Justice Promised - Dispute & Devotion - Week 4 - Sermon - Matt Chandler - 8/20/23

[@cahital]

Thank you for this message, Matt, and your faithful preaching every week which blesses, challenges and encourages here over in Ireland.

[@lukeharris2622]

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[@alisahale6017]

Thank you from Moscow Russia!

[@RayBekk]

So powerful! Thank you Lord for salvation and grace.

[@HannahSquats]

God demands wholehearted worship.

[@alisahale6017]

In heaven, there are no lies.

[@alisahale6017]

In Job, God says, “gird yourself like a man.” - which always makes me tremble when I read it.

[@dovlek]

I never thought someone would use Cortez as en example at church....radical.

[@samueljimenez7420]

Sometimes, in a broken world, a faithful God loving pastor preaches woke political theories espoused by the very people who hate God and despise his ways.

[@baltazarnunez5485]

I have an honest question. I see more and more pastors getting tattoos but what does the bible say about getting tattoos?

[@EJ-gx9hl]

if you look at the passage in Leviticus that discusses making marks on your bodies, which could be understood as tattoos-but also could be understood as deliberate scarring, because that is another practice that some cultures engage in, they’ll put decorative scars on their bodies-it doesn’t mean injecting the skin with ink, but just scarring the skin. Even if we accept that this verse is talking about tattoos rather than scarring, it’s clear that this is meant to be another cultural insulator from the pagans, because it also goes on to say “and don’t make marks on your body for the dead,” which was a cultural practice, a religious practice, you know, a part of ancestor-worship in some of these cultures. And so this command here is ceremonial in nature. It doesn’t fall directly out of morality. Some people have tried to mount an argument here saying that’s bodily mutilation, but it doesn’t seem to fit the definition of bodily mutilation, because if you’re mutilating your body that’s not the same thing as making any alteration in your body. I mean you can, for example, cut your fingernails, you can cut your hair, you can shave your face or your legs or whatever it may be, you can have surgery, and all of those involve bodily alteration, but they’re not mutilation because they don’t interfere with the function of your body. And similarly, simply putting some ink or pigment into your skin does not interfere with the function of your body or the function of your skin, at least not if it’s done right. And so I don’t see a basis for prohibiting tattoos.

[@cineesti3203]

The church is Luke warm therfore pastors and the members are becoming Luke warm. It's a come as you are stay as you are generation.

[@pablosanchez9498]

I agree with the explanation in regards to putting on a tattoo and not being a sin. But I just find it as a trend at this point. Just seems every pastor wants a tattoo like a majority of teens who just need or want a pair of Jordans. Now if thats the case only God knows the intent of mans heart. I'll let God be the judge of that. Its just in our sin nature to want to have or put on something without being satisfied with ourselves.