The WOFOYO Podcast
The WOFOYO Podcast
WOFOYO SHORT: Two Masters, One Choice
We confront the claim that you can serve two masters and replace it with an honest look at desire, discipline, and fruit. We admit sin can feel good, explain why the cost shows up later, and point to Romans 6 as a path to true freedom that grows with practice.
• serving God versus money as first allegiance
• honesty about the short-term pleasure of sin
• teaching kids to count costs without shame
• consequences of sexual choices and family stability
• data-driven insight on two-parent homes
• discipline as a pathway to freedom
• Romans 6 and presenting ourselves to righteousness
• pay now or pay later as a life rule
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Hey everybody, welcome to another WoeFo Yo Short. This is C Dub. You know, I was thinking about this over the last few days, and if we get in the word for ourselves, we can read over in Matthew 6.24 also reads exactly the same in Luke 16.13. No one can serve two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money, the King James says God and mammon, which was kind of a spiritual entity behind greed, behind always wanting to get ahead. You can't serve them. Now it doesn't mean you can't make money, but it does mean that the Lord has to be Lord and money can't be your Lord. That being said, the same thing applies to any sin. And one of the things I remember going to like youth groups and stuff, man, I was out there searching as a teenager and uh you know went to youth group and Catholic church. Um man, Margaret Ann Grace, right down the hill over in Villa Ridge, man. I could walk half a mile and go hang out with some local kids, and she was having Bible study in her class on a Sunday night. Wasn't a church-affiliated uh Bible study, it was just a little youth group that over at the Baptist Church over in Cairo. Great youth group. You know, people I still met are still friends uh from that. That being said, you know, I I remember in some circles, and then I would see it preached, and I'm I go, man, when I'm a kid and you're a teenager and you got all the hormones raging and all this, you no, young man, young woman, you don't want to do that. Oh, that's you don't want to do that. Well, to be quite honest, if if I'm not being super spiritual here, there was a lot of that stuff I did want to do. Because I knew, like I said, hormones is raging and all that. And we had this thing of you would have some adult telling you about how you don't want to sin. Okay, that's fair. And talking about how bad it was, and then when you messed up and did it, you go, wait a minute. This is uh pretty fun. This is it feels pretty good. And so why I'm bringing that up is not to celebrate carnality, but I want to be honest here. Sin is pleasurable for a season, it's real pleasurable for a season. So one of the things I did with my kids, I'm pretty content in how they're turning out, but I was honest about it. I go, you know, you know what to do. We've read you enough scripture, we've had you read scripture, you know what this means, you know what that means. But it's gonna be sooner or later, you're gonna be out of the house. You know what we will not permit in our house, and sooner or later you're gonna be out there on your own and you're gonna have to make your own decisions. But let's be honest, certain things are pleasurable, they are fun, but there is a price to pay. And I think growing up, had I been told that, a lot less, I was a pretty good boy. There might have been some things that I did that that I shouldn't have done. Well, there were, but there would have been a lot less. I guarantee you that. Because when you say there's no pleasure in it and it's all downside, then I think you're lying to me. It went to credibility. That being said, if you said, no, this is going to be some of the most fun you'll have, but let me tell you what the price is. And it takes longer to manifest for different oh, you want to keep drinking the booze, you want to keep doing that. Well, for some people it's almost immediate, and in some people, it might take 30, 40 years, and that stuff can get a hold of you, and then you need quote unquote a drink. Same thing with different substances that are more addictive. Um, you know, having sex out of wedlock. It's a strong drive and it's gonna feel good, but there's gonna be a price to pay that can uh not just the emotional attachment, some people say spiritual attachment, and I'm not disagreeing with that at all. On top of that, you know, if you have a child out of wedlock, all you have to do is look at statistics for children that had a two-parent home or uh children where mom and dad were married, just look at it and and you can always point to the outliers, well, this was bad and it turned out okay. Yeah, you know, the grace of God is there. But statistically speaking, you can prove that having kids out of wedlock definitely puts the child at his at a at a disadvantage. It just does. You know, the prison system which which I work in, you're talking about 70% never had a father in the home. But we'll keep celebrating and call it women's empowerment and everything else, and we'll keep pushing this agenda, even though you can look back and the fruit of it is bad. Let's be honest here. Some of the politicians that were in charge that were looking at that and said, wait a minute, you know, we've expanded these roles, we've expanded the role of the welfare state, and we've done all this, and this is causing, especially in uh urban black families, was causing them to break up because you were subsidizing single mothers. I have talked to people where their mom and dad loved each other, and these are people in their 60s. Now, you know, that their mom and dad loved each other, and but they got divorced because it made more sense. They thought they were helping the kid out, and no, they weren't. But the politicians started looking, there was a guy named Daniel Moyna, and was a Democrat, came up to Lyndon Johnson, who was a Democrat, said, Hey, this is having an adverse effect in what we're doing here. So, and and they were going to correct it, and it was the black clergy that came in and said, No, don't do this, don't do this. You're coming against women. And so you've seen that, and this is by no means limited now to any particular race or economic group. So there is always a price to pay. You're gonna pay now or pay later. Uh, over at my job, if something wasn't done right, it was it was either on wish or it was the wish or teamu version of what you were trying to do. If something was shoddy workmanship, I remember the old, I still don't know why you would get in trouble, but I guess back then it was a really bad saying. But I remember my dad's generation, if something was shoddy, they would call it jack leg. There's this idea of shoddy workmanship. You can cut corners, but it's gonna cost you in the long run. I remember somebody, it was old jack leg carbon. That means that dude fixed your roof. You you you got out cheaper, but it's gonna be leaking here in a couple months, just like it was. So he took the money, but he didn't do the work. And there's a guy out there I like to listen to, it's not a spiritual podcast, but a lot of spiritual lessons. There's a dude named Jocko Willing out there, has a podcast, has a company that does American apparel, made in America, you know, among among a couple other things. There's his t-shirt, one of his best-selling t-shirts, just simply says discipline equals freedom. So let me let me just tell you, I'm not I'm not promoting any business or any podcast or anything, but discipline does equal freedom. You can be disciplined now, and it is going to provide you freedom. Or here's the other weird thing about it, though. You can think I'm free, I can do whatever I want, and then somehow or another, you always end up in the bondage to sin. Actually, Paul talks about this over in Romans chapter six. Let's start at verse 10. For the death he died, he died to sin. This is talking about Jesus once for all. The life he lives, he lives to God. So you must also consider yourself dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Verse 12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness, for sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. What then? Are we to sin? Because we are not under law, but under grace? By no means. Do you not know that if you present yourself to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either sin which leads to death, or obedience which leads to righteousness. But thanks be to God that you who were once slaves in sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations, for just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, leading to more lawlessness, so he's saying he couldn't stop, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things which you are now ashamed? So there's your fruit right there. You're ashamed of it. For in the end of those things and death, but now you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God. The fruit you get least to sanctification and its end eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord. So Paul's saying it a lot more articulately and eloquently than I am. But you're going to serve a little Bob Dylan song, you're going to serve somebody. You just got to realize you will pay now or you will pay later. And in this Christmas season, I highly urge you to pay now. Woe FOYO. Everybody, thanks for listening. We hope this challenges you and causes you to pay the good price now rather than the bad price later. You can always check us out at woefoyo.org, find out how to contact us there, or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Audible, or even check us out on YouTube. For Bones and Myself, this is CD reminding you if you're going to grow, you got a Woefo Yo. Get in the word for yourself.