CHRISTIAN REVIVAL CENTRE
15 April 2016 The Baking Powder Syndrome
Lesson 3
Composition-WI
Ø Are you blowing up or growing up?
Ø Blowing up- expanding on the outside but empty on the inside
Ø Growing up-strengthening on the inside with no major change on the outside
Ø The word of God and our faith in Him should cause us to grow and not to blow up
2 Tim2:15(NIV)Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
2Tim2(KJV)15Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
· Baking powder is like baking soda’s more sophisticated big sister. Whereas baking soda is made up only of sodium bicarbonate, baking powder contains both sodium bicarbonate and the acids needed to react with it.
Ø Baking powder and baking soda is not the same thing. Baking soda is 80% the composition of baking powder.
Ø The product is very different when each product is used. A superior and unique taste is afforded to baking powder.
Ø This is same for this type of believer. Those that casually seek God only operate in Gods minimal level. These are believers that casually seek God. A type of religious form. Only when in a crisis or in desperation they are at every home cell or prayer meeting. When all’s well they are rarely found seeking God.
2 Timothy3(NKJV)
3But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:2For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,3unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,4traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,5having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
Ø They product is a pleasing willed life. The issues of life degenerates the purpose of God in their life. They are like the half-baked cakes.
Mark 4New King James Version (NKJV)
The Parable of the Sower
4And again He began to teach by the sea. And a great multitude was gathered to Him, so that He got into a boat and satin iton the sea; and the whole multitude was on the land facing the sea.2Then He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in His teaching:
3“Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.4And it happened, as he sowed,thatsomeseedfell by the wayside; and the birds of the air[a]came and devoured it.5Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.6But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away.
· Because most retail baking powders are “double acting.” That means the acid-base reaction occurs in two stages: one at room temp while you mix your batter, and the other at high temps once your food is cooking. The first stage is just like what happens with baking soda acid systems. It releases a small burst of CO2 to give your batter body before cooking begins. The delayed second stage is made possible by using an acid, The other acid is more soluble at higher temperatures, so during cooking it begins to dissolve and produce CO2.
· This second stage accounts for the lion’s share of CO2 produced by baking powder. Because it’s produced later in the cooking process, CO2 from this stage has less time to escape before the batter sets permanently. The more bubbles in the batter when it finally sets, the fluffier the finished product
Ø Most of us like baking soda. When God starts to bless us in small ways we get overtaken by these blessings and never finish the race. We start well but finish weak.
Ø What type of Christian are you: strong or weak?
Ø We make a lot of commitments but they are just wishes or dreams unfulfilled
Ø We never keep our focus on God at all times. We need to remind ourselves that God is our source and our blessings are the resource. We need to remind ourself all the time because we seem to have STM
Ø Short Term Memory.
Ø The people of Israel were excited when they were released from the land of Egypt. But in the wilderness they forgot the God that saved them and had to be reminded by Moses writing the 10 commandments on a tablet.
Exodus 24:12New King James Version (NKJV)
12Then theLordsaid to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.”
Ø Do you know who you are in Christ?
Ø Are you roller coasting? A casual seeker
Ø Who do you serve?