12-16-24 part 1: Are All Religions Equal? A Deep Dive into Biblical Truth with Dr. Spoon
Dr. David Spoon delves into the importance of sound teaching and biblical truth in today's episode, emphasizing that human philosophies and feelings should not dictate our understanding of doctrine. He highlights how the apostle Paul instructs Titus to proclaim teachings that align with the foundational truths of Scripture, underscoring the need for clarity and consistency in faith. The discussion also touches on the significance of kindness and politeness in everyday interactions, encouraging listeners to extend courtesies regardless of the circumstances. Additionally, Dr. Spoon reflects on current events, including a tragic school shooting, prompting a heartfelt prayer for those affected. With a blend of personal anecdotes and scriptural insights, this episode aims to inspire listeners to engage with their faith actively and meaningfully.
Transitioning from personal reflections to a more scriptural focus, Dr. Spoon delves into the teachings of the Apostle Paul, specifically in the book of Titus. He discusses the significance of sound doctrine and the need for spiritual leaders to communicate unwavering biblical truths. Spoon clarifies that theology, or the study of God, should be rooted in scripture, rather than human philosophies or feelings. He passionately argues against the misleading notion that all religions lead to God, reinforcing that truth is singular and divinely ordained. This segment invites listeners to think critically about their beliefs and the sources from which they draw their understanding of faith, emphasizing the need for discernment in a world filled with varying ideologies.
Takeaways:
- The importance of maintaining sound teaching in Christianity cannot be overstated, as it anchors faith in biblical truth rather than human philosophies.
- Prayer should be a constant practice in both good and bad times, emphasizing gratitude and seeking God’s guidance and support.
- Christians must be careful not to conflate personal truths with God's truth, as only the latter leads to eternal life.
- The rejection of kindness and polite behavior in society reflects a deeper spiritual issue that Christians are called to address.
- Emphasizing the need for prayer requests and praise reports fosters community and encourages spiritual growth among believers.
- The upcoming sporting event will affect the show's schedule, demonstrating the ministry's adaptability to current events.
Transcript
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David Spoon:Additionally, I do want to open up.
David Spoon:I do know what's going on a little bit with the Christian school.
David Spoon:There was a shooting with certain people in Wisconsin.
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David Spoon:So I'd like to open up with a word of prayer for that school and bring that forward to the Lord and ask for his mercy and grace.
David Spoon:And then we'll get into the teaching in Titus.
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David Spoon:Father, we come before you right now.
David Spoon:And Lord, in our nation, just Lord, iniquity does run wild.
David Spoon:It goes all over the place.
David Spoon:And any time, Lord, that there's a school shooting, it's just a disaster.
David Spoon:It's just a testimony against humanity.
David Spoon:And, Lord, here in a faith school, there's been a disaster taking place.
David Spoon:We cannot fully imagine unless we've actually experienced it, the level of pain and suffering and fear and dread that's going on.
David Spoon:So we're asking you to comfort your people, put your arms around them.
David Spoon:Let there be not just resolution, but let there be healing, and let there be grace, and let there be mercy, Lord.
David Spoon:Let nobody fall in such deep despair that they cannot find help from you.
David Spoon:Because that, Lord, that's just the enemy trying to steal all hope, break the power of that in these people's lives, and allow your grace, your mercy, and your healing to be present in that situation.
David Spoon:Invade this portion of earth with your kingdom and have mercy on us as a people.
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David Spoon:Okay, well, if we get more information, we will, of course, pass it along, but in the meantime, we are going to jump into Titus.
David Spoon:We are in Titus, chapter two, starting with verse one.
David Spoon:For those that do not remember, we have done first Timothy, we have done two Timothy, and now we're doing Titus.
David Spoon:These are known as the Paulinian Pastoral Epistles.
David Spoon:They're the letters written to two of them to Timothy one to Titus from Paul.
David Spoon:These were his young proteges, and he's trying to give them wisdom, teaching them how to teach things in the church, how to lay down some structure, some government, some leadership, certainly all geared towards servant leadership.
David Spoon:But he starts by saying this in chapter two, verse one.
