Worldliness

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Worldliness
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Two Problems
There is Worldliness Among Gods People

• Not Dealt With
• Not preached on
• Preached on nothing else is done

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Objectives
Instruct
Correct
Prevent
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Worldliness
Dealing With Worldliness
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Dealing With Worldliness

1. What Is Worldliness?

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1 John 215-17
15 Do not love the world or the things in the
world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the
Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the
world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the
eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father
but is of the world. 17 And the world is
passing away, and the lust of it but he who does
the will of God abides forever.
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What is Worldliness?

• Participation in sin sphere of iniquity
• Given to a life of following passions
• Living like the world not separate
• Living a life devoted to the temporal not
  spiritual / a secular life

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Many Manifestations of Worldliness
Drinking, Cursing, Smoking, Gambling,
Fornication, Immodesty, Watching filth, Lying,
Stealing, Materialism, etc.
A Person Who Drinks Curses Is Worldly
A Person Can Be Worldly And not Drink Curse
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Dealing With Worldliness

• What Is Worldliness?
• II. The Spirit It Has Generates

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The Spirit It Has Generates
Softness on Moral Questions Softness on
Preaching Isa. 305 Jer. 531 614
Softness Towards Word Preaching 1 John 215-17
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Dealing With Worldliness

• What Is Worldliness?
• II. The Spirit It Has Generates
• III. Seriousness of Worldliness

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The Seriousness of Worldliness

• Separates from God (Jas. 115 Rom. 512 Isa.
  591-2)
• Lose your reputation (Prov. 221 Prov. 627,
  33)
• Lose your influence (Rom. 224 1 Tim. 412)
• Hinders your worship (1 Pet. 37 John 931)
• Desensitizes us to sin (Psa. 11-3)
• Heart becomes hardened (Heb. 6 10 1 John 518)
• Breeds other sins (2 Sam. 11)
• Disfellowship (1 Cor. 51-13 2 Thess. 36-15)
• Hinders our race and growth (Heb. 121-ff)
• Suffer in this life (Exo. 205 347)
• Eternal damnation (Rom. 623 Rev. 218)

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Dealing With Worldliness

• What Is Worldliness?
• II. The Spirit It Has Generates
• III. Seriousness of Worldliness
• IV. Christian Life In Contrast to Worldliness

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The Christian LifeContrasted to Worldliness

• Holy (1 Pet. 115-16 41-3)
• Pure (1 John 33)
• Law by which lives (1 John 34)
• Fears God (1 Tim. 29)
• Not continue to sin (Rom. 6 1 John 3)
• Respect for word (Psa. 11911)
• Separate from world (2 Cor. 614-17)

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Dealing With Worldliness

• What Is Worldliness?
• II. The Spirit It Has Generates
• III. Seriousness of Worldliness
• IV. Christian Life In Contrast to Worldliness

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