Eugene Prewitt - SERMON ONLY - Fanaticism and Zeal
21 Jun 2020
Eugene Prewitt - SERMON ONLY - Fanaticism and Zeal
How can I know fanaticism when I see it. Is it the same as zeal? What does God want from me? Watch and find out!
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Partial Transcript:
“I don't know if you know any fanatics and even if you said you do I still wouldn't
be sure if you do because many times God's people are called fanatics just
because you're a Seventh-day Adventist there are people in your city that would say
that you're a fanatic and and there are people perhaps more faithful than you
that you'd be inclined to call a fanatic and if you're a fanatic a real fanatic
even you know people more fanatical than you so let's just get started this way
by saying we can't figure out who's a fanatic by comparing them to ourselves
we can't figure out who is a fanatic by comparing them to ourselves because of
course we think we're right but if you have Bibles I suppose you do even though
you're home turn in your Bibles to Romans chapter 10 Romans 10 has the
closest thing I know in Scripture to a to a biblical definition of fanaticism
Romans chapter 10 and looking at verse 1 and 2 brethren my heart's desire and
prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved for I bear them record
that they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge do you hear that
they have a zeal that's the definition of fanaticism a zeal not according to
knowledge we're gonna see tonight or for you in the morning we're going to see
that the Bible recommends zeal that God has zeal the godly people have zeal the
zeal moves us and it gives us power and it gives us influence zeal is a positive
thing but it's zeal for what is true that is positive
and it's zeal for what is false that is fanaticism by this definition I would
say that Pentecostalism is fanaticism I would say that Mormonism is fanaticism I
would say that the Jeho vah's Witness religion is fanaticism because in those
three bodies I just mentioned you can find great zeal but not according to
knowledge let's read on because there's more here it says in verse 3 for they
being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own
righteousness have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God
when we say that they had zeal but not according to knowledge we don't mean
that they were ignorant in any general sense these zealous people they knew
their books of the Bible they knew the Old Testament stories probably better
than we do they knew about Simeon and they knew
about Simon they knew about the Old Testament patriarchs and the prophets
when we say that is zeal not according to knowledge we don't mean that they
didn't know about the rules and regulations why they really didn't know
about the rules and regulations but they were ignorant of a central thing the
righteousness of God and they were ignorant about how to have that
righteousness they didn't submit to that righteousness that is they did not
harmonize with God's plan for how a man can be declared righteous but they
weren't seeking the holiness the same way Abraham sought it that is by faith
that what they weren't like David who said blessed is the man to whom God will
not impute sin whose sin is covered they didn't understand about how to have
forgiveness they didn't understand righteousness by faith and they didn't
understand about those lambs that they were killing
so often they didn't understand that they needed an intercessor and a
mediator and someone to pay their debt well there's a lot of zeal today there's
a lot of zeal and movements that have gained a lot of ground in Australia
would include the movement for the…”
