Geeks for Christ

Ever had a warm, moist and chewy chocolate chip cookie? I could just see myself sitting back with a plate full of those cookies, and on the other hand a cold glass of milk. Every once in a while I ask my wife to bake me a few, but for one reason or another she never gets to. Sometimes when she does, they are not what I had envisioned in my mind. Other times we see a recipe online, and the picture looks so good that it makes you want to eat the screen. However when we try to duplicate that recipe it just does not come out right.

When I was 11 years old, someone gave me a taste of a cookie. It was the best tasting cookie I ever had in my life. A few months later someone else gave me the recipe on how to make those cookies. I have spent the last 25 years studying and preparing that recipe so that I could make the perfect cookie, just the same way I remember it when I first tasted it. During these 25 years I also had many other people try to show me the right way to make these cookies. However when I tasted theirs it tasted identically to the ones I made myself.

I Give Up!

I finally realized something, no matter how hard I try, I will never be able to make those cookies. Only the person that created the recipe is the only one that can make those cookies. I realized the most important thing, that person loves me more than anyone has or ever will. He has a never ending supply of those cookies for me to enjoy anytime I want to eat them. The only reason I was given the recipe was to show me how I was going to end up one day.

That cookie was Christ and the recipe is the Bible, one day I will be like that cookie.

And today I would like to speak to you from the theme, “Ten Shekels and a Shirt”, as we find it here in Judges Chapter 17. I’ll read the chapter and then I will read a portion also from the 18th to the 19th chapter as the background might be clear in our minds. “And there was a man of Mount Ephraim whose name was Micah.” A little background if you please. There was a situation where the Amorites refused to allow the people of the tribe of Dan to any access to Jerusalem and they crowded them up into Mount Ephraim. It is a sad thing when the people of God allow the world to crowd them into an awkward position. So they were unable to get to Jerusalem and we find, out of this comes the problems that we are about to see.
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How many times have you heard people say, “God looks at my heart not my outer appearance.” They usually say this to excuse the way they dress. I laugh every time I hear this saying because if only people knew how corrupt and evil our hearts are, they would wish that God would only look at our outer appearance rather than our Hearts.

Matthew 15:19
19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. This is what Jesus said in Matthew 15, this is so true. Even with us who are saved, sometimes we allow our lives to be run by our old nature, that’s when the evil in our hearts come out.

Paul said in Romans 3:10-18 As it is written:

“ There is none righteous, no, not one;

11 There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
12 They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”
13 “ Their throat is an open tomb;
With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;

“ The poison of asps is under their lips”;
14 “ Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 “ Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;
17 And the way of peace they have not known.”
18 “ There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

If we look throughout history we can see how evil the hearts of men have been. I would have to say that the way you dress is a reflection of your heart. If you think that dressing immodesty is ok, then your heart is worst than what you think. Change your ways and put on the full armor of God. Ask Him to show you the things that are wrong in your heart.

Choose modesty.