Pastor John, we have two related questions on prayer, possibly two podcasts.

The first question is, should we pray before eating?

Why are we not?

And the second question is, how is food made holy by the word in prayer?

First Timothy, four, three through five?

Right, Tony, I think it will probably be better to break these up.

I don't know.

You can decide.

I'm going to talk about the second half of the question about first Timothy four.

I think that is so fundamental, really fundamental to the way we live in this world

that it might fill up a podcast on its own.

And then we shift over to, should we pray before meals?

So here's the, here's the verse.

I'll read it first Timothy four, three through five.

In the last times, people will forbid marriage, which probably means sex is viewed as something

of a problem here, or maybe too dirty or too fleshier, too something, too unspiritual.

So people are going to forbid marriage, they're going to require abstinence from foods, so

eating and sex are the two issues here.

That God created to be received with thanksgiving for those, by those who believe and know the truth,

for everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received

with thanksgiving for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

So behind this verse, evidently, is a false teaching, a false spirituality that solves

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