 21Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived. 22The children struggled together within her; and she said, ‘If it is to be this way, why do I live?'* So she went to inquire of the Lord. 23And the Lord said to her, ‘Two nations are in your womb,    and two peoples born of you shall be divided; one shall be stronger than the other,    the elder shall serve the younger.' 24When her time to give birth was at hand, there were twins in her womb. 25The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau. 26Afterwards his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob.* Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. 27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. 28Isaac loved Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah loved Jacob. Esau Sells His Birthright 29 Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. 30Esau said to Jacob, ‘Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!' (Therefore he was called Edom.) 31Jacob said, ‘First sell me your birthright.' 32Esau said, ‘I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?' 33Jacob said, ‘Swear to me first.' So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. 34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright. Alternate: 10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,    and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout,    giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;    it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,    and succeed in the thing for which I sent it. 12 For you shall go out in joy,    and be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills before you    shall burst into song,    and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;    instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial,    for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. Psalm:  Psalm 119:105-112 [Alternate: Psalm 65: (1-8), 9-14] 105 Your word is a lantern to my feet *        and a light upon my path. 106 I have sworn and am determined *        to keep your righteous judgments. 107 I am deeply troubled; *        preserve my life, O Lord, according to your word. 108 Accept, O Lord, the willing tribute of my lips, *        and teach me your judgments. 109 My life is always in my hand, *        yet I do not forget your law. 110 O The wicked have set a trap for me, *        but I have not strayed from your commandments. 111 Your decrees are my inheritance for ever; *        truly, they are the joy of my heart. 112 I have applied my heart to fulfill your statutes *        for ever and to the end. Alternate: [1 You are to be praised, O God, in Zion; *        to you shall vows be performed in Jerusalem. 2 To you that hear prayer shall all flesh come, *        because of their transgressions. 3 Our sins are stronger than we are, *        but you will blot them out. 4 Happy are they whom you choose   and draw to your courts to dwell there! *        they will be satisfied by the beauty of your house,        by the holiness of your temple. 5 Awesome things will you show us in your righteousness,   O God of our salvation, *        O Hope of all the ends of the earth        and of the seas that are far away. 6 You make fast the mountains by your power; *        they are girded about with might. 7 You still the roaring of the seas, *        the roaring of their waves,        and the clamor of the peoples. 8 Those who dwell at the ends of the earth will tremble at your marvelous signs; *        you make the dawn and the dusk to sing for joy.] 9 You visit the earth and water it abundantly;   you make it very plenteous; *        the river of God is full of water. 10 You prepare the grain, *        for so you provide for the earth. 11 You drench the furrows and smooth out the ridges; *        with heavy rain you soften the ground and bless its increase. 12 You crown the year with your goodness, *        and your paths overflow with plenty. 13 May the fields of the wilderness be rich for grazing, *        and the hills be clothed with joy. 14 May the meadows cover themselves with flocks,    and the valleys cloak themselves with grain; *        let them shout for joy and sing. Epistle:  Romans 8:1-11 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law—indeed it cannot, 8and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you. Gospel:  Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the lake. 2Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. 3And he told them many things in parables, saying: ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. 5Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. 6But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. 7Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 8Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 9Let anyone with ears listen!' 18 ‘Hear then the parable of the sower. 19When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path. 20As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21yet such a person has no root, but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away. 22As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing. 23But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.'

Ein Tischgespräch zu der Frage, wie lebt es sich als älterer Mensch in Burscheid? Zu Gast am Podcast-Tisch ist Barbara Sarx Jautelat. Wir sprechen über "Dat Hermine" (Nicolau), über die Budde Stiftung, über Oma Busch und ihr Geschäft in der Kirchenkurve. Wir nehmen die Kirchenkurve und deren Entwicklung auch unter die Lupe, und ganz nebenbei entsteht der Gedanke, einen lokalen Radiosender zu gründen.

