Sermons About Worldliness
Draw Near to God
The book of James is basic, entry-level, in-your-face Christianity. A real workout. Nothing fancy. No glamor-cize at the club. Just crunches, push-ups, and heavy bag work in a smelly basement gym. If you are up to the challenge, James will shape you into a hard-body believer. During this series, Fit Faith, we’ll tackle some of the most practical teaching outside of the gospels. James was known as "James the Just", someone who put his faith into practice in a real and practical way. James will stretch us to grasp the importance of putting our faith into action as described in God's word. Are you ready to get fit?
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Do Not Love the Ways of the World
A Christian either loves God or the world, not both. There is no such thing as a 'worldly Christian' or a 'carnal Christian.' These are false doctrines of men set on not offending anyone and denying the authority of God.
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Do Not Love The World
From the beginning of time, satan uses 3 things against us: The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. This is how he tempted Eve; This is how he tempted Jesus in the dessert and this is how he continous to tempt us. It is time to say: Get behind me satan and declare God as Lord of your life!
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Walk in the Light of God; Confess Your Sins to God
Christians are called to walk in the Light of Christ. It not ann optional action, but a necessary fruit of the Spirit of God. We are also called to confess our sins before God, which activates the abundance of His grace in our lives.
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Where is the Camera Pointing?
Today I would like to uncover how we praise people with worldly fame, wealth, and influence and to call us towards praising those who take God seriously. The passage in Psalm 15 describes the righteous man who dwells with the Lord. We'll focus on verse 4 which says the righteous man despises a vile person but "honors those who fear the Lord". The Christ centeredness of the passage is that Jesus is the truly righteous man who dwells with the Lord. In Him we are pardoned for how we break verse 4 and through Him we abide with God both now and eternally.
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House Rules Part 3
If you are even a casual student of scripture, you will find that there are just some verses and commands in the Bible that just seem...well...hard. There are just some verses that seem practically impossible to obey and some almost don't even make sense. We look at them and think, "Well God, you will just have to do that in me if you want me to do that because I don't see that happening. For example: - Luke 14:26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. o Are you kidding me? Why would I hate my parents? - Matthew 5:39 But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. o We devise elaborate explanations about why we don't to obey this one. - Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. o We hear that and think, "Yeah, but there are few people that I know I am better than." There are always good, practical theological explanations for these verses, but when it comes down to it, obeying them is just flat out hard Here is thing. When we hear those verses and we think, "God is just going to have to do that if He wants me to obey," we are actually thinking correctly. We often fall into the mistake of thinking all the other verses in the Bible are easily within our grasp. If that was the case, Jesus surely didn't need to die. I Corinthians 15 makes it clear that Jesus' death on the cross was for the payment of our sin and His resurrection was for our new life. The only reason you and I can obey with a desire to glorify God is because Jesus' enables us to now. Otherwise we would be the dead men we've always been. You know there is an old hymn that sings, "I was sinking deep in sin/far from the peaceful shore." That hymn though sweet is completely wrong. We aren't sinking deep in sin; we are dead in our sin. The hymn really should sing, "I was lying dead in sin on the bottom of the ocean floor." If we are going to obey any verse, hard or not, it is because the Spirit helps us to obey. We don't discount the hard work obedience is, but as soon as we get away from dependence on God for that obedience, we have become lazy in our walk with Christ despite the contrary. Well this week in the book of 1 John, we are going look at one of these hard, nearly impossible passages of scripture. We want to pursue it well and understand its application for us, and then we want to ask our God to help us to obey.
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