Do Christians Party Like They Believe The Gospel?
Christians should be the most celebratory people in the world. In every neighborhood, in every city. Do you agree with that? Well, our heavenly Father is sure into parties!
In this episode, Caesar and Heath talk about how to celebrate according to the gospel. And we dig deep into historical and biblical proof that our God loves to party, and he loves when we do.
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
- How God built celebration into the rhythms of everyday life for us.
- Why a weekly church service was never Jesus’ idea of “partying”.
- How our views on alcohol are shaped by our understanding of the Gospel.
- Why we can live redeemed lives that are used by God to redeem others.
From this episode:
“God set regular celebrations into the annual and daily calendars of his people, his family, so that they would always live with reminders of who he is and what he is like. And so that they would demonstrate this to others and display their trust in the consistency of his goodness, care and generosity.”
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The church is a redemptive community and we live not only the experience of redemption, meaning I'm redeemed...
Caesar Kalinowski:you know, my sins are paid for at the cross, and I'm being redeemed.
Caesar Kalinowski:The power of sin is lessened and lessened in my life by the power of Spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:So we're this redemptive community living that experience, but we also...
Caesar Kalinowski:the works of redemption we're a part of.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm redeeming.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's why our mission is both words and works, speaking and doing.
Caesar Kalinowski:Exactly.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so if we're working out our salvation through being redeemed and redeeming, then our response to cultural issues is not to abstain from them, but to be a part of the redemption of those things that God originally created as good.
Caesar Kalinowski:So that only pushes us to maturity by teaching us how to eat and drink and have sex to the glory of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:But it's also a witness to the world that God is a Redeemer.
Caesar Kalinowski:So there's a lot of stuff in our life.
Caesar Kalinowski:We often say like, all sin really is something God created good perverted for selfishness or our glory.
Caesar Kalinowski:So do we abstain from that?
Caesar Kalinowski:And just let the world go to hell.
Caesar Kalinowski:Literally or do we enter in and say, no, no, no.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is what redemption of that would look like.
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Caesar Kalinowski:I want to discuss partying and celebration.
Caesar Kalinowski:According to the gospel.
Caesar Kalinowski:We've got holidays coming up here pretty soon, depending on when you're listening to this, but we've got a whole lot of holidays coming up.
Caesar Kalinowski:Folks are back together this year, again, like maybe not in the last couple years, but it's just that time of year.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I want to talk about how much are.
Caesar Kalinowski:Our God, Our father loves to party and he wants his kids to celebrate and show others what he's truly like through our celebrations and our generosity, how we treat others.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's his heart.
Caesar Kalinowski:I want to talk about that today.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I'm going to bring on my buddy, Heath, you, and remember Heath, you know, he, if you hear him at the top of the show every week as we discuss celebration and the gospel and God's heart in.
Caesar Kalinowski:all that
Caesar Kalinowski:Take a listen to this.
Heath Hollensbe:I know we got a
Heath Hollensbe:lot to get to today because partying is a massive part of the gospel.
Heath Hollensbe:So, um, it would be super easy for us to throw out a comment like God loves to party and not back it up throughout scripture.
Heath Hollensbe:Uh, would you mind taking us back a bit through the text to see like, if God does have a proven track
Heath Hollensbe:record of celebrating.
Caesar Kalinowski:Absolutely he does.
Caesar Kalinowski:So yeah, I'm gonna probably gonna have to move a little quick here at the beginning, just cause there's so much like we could do, literally we could do a seven part series on this or something, but so probably people know if you've read the whole Bible, read the whole thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:God mandates for Israel, a series of annual festivals and celebrations to be participated in together as a community in rhythm.
Caesar Kalinowski:So every year without fail.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:It was part of the law.
Caesar Kalinowski:It was kind of says here's how my family.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so there was these festivals and they all served as reminders of how the people would actually live out their lives every day, not just during the festival.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:It makes sense.
Caesar Kalinowski:So like, here's this series of festivals, they're all going to show you something about what I'm like.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:And how you get to live.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, I mean, that was, that was baked right into the rhythm.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, I mean, check this out, look a little bit against 23.
Caesar Kalinowski:It says the Lord said to Moses, speak to the Israelites and say, These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the Lord, which are, you were to proclaim as sacred assemblies and, and then check out.
Caesar Kalinowski:He adds right to it.
Caesar Kalinowski:There are six days when you may work, but the seventh to Sabbath of arrest a day of sacred assembly.
Caesar Kalinowski:So don't work, but wherever you live, it's a Sabbath.
Caesar Kalinowski:So the first thing even connected to the seven celebrations, God.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here's the umbrella.
Caesar Kalinowski:It goes all over it.
Caesar Kalinowski:He commands a weekly celebration, a weekly Sabbath.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's a day of rest.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it's the most mandated of all the celebrations.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like Sabbath comes up in the law and throughout scripture, more than anything else.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:So what's the gospel picture in that?