ENEMIES of the Soul “Enemies” – Part 1 (The Flesh) Text: I Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Reading for Study: Romans 7:18-25; 8:1-13 Three basic areas we will cover in these next three weeks are: The Flesh, The World and The Devil. DEFINITION Strong's Exhaustive Concordance we derive the following meaning: FLESH – comes from the Greek word SARX which indicates human nature with its frailties and passions. It also encompasses carnality and being carnally minded. ORIGIN When man fell in the garden of Eden, the LAW OF SIN (Romans 7:18-25), or the SIN PRINCIPLE we might call it, became a part of the human race. This corrupt, defiled sinful nature is automatically transmitted through the procreation process. Humanity's bloodline not only carries and transmits physical death, but spiritual death as well (Genesis 2:9-17; 3:1-7; Romans 5:12-19). We have this treasure in an earthen vessel (II Corinthians 4:7), and we will get a redeemed body when Jesus catches away His church (I Thessalonians 4: 13-18; Romans 8:11). God's Word calls this the redemption of the body (I Corinthians 15:44; II Corinthians5:1-8; Romans 8:23). WORKS OF THE FLESH You can look up the meanings of each of these words in as many sources as are available to you. 1. ADULTERY 2. FORNICATION 3. UNCLEANNESS 4. LASCIVIOUSNESS 5. IDOLATRY 6. WITCHCRAFT 7. HATRED 8. VARIANCE 9. EMULATIONS 10. WRATH 11. STRIFE 12. SEDITIONS 13. HERESIES ENVYINGS MURDERS DRUNKENNESS REVELLINGS SCRIPTURAL FACTS CONCERNING THE FLESH Here are several Scriptural facts relating to the flesh, for your own benefit you can research them further and discover the full scope of what they reveal. 1. The flesh is weak, but the spirit is willing (Matthew 26:41). 2. The will of the flesh verses the will of God (John 1:13). 3. The flesh profits nothing (John 6:63). 4. The lusts of the flesh are exposed (Galatians 5:16: 1 Peter 2:11; Ephesians 2:3). 5. The filthiness of the flesh is spoken of (2 Corinthians 7:1). 6. The desires of the flesh are mentioned (Ephesians 2:3). 7. The flesh is not to be trusted (Philippians 3:3-4). 8. The flesh, when sown to reaps corruption (Galatians 6:8). 9. The sins of the flesh is noted (Colossians 2:11). 10. The flesh spots our garment of righteousness (Jude 1:23). 11. The flesh is not to be leaned upon (Jeremiah 17:5). The birth of the flesh versus the birth of the spirit (John 3:6; Galatians 4:23-29). YOUR BODY – THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST Inside this earthly temple, there abides both the sin-principle and the Holy Ghost when we have been born again (1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 6:19-20)- A veritable treasure according to Paul (2 Corinthians 4:7). Christ wants to be Lord, and Satan wants to be Lord of our lives; herein lies the conflict. “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would” (Galatians 5:17). Several synonymous terms describe our condition and position as Christians. Study the contrasts in these seven (7), matters and you will better understand the conflict going on in your life continually. TWO BIRTHS– Every saint has experienced two separate, distinct births in his life; one natural and one spiritual. With two such experiences, how can we expect less than a struggle? That which is born of the flesh is flesh (John 3:6). We are born naturally: (1) Of blood. (2) Of the will of the flesh. (3) Of the will of man (John 1:13). That which is born of the Spirit is spirit (John 3:6). Receiving the Holy Ghost is the birth of the spirit (Acts 2:1-4, 38; 1 Corinthians 12:13 ). ALLEGORY – Study this allegory (Galatians 4:23-29), closely for insight on this point. A. ISHMAEL – was born after the flesh. B. ISAAC – was born after the spirit. TWO NATURES– Every Christian, by nature of the fact that he is a Christian, possesses two natures, one fleshly and one divine. We, by natural birth have a human, carnal, earthly nature (1 Corinthians 11:14; Ephesians 2:3; Romans 1:26). Because we have been born again, we are made partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). Both want to rule. so a fight ensues. TWO WALKS– Walk in this instance means to order one's behavior or conduct. Two roads rise to meet us; Jesus said one was narrow and the other broad. Before you choose one, do look at its destiny, because both of these roads lead somewhere. We can walk in the flesh according to Paul (Galatians 5:16-17; Romans 8:4), or there is an alternate path. Paul now presents a walk in the Spirit with better benefits than walking in the flesh (Galatians 5:16-17). TWO LAWS– Law here is defined as a principle rather than a decree or command. The law of sin and death refers to the original sin-principle man was possessed with at the fall (Romans 8:1-2). The Law of the spirit of life delivers and makes us free from the law of sin and death (Romans 7:18-25; 8:1-2). TWO FATHERS – In Adam we all die, but in Christ we are all made alive. Adam and Christ serve as the federal head of two distinct generations; the Christian has both as a Father. From each we inherit a nature, mind, and will, along with other attributes. Adam is our father in the flesh when we go to the fountain-head of the human race (1 Corinthians 15:22; Romans 5:12-19). Christ is our heavenly Father, by and through Him and His word, we are begotten again unto a lively hope (1 Peter 1:23; 1 Corinthians 15:22; Romans 5:12-19). TWO MINDS – Now that we are saved we have the mind of the flesh and the mind of the Spirit to contend with. The intellect, wisdom, and knowledge of both seek to direct our paths (Romans 8:5; Ephesians 2:3; Philippians 2:5; 3:19: Colossians 2:18; 1 Peter 1:13 ). The carnal mind that is enmity against God seeks to dominate our thought life and give us directions (Romans 8:6-7; 1 Corinthians 3:1-4 ). Spiritual mindedness brings life and peace when we walk after the bidding of the spirit and Word (Romans 8:6-7; 1 Corinthians 3:1-4). TWO MEN – Two different bodies are not existent, but in one body there dwells two different men that Paul describes to us. The old man is the carnal, sinful, and fleshly man that is born with these tendencies and is called the outward man (Romans 6:6; Ephesians 4:22-24). Paul describes the other man as the new man, or the inward man that needs renewing (Romans 6:6; Ephesians 4:22-24; 2 Corinthians 4:16). Paul tells us what to PUT ON as well as what to PUT OFF of this man (Colossians 2:11; 3:8-14). THE SCRIPTURAL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE FLESH Our Bible is concise and clear on how we are to handle this enemy of the soul. Though unpleasant, the method is surprisingly successful. We are to CRUCIFY THE FLESH, in order to be alive unto God. CRUCIFIXION – Was a means of death frowned upon by both God and man. Crucifixion is one of history's most shameful ways to die. God's Word declares those who are crucified to be cursed of God (Deuteronomy 21:22-23). Christ was made a curse for us through His crucifixion (Galatians 3:13). Now we have the responsibility of crucifying the flesh, in a spiritual sense as a means of control. Our old man is crucified with Him (Romans 6:6). Paul was crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20). They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh (Galatians 5:22-25). A CROSS is the means by which we are crucified to the world and the world to us (Galatians 6:14). Discipleship has three prerequisites (Luke 9:23-25; 14:26-27). We are to deny ourselves. We are to take up our cross DAILY. We are to follow Him. Prayer, fasting, Bible study, church attendance, altar work, communion and washing the saints feet, loving our enemies, giving our time and money, and witnessing are a few of the ways we can crucify the flesh. Every lawful, allowable, human desire, no matter how scriptural, must at some time and place be cured, controlled, and abstained from for a season. This is crucifying the flesh.

Paul’s Use of the Anthropological Terms Sarx and Psuche

January 5, 2020 | Luke 1: 1-17 | Pastor Doug Warburton

Quizmaster Lee returns to join fellow QM Marc for some conversation about question writing techniques and facing unique circumstances at live trivia events. They are joined by Proverbial Lightkeeper Elyse, who reports on the Seattle and Minneapolis trivia scenes and reveals her daily trivia routine. Round One STRANGE U.S. GEOGRAPHY – If you were in Stamford, CT and you were to travel directly N,S, E, or W, what state would you end up in? DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME - How many U.S. states observe Daylight Savings Time? GREEK ALPHABET - How many letters are in the Greek alphabet? BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS - Before becoming the frontman of the psychedelic California rock band The Doors, Jim Morrison briefly attended what Florida University? FILM SOUNDTRACKS - Despite also including tracks by Supertramp and other artists, the title billing of what movie’s soundtrack was only attributed to Aimee Mann? NYC MAGAZINES - What was the name of the magazine to feature Kim Kardashian nude, including a picture of her pouring a bottle of champagne nude over her shoulder into a glass balanced on her ass? WEAR WORDS - From the greek word sarkikos, if a fashion item is described as “sarcoline,” it would be what color? MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY - Epistaxis is the medical term for what common occurrence? TIME ZONES - How many time zones are in Canada? Round Two BIG NUMBERS - How many zeros are needed to indicate one sextillion (in the United States)? WHOLE FOODS - What vegetable with mediterranean origins was initially used as medicine, but is now more likely to be used in combination with carrots and onions as a typical base for stews and soups? POP MUSIC - “Cuz I Love You” is the most recent release from what up-and-coming artist? SPANISH LITERATURE - Who wrote Don Quixote? SHIT SHOT OUT OF A CANON - The cast-iron cannonball was first developed 1450 and utilized by what European nation? EWOK INSPIRATIONS - What breed of dog, originating in belgium, was the main inspiration of the Ewoks from the Star Wars franchise? DOG BREEDS - What dog breed name is Welsh for “dwarf dog?” VETERANS IN HOLLYWOOD - What was the first Hollywood movie about the Vietnam War directed by a Vietnam War veteran? ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS - After his motorcade was rerouted from crossing a bridge armed with explosives, which U.S. president once narrowly avoided an assassination attempt in the Philippines that was orchestrated by Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda? KOREAN FOOD - The Korean dish bulgogi translates into what two words in English? Final Questions GEOLOGICAL EVENTS - In what decade was the last recorded eruption of the large stratovolcano Mount Rainier? U.S. HISTORY - Who gave his famous “give me liberty, or give me death” speech during his opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765? WORLD HISTORY WHAT IF? - Which German famously turned down an offer to become the first president of Israel, stating, "All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions."? Weekly Wrap Up Winners List May 15, 2019 @ Bury Me Brewing Co. - House Snow (88 pts.) May 16, 2019 @ No. 3 Craft Brews & Beer Bar - Peanut the Dog Honestly Thinks The South Will Rise Again - (77 pts.) Upcoming LIVE Know Nonsense Trivia Challenges May 29, 2019 – Fort Myers, FL – 7:00 PM @ Bury Me Brewing Co. (KNOW NONSENSE QUESTION: DAVID BOWIE) May 30, 2019 – Cape Coral, FL – 7:30 PM @ No. 3 Craft Brews & Beer Bar (KNOW NONSENSE QUESTION: JEFF GOLDBLUM) Thank you Thanks to our supporters on Patreon. Thank you, Quizdaddies – Tommy (The Electric Mud) and Tim (Pat's Garden Service) Thank you, Team Captains – Kristen & Fletcher Thank you, Proverbial Lightkeepers – Elyse, Aaron, Sarah, Brina, Karly, Kristopher, Josh, Gil, Sheri, Shaun, Lucas and Max Thank you, Rumplesnailtskins – Steven, Efren, Mike J., Mike C. If you'd like to support the podcast and gain access to bonus content, please visit http://theknowno.com and click "Support." Special Guest: Elyse.