David Spoon:But you talking to Titus and referring to everybody you are to proclaim things consistent with sound teaching.
David Spoon:All right, I want to make sure you understand what Paul's talking about.
David Spoon:He's trying to communicate this really important.
David Spoon:He's telling his young protege Titus to proclaim things that are consistent with sound teaching.
David Spoon:This has to do with theology and doctrine.
David Spoon:And people hear that and they go, ooh, theology, Theo, God, ology studies.
David Spoon:The study of God is what theology is.
David Spoon:And so he wants to ensure that they're sticking with sound teaching and that Titus is proclaiming things that are connected to biblical truth.
David Spoon:Here it is, in an incredible simplified process.
David Spoon:God communicated with mankind through his written word.
David Spoon:God created the universe.
David Spoon:The dude can write a book.
David Spoon: and Revelation: David Spoon:That would be pretty straightforward.
David Spoon:39 in the old, 27 in the new, about 785,000 words in the King James, about 760,000 words in the NIV to communicate with mankind this dear human race.
David Spoon: to Revelation: David Spoon:And what Titus needs to make sure to do, and what we need to make sure to do is understand that our study of God, our theology, our doctrine, which has to do with teachings that these things are centered in biblical truth.
David Spoon:It's not that feelings have no place in Christianity.
David Spoon:Nobody says that, nobody thinks that.
David Spoon:That's ridiculous.
David Spoon:But you don't do a doctrine based on feelings.
David Spoon:Doctrines are based on truth, biblical truth, and they're attested to much more than two or three times.
David Spoon:Although the scripture says, in the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established.
David Spoon:So it's important to understand that God's truth stands in opposition to several things.
David Spoon:And this is what Paul's talking to him about.
David Spoon:Specifically.
David Spoon:Specifically because he's coming off of what he was just talking about in the prior verses.
David Spoon:It's important to understand that men's philosophies, women's philosophies, human philosophies, are not approved as truth.
David Spoon:Get that?
David Spoon:The theories of mankind are not approved.
David Spoon:Truth.
David Spoon:Well, you got the theory of evolution.
David Spoon:Again, the theories of mankind are not approved as truth.
David Spoon:I just want somebody who understands physics to explain how there was nothing and then something, and they just seem to skip by that part because they don't want to deal with it.
David Spoon:There's empty and then not empty.
David Spoon:Yeah.
David Spoon:How did it happen?
David Spoon:Here it is in a nutshell.
David Spoon:He's saying, look, these philosophies, this is not a good.
David Spoon:This is not a good thing.
David Spoon:So there are some leaders in large churches, okay?
David Spoon:And I mean large church and in small churches say that all religions lead to God.
David Spoon:That kind of statement is absolutely false.
David Spoon:Anybody who says all religions lead to God is a false teacher and a false prophet, period.
David Spoon:You can't say that.
David Spoon:I didn't.
David Spoon:Paul did.
David Spoon:God did.
David Spoon:Through Paul, in the verbal plenary process of communication, anything that says, oh, all these things are just fine and dandy, it doesn't matter as long as it's good in your heart.
David Spoon:After all, it's my truth.
David Spoon:Hey, you know what?
David Spoon:Your truth doesn't mean anything.
David Spoon:Your truth won't get you to heaven.
David Spoon:Your truth won't get you to life past your time date when you are done on this planet.
David Spoon:Only God's truth gets us there.
David Spoon:And Paul has no reservation, no hesitation, which you have to love about him.
David Spoon:It's like, look, man's philosophy is baloney.
David Spoon:But Dave, you don't understand the power of science.
David Spoon:The power of science is cool in some places and it's growing and developing, but it's not biblical truth.
David Spoon:I said this last week and I'll say it again.
David Spoon:You want to follow the science, Follow it right to go to hell.
David Spoon:Because if that science leads you away from God, guess where you're going.
David Spoon:But Dave, the science is never wrong.
David Spoon:That's why it changes every other hour.
David Spoon:Because it's never wrong.
David Spoon:But biblical truth, consistent, never changes.