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, it's a way of showing that we rest in his care and provision and his ultimate provision in Christ, not in our own.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so ultimately the Sabbath, like understanding that and living that and seeing it as celebration, not just the cessation of workers, labor is the most important of all celebrations.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's sort of subsumes the others, because if we're not believing the gospel and resting in him in his provision, then the rest.
Caesar Kalinowski:They really don't have the weight in the character of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it makes sense.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:So I asked you, you know, often as people, how are you doing it at, at having a regular rhythm of Sabbath and Sabbath celebration?
Caesar Kalinowski:That's a great question, dude.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's hard, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:We, you know, we think of Sabbath as a day.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, it was, but it was the point behind it was the, you understand the gospel to, and remind you that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you get to celebrate me, not you that's my provision.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:So anyway, so then God goes on in verse four, there of Leviticus, 23 says, so these are the appointed feasts.
Caesar Kalinowski:The Lord's appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies that year at a proclaim.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now here's where I'm going to go through them faster.
Caesar Kalinowski:These are seven.
Caesar Kalinowski:Some of them lasted a day or two.
Caesar Kalinowski:Some of them lasted for like a week or more sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:But they all were like this huge picture of what God was doing.
Caesar Kalinowski:And a demonstration of how they got to live.
Caesar Kalinowski:So keep, keep that like as your filters.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:So the first one that's listed here is the Passover.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we, we know, uh, if we know the story at all the Passover and that festival and feast was them celebrating God's deliverance from.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right back when they were slaves for 400 years in Israel, and then, you know, all the plagues with Pharaoh and all that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:So it's the Passover, that's the first one we're supposed to celebrate every year.
Caesar Kalinowski:What's the gospel picture there.
Caesar Kalinowski:It looks forward to Christ, completely fulfilling everything in us for us and rescuing us.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it's true.
Caesar Kalinowski:Even though it sounds crazy like, okay, you're gonna kill a lamb.
Caesar Kalinowski:You gonna put its blood into what you know, trusting in God's plan of deliverance in Christ shed blood.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's what the Passover is all about.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's a release from slavery.
Caesar Kalinowski:Slavery of what?
Caesar Kalinowski:Human bondage.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's what they want.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:So that's the first one second one, the festival or feast of unleavened bread.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now this one we're not as familiar with, so I'm just going to have to summarize, but there's a lot in there.
Caesar Kalinowski:You can go and read it though, but it's the, it's a preparation for searching and removing the leaven, which is like yeast from your house.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it actually began before Passover.
Caesar Kalinowski:So the wife, she goes throughout the house and she would, uh, clean the house and remove any leaven from an in, in the Bible.
Caesar Kalinowski:leaven is always symbolic of sin.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:So I'm cleaning the house.
Caesar Kalinowski:The wife's instructed to purposely leave 10 small pieces leaven though.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's crazy.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:And then the father takes the children along with a candle, a wooden spoon, and a feather.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we have the visuals here and a piece of linen cough, and then him and the kids searched through the house to try to find these 10 pieces of leaven
Caesar Kalinowski:and by nightfall on the day before Passover a final and like really thorough search of the house is performed.
Caesar Kalinowski:And at that time, then the house is completely dark, except for candles.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now once the father and the kids find all the leaven sets the candle down by the leaven and he lays the wooden spoon, besides the leaven, the yeast, a little balls of yeast, then he uses the feather to sweep the leaven, the east end of the school.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay, check this visual here.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's amazing.
Caesar Kalinowski:The symbolism without touching leaven, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:And he takes the feather in the spoon andleaven , and he wraps it all up in this linen cloth.
Caesar Kalinowski:And he cast it out the door of the house.
Caesar Kalinowski:The next morning, he goes into the synagogue and he puts the linen cloth and its contents into a fire, a and they burn it at all up.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now what's this picture of man people aren't getting it yet.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's the burial of Christ, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:The wooden spoon represents the tree that Christ died upon.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, remember this originally started out.
Caesar Kalinowski:Thousand years, plus, I mean like sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Eons before the cross, the leaven when we already said his sin, it's swept up onto the spoon, the tree, the cross rate as part of that ceremony.
Caesar Kalinowski:So that's, what's going on there.
Caesar Kalinowski:This festival they're like God was preparing their hearts.for the day that yeah, that, that, you know, crucifixion and burial of Christ.
Caesar Kalinowski:So third feast is the festival of first fruits.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:So when, when they would have their, their harvest was ripe, uh, barley and wheat and all that was ready to be like, like harvested that's when that happened.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so, uh, they would, they would take one sort of sheaf or big stock from a standing harvest and they would bring it to their priest at the end.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, well, either at the temple or prior to that at the tabernacle.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then that loan sort of, she for branch was called the sheaf of firstfruits and the priest was then to take this one sheaf and then wave it before the Lord of the house.
