So, is that redeeming the time? Did I hear a (from the room) Say if I have a situation like I'm a fire fighter on duty and I'm sitting around the fire house with nothing to do, but I'm able to go and work out and get paid for it, to me, that's a different factor there based on the fact that I don't really have anything else to do at the fire house, I'm a fireman waiting for a call. Pumping weights is not a fountain of youth. He's doing it with a body that 100 years from now is going to be worm-eaten. He's pumping weights that don't go anywhere. One of the texts that I threw out that I think we need to deal with is 'redeem the time.' So let me ask you this: if a guy were to spend two hours a day, five days a week or six days a week in the gym, is he redeeming the time? Here's the thing you want to think about. Ulimately, what we want to do is we want to look at Scripture. And he sought to exercise in a way that was actually productive. He sought to eat in a way to keep his head clear. I'm just bringing up the fact that he did that. That's how they heated their home and he was up in the Northeast. The thing is he actually exercised in a way that he was producing some real work, where the wood was split and that was necessary in those days. Yeah, but in the end the weight ends up right where it was. And see, that's kind of like lifting weights. You applied a force, but you really didn't do any work. Well, no, actually you didn't do any work. You could go outside, and you could press against this house, put all your weight into it, put your shoulder into it, and do that for 24 hours, and come in here exhausted. Work is when you apply a force and it actually goes somewhere. I can exert a force on here on this table and it not move at all. I know, we define it differently when we talk about going to work. Do you know that work is actually a force that moves across a distance. That was the primary reason that he did it. For one, chopping the wood was great exercise. But he would purposely go out and chop the wood. He didn't have to chop the wood, in other words. Now, he had servants, in fact, he may have even had slaves. I also have read about him that he specifically would go out and chop wood. And he knew, there were certain things that he could eat and he would get headaches.

I'm not the first guy that gets headaches. Jonathan Edwards would not eat certain foods because it gave him a headache. So, what do we want to think about when we think about, before the Lord, how exercise or even proper eating - how that fits in? One thing that comes to my mind, Jonathan Edwards. So, 200 years from now, whether you went to the gym every day or whether you didn't the worms are coming for you. No matter how much you go to the gym, you cannot stop what you're going to look like years from now. We recognize the outer man is wasting away. We want to promote a good expenditure of our time, our effort, our hours. on one hand, we want to promote holiness we want to promote redeeming the time we want to promote godliness. What does Scripture have to say? If we want a good balance. But what does Scripture have to say? Different men take different positions on these things. So, some men stay fit, some men, not so much. Even some that we highly esteem were rather stout men. But, there are obviously a lot of pastors who don't take it serious as their shape would testify to. There is a group of the reformed Baptist pastors, including Al Martin who really took staying physically fit serious. Is there anything that can give me clarity?' And I thought that's a good one because we have a young church and young people especially - not just young people, if you can believe it, I heard a rumor that Brother Andy was bench pressing 400 pounds even after he was 60 years old.

I don't want to spend that much time each day in something unless God affirms it as good.

'By the time I drive to a gym, work out, shower, change clothes, drive back, etc. Also, 1 Timothy 4:8 says different things in different translations.' That's the one that speaks about bodily exercise as being a little profitable, or profits a little or it's of some value, but godliness is valuable, godliness is good godliness is profitable in all things. Jamie says, 'I find this difficult, because I think 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 gets pulled out of context a lot. It's dealing with sexual immorality, but specifically it has to do with our bodies being a temple for the Holy Spirit. ' Anybody know those texts right off? What they deal with? There the ones that have to do with our body being a temple of the Holy Spirit. Dear Pastor Tim, 'What is your view on Christians exercising? I find this difficult because I think.

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