Summary: Sin is a voracious, bloodthirsty, corroding force – never satisfied until it has parasitically sucked the life out of a person, family, community, or even a church. Therefore, the most hateful thing we can do is turn a blind eye to sin, in our own lives and in the lives our loved ones. In the church, we are called by God to humbly, lovingly, and graciously confront our brothers and sisters about their sin (and invite correction from them about our own), for we are our brother's and sister's keepers. Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com.Good morning. Welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan, I'm one of the pastors her at Mosaic and if you're new or if you're visiting, and you'd like to connect with us, we'd love to connect with you. We do that officially through the connection card in the worship guide. If you fill it out legibly and then afterwards you can either toss it into the offering basket, or you can redeem it at the welcome center for a little gift that we've prepared for you to say thanks for coming out. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word.Heavenly father, we thank you that though we were rebels, insubordinate, wayward, running from you, pursuing our own sin and folly. Lord, we thank you that you didn't leave us in our ways, but you sent your son Jesus Christ, who died an excruciating death on a cross to pay the penalty for our sin. And I pray today, Lord, that you remind us that you sent your son, Jesus Christ, not to die so that we can continue sinning, but to die so that we can be empowered by your grace, and your love, and your holy spirit to live lives in submission to your will, lives of righteousness, lives of holiness.And Lord, so we take some time now as Christians to repent of any known sin in our own lives. We repent, Lord, in brokenness and contrition, humility. We come before you asking for more grace, and we pray that grace empowers us to live lives worthy of the gospel. And Lord, show us that your grace is never cheap, it's costly, and that we are never to use it as an excuse to continue in sin. And Lord, show us today if anyone here's not yet a Christian, what it means to truly be a Christian, truly be saved.It means to be part of your household and in your household there are rules. Rules not to keep us from fun, not to kill our joy, but rules that keep us from things that will kill our joy, which always sin. And I pray Lord, that you draw many to yourself even today. And I pray for those Christians who are on the outskirts, on the fringes of the church. I pray that you show them just how dangerous of a place that is to be, that we all need mutual accountability. We all need one another. Lord, I pray that you bless our time in the holy word, and pray this in the beautiful name Jesus Christ. Amen.So at the foundation of our society is this idea of moral relativism, meaning there is no good, there is no right, there is no evil, there is no righteousness, and therefore, that the chief virtue in our society is not truth. It's tolerance, and there are two pillars to this moral relativism in our culture. One is moral individualism that I personally get to decide what I do with my life. I get to decide what's good, what's evil, what's right and what's wrong. I don't have to look outside. No one else can tell me it's me if I'm not hurting anyone, live and let live, and there's no such thing as categorical sin, or categorical evil. The only sin that's left in our culture is to call something sin. The only evil that's left in our culture is to call something evil, that's moral individualism.And then the second pillar of moral relativism is expressive individualism. No one has a right to tell me how to love my life, and therefore, I have no right to tell anyone how to live their life. Therefore, we have a deep-seated prejudice against passing judgment, especially when it comes to moral decisions, decisions that have to do with our private life, or sexuality, our finances. Therefore, in this context, in the society that we live in, any talk of rebuke, or correction, or reproof seems viscerally unloving. It's unloving to tell someone else that they are making a mistake. And this idea, this world, it has crept into our churches to such an extent, that to talk of church discipline, even the idea is a faux pas.It sounds like we're trying to revive the Salem Witch Trials or the Inquisition. It seems like a throwback to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter with the Puritans, make Hester Prynne wear a red A on her chest for committing adultery. It seems to antiquated, so rigid, so counter to the idea of love. And we throw out Matthew 7:1, probably the most famous verse in our culture. "Judge not, that you be not judged." And it's this idea that we shouldn't judge anybody, but as soon as you say, "Don't judge anybody. Hey, don't judge me." "I've got a Bible verse." "Oh, you're being judgmental," so it can't mean you can't discern, you can't distinguish between right and wrong. What does it mean?You got to read in context, Matthew 7:6. Jesus goes on and he talks about the sermon, "Do not give dogs what is holy, do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you." How do you know that someone's spiritually a dog, or spiritually a pig? And he's talking about someone who's so materialistic, so focused on the physical world that they have no sense of the spiritual. Jesus said, "You got to be discerning."Matthew 7:15, "Beware of false profits, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves." You got to be discerning, and in that context, what Jesus means when he says do not judge, he's saying do not be hypocritical when making discernment. Don't be condescending. Don't be self-righteous. Take the log out of your own eye before doing the sensitive spiritual work of taking a speck out of your brother or sister's eye. It's personal repentance that then helps another brother or sister repent of sin. It's not heartless passivity, it's humble proactivity.Well, what about casting the first stone? It's a story of the woman who was caught in adultery, that was brought to Jesus by the pharisees and then Jesus said, "Whoever is without sin cast the first stone." But then what did Jesus say? He said, "Woman, where are they? They all left? Has no one condemned you?" She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. I've paid for your sins on the cross for the penalty of your sins on the cross. But," he says, "From now on, sin no more."And what Jesus is doing, is he's discerning that there is such a thing as sin in your life, you are on a path to sin. Now turn from that, that's what repentance means. Repentance does not mean I come to God and I say, "God, forgive me. Now I'm going to go continue living in sin." Forgiveness in the Greek, metanoia. I means I turn around, it's a 180-degree turn. Now you turn. Say Lord, I was living for myself, I was living in sin. I repent of that sin. I turn to you.If sin is just a description of someone's mistake, some character flaw, some foibles, indiscretions, then our emotional recoil against this idea of correction, it makes sense. If sin is neutral, if it's stagnant, leave the person alone. Let them make their own decisions, let them learn from their mistakes, but sin is not neutral.As soon as a voracious, blood-thirsty, corroding force, and it's never satisfied unless it's parasitically sucked the life out of a person, out of a family, out a community, even of a church. Scripture says that sin produces death in us by separating us from God, who is the source of life. Therefore, the most hateful thing that we can do is turn a blind eye to sin in our own lives, and sin in the lives of those whom we loved, brothers and sisters. In church, we are called by God to humbly, lovingly, graciously confront our brothers and sisters of their sin and invite them to confront us of our sin, when we don't see it because sin has a blinding effect, a hardening effect, a deadening effect. We are our brothers and sisters keepers.This text that we're about to read makes no sense outside of the church, outside of the church community, outside of the household of God. So if you are not a Christian, if you are just exploring Christianity, I need to set this up for you, it won't make no sense at all. This is how Christianity talks about becoming a Christian. We are guilty before the judge of the universe.Imagine yourself in a courtroom in an orange jumpsuit, we're guilty. The sentence comes down, we deserve eternal separation from the eternal God because of an eternal debt that we owe. And we say, "Is there any other way?" He brings in Jesus Christ, his son. He said, "My son has died on the cross for your sin, to pay the penalty for your debt. If you trust in him, believe in him, repent of your sin, his righteousness is counted to you, his record is counted to your record, is counted to him.But, this is the truth, but now you belong to this judge. Now this judge says, "You are my son. You are my daughter. You are adopted into my family. It's not receive this forgiveness, receive this forgiveness of your debt so you can go and accrue more debt. No, you've been living as a spiritual orphan and if you receive this forgiveness, I'm adopting you into my family. I'm taking you home, I'm giving you my last name. Therefore, I have a claim on you. And the claim is, you are to live according to my household rules, and these rules I've given not to keep you from fun, but to keep you from things that hurt you, to keep you from the corroding effect of sin."So as we read the text today, we need to understand that these are rules for the household of God. Would you look at I Corinthians 5, one through 13 with me. I Corinthians 5, one through 13. "It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among Pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant. Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.""For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.""Your boasting is not good. Do you now know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.""I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. Not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I'm writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother is he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler, not even to eat with such a one. For what I have to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges the house outside. Purge the evil person from among you."This is the reading of God's holy, inherit, and fallible word, may he write these eternal truths upon our hearts. We'll frame up our time with four points. First, we'll look at the prompting of this letter, what's the goal of church discipline? Then we'll look at the purpose, why is church discipline an idea in scripture? Then we'll look at the problems, when is church discipline to be implemented? And then the procedure, how is it to be done?The prompting. What has caused St. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to write this letter to Corinth? Well, he planted this church about 20 years after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, in this debaucherous, this Pagan, this sinful city of Corinth. And he spent 18 months there, about 50 people had been gathered to form a core group for a church. He then goes onto Eposes to plant a church there. While in Eposes, he hears from this lady named Chloe who's part of the church, that there's all kinds of problems within the church in Corinth. And the whole idea, like none of this text makes sense apart from the context of church membership. These are all people who have covenant together for mutual accountability, to help one another grow in the Lord.So St. Paul says in verse one, "It's actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you." It's the Greek word porne, it's a vast word, a broad word, which includes all kinds of stuff. But here he's talking about an incestuous relationship. "A man has his father's wife." So this is a guy in the church, who's a member of the church, who's a professing believer, who is sleeping with his stepmother. Not a one night stand, followed by broken hearted repentance, has his father's wife, not had. It's an ongoing present tense. And then he says, "It's the kind that's not even tolerated among the Pagans."And the Pagans tolerated a lot of sexual immorality, tolerated fornication, prostitution, adultery, homosexuality, even pedophilia. Demosthenes was an order of the day says, "Mistresses we keep for the sake of pleasure, concubines for the daily care of the body, but wives to bear us legitimate children." But even they would draw the line here. This is an exploitative relationship, this is a relationship that is so counter to the natural order. The Pagan Roman Order Cicero says, "Incest was virtually unheard of in Roman society."And this brings us to a question, where should the line be drawn when it comes to sex? In culture, it's getting pushed further, and further, and further. They're two consulting adults, not hurting anyone. No harm, no foul. Love is love. Personal fulfillment. Self-expression. Where do we draw the line? Nadia Bolz-Weber wrote a book recently called Shameless and she considered herself a Lutheran pastor and she wrote this book to self-professed Christians. And she says, "I'm here to tell you, unless your sexual desires are for minors, or animals, or your sexual choices are hurting you, or those you love, those desires are not something you need to struggle with. They are something to listen to, make decisions about, explore, perhaps have caution about. But struggle with, fight against, make enemies of? No.Scripture would say she is a false prophet, preaching an anti-gospel. She's going contrary to God's will. Why isn't this arbitrary? You're drawing the line at minors and animals. Why? When is that boundary then pushed? Where does God draw the line? God says, "Sex is such a powerful force, for good or for evil, that only within the confines of a marriage, a covenant lifelong relationship between a husband and a wife, a man and a woman, one covenant, one lifetime, only then is it safe. Only then is it a blessing and not a curse."And this gentleman in the church could say, "Well, Jesus Christ never said anything about me not sleeping with my stepmom." Well, Jesus Christ also didn't say anything about pedophilia, but Jesus Christ was an Old Testament rabbi, and he assumed a lot of the Old Testament case law, specifically when it came to morality. So Leviticus 18:8, "You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness."What's St. Paul doing here? He takes it as a matter of course, that there are parts of the case law in Leviticus that are still enforced, still binding. This isn't part of the 10 Commandments, this isn't commandment 7A or 7B, but it's part of the case law. Jesus Christ said in Matthew 5:17, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them." He fulfilled all of the law in himself, but he didn't abolish it.He fulfilled the ceremonial law, and he fulfilled the temple laws, and the laws of the priesthood, but when it comes to morality, he still calls us to submit to God's word. As gut-wrenching as this sin is of sexual immorality, that's not what the point of the sermon is. The sex sermon is coming in two weeks. The second part of I Corinthians six so come back for that. But this sermon is about church discipline. It's gut-wrenching, but their reaction is why St. Paul writes this chapter.I Corinthians 5:2, "And you are arrogant." I Corinthians 5:6, "Your boasting is not good." They're taking pride in their perversion. They've got flags, and they've got bumper stickers, and parades, and they've got the Facebook profile picture frames. They're taking pride in their tolerance, and their diversity, freedom, open-mindedness. They're presenting themselves to be more loving than God. They're saying things like, "Who am I to judge?" Because as soon as you begin to discern and call a sin a sin, call a spade a spade, then you got to do something in your own life. And that's inconvenience.What theory would give rise to boasting in this kind of immorality? I'll give you the theology, and this is rampant theology in our day and age. God is love, God doesn't judge. God is absolutely tolerant. If God gets glory by forgiving us, let's sin some more so that grace may abound, and it turns grace into license. Freedom and opportunity for the flesh, all things are lawful for me.Why did Jesus Christ die? Why did God, the father, put his son Jesus Christ to death? Jesus took our sin upon himself. Our sin killed Jesus so that we would kill our sin. That's the point. God doesn't just want to save you from the penalty of your sin. He wants to save you from the power of sin over your life, and he releases you, and we no longer have to submit to the power of sin. We can submit to the power of righteousness, which is the only true freedom. And then by the power of the holy spirit, we are to mortify the presence of sin in our life.Therefore, love is not opposed to discipline. What is true love? True love is you want the best for the beloved. Well, what is the best for us? The best for us is to be in perfect fellowship and communion with God. And sin is that which pulls us away from fellowship from God. Sin is that which kills our joy, it kills our satisfaction, so God despises our sin, and he wants that sin removed. So he sometimes has to discipline us in order for us to be drawn near to him. Because God loves us, he disciplines us so that we may share in his holiness and be conformed to the image of Christ.Look at Hebrews 12:5, "And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, for be weary, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives." And then he goes on in that chapter to say, hey, when parents discipline, when parents parent, when parents try to discipline their children because the children don't have their own self-discipline, is