Caesar Kalinowski:So three times a year, God commanded the people to come to Jerusalem.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:They were come back sorta to Homebase spring, summer, and fall, and the reasons were to celebrate Passover Pentecost and the feast of Tabernacles.
Caesar Kalinowski:All three of these were agricultural harvest festivals.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Pentecost is the wheat harvest.
Caesar Kalinowski:We'll talk about the festival Pentecost later, but both of these festivals are first fruit harvest before the final harvest.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it was to come at the end of the.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, during the festival of Tabernacles.
Caesar Kalinowski:So ones festivals, even with any other one.
Caesar Kalinowski:So what's, what's the gospel picture going on here?
Caesar Kalinowski:This theme of this festival, the first fruits is about resurrection and salvation and new life and new beginning.
Caesar Kalinowski:Think about every year you have harvest when they had three.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, but every year, and God's saying, I want you to celebrate that.
Caesar Kalinowski:I want you to actually think about it and party around new life in provision.
Caesar Kalinowski:It just keeps coming.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, think about Jesus is the first born of Mary Jesus was the first begotten of the father says that in Hebrews he's Jesus was the firstborn of every creature, says in cautions he's the first begotten from the dead revelation tells us he's the firstborn of many brothers.
Caesar Kalinowski:See Jesus is the first fruits of all the resurrected ones.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's us now.
Caesar Kalinowski:So they were partying that they didn't even know it.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm just going to town.
Caesar Kalinowski:One of these, one of these days, I want to do like a whole sort of like here's the seven feasts.
Caesar Kalinowski:And here's how they were completed in Christ and here's the gospel and here's a modern way we can participate in with our kids.
Caesar Kalinowski:Be fun.
Caesar Kalinowski:Wouldn't it be cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm not sure if there's anything quite like that out there.
Caesar Kalinowski:So the fourth thing now, fourth festival, they were commanded like, Hey, this is part of your life rhythm was the feast of Pentecost, the celebration Pentecost, which was the original Pentecost, was the giving of the Torah, the giving of the law.
Caesar Kalinowski:God gave it to Moses up on a mountain, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, uh, it was amongst fire and clouds.
Caesar Kalinowski:So that they, they, that was the giving of Torah.
Caesar Kalinowski:That, that word is commonly translated as law in English.
Caesar Kalinowski:And doesn't mean law.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like we think of the laws like, Hey, cops gonna bust you or, you know, go to jail for law, but instruction or teaching.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's really what the word Torah meant . Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:And understanding the meaning of the word Torah.
Caesar Kalinowski:We can see that the Torah was never intended, nor should it ever be understood to mean a code of like do's and don'ts.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:But Pentecost we think of is like, what new Testament?
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Fire comes down.
Caesar Kalinowski:Holy spirit, all that, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well that they were there for the pentecost, this same festival, because it was mandated in Jews are celebrating in Jerusalem year after year after year.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so what's that looking forward to the pictureof the gospel, when the spirit would come and set of the lobby and written on tablets, I'm going to write my law.
Caesar Kalinowski:On your hearts and your heart \. And so you'll, how will, you know, to live in my ways and how will you discern all my word in all the things we're going to look at next week?
Caesar Kalinowski:We're going to talk about the word in the Bible.
Caesar Kalinowski:Is it valuable?
Caesar Kalinowski:Is it real?
Caesar Kalinowski:Can we trust it?
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, how would, you know, the spirit will illuminate that?
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:So cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:So that was going on.
Caesar Kalinowski:They were celebrating that way back right after the giving of the law all the way up through what we call Pentecost crazy.
Caesar Kalinowski:They do a whole episode on Pentecost.
Caesar Kalinowski:A fifth one was the feast of trumpets.
Caesar Kalinowski:Rachana some people have heard that's the new Jewish new year.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:So here's something interesting, a theme and a term associated with the feast of trumpets and here in Hebrew is hemlock the king.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so the shofar blown on the feast of trumpets, which is like this horn kind of ramps trumping over yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Is known as the last Trump go look that up first Corinthians 15.
Caesar Kalinowski:So in a flash of the eye, in a twinkly, I'm sorry.
Caesar Kalinowski:In the flash, in the twinkling, the night, the last trumpet for the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised.
Caesar Kalinowski:So who blows the final.
Caesar Kalinowski:first thessalonians four 16 says for the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an Archangel, with the trumpet call of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Caesar Kalinowski:So they would celebrate this Rashana at the beginning of a new year, the blowing of a horn, ba pa ba who blows it, God, God himself.
Caesar Kalinowski:So what's the gospel in that, the resurrection from the dead and the coming of Christ.
Caesar Kalinowski:There they've been celebrating this man forever.
Caesar Kalinowski:So you can see the pattern like this is definitely,
Caesar Kalinowski:you see all the different pictures too, of the gospel going on spectrum.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's not just one monochromatic understanding of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:God's going to save you, you know, like you could pick any one of them.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're beautiful.
Caesar Kalinowski:But think about it.
