Fed and Led
by Brian Faulkner
Text: Psalms 23
Introduction:
- Live in a society that wants no responsibility
- Welfare mentality
- Want someone else to do the thinking
- Little or no investigation
- Even less concern
- Do as little as possible
- Runaway lawsuits to get rich
- Lottery
- Want and look for the easiest way out
- This leads to socialism and communism
- Many want to avoid labor
- Labor with your own hands (Proverbs 13:4)
- Taught to work to support selves and family (I Timothy 5:8)
- Paul made tents to support himself and his companions (I Thessalonians 2:9; II Thessalonians 3:8)
- Laziness is sinful
- Old Testament example Proverbs 6:6-11
- Find a scripture or an example of society giving to those who will not work
- Often we avoid spiritual labor (I Corinthians 15:58)
- Study non-existent
- Bible class is often nothing but a listening exercise
- Research for class?
- Search the scriptures daily (John 5:39; Acts 17:11)
- Evangelism too much trouble
- Door to door?
- Hand out tracts?
- Why do we always have to beg for Bible class teachers?
- That is the job of the preacher and the elders
- Yes it is
- And it is the job of every Christian
- Visitation is nothing more than a shadow of times past
- Remark when visiting a brother in the hospital after surgery
- How would you feel? (Hebrews 6:10)
- Study non-existent
- Many will digest only what is spoon-fed
- Amazing to hear some talk about politics
- Will only parrot what they hear
- A lie told often enough will become accepted
- Global Warming
- Even after it has been proven to be falsified
- Don’t learn from the past
- Doomed to repeat it
- Some will believe whatever their leaders say
- Amazing to hear some talk about politics
- Spiritual food mixed with poison (II Timothy 3:16-17)
- Reliance on extra-biblical material
- Nothing wrong with extra-biblical material per se
- Becomes sinful when we rely on and can’t live without
- Can’t study without commentary
- Quote magazine before the Bible
- Study at the hands of denominationalist
- Will get denominational doctrine and dogma
- Exactly what reformers were opposed to
- Reliance on extra-biblical material
- We can, and should, be fed and led
- Must be led by God “The Lord is my shepherd”
- No man either good or evil
- No craving for other doctrines “I shall not want”
- Fulfilled in every way
- Need of nothing physical or spiritual (Matthew 6)
- Protection from harm “I will fear no evil”
- Even if we are led where danger exists
- God’s plan is always good and right “Dwell in the house of the Lord forever”
- Where God's people are
- Must be led by God “The Lord is my shepherd”