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The Bible Is Not A Meal Replacement Shake · Bible Tract Echoes Podcast

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey friend, welcome back to Bible Tract Echoes.
• 0:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm Mike McCurrier, host.
• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for taking your time and joining me right here today.
• 0:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we've got to change our cravings and I'm not just talking about physically.
• 0:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about spiritually.
• 0:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's the theme of the broadcast today.
• 0:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've been in Psalms one and we've been pointing out the fact that the happy man can say, no,
• 0:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: But these last couple days we've been talking about the fact of verse 2 of Psalm 1, but his delight is in the law of the Lord.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've got to change our cravings.
• 0:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: And today the theme is this.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The thought is the Bible.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: God's Word, God's Holy Word, is not a meal replacement shake.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: What you're about to hear is myself, me.
• 0:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've got a little bit of a froggy voice in the recording.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're about to hear I spoke on this subject on my home church.
• 1:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought it'd be a blessing to share with our radio audience as well.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: If we're going to be the evangelist, I mean, if we're going to carry gospel tracks, we're going to reach a lost and dying world, we've got to make sure our cravings spiritually speaking line up with and for God's Word.
• 1:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's why we're talking about this today and all this week.
• 1:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm Ash Guita, listen in, listen in, technically as we discuss the fact that the Bible is not a meal replacement.
• 1:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Shake, I preach this message at my home church, not long ago.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I pray it's a blessing to you as you listen now.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: We see blessed as the man that will say no, first two, but his delight is in the law of the Lord.
• 1:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then our second point, and in his law, Duffy meditate day and night.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: See, this is not just speaking about devotions.
• 1:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is speaking about a strong desire, a meditation that you think of chewing the cut.
• 2:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's something you've got to hold on to for just a little while.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can't just take it once.
• 2:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: You've got to run it past yourself again.
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: See, I found, at least from my life, I'll often treat reading the Bible, or the Todd, as if it's like a meal replacement shaking a diet.
• 2:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: See, God's word is not a diet to be tried out, so you can get your summer spiritual body, your spiritual summer body.
• 2:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's not what we're looking for.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is a lifestyle.
• 2:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Delighting in God's word is not something we try to go on this spiritual crash diets so that we can spiritually lose the flap of sin and all the while,
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're not changing our lifestyle, we're just, well, I've gotta go, I'm gonna go from no Bible to reading 25 chapters a day because I gotta wash it.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, you gotta, you might need to go back to verse number one and stop walking with standing with sitting with some certain things.
• 3:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: You have to put the junk away so you can actually have a delight and a desire
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  [SPEAKER_01]: For God's Word, Joshua 1-8 says, this book of law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but that shall meditate there in day and night.
• 3:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is not a meal replacement shake that you have early in the morning to curb your cravings until noon and then you have two meals full of junk and a couple of snacks in between.
• 3:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm speaking about the earthly things, the carnal things that we put in our eye gate and our ear gate.
• 3:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Speaking about what I spoke about on Sunday, you can't read two chapters with a Bible in the morning and then infatuate yourself with this the rest of the day and expect your spiritual health level to rise.
• 3:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: I say you can't outrun physically speaking, you can't outrun a bad diet.
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: What that means is, I'm telling you, I've tried all right, I've tried.
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: You ever been there, you think, I'll just have 14 pieces of pizza.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll go, I'll go running in the morning.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll do it.
• 4:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't work like that.
• 4:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can't have it, it doesn't donuts all by your onesy.
• 4:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: And think you're going to be able to walk it off on the elliptical, because those numbers are the calorie counters.
• 4:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: They count up real slow on that elliptical.
• 4:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: They go up much faster in the form of donuts I found.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you know what, I wonder how, it's incredible.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You think about it.
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: All it takes is one, two, three, five, a dozen Oreos, and you're well over your calorie limit for the day, right?
• 4:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: How many reels do you think it takes to count, how many chapters of the Bible do you think it's going to have to count or act those 15-second reels?
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: The good thing always comes slow, where it's always harder.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We know that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But so why is it that we choose the, the carnal, Psalm 119, 97, another verse from Psalm 119, oh, how I love that law, it is my meditation all the day.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're looking for meditation, not malnourishment.
• 5:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Delight desire, look at verse number three, and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water.
• 5:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I want you to notice the depth that this kind of man will have.
• 5:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: See, something that's planted, my girls, I think went over to maybe Miss Hillary's today, or so only that happened in the garden.
• 5:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: And those onions, I heard those onions and radishes.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: And what else we have watermelon and other things?
• 5:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: They came home telling me about, they want pets now.
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: They think hamsters are just wonderful.
• 6:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're not getting it, Pam, Pamster.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can name a hamster, cheesecake all you want.
• 6:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm still not getting a hamster.