David Spoon:Culture change.
David Spoon:Political leaders change.
David Spoon:Governments change.
David Spoon:Our government changes.
David Spoon:One of the coolest countries ever.
David Spoon:Our government changes.
David Spoon:Guess what?
David Spoon:Biblical truth does not change.
David Spoon:The same author that was In Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 28 is the same author that is writing John 3:16.
David Spoon:Same guy, same dude.
David Spoon:And that is biblical consistency.
David Spoon:That is what Titus needs to be focusing on.
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David Spoon:True or false?
David Spoon:Your biblical reference, John 1:17.
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David Spoon:For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
David Spoon:Just another indication.
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David Spoon:John chapter 1, verse 17.
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David Spoon:That's Jacob's absolute favorite sound.
David Spoon:And it's so cheerful, isn't it?
David Spoon:It's like, wow, Yay.
David Spoon:Happy times, happy times.
David Spoon:You know, it's like somebody said, here, here's a ticket to a free buffet.
David Spoon:Okay, I'm going, that's awesome sauce.
David Spoon:I love stuff like that.
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David Spoon:Your trivia question is straightforward, not overly complex.
David Spoon:It's a true or false, so we roll with that.
David Spoon:True or false is the question.
David Spoon:The Gospel of John tells us, for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, according to John, chapter one, verse 17.
David Spoon:True or false.
David Spoon:There you go.
David Spoon:All right, so we're going to keep moving on into our teachings.
David Spoon:I hope everybody is doing okay.
David Spoon:Getting ready again.
David Spoon:We've told you multiple times, if you're a person that's like, you know what?
David Spoon:I don't really like Christmas.
David Spoon:It's too much celebratory.
David Spoon:It's too, you know, Not a problem if you're a person.
David Spoon:I love Christmas.
David Spoon:We watch Christmas movies all the time.
David Spoon:We decorate everything.
David Spoon:Not a problem.
David Spoon:Those are not issues of fellowship and never let them be.
David Spoon:That would just be the enemy.
David Spoon:Using something silly as that to divide Christians who are called to proclaim an eternal kingdom in the name of Jesus Christ.
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David Spoon:Okay, so let me go back to the teaching we're doing.
David Spoon:All right, Jim and Jacob, you're doing fine.
David Spoon:All right.
David Spoon:All good.
David Spoon:Okay, good.
David Spoon:Back to this teaching.
David Spoon:I want to point out this one thing.
David Spoon:Now, Paul is talking, and we're not going to get too far into the deep of this, but I want you to catch what he's saying.
David Spoon:He says you're to proclaim things consistent with sound teaching.
David Spoon:We already talked about that.
David Spoon:And then in this next Titus review, he's going to go into some social positions.
David Spoon:Social positions, Yep.
David Spoon:But he's going to do it differently.
David Spoon:He's going to start off, he's going to talk about older men, older women, younger women and younger men.
David Spoon:And he's going to talk about them from the point of view of how to treat them, how to act towards one another.
David Spoon:In our society, we've kind of lost this ability.
David Spoon:It's called being polite or being kind.
David Spoon:I have a great message for many Christians who should do this, regardless of whether it gets reciprocated or not from humanity, because God sees it and it's the right thing to do.
David Spoon:When somebody does something nice for you in a store, on the road, while you're driving, anywhere else, give them a nod, a thank you, a wave, a way of showing appreciation.
David Spoon:Why?
David Spoon:Because that's called goodness.
David Spoon:And a lot of our society has forgot what goodness is.
David Spoon:So the other day, I'll just give you an example.
David Spoon:And I mentioned this before, I'm in the gym, right?
David Spoon:And when I'm in the gym, one particular machine that I bike on is right by the door.
David Spoon:And I brought this up before, but it just is a perfect example of what's going on in our society.
David Spoon:So this lady who's got like two bags with her, she's coming in, she gets the door, and then somebody behind her, a guy behind her who's looking at his phone and not looking anywhere else, she opens the door for him, he walks past her through, walks right through, doesn't nod, doesn't say a word.
David Spoon:Just keeps walking.