Caesar Kalinowski:This was their year.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:So you're telling your kids, Hey, next month we're celebrating that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Beautiful.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:So you wonder, like how did they miss it when he came and he died and he rose, I mean, it's all been right.
Caesar Kalinowski:They've been selling, you've been partying this thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's in your DNA.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:See it's Christ who will complete all thing and holds the future in his control.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's what's going on with that celebration?
Caesar Kalinowski:The sixth festival was the day of atonement.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh my gosh.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's one of my favorite ones.
Caesar Kalinowski:We do the story of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:You've been through it with me.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's the day of atonement is when, um, the sins of the nation they come together.
Caesar Kalinowski:So the biggest party they come together and instead of like individuals, sins being sacrificed for and forgive.
Caesar Kalinowski:It was as a nation and the high priest would go into God's actual presence in the holy of Holies in the, in the, in the, um, in the tabernacle and the tent.
Caesar Kalinowski:And he would sacrifice for the sins of the people.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it was this amazing day.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then there was a second goat.
Caesar Kalinowski:He would put his hands on the second goat and he would confess all the sins of the people.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it was taken away.
Caesar Kalinowski:Never to be seen again, it's called the scapegoat or the word is.
Caesar Kalinowski:azazel so what God was doing in this is like, not only will I forgive your sins, but as a people, this is weird because we thought we think of an individual gospel, Day of Atonement, their biggest party.
Caesar Kalinowski:As a people, you will all be forgiven and then all your sins will be placed on this head of this goat.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it will be led away.
Caesar Kalinowski:Never to be seen again, sound familiar.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And God is saying, Hey, in the day of judgment, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Jesus enters into the holy of Holies is our high priest making atonement for our sins, but he'll also be our scapegoat.
Caesar Kalinowski:The sin has been removed and that's a such as beautiful pictures.
Caesar Kalinowski:Not only has Jesus paid the penalty for our sins and we're forgiven, but our sins are now removed from the equation.
Caesar Kalinowski:Relationally.
Caesar Kalinowski:Never to be seen again, you can imagine like he's going, like, I really do believe Jesus died for my sins, but man, I'm talking to God and prayer all the time and I just keep going over the pile the list.
Caesar Kalinowski:God's like what sins he's.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:God doesn't see us as the former or the, you know, well, he used to do
Heath Hollensbe:this because like, I remember he confessed
Caesar Kalinowski:this yesterday.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, no.
Caesar Kalinowski:See that's not, that's what that whole celebration of the Day Of atonement . And it was a big deal.
Caesar Kalinowski:Cause when the goat would leave, oh, the high priest would come out and people would go nutty and they have the biggest party of the year because they were all forgiven and their sins were removed.
Caesar Kalinowski:Never like it doesn't come.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like we're not that way with each other.
Caesar Kalinowski:Are we not at all?
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, think about it even when you've truly forgiven someone, you deeply love your wife, your kids, me.
Caesar Kalinowski:Cause I'm your best friend now.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, but you know, when we hurt each other, we sin against each other.
Caesar Kalinowski:We might forgive it seriously, but we don't really forget it do we?
Caesar Kalinowski:You think it was 10 years ago?
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, I love that guy, but man, 10 years ago kind of jacked me around, you know, and
Heath Hollensbe:then it affects the way you go in a future relationship to like, Hey, I remember you burned
Caesar Kalinowski:me in that, not God.
Caesar Kalinowski:He looks at everybody clean, forgiven sins.
Caesar Kalinowski:Crazy.
Caesar Kalinowski:My practice is on my neighbor's
Heath Hollensbe:dog.
Heath Hollensbe:Send it to never be seen again, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Seventh feast, feast of Tabernacles also called the Sokoto that's their final festival.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it's usually translated as Tabernacles or the festival of booths, how it started was, um, God wanted them to celebrate and remember all the years that they traveled in the wilderness.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:40, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like a long time.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, and they lived in.
Caesar Kalinowski:Booths, these little Tabernacles, these sukkots, they were called.
Caesar Kalinowski:And when the tabernacle would move, God would move part of the filler of pillar of fire.
Caesar Kalinowski:At night solar cloud, they would pack up thesesukkots' , these booths, these little tents, and they would follow it.
Caesar Kalinowski:God was their leader.
Caesar Kalinowski:He was their provisioning.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, in war, he was ahead of all that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so this thing would occur for seven days, usually September ish, October followed by a special eighth day, check this out.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, um, there's, there's a quick transition from high holidays with and had kind of a somber mood of repentance and judgment to a holiday.
Caesar Kalinowski:Rejoicing and celebration that last day and the people are commanded to build this hut.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now they weren't living this way anymore.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right after they got to the promised land, but they build this hut, this sukkot or temporary dwelling and make it their home for the week, managing, taking a tent out back with the kids there's cardboard.
Caesar Kalinowski:So we live in the backyard.
