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Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral & Spiritual Failures

…. In The News. Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral & Spiritual Failures. Story # 1 Headline Washington Court: Teachers Can Have Sex With 18-Year-Old Students. About Story # 1… Our culture usually cringes at adults manipulating children

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Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral & Spiritual Failures

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  2. In The News... Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral & Spiritual Failures

  3. Story # 1 Headline Washington Court: Teachers Can Have Sex With 18-Year-Old Students

  4. About Story # 1… • Our culture usually cringes at adults manipulating children • High school seniors are still children… no matter how the courts classify them

  5. About Story # 1… BiblicalPrinciples • We expect the judicial process to always be on the side of right and to uphold justice…not pervert it

  6. About Story # 1… BiblicalPrinciples • We expect all who live under the law (esp. the young) to be protected • O.T. Deut 16:18-20 Eccl 3:16-17 Isa 59:12-15 Hab 1:4

  7. About Story # 1… BiblicalPrinciples • N.T. Rom 13:3-4 • This sets a dangerous precedent…it will only embolden further predatory behavior

  8. Story # 2 Headline 22-Year-Old’s Virginity Auction Hits Record $ 3,700,000 Bid

  9. About Story # 2… • Our culture is coming up with more “creative ways” to market something and gain wealth • We’re finding new ways to be immoral

  10. About Story # 2… BiblicalPrinciples • It takes very little effort to know how serious God views sexual immorality 1 Cor 6:9-10 Gal 5:19-21 1 Tim 1:9-10

  11. About Story # 2… BiblicalPrinciples • Marriage = only legitimate place to satisfy the sexual appetite Heb 13:4 • Marriage meant to encourage fidelity… discourage promiscuity 1 Cor 7:1-5

  12. About Story # 2… BiblicalPrinciples • A person’s virginity (sexual purity) is to be protected and saved for marriage… not “auctioned off” to make money cp. Song of Sol 8:8-9

  13. About Story # 2… BiblicalPrinciples • The young woman in this story is “thumbing her nose” at God Gal 6:7 • She is being aided by a news media that is “glamorizing” her actions

  14. Story # 3 Headline Life As We Know It Nearly Created In Science Lab

  15. About Story # 3… • Our culture is enamored with evolution or any “theory” opposing creation • This story offers “empty claims” and presents them as “proven facts”

  16. About Story # 3… BiblicalPrinciples • Something as complex as the world could only exist by “intelligent design” • The “intelligent Designer” = God

  17. About Story # 3… BiblicalPrinciples • His “creative power” is loudly declared in Scripture Gen 1:3,6,9,11,14,20,24 Psa 8:3 33:6,9 148:3-5

  18. About Story # 3… BiblicalPrinciples • This story cannot account for a “beginning” somewhere Heb 11:3 • It takes more faith to believe it than to believe the Bible 2 Thess 2:9-12

  19. About Story # 3… BiblicalPrinciples • This story will eventually find its way into school, our children’s textbooks • A mindset that has always resisted God Rom 1:20-22

  20. Conclusion • Do these headlines “shock” us? • While we may scratch our heads they actually appeared in the news, NO…we are not “shocked”

  21. Conclusion • We know the following… Jn 18:26 1 Jn 5:19 Psa 14:1 • The people in these stories actually represent those mentioned in Jn 4:33-35 & Mt 9:37

  22. Conclusion • These stories make us painfully aware of our enormous responsibility in protecting & safeguarding our children…and in teaching them the word of God to combat this error

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