How Many Is Too Many....Or Can There Possibly Even Be Too Many?

                 I look over my daily habits...this over the past four or five years at least....and I try to analyze how they may or may not have affected me....and for better or for worse? Now I am retired....I have no real pastimes other than reading and doing these posts. I do have a fair amount of yard work that has to be done....along with a regular schedule of cleaning....(that is my part in shared spousal duties)....but along with this I listen to sermons. I know you are tired of hearing the phrase but....sermons from either men from the past....or men today who preach like men of the past.
                I hardly ever miss a day without Spurgeon or Piper or any one of a number of others. And there is hardly a day without at least two sermons...for I may listen to one in the morning and then again on headphones while cutting the grass....and many days I will listen to three or four sermons. I am rarely in the car or truck without a sermon playing through the bluetooth. So we are talking about fifteen to twenty sermons a week bare minimum!
                OK....there is the situation....now how might that affect me.....how might it affect anyone? One side of the argument might be that this constant listening to sermons might be counterproductive to say the least....or even psychologically damaging? One might say that God does not want us becoming fanatical....but rather to live with a consistent and moderate lifestyle to display to the world?
                Well that kind of makes sense to me....until you bring up the cross....and the resurrection....and my being raised from spiritual death....when I had no ability whatsoever to choose life.....after I had lived a life in rebellion to God....then it makes no sense to me at all!                    So that is settled in my mind....fanaticism in the light of the glories of Jesus Christ should be a natural as a salmon fighting raging river rapids to go home...but there are other things to consider....and they revolve around what is termed....the means of grace.
                If we believe what we teach then the preached Word of God gives grace. So why wouldn't we want more grace? Is not reading God's Word every day glorious? Is not praying every day wonderful? Then why wouldn't hearing God's word preached every day be glorifying to God and edifying at the very least to us?
                There's one more aspect of this that I want to bring up. I believe that God is judging America right now as I type and you read....and has been increasingly so for bare minimum of a half century....warning us the entire time. I am not alone in this by any means as there are multitudes of believers that feel this way. Now here are the two possibilities. I have listened to so many sermons....that I have become unbalanced....that's one....or....I believe that 1948 started the countdown....and that we are in overtime right now.....because I panted for the preached Word of God as a deer pants for water....because I listen to so many sermons glorifying our sovereign and majestic God and coming King of Kings?
                 Why don't you try it for yourself.....for only one week....that can't damage you too much psychologically can it? I have a post a few posts back that I titled....A Month Of Sundays....a list of about thirty sermons.