Caesar Kalinowski:Kids.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're going to think about God's provision as we travel along life, trusting him.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that's what they were doing.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so they would do this right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it was to remember entering the promised land.
Caesar Kalinowski:And when they did that, if you remember from scripture, that was like, they went nuts.
Caesar Kalinowski:It was great rejoicing.
Caesar Kalinowski:It was also of God's command.
Caesar Kalinowski:Build me a tabernacle where I can dwell among my.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, see when, when God built his sukkot his temple and had them build it right.
Caesar Kalinowski:But he built it.
Caesar Kalinowski:It was, he said, build me a place where I can dwell amongst the people I love.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so not only was this like, Hey, when we were on the road with God, for all those years and live in these tents living in these little sukkots God was with us, but he also built his own.
Caesar Kalinowski:So you can live with us among us in his presence, dwell there in the holy of Holies.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, see all the imagery.
Caesar Kalinowski:So what's the gospel.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's this day of fulfillment.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hey, we're making it to the promise and we are going to make it God, once again, makes his dwelling amongst mankind.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that's where we're headed, man, in revelation 21, it says that, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, it says, I saw holy city.
Caesar Kalinowski:The new that's us.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:By the way, the new Jerusalem Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God prepared as a bride, beautifully dressed with her husband.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I heard a loud sound aloud voice from the throne saying, now the dwelling of God is with men and he will live with them and there'll be as people and God himself will be with them and be their God.
Caesar Kalinowski:And he'll wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Caesar Kalinowski:They'll be no more death or mourning or crying or pain crawl.
Caesar Kalinowski:The old muck is gone in past.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, I love that.
Caesar Kalinowski:See, that's where it's going.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so he commanded it.
Caesar Kalinowski:So I hope I hope you're catching.
Caesar Kalinowski:I hope our listeners are catching God mandates seven festivals.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's actually other ones, but these are the main ones.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it's this, it's this ongoing from all these different, beautiful angles and pictures, deep visceral understanding of who he is and what he's doing in his redemption in him, through his son.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:He mandates these festivals and celebrations be participated year after year without fail.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they all served as a demonstration of our trusting in God for our needs in a way of showing how we rest in him.
Caesar Kalinowski:But it was a reminder of that, but it also was this demonstration to the rest of the worldwide.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we've talked about this before, that, that like our, even our church services all of life, when we gather it can be a reminder and a demonstration, this comes right out of this series of feasts.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:It was a reminder of all these things that were true about God and what he was working out in the future.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:And a demonstration of how you get to live in hope and rest throughout every day, every week.
Caesar Kalinowski:I love that, man.
Caesar Kalinowski:What if we participate in these kinds of rhythms now I don't have time for them to get to man, look
Heath Hollensbe:at revelation.
Heath Hollensbe:This is our future.
Heath Hollensbe:Our future is a giant celebration.
Heath Hollensbe:Right, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Isn't it amazing to know?
Caesar Kalinowski:That's how it all ends.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, sorry to tell you the movie all the time.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sorry to ruin it for you.
Caesar Kalinowski:But.
Heath Hollensbe:Okay.
Heath Hollensbe:So, uh, I know a lot of people who tend to take the abstaining, or maybe even the retracting from culture approach or stance to celebrating, what would you say to those sort of people?
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And especially around certain things, like, you know, certain ways of partying and people have their lists of things or do's, and don'ts, and don't play cards though.
Caesar Kalinowski:Don't dance, don't drink or whatever, you know, we'll talk a little bit about that, but, well, I want to say this to church, the bride okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Is a redemptive community.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and we live not only the experience of redemption, meaning I'm redeemed, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, my sins are paid for it, the cross, and I'm being redeemed.
Caesar Kalinowski:The power of sin is lessened and lessened in my life by the power of spirit.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:So we're this redemptive community, uh, living that experience.
Caesar Kalinowski:But we also.
Caesar Kalinowski:The works of redemption.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, we're a part of I'm redeeming.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's why our mission is both words and works speaking and doing exactly.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so if, if we're working out our salvation through being redeemed and redeeming, then our response to cultural issues is not to abstain from them, but to be a part of the redemption of those things that God originally created as good.
Caesar Kalinowski:So that only, that only pushes us to maturity by teaching us how to eat and drink and have sex to the glory of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay, but it's also a witness to the world that God is a Redeemer.
Caesar Kalinowski:So there's a lot of stuff in our life.
Caesar Kalinowski:We often say like, all sin really is something God created good and we perverted for selfishness or our glory.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, so do we abstain from that and just let the world go to hell . Literally or do we, do we enter in and say, no, no, no.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is what redemption of that would look like.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do we just go like, well, lots of pornography in the world, so don't do it and don't talk about it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or do we, do we enter in and say, no, no, no, this is what God created sex for in marriage and relationship.
Caesar Kalinowski:And do we enter into that muck with people not by masturbate or I'm not saying, or by having pornography in your life, I'm saying.
Caesar Kalinowski:But by, by moving into redemptive works, you have, so it's totally possible.