that because they're unloving? No, the most unloving thing to say is, "Do whatever you want." Revelation 3:19, "Those whom I love," says Jesus, "I reprove and I discipline so be zealous and repent."Second point is the purpose, why is church discipline a thing? Why does Jesus teach us to implement this? In I Corinthians 5:12, "For what I have to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. Purge the evil person from among you." So he's saying in terms of outside, those are non-Christians. We love them and we show them the love of God, they need to meet Jesus Christ, and we're not expecting them to live under the household rules of God. They're not in the household, so we tell them, "Hey, believe in Jesus. Come to him for forgiveness. Submit your life to yield yourself."I was thinking about this last night, as I was awakened at two a.m. by drunk BU graduates. And I was like, "I could go out and tell them right now, submit to the Lord. You're all sinners, stop drinking and waking me up at night." I didn't do that. They're not Christians yet and my wife would have gotten really ... They're not in the household of God. So we tell them about grace, and we tell them about the gospel, we tell them that they can be forgiven, they can meet Christ, but this discipline language, it's for believers to hold one another accountable. And it's all because of love, love for Christ, love for the watching world, love for the church, and love for the individual who is under this church discipline.So church discipline shows love for Christ, this is a subpoint number one under point number two. God's holiness is a dominant theme in the Bible. The Bible is saying, "Love, love, love." The angels saying, "Holy, holy, holy." God is literally holy, utterly opposed to sin, you can no mixture with sin. In the Old Testament God said, "You are my people and you shall be holy for I the Lord am holy." It's repeated in the New Testament that the church is a holy priesthood in a holy nation. That's the verse right there, "A kingdom of priests in a holy nation."God is saying you are distinct people, I've saved you for myself. You're in the world, but you're not of it. A people within a people and we are to represent God, we carry God's name. God's name is bound up with this church, his reputation is at stake. And when his people sin, when the church is infiltrated with sin, God does disassociate himself from the church.How do I know this? Revelations two and three, Jesus writes letters to churches and he repeatedly warns, "If sin is not dealt with in their midst, he will remove the church's lamp stand." And that's what he did with Thyatira, and because of moral compromise. God would rather not have a testimony to his name in a city than to have his name maligned. When discipline leaves the church, Christ goes with it. The transformative power of the gospel goes with it.Why did God punish King David so severely after David committed adultery with Bathsheba and then killed her husband? He said, "By doing this," the words of God, "You have made the enemies of the Lord show utter contempt. You've blasphemed the name of God." Church discipline shows our love for Christ. Christ is holy, and the way that we honor Christ isn't just with empty words, but with heartfelt obedience.Church discipline also shows love to a watching world, that there is a difference between Christians and non-Christians, that Christ's power does make a difference, that Christ's power does transform, that he satisfied, that he is the source of joy. If people see our lives, the lives of the church and they're exactly the same as those outside of the church, then they begin to think that this is nothing but religion. "Oh, you're just very observant. Grace does nothing. It's just an excuse to sin more."Because ultimately, you love sin as much as the unbelievers. You're just using Christ as an excuse to sin more. So the Pagans mocked and they jeered the church in Corinth. Brennan Manning said this, some of the most powerful words that capture this idea. "The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny him by their lifestyle. This is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable."Many churches today, and even in the city, in an attempt to be attractive to non-Christians, they begin to preach things like, "We're normal. We're as sinful as you. We don't have a problem with sin. We don't judge sin. We're tolerant, so join us to feel safe about your sin." And people say, "What's the point? It's a waste of my Sunday morning." Can we keep the visible church absolutely pure? Of course not, just like we can't keep ourselves absolutely pure. That doesn't mean we don't fight our sin and fight the good fight of faith. And in the church, we are to do the same.Church discipline shows love for God for the world, but also for the church, in particular the weaker sheep, the younger Christians, that they might be protected. So St. Paul says in verse six, "Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?" And what he's talking about is the Passover feast that Israel was saved from captivity in Egypt through the Passover, and before the angel of death came over all of Egypt, they were take a lamb and to sacrifice it.And take the blood and paint it over their doorway, and then they would take unleavened bread, before they made that bread, they were to sweep their whole house for leaven. Leaven was used instead of yeast because yeast was hard to come by, it was scarce. And what leaven is, it's just a piece of old dough that had been fermented. And if you are to make bread, you take that piece of leaven, you put it in the new batch of dough, and you let it ferment.The problem is, if you leave it in there too long, it become poisonous, and then you lose the bread, and this is what he's saying. He's saying you got to get rid of the leaven in your house, just like the people of Israel would do, they would sweep the house from top to bottom, every drawer, every cupboard. It had to be cleaned out because if your unleavened bread was leaven, then you would lose Passover joy. And here, the leaven represents sin. Sin in the same way as leaven, leaven's the whole lump. Sin has an effect of infecting the whole lump, infecting the person, infecting the people close to the person and the whole church.And sin, when tolerated, when excused, when ignored, indulged in, it's like an infection. Once it's excused, and then what? You got to excuse another sin. Compromise leads to more compromise, and this weird dynamic develops in a church community, where the preaching says one thing, but people in the pew says, "Yeah, we don't really mean that, we don't really believe that." And then the preaching has to change, the preaching begins to pull punches, and stops talking about real life, things that every single one of us struggle with. You stop talking about lust, and greed, and pride. You stop talking about anger, and sloth, and envy.And that our consciousness are seared and the church seizes to be the church, now we're just a vaguely religious club where people get together for some community and live their lives anyway they want. And then the pastor or the clergy do, they just hold onto their job for dear life from the endowment, and prepare sermons where they studiously avoid saying anything that might be possibly offend anybody.It's like in a family, if parents do not discipline their children, do not parent their children, when one child rebels, the younger children see and they start to do the same thing. When a government doesn't enforce laws, there's anarchy. When a church doesn't wield spiritual authority, after a while, the church is no longer useful by Christ, and it actually becomes useful by Satan. It becomes demonic in many ways, actually pushes people away from God. You see this in churches. You see the sex abuse scandals with the Catholic Church, you see that with the Southern Baptist Convention, go denomination by denomination, when sin is not dealt with, it does leaven the whole lump.Therefore, St. Paul says, "It needs to be dealt with." I Timothy 5:20, why? "As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear." Sin is serious. Sin is as serious as cancer. Sin is death. Therefore, we are to deal with it as radically as we possibly can through repentance and obedience. Christ was put to death by our sins so that we might put our sin to death.And finally, church discipline shows love for the individual, the person that warrants the church discipline so that the person is brought to repentance. And here we say, "Oh, it sounds so invasive. It's an overreach. I don't want to cause a problem." And by the way, vast sentiment sounds really humble and noble, but it's anything but. If you go to your dentist and your in pain and he does the x-ray, and he knows that you need a root canal. He says, "Oh, you're good. Pay for the bill at the front." You go to a doctor and he sees a tumor, but he said, "Oh, you're good. We don't have to