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THE DANGERS OF TRADITIONS (Morning)
How do you feel doing something with someone standing there with a check list ready to mark down everything you do wrong? Have you ever known someone who is critical, who has a critical spirit, who notices everything and is quick to point it out, especially the bad things, the mistakes, the failures, or just the things they don’t like or don’t approve of? The kind of people about whom it’s said, “they would complain if they were hung with a new rope.” Imagine if this morning in the back three pews there were a bunch of guys in dark suits, senior pastors, denominational officials, seminary professors all from Grand Rapids with check lists: did each member bring their Bible, did we sing out of the gray Psalter Hymnal, did we use the piano or organ, did I use the right liturgy for the baptisms, were the women wearing pants, were the kids behaving right, were the elders wearing ties? That’s what happened to Jesus. The senior pastors and seminary professors from Jerusalem showed up with their check list to do a surprise inspection of this Jesus and His disciples. Their check list was this book called the Mishnah or the oral tradition, the oral laws. I’m serious, when the Pharisees criticized Jesus, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” they were quoting this Mishnah.
Are we decieved
The Lord wants to do a new thing in our lives, are we hearing His voice or listening to our traditions.
Counterfeit Gospels
Christians, now that you have fullness in Christ, don't revert to ritualism, mysticism or legalism, which appear religious but actually set you back in your faith.
Revival.....Almost
1. Temptation to focus on personalities. 2. Temptation to hang on to old sacred idols,traditions. 3. Temptation to surrender the sacred. 4. Temptation to ignore the Spirit of God.
Help! I'm a Recovering Pharisee: When Fences Become Our Focus
Pastor Ben continues a study of the Pharisees and how we can associate with them as traditions become part of what we view as truth and the dangers associated with them.