• 6:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: It sounds cute, I'm not getting one.
• 6:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: But you know what?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Those plants was Hillary.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't end up in the ground on accident.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They were planted on purpose, weren't they?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It took some work.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The girls put so much work into it they had to have a bath and they got home because they made sure the work got all over them, right?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He should be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, but tanically or horticultureally speaking of planting and things, trees near water grow deeper and stronger roots.
• 6:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And as you may well imagine, are usually much more drought resistant because they have a ready source of water nearby.
• 6:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Why would you choose to plant yourself anywhere else, except near the river of the water of life?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water.
• 7:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Colossians, two seven talks about being rooted and built up in him.
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Very quickly, would you turn over the book of Ezra Ezra and I think Daniel, on Sunday, and I'm going to show you another minor prophet Ezra chapter seven for just a moment.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Ezra, chapter 7, if you stick with me here, we look at verse number one, Ezra, first to tell you that Chronicles Ezra, the Nehemiah.
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ezra, 7, and verse number one, I'm going to prove to you, from the life of Ezra, the results of
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  [SPEAKER_01]: being rooted in built up in Christ, in God's Word.
• 7:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: As are seven verse one, now, after these things in the reign of Arctic Xerxes, King of Persia, Ezra, the son of Saraya, so we're introduced to him here and we'll skip the genealogies here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We go to verse number six.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This Ezra went up from Babylon and he was already scribe.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: in the law of Moses.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That was God's Word that he had at that time, which the Lord God of Israel had given, and get this the King granted him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All his requests, according to the hand of the Lord, his God upon him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He had the preference of the leader.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and they're went up some of the children of Israel and of the priests and the Levites and the singers and the porters and the net neathenims onto Jerusalem in the seventh year of our execsies that came and he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month which was in the seventh year of the king.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Four, and we're gonna be in the first nine and ten for upon the first day of the first month.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: began to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the 5th month came He to Jerusalem according to the hand, good hand of His God upon Him, He had a preference of the leader.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He had prosperity from the Lord, for Ezra had prepared His heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: into teaching Israel, statutes, and judgments.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The preference of the leader, prosperity from the Lord, all came about because of his proficiency and preparation in the law.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: God blesses those that love his book.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Blessed is the man that doesn't do these things.
• 9:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law, death he meditate day and night in verse number three of Psalm one, we're back there for just a moment, and he shall be like a tree, planted by the rivers of water.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The fruitfulness followed at the fervor.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: that bring a fourth, look at verse number three, he should be like a tree, playing about the rivers of water, that bring a fourth his fruit in his season.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad to tell you because oftentimes, I feel like I should be doing more.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You ever been there before?
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: You look back on the day, you look back on the week and you think, what have I been doing?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Why is there nothing to show for it?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Fruitfulness is not instant, it's seasonal.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Oftentimes, we feel like we're laboring, and we are just absolutely slaving away whether it's with your children, whether it's related to your bus route, whether it's with work, your church, whatever it may be, and you're wondering, God, what is going on here?
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, if a farmer threw his hands up every day of the year that it wasn't harvest time, he'd be throwing his hands up from most of the year, wouldn't he?
• 10:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not a harvest time every day.
• 10:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was a whole lot of planting and water, Miss Hillary, you're not gonna go back out to the garden tomorrow and expect onions as somehow it works.
• 11:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Bring it forth as fruit in his season, but when you have discipline, that's the word, that bring it forth as fruit in his season, you'll understand that spiritual maturity takes time, care and consistency.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It is not about results on demand,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But rewards through discipline, Galatians, chapter 6 and verse 9 says, In due season, we shall reap if we faint not in John 155.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He that abideeth in me, and I in him the same bringeth fourth much fruit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The fruit, understand the fruit might be for others, but you should contend yourself with your walk with God because you're planning
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We want the fruit all the time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We want to enjoy the fruit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No, enjoy the fact that you're by the rivers of water constantly.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: God's Creek has never run dry.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: His river has never gone, had it drought.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's always there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, continue self with that.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you enjoy your walk with God?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you don't, maybe it's because there's too much junk in the way.
• 12:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if you know that song, nothing between my soul and the Savior.
• 12:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Could you sing that song legitimately?
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Today, nothing between my soul and Savior, not of this world's delusive dream.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I have renounced all sinful pleasure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus is mine.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We too.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now rarely do series that I do go over two weeks,
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: next week we are going to get to the second half of this series from the book of songs and song one when I ask you to tune in all next week and I can want to miss the back half of this thing when you continue on.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for tuning in.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Have a great day for his glory and we'll plan on talking to you soon.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: God bless you.
• 13:18
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• 13:24
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• 13:28
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• 13:41
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  [SPEAKER_00]: May the Lord richly bless you as you live for Him.