deal with this now."If a firetruck drives by your house and your house is on fire, the most cruel thing they can do is to drive by. And what church discipline is, it's a wake-up call. The goal is to have the person wake up from the spiritual ... This past week for example, we had a situation. My four-year-old decided to bring her bicycle up from the basement, and she's got the training wheels, and she's riding around the house. And then something happened, where my daughter's running to my room, and I open the door, and it smells like gas. Gas is just wafting in. Apparently, through her handle, she had turned one of the knobs on the gas stove. Gas is wafting into our whole place.Now we're all outside, we turn around. We're all outside freaking out because we could have died. And but it's a great illustration for this part of the sermon, thank you, God. Why did this happen? It's because we took our fire alarms off, which also have a carbon monoxide. We took them off because they're annoying. Sometimes in the middle of the night, they just go off. It's so annoying, it's inconvenient. We took them off in the whole house and we almost died. That's the point. And this is what church discipline is. It's a wake-up call.This sermon is supposed, I'm supposed to have zero comedy, so I apologize for that. Sin is dangerous. Sin does destroy, it destroys people, it destroys the relationship, and indifference to sin is actually hate, not love. Overlooking the sin of someone that you love, it's not loving, it's sinful. It's not gracious, it's cowardice. It's not merciful, it's dangerous. It's not kind, it's actually hateful. And then we say, "It's none of my business," and we live in a hyper-individualistic society and we're accustomed to passing by the plights of other people.But church is not a restaurant full of strangers sitting together, ordering messages from the menu that seem really palatable, with a side of grape juice and some communion wafers. That's not what church is. Church is a family and we are each other's keeper. I try to teach my kids, and my 10-year-old loves her relationship with mom and dad, does not love the responsibilities that come with that relationship to help her siblings grow, to protect her siblings. I tell her, "Can you feed your younger sisters, too? Can you make sure that she doesn't hurt? Can you just watch?" We are each other's keeper. We are to bear each other's burdens.Deitrich Bonhoeffer in Life Together he says, "Nothing could be more cruel that leniency which abandons others to sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than that severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one's community back from the path of sin." Church discipline is only perceived as unloving if we have an unbiblical definition of love.This is how scripture defines love. "For God so loved the world that he, he gave his one and only son Jesus Christ to be crucified on the cross," that's love. Love is defined as a cross, as God's wrath pouring out in full, as judgment of sin. True love judges sin, it hates evil, calls to repentance and obedience because that's the best thing for us. I Corinthians 13:6, "Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth."It brings us to point three, when is church discipline to be implemented? What are the problems? And I'll give you a few phrases that I'll go one-by-one, but here's just a sentence. We should deal with any professing Christian who is a member of a church, who is knowingly and rebelliously disobeying clear commandments of scripture and unrepentant. So I Corinthians five, here he talks about in verse 11, "Look, I'm writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of a brother." That's the point, this is a person who's calling himself a Christian, but is living in a way that is inconsistent with being a Christian.Because what does it mean to be a Christian? Does it mean I go to church? Does it mean I read the Bible? What makes me fundamentally a Christian? What makes me fundamentally a Christian is that I am on a path of repentance. I repent of my sin. I did it once, and I do it, I did it this morning. We do it on a daily basis, we progress in our faith. Faith, repentance. Faith, repentance. Church doesn't, this isn't implemented for sin per se, it's for the sin of unrepetence. That's the goal so that you repent, you get forgiveness, you get grace that empowers you to change.And he says in verse 12, "Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? The person is also a member of the church." What right do I have to go and tell another Christian in another church with whom I am not in mutual covenant of mutual accountability? I can say something, my words don't really mean anything. This is why church membership is so crucial. This is why we practice church membership, it's in the Bible. A lot of churches don't, that's why it's such a foreign idea, and we got to talk about it all the time.God gives us this idea of church members, this chapter doesn't make sense apart from church members from getting together with a body of believers and saying, "Look, I need your help. When there's sin in my life, I welcome you to call me out. Please, I welcome you to rise to that level of love, where you are inconvenienced, it's uncomfortable, you're willing to do it because you love me. That's what I want, that's what church members should be." That's why there's no mention of this woman, he says brings this man to church discipline not her because most likely she's not a Christian and she's not a member.And then the person must be knowingly and defiantly disobedient. Sometimes Christians sin because of just immaturity. They don't know better. This is I Thessalonians 5:14, "We urge you brothers, admonish the idle," these are people who are slothful, and that's a sin. "Encourage the fainthearted." It doesn't say admonish the fainthearted. "Help the weak," it doesn't say admonish or rebuke the weak, we help them. And it says, "Be patient with them all." And then the person must be disobeying clear commands of scripture, and there are clear commands of scripture.Drinking alcohol is not grounds for discipline, drunkenness is. Watching movies isn't grounds for discipline, watching pornographic movies is. And scripture has many a lists of clear moral commandments. Romans, I Corinthians, II Corinthians, Galicians, Ephesians, Colossians, and I'll just give you a summary. Violations of God's moral commandments, that's what's happening here. I Corinthians 5:11, "Those who are guilty of sexual immorality or greed."By the way, that should give us pause in the United States that greed is a moral sin. "An idolater, someone worshiping something or someone other than God." A reviler, this is a person who is verbally abusive. A drunkard or a swindler, this is a person who is sinning in illegal business practices. Another sin for which church discipline is to be practiced is unresolved relational sins, gossip, slander, anger, abuse of speech, divisiveness in the church, false teaching on major doctrines, and disorderly conduct and refusal to work.Now point four, procedure how, how are we to do this? Jesus gives us the pattern, the procedure in Matthew 18:15, "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his faults, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you've gained your brother." One-on-one in a private meeting. Show them in scripture, "This is where you're violating God's word, God's will." Our opinion doesn't matter, God's word is the authority and it begins with you, Christian. Not a pastor, not a leader in the church, not in elder. It begins with the Christian. All members of the church are finally responsible for what the church becomes, not the pastors, not the leaders. We are to continually to seek conforming the church in our lives to God's word. We're responsible for the church's health."Against you only," and a lot of people use that phrase to say, "Well, the person hasn't sinned against me, so why should I go and correct them?" Well, James 5:19, 20, Jude 22 and 23 says, "That Christians, when they see any Christian, in sin are to try to bring that person back from that sin because any sin if persisted in is a sin against Christ and also against the church, the body of Christ, with whom we are so interconnected, so independent on that when a person is in pain, we feel that pain. When a person bears a burden, we feel that burden, so we are to go to that person.So if Christians, but this is the first step in church discipline. It's just Christians going to one another, holding each other accountable, speaking truth in each other's life, and calling one another to repentance and leaving sin. If we would conscientiously apply admonition and rebuke, there would be no need for excommunication. But before we do that, we got to check our own heart. Before pointing out a speck in your brother or sister's eye is their log in your own. We repent ourselves, we humble ourselves, we check our motives, we