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Sins On Facebook. Genesis 28:16b. “ Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it. ”. The Internet. Lots of opportunity for good. Tons of resources for Bible study. Tons of ways to share the gospel. The Internet. Lots of opportunity for evil. False doctrine proliferates.
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Genesis 28:16b “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”
The Internet • Lots of opportunity for good. • Tons of resources for Bible study. • Tons of ways to share the gospel.
The Internet • Lots of opportunity for evil. • False doctrine proliferates. • Pornography everywhere.
Facebook is the same way. • Requests for prayers. • Expressions of gratitude to God. • Sharing the gospel.
Sins on Facebook • Trashing others and complaining.
Trashing others and complaining • Philippians 2:14 Do all things without complaining and disputing, • 1 Peter 4:19 • Matthew 5:23-24 • Matthew 18:15-17
Sins on Facebook • Trashing others and complaining. • Posting pictures of sin
Posting pictures of sin • Jeremiah 6:15a Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?No! They were not at all ashamed;Nor did they know how to blush. • Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
Posting pictures of sin • Romans 13:13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. • 1 Peter 4:3 For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.
Posting pictures of sin • 1 Timothy 2:9 in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation,… • James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Posting pictures of sin • Matthew 5:13-16
Sins on Facebook • Trashing others and complaining. • Posting pictures of sin • Inappropriate language and humor
Inappropriate language and humor • Euphemisms for curse words, dashes or asterisks to “clean up” curse words • Double entendre, sexual innuendo
Inappropriate language and humor • Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. • Ephesians 5:3-4 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. • Colossians 4:6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
Sins on Facebook • Trashing others and complaining. • Posting pictures of sin • Inappropriate language and humor • Outbursts of wrath
Outbursts of wrath • 2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults; • Ephesians 4:26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
What if we see a brother caught up in sins on Facebook? • Galatians 6:1-2 • Hebrews 12:12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, • Romans 15:14 Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
Be Saved Tonight! • Believe – John 8:24 • Confess – Matthew 10:32-33 • Repent – Luke 13:3 • Be Baptized – Mark 16:16 • Be Faithful – Revelation 2:10