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ON THE FRONT LINES FOR MORALITY. Battle Against Acceptable Materialism And Worldliness. Today’s liberal thinking and trends have been sown in Christians’ lives. Christians: Be the light (Matthew 5:14) Be separate (2 Corinthians 6:16) Do not run any longer with sin (1 Peter 4:3, 4).
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ON THE FRONT LINES FOR MORALITY Battle Against Acceptable Materialism And Worldliness
Today’s liberal thinking and trends have been sown in Christians’ lives. • Christians: • Be the light (Matthew 5:14) • Be separate (2 Corinthians 6:16) • Do not run any longer with sin (1 Peter 4:3, 4)
Today’s liberal thinking and trends have been sown in Christians’ lives. • “Good seed” and “bad seed” grow up together (Matthew 13:24-30). • Ungodly relativism has infiltrated most people’s thinking.
Our minds lose spiritual clarity when we measure ourselves by others. • The gospel calls Christians to renew their minds, transform their thinking. • Romans 12:2; Ephesians 4:22, 23; Colossians 3:2
Our minds lose spiritual clarity when we measure ourselves by others. • A common problem is to compare ourselves to the failures and successes of our fellowman. • Example of a Pharisee (Luke 18:11-12) • Example of Paul (1 Corinthians 4:2-4)
Acceptable materialism and worldliness are compromises we make to be more identified with and by the world. • A tendency to be more concerned about material and monetary things than spiritual pursuits: • Comfort becomes necessity. • Are we so above being blindly ensnared by our prosperity? • Haggai 1:4-5; Matthew 6:19; 19:22
Acceptable materialism and worldliness are compromises we make to be more identified with and by the world. • A concern for temporal affairs and pleasures which the world can give us: • Are we preoccupied with good, clean fun? • Do we blend in with the world’s fashions to be accepted and liked? (cf. 1 Timothy 2:9-10) • Is “me time” about me or about Christ? (cf. Matthew 14:23)