get the facts, but we are still to do it.St. Paul gives us an example of how he practiced this first step in Galicians chapter two, he talks about going to Peter. Peter had been dining, he had been having meals with gentile believers. When Jewish believers came, he then pulled back from his relationships with the gentile believers, and started saying, "Oh, they're not on the same level as you guys are relationship." And Paul sees this and he calls him out for hypocrisy.This is Galicians 2:11, "But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned." This is one apostle calling out another apostle, correcting, rebuking. Why? To show him that he's on the wrong path, to draw him to repentance. And Peter did repent and later on, by the way, how'd that feel? How does being corrected feel? How does being rebuked feel? It always hurts. Our dainty egos are always bruised.But Peter afterwards, do you know what he calls Paul? II Peter 3:15, "Our beloved brother Paul." You did that because you love me. Reprove is always a fork in the road for any sinful soul. Either we cringe at correction like it's a curse or we embrace it as a blessing. First step, personal. Second step is a private conference with witnesses.Matthew 18:16, "If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses." Now you bring in other believers, so they together hopefully awaken this person from spiritual stupor. If the person still doesn't repent, the next step is a public announcement to the church.Matthew 18:17, "If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church when the members are gathered, gathered together." The person still does not repent. Next step is a public exclusion from the church. This is Matthew 18:17, "If he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a gentile and a tax collector."I Corinthians 5:13, "Purge the evil person from among you." This is where you're saying, "You are no longer walking in a manner worthy of the name of Jesus Christ because if you were, you would have repented. You would have turned from your sin, and pertinence is always inconsistent with the Christian profession of faith. We ourselves condemn nobody, but we are doing is pronouncing God's judgment on a person who does not repent.And then Saint Paul gives a description of what this means, I Corinthians 5:4 and 5, "When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that in his spirit, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord."What does that mean? What he's saying is, that the church is like a bomb shelter and there's a nuclear fallout of Satan's sin and the world outside of the church. And when you are no longer in the confines of a church in relationship to the church, you are being exposed to the forces of Satan's sin and the world. For the purpose, why he says, "So that to bring about the destruction of the flesh." It doesn't mean destruction of the body, he's not talking about bodily harm. The world flesh here is sarx in the Greek, not to be confused with soma which means body. Sarx is the sinful part of our nature.And what he's saying is, this person is to be given up to Satan so that his sinful, his sin might be ... Sin might be hurt, not him so that his heart is softened. And Saint Paul uses similar language in I Timothy 1, 18 through 20, "This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscious. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith, among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme."And the goal of that, what's the goal of that? To inflict pain on the person? No, of course not, the saved person's soul in the day of Jesus Christ, huge application for us is that to not be a committed member of a fellowship of believers is to expose ourselves to harm. This is how serious this language is.Job, God uses the same language in the Book of Job, where he gives Job up to Satan. And he says, "Behold I hand him over to you only spare his life." And God used everything that Satan did, sovereignly used Satan's work in Job's life to refine him, purify him, rid him of self-righteousness, and draw him to himself, and draw him to repentance. Job 42:5 and six, "Now my eyes sees you, O Lord, and I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."Saint Paul actually about himself used similar language, II Corinthians 12:7, "So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited." Sometimes God uses Satan's influence sovereignly to purify us, so that's the idea where Saint Paul says, "Give him up to Satan if he no longer wants to walk in repentance, there's no other way."But the goal of all of this, the goal of this whole process is never vindictive. The goal is not punishment for a sin. The goal is restoration. The goal is to draw the person to repentance to accept forgiveness from the Lord and to transform to life.I Corinthians 5:2, This is the sentiment, this is the heart with which this process is done. "Ought you not rather to mourn?" Ought you not rather to mourn over the sin in your midst? There's no joy, there's no pleasure, it's grief. Saint Paul is wounded as he is writing this letter. I have no joy in writing this sermon. I have no joy in preaching this sermon, three times today in Boston, Massachusetts, 2019. But why do we do it? Because it's God's word and we as Mosaic Boston want to be a church that does God's work God's way.How do we then relate to this person after this process is gone through? Well, Galatians 6:1 says, before we do that, how are we to help this person come to their senses, "Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore them in a spirit of gentleness. Gentleness. Keep a watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted."I'm a sinner. We're all sinners. We need Christ. There's no self-righteousness, there's no condescension, but when we repent there is forgiveness. And if this person is a true Christian, they will repent. And if not, their self-deceit is exposed, and then that person can finally realize what the gospel is and have a true relationship with the Lord. How are you to relate to the person? We're no longer to fellowship with person as if there is no problem.II Thessalonian 3:14, 15, "If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with them, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard them as an enemy, but warn them as a brother." And then Paul clarifies in I Corinthians 5:11, "I'm writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother and if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an isolator, reviler, drunkard, swindler. Not even to eat with such a person."So is he saying that we can't have any contact with this person? No, of course not. But he's saying we are no longer to relate to them on a buddy-buddy level as if everything's okay. He says don't even eat with them. Table fellowship in that culture meant a deep friendship. We are not to mix indiscriminately. We're not the same in our relationship as we were before. Any contact must communicate I'm heartbroken over your impendent sin. Please repent, please come back to Christ, please come back to the fellowship of believers. Won't you come back? Won't you be restored? That's the heart.In conclusion, all of us with to be healthy. We take care of ourselves, try to eat right, try to diet and exercise, but for each one of us there will come a point where there's a breakdown in our health. And at that point, what we need is some serious medical intervention. Sometimes it takes someone cutting us up to remove a tumor and we're subjected to powerful poisons. That's what church discipline is like. Why? To restore us, to make us healthy.What happened to this gentleman that's mentioned in I Corinthians five? Well, they went through this process and it was painful. But it says in II Corinthians chapter two that he repented and that his sorrow led him to repentance. He saw the gravity of his sin. Conscious was awakened. The church did its job to help this person be restored in the relationship with the Lord. The church is not a fellowship of sinless people. The church is a fellowship of holy people, who are pursuing holiness, pursuing sanctification, and we're a fellowship of forgiven sinners by God's grace, pursuing a life of holiness and obedience together. May God give us strength in this.Let's pray. Heavenly father, we thank you for this word. It's a hard word, but hard words make for soft hearts. Some of us, Lord, are in habitual sin. We can't get out of the quagmire of sin in our lives. I pray by the power of the holy spirit, show them that there is hope, that we can be pulled out and that you long for us to be in deep communion with other believers in transparency, confessing sin to one another, repenting of sin, and walking together.I pray today, pull them out. I pray if there's anyone who is on the fringes of the church, Lord, I pray that you show them how important it is to mutually covenant with other believers to hold each other accountable. And we pray all this is Christ name, amen.