David Spoon:And then she has a little bit of a struggle.
David Spoon:She closes the door.
David Spoon:And as she walks by me, I go, well, that was really, really polite of him, wasn't it?
David Spoon:And she goes, I know.
David Spoon:She goes, can you believe he didn't even lift up his head?
David Spoon:You see that?
David Spoon:That's a person that is so absorbed in what they're doing in their life, they can't see past themselves.
David Spoon:That's exactly what the Lord doesn't want us to be like.
David Spoon:Don't be so self absorbed.
David Spoon:When we get into these teachings from Paul, he's going to give some definitions.
David Spoon:They're not hard to figure out.
David Spoon:But listen, there is this thing that Christians should be doing, and that's just called being polite.
David Spoon:And you think, well, what if the person's not a nice person?
David Spoon:Be polite until the Lord calls you to do it a different way.
David Spoon:Extend courtesies and be polite and kind.
David Spoon:Since kindness is important in the kingdom of God, after all, God pours his kindness upon us.
David Spoon:Wow.
David Spoon:True or false?
David Spoon:The Gospel of John tells us, for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
David Spoon:And the answer is true.
David Spoon:John 1:17.
David Spoon:We'll take a short break, then come back.
David Spoon:Don't go anywhere.
David Spoon:The David Spoon Experience.
David Spoon:So there's teaching in the church.
David Spoon:Most of you, if you're familiar with the shepherding movement, just so you can know Bob Mumford and Derek Prince, people who were influential in the church, came up with this idea, the shepherding movement, that the shepherd is responsible for the people.
David Spoon:And because the shepherd is responsible for the people, the shepherd should have authority to help them make decisions in life.
David Spoon:Initially, the idea is good in the sense of making good decisions, moral decisions, so on and so forth.
David Spoon:But it quickly grew into abuse, where people were making decisions about relationships, jobs, locations of living, how much they were giving, the whole nine yards, okay?
David Spoon:Pastor Ken was a huge fan of the shepherding movement.
David Spoon:He just didn't know it was called the shepherding movement.
David Spoon:He just liked the control.
David Spoon:So he would say to us, you touch not my anointed, do my prophets no harm.
David Spoon:You can't speak against me.
David Spoon:It's okay that you took down the rabbi, but you can't do that to me.
David Spoon:Let me give you.
David Spoon:I'm going to read you a scripture.
David Spoon:I'm going to show you where the error is so that everybody can understand how deep the fallacy goes.
David Spoon:This comes out of Psalm 105, and this is verse eight.
David Spoon:And I'm going to show you something that a lot of people won't show you because they don't understand the word context.
David Spoon:Verse 8 in Psalm 105, he has remembered his covenant forever.
David Spoon:The word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
David Spoon:The covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac, then confirmed it to Jacob, to Israel, to who?
David Spoon:To Israel as an everlasting covenant, saying to you, I will give the land of Canaan and the portion of your inheritance.
David Spoon:When they were only a few in people, very few and strangers in it.
David Spoon:And they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
David Spoon:He allowed no one to oppress them, and he rebuked kings for their sakes, saying, do not touch my anointed one, and do my prophets no harm.
David Spoon:In context, touch not my anointed ones and do my prophet no harm.
David Spoon:Is all the people of Israel.
David Spoon:And God was telling all these different Gentile nations, don't touch my people.
David Spoon:Don't touch my people.
David Spoon:You touch my people, you're going to be in trouble.
David Spoon:Bad, bad, bad.
David Spoon:Don't do that.
David Spoon:I'll blow you up.
David Spoon:This is like that kind of thing.
David Spoon:And what the pastors have done is they've taken that verse out of context, even though it refers to the people of God.
David Spoon:And you think, wait, wait, wait.
David Spoon:Are you telling me it's not the leaders?
David Spoon:Touch not my anointed one.
David Spoon:Christ means anointed one.
David Spoon:Christians is anointed ones.
David Spoon:Specifically, that passage is about people who don't believe in God touching God's people.
David Spoon:That's exactly what has got nothing to do with a pastor by himself.
