Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, April 30, 2023

Spiritual Plumbing Today, Pastor Michael has turned over the reigns to Duncan Crook, who has stood in for Michael a few times, and his message today is about…plumbing! Not our house’s plumbing, of course, but spiritual plumbing.   Starting off, we have some ‘bad’ news: You have no hope of unclogging your spiritual plumbing! The good news is that God desires to unclog that spiritual plumbing if you’ll allow him to, and He will do it from the inside out! Duncan uses the plumbing analogy to explain a lot of things in Christendom and in Jesus’ teachings.  And it starts with Duncan being called by Michael for clogged plumbing at the church.  So, Duncan went to the church and found the situation was exactly as he expected: clogged!  Duncan and Michael found the cleanouts and started to open them up; it wasn’t pretty! And in the end, Michael and Duncan bandied about to see who could use this experience as a life experience in a lesson one day.  This sermon is the result of that. We all need to be sure that negative thoughts, attitudes, and other sins are sent ‘down the drain’ to use the plumbing analogy.  This spiritual blockage in your heart holds you captive to the Devil’s will. Roots can cause backups, spiritually and at your house.  Spiritual clogs are selfishness, bitterness, rejection, evil thoughts, and others that cause backups in our spiritual plumbing.   So, we must turn first to the Lord and acknowledge that we have a spiritual problem.  Then, we have to maintain our plumbing for it to work well; spiritually, this is the same!  But we have a professional we can turn to confession, repentance, and the Word of God will clear away any blockages because of what Jesus did for us on the cross. Verses can be found in Luke 6: 45, 1 Corinthians 11: 28, Philippians 2: 14, Numbers chapters 13 and 14, Psalm 37: 8, Ephesians 4: 26, Ephesians 4: 31, Psalms 51: 1-12, Psalm 139: 23-24, and Acts 3: 19. Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.