Wrongdoing & God Don’t Mix

Wrongdoing & God Don’t Mix …

Being the Lord’s – Psalm 16 • God is our Refuge (vs. 1) • God is our Master (vs. 2) • God is Provider of all Good Things (vs. 2) • God is our Inheritance (vs. 5) • God is our Cup of Blessing (vs. 5) • God is our Protector (vs. 5) • God is our Guide and Instructor (vs. 7) • God is the Way of Life (vs. 11) • God is a Believer’s Eternity (vs. 11) • We are His Representatives to Humanity!

How’d Our Culture Become Such a Mess? What “Big” Event Happens Today? It will also be one of the biggest sex trafficking events of the year. “As WANE.com in Indiana reported last year, “Girls as young as 12 to 14 are being shipped to Super Bowl host cities and sold as prostitutes to meet the demand for sex at the event. And it’s getting worse.” Ernie Allen of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children added, “The operators of these enterprises will use these kids as commodities, bring them to a community, and will literally sell them to people who are partying and having a good time and think there's nothing wrong with what they're doing.””

How’d Our Culture Become Such a Mess? “As might be expected, many Yale students were offended by Sex Week, but university officials defended it in the name of “academic freedom” – a sign of how far this noble idea, originally meant to protect the pursuit of truth, has fallen. And the fact that Yale as an institution no longer understands the substantive meaning of “academic freedom” – which requires the ability to distinguish art from pornography, not to mention right from wrong – is a sign of its enslavement to the ideology of moral relativism, which denies any objective truth (except, of course, for the truth that there is no truth). - -Nathan Hardan - Speech excerpt from 9/20/2012 at Hillsdale College

How’d Our Culture Become Such a Mess? Why does it even matter? Yale has educated 3 of the last 4 presidents, and 2 of the last 3 justices appointed to the Supreme Court. “Unfortunately, what’s happening at Yale is indicative of what is occurring at colleges and universities across the country. Sex Week, for example, is being replicated at Harvard, Brown, Duke, Northwestern, the University of Illinois, and the University of Wisconsin.” – Nathan Hardin: ibid “Too often we Christians forget that our number one weapon to combat a major societal evil is prayer.” –Breakpoint 1/30/13

What Does God Have to Say? I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on among you—something that even pagans don’t do. I am told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother. 2 You are so proud of yourselves, but you should be mourning in sorrow and shame. And you should remove this man from your fellowship. – 1 Corinthians 5:1-2 6 Your boasting about this is terrible. Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us. 8 So let us celebrate the festival, not with the old bread of wickedness and evil, but with the new bread of sincerity and truth. – 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 • The sexual drive is one of God’s greatest gifts to humankind, and one that the devil is actively perverting.

In the World, but not of the World 9 When I wrote to you before, I told you not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin. 10 But I wasn’t talking about unbelievers who indulge in sexual sin, or are greedy, or cheat people, or worship idols. You would have to leave this world to avoid people like that. – 1 Corinthians 5:9-10 To Shine we must make sure our Bulb isn’t tarnished!

In the World, but not of the World 11 I meant that you are not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believer yet indulges in sexual sin, or is greedy, or worships idols, or is abusive, or is a drunkard, or cheats people. Don’t even eat with such people. 12 It isn’t my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it certainly is your responsibility to judge those inside the church who are sinning. – 1 Corinthians 5:11-12 Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. – 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

A Change That Purifies! 11 Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. – 1 Corinthians 6:11 To Shine we must make sure our Bulb isn’t tarnished! 20 For the Kingdom of God is not just a lot of talk; it is living by God’s power. – 1 Corinthians 4:20

BENEDICTION May the peace of God which passes all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love ofGod, and of His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord; and may the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be yours now and forever. Amen

Wrongdoing & God Don’t Mix