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Don't Yuck at Someone Else's Yum (Pt. 3) - D. Cates · Faith On A Hill

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  Jacob's Sunday will be November first.
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  I I was looking at the bulletin and it's got the wrong date on it.
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  It is certainly good to see each one.
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  The last couple of times uh that I have uh given a devotional message, I've developed a thought that came from Del Deverney's article, Don't Yuck at Someone Else's Yum.
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  Saw a living example of this last night.
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  we went to eat at Crystal because that's one of Maggie's favorite places.
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  And afterward Dylan, who does not care as much about Crystal, was uh disparaging some of the quality of the food there.
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  And I said, You are yucking her yum.
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  And so that that that indeed happens.
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  But then he said, Well, the the mustard and pickle actually did go good together.
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  So I thought that was quite conciliatory on his behalf.
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  It is very good to to see each one here by the way this evening.
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  this evening uh I thought I would mention
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  This Sunday?
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  Okay.
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  Time change this Sunday.
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  Fall back.
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  Fall back.
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  So you'll gain an hour.
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  All right.
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  Excellent.
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  A lot better than in the spring when you have to lose it.
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  All right, thank you.
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  I did not realize it's it's coming up here.
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  We talked about Romans fourteen on Sunday evening.
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  In Romans fourteen, uh, we were dealing with opinions.
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  We also could associate conscience with Romans fourteen.
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  We talked about some of the opinions and conscience matters, like the eating of meat offered to idols there in Romans fourteen, and some of the more modern ones, uh like
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  whether the fruit of the vine and the bread need to have a
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  cloth draped over them and things of that nature.
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  But our opinions sometimes can extend far beyond the things that we mentioned the other day because our consciences usually pretty well justify themselves.
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  We pretty well think that our consciences are well trained and therefore are good spiritual guides for us.
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  What we need to realize is Scripture tells us that the conscience is not a reliable guide.
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  In fact, we read in First Timothy 4 2 about those who have their consciences seared as with a hot iron.
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  I've never branded cattle.
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  I have an idea that Paul probably has, and maybe some others here have branded cattle before.
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  I I've never done it, but I understand the process.
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  I know that where that brand is put upon that animal, that animal is then seared, and nothing is ever going to be able to uh touch that area and cause any pain or anything
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  there.
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  Because all of those nerves were deadened.
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  Well, first Timothy 4 2 then is saying we can deaden our consciences.
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  To where we do not think about something that's wrong as being wrong.
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  Years ago, and I've mentioned this once or twice, but years ago I was watching a show about the penitentiary system of the early nineteen hundreds.
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  It was one of the episodes was about a place, I think it was in Pennsylvania or somewhere, but it was called the Big House.
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  And they were quoting one of the
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  men who was imprisoned there.
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  He said that he wished all the world had one neck so that he could strangle it.
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  Well, I have an idea that his conscience may have been a bit hardened.
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  he he he he had done something through the years and allowed himself to be so moved to to wickedness that murder meant nothing.
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  Absolutely nothing.
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  To him, and he would have been quite happy if all the earth, all men, were killed.
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  We can think about Paul.
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  Paul, whom we remember as Saul, persecuting the church, present at the stoning of Stephen, holding the clothes of those who were performing that action.
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  He's actually the one who gave the thumbs up or the thumbs down.
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  It was he who decided that Stephen should be put to death.
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  And then we encounter him on the road to Damascus.
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  He was going to Damascus so that he could hail men and women to prison because of their Christianity.
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  He's going to call himself the chiefest of sinners.
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  But he also is going to say in Acts 23:1 that he had lived in all good conscience until that day.
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  In other words, his conscience never offended him.
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  He always thought that he was doing God's will, but ultimately he wasn't.
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  Our consciences, then, which are not perfect guides, sometimes can become the standard by which we judge others, and by which we treat others, and by which we tell others what they
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  should and should not do.
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  What movies they can and cannot see, what television shows they can and cannot watch.
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  What games they can and cannot play, what sports they can and cannot support, and so forth.
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  There are certainly some movies which we would not need to watch.
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  Some television shows likewise would fall into that category.
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  But many of the shows we might not like because of some personal scruple that we have, but it's not one that's a sinful matter.
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  And yet our consciences might say, I'm going to condemn the other person.
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  We see in Romans 14, 23, that whatsoever is not from faith is sin.
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  There are basically two things.
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  There are the revelation of God, and there are not the revelation from God.
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  Our consciences are not automatically attuned.
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  to the revelation of God, and therefore our consciences sometimes are supporting, maybe allowing sin in our lives.
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  In First Timothy one five, Paul said, Now the end of the commandment is charity, love, out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience.
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  And of a faith unfeigned.
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  Paul was telling Timothy that the conscience is, though, valuable.
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  It is good, and our actions need to be based on love and a well trained conscience, a pure heart, a faith unfeigned.
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  How do they get into that condition?
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  They get into that condition because we train them.
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  We mold them.
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  We see in Hebrews 5 14 a contrast between those who still need spiritual milk and those who are prepared to eat spiritual meat because their senses have been exercised to discern
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  good and evil.
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  That's what we're striving for.
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  Are we ever going to be able to do that perfectly?
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  Well, it'd be difficult.
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  But perhaps we can so train our consciences.
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  Whatever the case, when the opportunity comes down to it and our consciences are saying one thing or the other, you and I should defer to what the Word of God says.
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  And not yuck someone's yum based upon some personal scruples which we might have in our consciences.
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  This evening the the lesson like the last couple from this have not necessarily been about how one can become a Christian, but rather how we need to be careful about dealing with
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  others and about reaching out to others with our influence that hopefully will encourage them to obey the gospel.
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  But it may be the case that you're here and you're not a Christian.
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  You need to hear his word and believe it.
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  Pardon me.
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  Connor tagged me.
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  Heard the word and believed, repented of our sins.
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  Need to repent of your sins.
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  put those sins behind you, Isaiah fifty nine, one and two, because those are what separate us from God.
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  Confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, then be baptized so that the sins can be washed away, so that you can go down into that watery grave of baptism to come up a new
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  creature.
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  uh cleansed, made whole, reborn.
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  If you need to respond to the Lord's invitation tonight, either to become a Christian or to be restored to faithfulness, won't you come as together we stand and sing.