We begin our teaching series on 1 John with the idea that this faith movement is "fleshy."

Believer-priests are called by God to stand for His Word in an increasingly hostile world.  The cosmos-world is falling apart because it has effectively abandoned God.  God is not wanted by the powers and people of this age and so God abandons them to their self-engendered destruction.  Yes, there are vicious speeches and empty diatribes, but God knows their end.  We as believer-priests will follow and perform the will of God.  The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God.

Sammy Warm Hands interviews two different guests on the road this week: Gift of Gab from Blackalicious and Sarx from GunsGodsGhosts. Conversations range from upcoming albums to DIY booking and everything in between.

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Walk by means of the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the Spirit.  We are called to live lives that are well pleasing to God.  We live lives that well pleasing to God when we order our steps by means of the Spirit.  

Sammy Warm Hands and guests E. Ville & Gradient provide commentary over a full stream of "Arcane Amalgam," the new supergroup featuring Odar, Sammy Warm Hands, Sarx, and Carnage The Executioner.

What does it mean to be IN? And what are we getting ourselves IN to?

We recently travelled to the Creature Conference in London, where we spent the day pondering the question 'Is Christianity Good News for Animals?'. Animal welfare used to be seen as an important expression of the gospel for leaders such as Spurgeon, Wesley, C. S. Lewis and many others. But more recently it seems to have dropped off the Church's agenda. So we asked theological ethicists Prof. David Clough, and Christian leaders Tony Campolo, Steve Chalke, Ruth Valerio, and founder of the animal welfare charity Sarx, Darrel Booth, why we've lost sight of this, and how Christianity can again become good news for animals.  Interview starts at 7m 9s If you want more from Nomad, check out our website, and follow us on Facebook and twitter If you're looking for other people to share this journey with, then register on our Listener Map, and see if any other nomads are in your area.  Nomad can only keep going because a small group of faithful listeners help us pay the bills. If you want to join them, you can make regular donations at Patreon or a one-off or regular donation through PayPal, the links to which you can find on our support page. As a thank you, you'll have access to Nomad Book Club, our online community The Beloved Listener Lounge, and Nomad Devotionals, where we're attempting to reconstruct worship through a creative mix of songs, music, readings, prayers and guest reflections.

Can our past become a barrier, blocking us from living in God's will? In this message, The Miracle, we look at the power of forgiveness and its vital role in racial reconciliation.

Can our past become a barrier, blocking us from living in God's will? In this message, The Miracle, we look at the power of forgiveness and its vital role in racial reconciliation.

"Physician heal thyself" are words desperately needed today by the church.  The witness of the church as moral compass in the west has long passed.  There is too much sin that has been overlooked or tolerated by religious institutions.  The Jesus of the New Testament has become a one-dimentional figure to be endlessly discussed by so-called scholars who have no real spiritual lives.  Their learned opinions of the Christ Event obscures more than enlighten.  The shocking behavior of the people of God in the church in the last days betray a lack of real spiritual knowledge. Dangerous times are upon us.  Your sin sin will find you out. 

We are admonished in the New testament documents not to make plans to live within the sphere of sinful practices.  The practice of sinful behavior  means that a believing one in walking in the flesh.  The flesh is a Pauline term for behavior of negative and destructive consequences.  Those who sow to the flesh reap corruption.  I have seen over the years persons who have chosen to ignore the Word of God fall and fail in terrible ways.  They had chosen to live contrary to God's Word and paid with their lives.

This episode of A Sound Heart explores the necessity of removing from the heart-life behaviors and attitudes that evidence spiritual necrosis.  Without a doubt, the society of today has turned spiritual necrosis into a cult.  It seems as if the 'Dust of Death' permeates all aspect of social existence.  The language of society down to the very basic level of speech units has assumed the dark distortions of necrosis. Real freedom means that one has come to know that God's salvation event in Jesus is life indeed.

This episode of A Sound Heart will explore the importance of being spiritually liberated from damaging negative emotions within the sphere of the flesh(Gk.Sarx).  Negative emotions originate from darkness within the soul.  Darkness (Gk. Skotia)  means the consequences of darkness that torments the soul in search of peace.  Negative emotions can pull the soul toward a spiritual abyss. Negative thoughts and emotions may have profound physiologic consequences.  Jesus is the Great Physician of the soul, he offers rest to those who come to him with awful and controlling burdens that have created a chronic to-muchness in the soul.   

Eric exposes the struggle that Paul shares with us in Romans between the Spirit and the Flesh.

Eric exposes the struggle that Paul shares with us in Romans between the Spirit and the Flesh.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the explosive spiritual mandate to put to death once and for all the flesh principle in our lives.  The flesh principle can only produce the works of the flesh, and those who live in the flesh cannot please God.  The flesh is not recognized outside of the biblical documents and the insidious things that it does to the life of a person.  We have not developed a complete theology of the flesh in our time because so many have been undone by it.  If, however, one walks by means of the Spirit he/she will not fulfill the works of the flesh.

This episoed of Pneumatikos will explore the importance of walking by means of the Spirit.  The life of the believer is supernatural, and therefore completely dependent upon the power of God.  When a believer walks by means of the Spirit he or she is living within the will of God.  If a believer is not living in the will of God he or she is following cosmic values mandated by the sarx or flesh.  When a believer walks by means of the Spirit the result is the fruit of the Spirit, and a life well-pleasing to God.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore prescriptive discipleship.  Only those who have decided to give up the unrelenting demands of the flesh (Gk. Sarx) can experience the power and meaning of discipleship.  Being a student of Christ can free an individual to know the compelling reality of life in Christ.  The flesh pleads its case for self- interest without relief.  The flesh knows that it cannot compete with Zoe, or real life.  The mind of the flesh will lead to corruption, but the mind of the spirit will lead to life and peace.

This episode of Pnematikos will explore the power of the Word of Yahweh to give victory over the flesh.  In the biblical documents the flesh denotes the intrinsic principle within the members of an individual that incites one to acts of sin.  The flesh can only be defeated by the Word of God and reckoning oneself "dead" to the practice of sin.  It is a volitional decision that is done once for all,and therefore free's one to live a life of practical sanctification.