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Be Careful, Little Eyes. Verse 1 Oh, Be careful little eyes, what you see. Oh, Be careful little eyes, what you see. (Chorus) So, be careful little eyes, what you see. Chorus For the Father up above is looking down in love, Verse 2 Oh be careful little ears, what you hear.
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Be Careful, Little Eyes Verse 1 Oh, Be careful little eyes, what you see. Oh, Be careful little eyes, what you see. (Chorus) So, be careful little eyes, what you see. Chorus For the Father up above is looking down in love, Verse 2 Oh be careful little ears, what you hear. Oh be careful little ears, what you hear. (Chorus) So, be careful little ears, what you hear. Verse 3 Oh be careful little lips what you say. Oh be careful little lips what you say. (Chorus) So, be careful little lips, what you say. Verse 4 Oh be careful little hands what you do. Oh be careful little hands what you do. (Chorus) So, be careful little hands, what you do. Verse 5 Oh be careful little feet, where you go. Oh be careful little feet, where you go. (Chorus) So, be careful little feet, where you go.
Commanded to Live Spotless Before the World • (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. (NKJV)
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Defining Terms • Permissiveness: allowing or enjoying the freedom to behave in ways others might consider unacceptable; to be tolerant; overlooking commonly accepted restrictions
The Way of Balaam • (2 Peter 2:15) They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; (NKJV) • (Jude 11) Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. (NKJV)
“Are You Moving Closer to the Kingdom or the Way of Balaam?” (Part 1)
The clear message: Be Distinctively Different From the World • (John 8:23) And He said to them, "You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. (NKJV) • (John 15:19) "If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. (NKJV)
Being a Christian is a challenging task! • (Matthew 10:39) "He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it. (NKJV) • (Luke 14:26) "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. (NKJV)
How Willing Are You to Obey God?Put your faith to the test? • (1 Corinthians 5:13) • But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person." (NKJV) • (1 Corinthians 5:5) • deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. (NKJV)
How Willing Are You to Obey God?Put your faith to the test? • (1 Corinthians 5:6-8) • Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (NKJV)
How Willing Are You to Obey God?Put your faith to the test? • (2 Corinthians 2:9) • For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things. (NKJV) • (2 Corinthians 2:4) For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you. (NKJV)
When God Loved Us • (1 John 4:19) We love Him because He first loved us. (NKJV) • (Romans 5:8) But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (NKJV)
Why We Obey God • (1 Corinthians 6:20) • For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. (NKJV)
Paul COULD NOT Overcome Sin(Alone) • (Romans 7:14-25) For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I…
Paul COULD NOT Overcome Sin(Alone) • …will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. (NKJV)
We keep God’s laws BECAUSE weare saved, not to BE SAVED! • (Romans 6:2) Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? (NKJV) • (1 John 3:9) Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. (NKJV)