Profanity = reprobate mind

(NEXSTAR) – LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers has been fined $15,000 for making “an obscene gesture” during a game against the Indiana Pacers earlier this week. He was also warned for using profanity when discussing a previous penalty with the media, the NBA announced Friday.

From tonight’s study at Shorewood:

“With the meaning of the word profanity, the idea is there’s a threshold. You’re in the temple, you step out of the temple, you’re in a place that’s sacred and holy and has to do with what God’s doing and you step out of it and you’re leaving what is godly. You’re leaving what is right. That’s actually what the Greek word means too.

“Profane is the idea of disregard for anything that’s holy, anything that’s connected to God. We use the word ‘secular.’ That is, it just comes from man’s mind. That’s Romans 1:28: [28] And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

“Profanity is just simply the exercise of a reprobate mind. Old wives' fables is just stories about superstitious things that take place that are just some kind of supernatural experience that you can’t explain. Stories that prove absolutely nothing that the people rest in.

I Timothy 6: [20] O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

[21] Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

“Vain babbling is just empty chatter; it doesn’t matter a bit. All it’s going to do is make you depart from the faith.

[15] And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
[16] And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.

Matthew 12: [28] But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

“There’s a battle going on between the kingdom of God in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, casting out devils, and the kingdom of Satan, who’s captured the nation Israel. That’s why he says in verse 29:

[29] Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
[30] He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

“How can someone come into the nation Israel, who Satan has captured, and spoil, take away, except he first bind the strong man?

“Before you can take away Israel from satanic captivity you have to bind Satan. So what am I doing? I’m casting out Satan’s control over the nation.

“I’ve said to you over and over, casting out devils had nothing to do with what just what you see people do today in exorcisms. You know, some person’s gone crazy in their mind or something. Alcohol can control you; crazy emotions can control you.

“Demonic position as it is in the Scripture isn’t designed to shatter the life of someone who’s doing good at shattering his own life with the sins of the flesh.

“Demon possession in the Bible, especially possessing the nation Israel, was designed to take the land of Israel into captivity so that the nation couldn’t function in the land; God’s holy land couldn’t be used for the purpose it was established for in God’s kingdom.

“God’s people couldn’t be used to establish His kingdom in His land and Satan’s captivity, just like He had them captive in Egypt, he sought to have them in captivity all through their existence, has them in captivity here.

“Christ comes, and when He cast out the devils, He’s showing them, ‘I can spoil Satan’s control over the nation.’ Christ was there to bind the strong man and take Israel out of the control of Satan; spoil his goods.”

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