Brian and Jessica both have hearts for God. They both serve on the praise team at their church. They started dating about three months ago. Nothing really hot and heavy at first, but things kind of heated up. They started thinking, "We love each other." Brian tells his friend, "She's such a blessing to me. She's been put in my life clearly from God." Jessica says, "We're perfect, we're meant to be together - we will be together." It isn't long before the back window of the Caddy is steaming. Brian says, "It's okay - God marries us. We love each other. It doesn't matter."
The girl gets pregnant. Their relationship breaks apart. Jessica's relationship with her parents crumbles; Mom is silent and Dad is cold. The youth group, shocked, are turned off. Those kids are our leaders? Brian's own parents have turned against him. He leaves the church in shame and doesn't return. Lots of the kids who looked up to these star models are torn apart inside and dealing with trials of faith. The youth minister has a hard time trying to get everything under control, and is unable to do it. Kids just stop coming, wondering, What's all this about anyway? They're a bunch of hypocrites. The community snaps because of two kids' false beliefs about God marrying them.
This really happened.
False beliefs are poisonous. As Jesus and his disciples are rowing across a lake, he says, "Be careful not to follow into the Pharisee-Sadducee teaching - teaching that leads people from God. Because of their false beliefs, the Pharisees and Sadducees led many people astray.
Jesus calls this false teaching "Pharisee-Sadducee yeast,' and for good reason. Only a little bit of yeast will make a whole loaf of bread dough rise. Only a little bit of false teaching, only a little bit of clinging onto false beliefs, can make a huge situation out of something that we were just saying ten seconds ago, "How could this little wrong really affect anyone?"
The girl gets pregnant. Their relationship breaks apart. Jessica's relationship with her parents crumbles; Mom is silent and Dad is cold. The youth group, shocked, are turned off. Those kids are our leaders? Brian's own parents have turned against him. He leaves the church in shame and doesn't return. Lots of the kids who looked up to these star models are torn apart inside and dealing with trials of faith. The youth minister has a hard time trying to get everything under control, and is unable to do it. Kids just stop coming, wondering, What's all this about anyway? They're a bunch of hypocrites. The community snaps because of two kids' false beliefs about God marrying them.
This really happened.
False beliefs are poisonous. As Jesus and his disciples are rowing across a lake, he says, "Be careful not to follow into the Pharisee-Sadducee teaching - teaching that leads people from God. Because of their false beliefs, the Pharisees and Sadducees led many people astray.
Jesus calls this false teaching "Pharisee-Sadducee yeast,' and for good reason. Only a little bit of yeast will make a whole loaf of bread dough rise. Only a little bit of false teaching, only a little bit of clinging onto false beliefs, can make a huge situation out of something that we were just saying ten seconds ago, "How could this little wrong really affect anyone?"
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