Caesar Kalinowski:So when our hope be that the pervert will throw away pornography and abuse, and as he learns to love sex with a wife, that's the redemptive side of it, when the glutton like get to the point of refusing door to the five piece, fried chicken and fries, you know, a meal and learn to order it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Maybe, you know, something a little healthier.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, you just not touch it cause you're like, man, you're not healthy.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, no you do.
Caesar Kalinowski:Wouldn't redemption be the alcohol abuser stops drinking until drunk and learns to stop, you know, and just enjoy it after a beer or two or something.
Caesar Kalinowski:Absolutely.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:So I think as long as we make the issue of abstaining, Or retracting from culture, sort of our thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:We actually will miss expressing and embodying redemption.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that's, that's part of, that's part of the, why we're saved part of the gospel.
Caesar Kalinowski:Why?
Caesar Kalinowski:Because God's working out the restoration redemption of all things through us.
Caesar Kalinowski:So as soon as we say.
Caesar Kalinowski:Abstinence there.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's the answer you're going.
Caesar Kalinowski:So you're so let me get, let me get clear here with you.
Caesar Kalinowski:So the gospel can't redeem that part of our life or a culture.
Caesar Kalinowski:So what happens is, as soon as I say abstinence, that's the answer here, bro.
Caesar Kalinowski:Someone else is watching going like, so the gospel's not powerful enough to redeem that.
Caesar Kalinowski:I wonder if it's, it's probably not powerful enough in this area.
Caesar Kalinowski:My lifemy marriage, this addiction.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is so powerful.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:See, that's what we have to be careful what we accidentally broadcast.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's good, man.
Heath Hollensbe:You've mentioned a second ago about having, uh, stopping at a beer or two and obviously on a topic like partying, the question comes up and maybe there's some people that are even listening to go, you know, maybe we shouldn't be drinking.
Heath Hollensbe:Maybe, maybe we could stop it for our
Caesar Kalinowski:nominations is none.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're not.
Caesar Kalinowski:Abstinence is our jam.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, absolutely.
Heath Hollensbe:It's our God.
Heath Hollensbe:Uh, so why do you think our culture so closely relates celebration to the drinking of alcohol.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, I don't know exactly.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Historically we could go back and look and see, but.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean since way back.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, think about Jesus at the wedding here, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It seems that for a very, very long time, uh, food and drink and goodness and deliciousness has all been a part of celebration.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, unfortunately, the things that get abused generally get the most press.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so like, you know, I mean, I just heard a statistic.
Caesar Kalinowski:I couldn't believe it.
Caesar Kalinowski:I heard it yesterday on the radio.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, 70 plus percent of Americans are overweight.
Caesar Kalinowski:50% are obese.
Caesar Kalinowski:there was on a show about this, you know, it's like, so you go like, okay, so that gets a lot of press, but so, so we should abstain from food.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well we never would well ya gotta eat, you know, well, yeah, but you don't have to kill yourself.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:So we want redemption will be.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Not, not, not the addiction.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so I think, I think these things have closely been related for as long as maybe people have been.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I think, um, you know, the church has kind of had three primary teachings and outlooks.
Caesar Kalinowski:They've had prohibitionist, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:The Bible teaches the alcohol consumption is totally forbidden by scripture.
Caesar Kalinowski:I can't see that in there.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, there's going to be honest.
Caesar Kalinowski:I know, I know we're going to get mail and that's okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:By the way, let me just pause it and say wherever you're at, wherever someone's at on their use of alcohol, you got to go with the spirit and you got to go with your conscience, not with what I tell you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Absolutely.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, but I want to give a perspective on this.
Caesar Kalinowski:The prohibitionist like teaches that's forbidden by scripture.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:I think you have a hard time proving.
Caesar Kalinowski:I really hard time.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:And people have tried like with me and others, you can't, um, there's the abstention is we already talked about that and that, although the Bible, you know, doesn't expressly forbid the drinking of alcohol, the consumption of alcohol in our society is reckless.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so we have to, we can't do it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:But then we already talked about them.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're like, gosh, then we're like, we don't participate in redemption.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then there's the moderation is this view maintains that alcohol is permitted for Christians, as long as they don't, it's consumed in moderation and in careful manner.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so I think it's really has to do with the attitude and the heart behind it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like why, why would you go to a party?
Caesar Kalinowski:Why would you drink alcohol, why would you not sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Is it self-righteousness, is it, I can't trust God for this?
Caesar Kalinowski:Or like, you know, I'm afraid of what my Pastor will thing think I'm afraid of what my sister, you know, well, that's fear of man
Caesar Kalinowski:that's not trusting who God's what's that sin then.
Caesar Kalinowski:So you're not drinking out of sin, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:So it's the flip side of that.
Caesar Kalinowski:What does scripture say?
Caesar Kalinowski:Do all things into Christ first Corinthians 10 30.
