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TITLE: Substitutes of Brass
TEXT: 1 Kings 14:25-28
PROPOSITION: Many try to substitute counterfeits for the
genuine.
QUESTION: How?
KEY WORD: Substitutes
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
- INTRODUCTION: We have become good at
imitation.
- Plastic that looks like metal on cars,
Plastic for chrome.
- Foods salt, sugar, margarine, WOW
chips "fat"
- Fake furs, fake pearls, many things are
fake.
- Many are now living imitations of true
religion.
- DANGER! Some substitutes are not adequate
replacements.
- Tell story of the text. Rehoboam, son of
Solomon Shishak, king of Egypt
Shishak stole the shields of gold, Rehoboam made shields
of brass.
Gold Removed Substitutes in
Life Brass Replaced
- Simplicity, truth, love, reverence
Impurity, irreverence, cleaverness
- Principle Popularity
- Dedication to the faith Profession of
religion
- Spiritual warmth and life Cold externals
- Self-discipline Self-indulgence
Gold Removed Substitutes in
Teaching Brass Replaced
- Divine atonement with Human attainment
- Revelation with Humanism
- Will of God (Bible) with Rights of man
- Divinity with Humanity
The preacher is not sent to reconstruct society, but to
regenerate it.
Preachers today would make the prodigal comfortable where
he is, get him on welfare.
Christianity seeks to make him uncomfortable in his sin
motivate him to go home.
- Miracles of Jesus with Myths, legends
- Creation with Evolution
- Salvation by the blood of Jesus with
Social justice
- Dynamics with Mechanics
- Spirit of Worship with Going through
motions
- Sacrificial giving with Token donations
- Evangelism (teaching the lost) with Living
example
- Restoing the wandering with Discussing WHY
they quit
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