Caesar Kalinowski:If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced?
Caesar Kalinowski:Because of something I than k God, for, so whether you eat or drink or whatever, Or don't do do it all for the glory of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:And then later on in first Corinthians 16 three, it says, be on your guard, stand firm in your faith.
Caesar Kalinowski:That means your belief, your trust be of courage, be strong, do everything in love.
Caesar Kalinowski:So I want to tell people, Hey, drink, do it in love right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Do it to the glory of God knows what that means.
Caesar Kalinowski:So that he be seen as accurate.
Caesar Kalinowski:Is God a drunk?
Caesar Kalinowski:No.
Caesar Kalinowski:So don't drink to that, you know, um, do everything in love Christ and his redemption that's the point.
Caesar Kalinowski:So just like in all the celebrations that we saw, God gave to Israel.
Caesar Kalinowski:They all pointed to what God was like and the redemptive work of Christ, all things in all ways, restorative, the father, faith love redemption.
Caesar Kalinowski:That should be our motivation for all of our celebrating, not abstaining, not freaking out, not, you know, not forbidding people pro you know, prohibiting it because that's the law.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let's put a fence around that.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's the only way to save people, put a fence around there's no, holy spirit, careful.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's faith.
Caesar Kalinowski:Love redemption.
Caesar Kalinowski:That should be our motivation.
Caesar Kalinowski:God's glory.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's the point.
Caesar Kalinowski:I love that,
Heath Hollensbe:man.
Heath Hollensbe:One of the things that I'm wondering, and I know we don't have a ton of time left.
Heath Hollensbe:Uh, we've already gone over a bit, but we're good, man.
Heath Hollensbe:We're rolling here.
Heath Hollensbe:It's a fun topic.
Heath Hollensbe:Do you think that the way we celebrate and we, the way we drink and the way we eat, remind us of God's continued blessing in our life through Christ and how do we get to show our culture?
Heath Hollensbe:What it looks like to celebrate unto the Lord.
Caesar Kalinowski:Good question.
Caesar Kalinowski:I think it does.
Caesar Kalinowski:I think the way we celebrate or don't does show what we think is true of God and our life in Christ, like absolutely does either side of that coin.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:But I think we can celebrate so sort of unto the Lord, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:I think the best example we see this in scripture, um, I kind of mentioned it in glancing a minute ago was where we see wine and celebration used as an image of redemption.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that's what Jesus at the wedding feast in Canna John 2 right there.
Caesar Kalinowski:Third day of a wedding party.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's a huge wedding party.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they're running out of wine.
Caesar Kalinowski:So Mary Jesus' mom comes and ask him to help Jesus asks for jars of water that come.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then, and you know, estimations now on that measurements, maybe 150 gallons of water.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay thats a lot of wine think about that.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's a whole lot of wine!, and it wasn't the bad wine.
Caesar Kalinowski:It was a good wine.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:So this is three days into it.
Caesar Kalinowski:So they've already finished off the other wine.
Caesar Kalinowski:I don't know how many gallons that was.
Caesar Kalinowski:It wasn't like, well, two bottles of wine in two days and now 150 gallons.
Caesar Kalinowski:What Jesus is so consuming commensurate to the rate of consumption.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Jesus chooses to do his very first miracle.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is like right out of the ministry box at a celebration, a wedding feast, and he uses a wedding and wine and celebration as a picture of what's all about to take place in his life.
Caesar Kalinowski:And for all of us, like when his time comes, he talks about when Jesus received us as a bride and take us in himself and care for us and preserve us and love us forever.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so I think we know why is Jesus' first miracle at a wedding around wine and celebration and all that he wants to see thatany picture of God that we have any picture of his father that we have that does not have at its core as our central understanding of who he is, is a celebration where God's the provider and caregiver and protector.
Caesar Kalinowski:Then it's twisted our right.
Caesar Kalinowski:He, why is that his first miracle?
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, if this is my first miracle man, straight to children's Memorial, let's heal some kids, no joke.
Caesar Kalinowski:His whole thing is like, I'm, I'm inaugurating the kingdom.
Caesar Kalinowski:Check it out.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's a party it's celebration.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, by the way, it's the best you've ever tasted.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:and which in that culture
Heath Hollensbe:was different, right?
Heath Hollensbe:I mean, you'd start with the best, at that point.
Heath Hollensbe:You already,
Caesar Kalinowski:my goodness.
Caesar Kalinowski:And in, in check this out too, by the way, Jesus says that when he returns, like he's doing this at the last supper, when he returns, that's when he'll drink a glass of wine with us, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Again, so that'll be a crazy celebration.
Caesar Kalinowski:So for all those people out there who abstinence, like, ah, you know, our denomination.
Caesar Kalinowski:Jesus is coming back to drink a glass of wine with you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Please don't go like, nah, I don't want my pastor to think, man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Thanks for the grape juice.
Caesar Kalinowski:But you, do you see, do you, I mean, do you still get a pattern?
Caesar Kalinowski:So God's made this a pattern throughout all of human history for his family.
Caesar Kalinowski:Jesus inaugurates his ministry bomb.
Caesar Kalinowski:He sets this picture of celebration.
Caesar Kalinowski:Abundance.
Caesar Kalinowski:The best generosity he's going.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's what my dad's like.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's what the kingdom like.
Caesar Kalinowski:So when you say like, how do we get to party like that?
Caesar Kalinowski:What's our motivation, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, that's so awesome.
Heath Hollensbe:Hey, so let's get to the big three.
Heath Hollensbe:The big three are the three takeaways that we want you to walk away with from this episode
Caesar Kalinowski:right now, you won't want to miss these case.
Caesar Kalinowski:You want them written down.
Caesar Kalinowski:You can get a printable PDF of this week's big three and any weeks big three by just going to Everyday Disciple dot com forward slash big three.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you can download right there for free any of the big three points from this episode or any of the other episodes.
Caesar Kalinowski:First one, uh, don't forget.
Caesar Kalinowski:God loves to celebrate any loves when we celebrate.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, you know, like you said, at the beginning, we want to just throw like, God loves to party.
Caesar Kalinowski:He wants us to party.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:He actually does look at all those festivals.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's an important, it's important for us to shift our thinking about our heavenly dad when it comes to celebration and parties.
Caesar Kalinowski:So if you've thought like Christians don't do that, and I know plenty of Christians and I, you know, get to travel and train all over the world.
Caesar Kalinowski:They go like, oh no, we're forbidden.
Caesar Kalinowski:We can never go into a pub, but we can never go to a party if there's, if there's this or that or this going on.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Our church lady, somehow our God is a God of celebration and joy.
Caesar Kalinowski:Believe it, believe it, please.
Caesar Kalinowski:God set regular celebrations into the annual and daily calendars of his people, his family, so that they would always live with reminders of who he is and what he's like.
Caesar Kalinowski:And what if we did that more?
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, what if we, just, every time we had a party, we were like, okay, what aspect of this party reminds us what God's like and how we get to live.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so that they could demonstrate this then to others and display their trust in his consistency, his goodness, his cares generosity, that that's first.
Caesar Kalinowski:And don't miss that love that he loves to celebrate.
Caesar Kalinowski:He loves when we do second, who or what is the focus of your celebration of.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hm, that's key.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like ask yourself that what's your focus, you know, when partying in any manner, whatever you're doing.
Caesar Kalinowski:So it doesn't have to be around food or alcohol.
Caesar Kalinowski:It could be like going out and golfing, you know, but that's my celebration.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, have you ever stopped to ask yourself, well, why, why am I doing this today?
Caesar Kalinowski:Who will be glorified when I'm at this barbecue or I'm at the pub tonight?
Caesar Kalinowski:The motivation of your heart when celebrating is really the point to remember, and God created you to enjoy him in all of his creation.
Caesar Kalinowski:Remember said whatever you do do it all for the glory of God.
Caesar Kalinowski:So ask yourself that who's getting the glory here tonight, and then.
Caesar Kalinowski:I just got to say, Christians need to party more.
Caesar Kalinowski:I agree.
Caesar Kalinowski:I do a big three.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's big, big, big of the big three, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Christians should be seen as the most celebratory people in the world, man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Thank God we get to live forever.
Caesar Kalinowski:For sure!
Caesar Kalinowski:If anyone's got the good news...
Caesar Kalinowski:we should be party animals.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or more specifically, you should be the most celebratory people in your neighborhood or at work.
Caesar Kalinowski:But taking things that God created good, and he created everything good at the beginning, and then using them for our own glory or abusing them, that's at the root of all sin.
Caesar Kalinowski:But like we talked about, fearful abstinence misses the heart of God by a mile.
Caesar Kalinowski:So God, we need to party more, be generous, be the bringer of the better wine per se, like Jesus.
Caesar Kalinowski:So when you party, when you go to a party, when someone invites you party hard, bring killer food.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sticking around helping clean up the mess.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's also a preaching of the gospel, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:So regularly.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're in community, not just in rows, share stories, celebrate, do all the cool stuff together, invite everybody you know.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's it for today, that was fun getting Heath back into the party.
Caesar Kalinowski:So to speak.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now I'm going on the road, doing some training the next couple of weeks, and I'm going to introduce you to some great leaders, some great disciple makers and what they're doing to live out the gospel and be a blessing to their city and community in a big way.
Caesar Kalinowski:These are some great folks.
Caesar Kalinowski:Can't wait for you to meet them..
Caesar Kalinowski:I'll talk to you soon.
Heath Hollensbe:Thanks for joining us today.
Heath Hollensbe:For more information on this show and to get loads of free discipleship resources, visit Everyday disciple dot com.
Heath Hollensbe:And remember, you really can live with a spiritual freedom and relational piece that Jesus promised every day.