The Woes of Worldliness
Josiahs Scott,
Josiahs@trueconnection.org,
www.TrueConnection.org
2/28/08; 8/20/09; 2/5/10; 8/27/10; 10/17/11 (refining many small details); 2/4/12; 6/22/13;
…6/3/24
>> Additions/
TODO!
>> Perfect Love is NOT Worldly!
See: Perfect Love
4/16/22
God’s view of worldliness is probably harsher than you thought. Do you
claim to love Jesus? If so, beware of
this “woe,” because if you are worldly then God says you’re His enemy! Look
closely now at your life in light of these Scriptures and be sure you are hating this world so that you are not disqualified from
being counted as a friend of God at the Judgment.
Contents
Introduction. 1
1. Background Basis and Definitions. 1
Initial Scriptures. 1
What is Worldliness? (Summary) 2
2. God Condemns Worldliness. 2
The Nations Which Don’t Know God. 2
Don’t Learn their Ways. 2
Don't Imitate. 3
No Partnership Allowed. 3
Unspotted from the World. 3
Don't Love the World. 3
It Makes You “An Enemy of God”. 3
God Repays His Enemies! 3
Worldliness is Demonic and Satanic. 3
Affectionate Love For Jesus. 4
No Holiness, No Heaven. 4
In Most Cases, We Need to Repent of Worldliness. 4
3. A Call to Media Purity. 4
In General: Don’t Indulge in This Life. 4
Specific: No Bad Stuff Before Eyes. 5
Specific: Premarital Romantic Indulgence. 5
4. Repent of Most All Music. 5
Satan’s Music. 6
Music for Entertainment Instead of Prayer and Worship. 6
5. Repent From Worldliness. 7
Get Specific When Repenting. 7
How to deal with Idols. 7
Some thoughts. 7
The Reward of Repentance! 7
2Pe_3:7 WEB But the heavens that now are, and the earth,
by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day
of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
2Pe_3:10-12 WEB
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the
heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved
with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned
up. 11
Therefore since all these things are thus to be destroyed, what manner
of persons ought you to be in holy living and godliness, 12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming
of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire will be
dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
Worldliness is imitating the less-than-perfect ways, beliefs, values,
philosophies, mindsets, patterns, and behaviors of this condemned human race.
[See: Mat_5:48; 1Pe_1:15-16; 2Co_13:11; Col_1:28; Gen_17:1; Lev_11:44, Lev_19:2, Lev_20:26; Deu_18:13;]
Worldliness is rebelling against God’s plan to redeem mankind from this
corrupted and sinful age.
Worldliness is getting trained and discipled by the devil through people
who are inbondaged to sin.
Worldliness is being impressed with the human ways that God hates.
Worldliness is enjoying and being entertained by that which dishonors
God.
Worldliness is doing what is socially acceptable rather than what is
righteously demanded
Worldliness is the lifestyle of giving yourself to the worthless and
sinful ways of your natural and fleshly desires, and emotions.
[This is associated with your own personal “soul” (Greek: ψυχικός): 1Co_2:14; 1Co_15:44, 1Co_15:46; Jam_3:15; Jud_1:19]
Worldliness is the selfish pursuit of indulging in this life
[compare 1Co_7:31]
Worldliness is often a life of sinful pursuits sanctioned and encouraged
by our culture.
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Defining
Worldliness
...
10/2/20
We can see that
there is a problem with the very definition of what Worldliness is, because
flesh balls describe Worldliness like it's simply Secularism, whereas stricter
biblical thinkers Define Worldliness as including secular music and even
religious people
But let's pause
before we go crazy - who's right here?
Obviously the Bible
is the one that is right by including religious people along with secular and
all immodesty and sexual crimes with the world, and the Bible clearly
incriminates being in culturerated into the pollution
of the world...
In the book of Acts
they include religious people right in with the nations/gentiles, ignoring
their claim to Jewish heritage
It is extremely
clear that righteous people include church people the exact same way that the
book of Acts includes the external Jews in the gentle world
Therefore we all
know that you're going straight to hell if you Mindlessly
ignore and oppose and contradict the Scriptures by pretending that Worldliness
is simply secularism
Like usual we've
got to define terms because when discussing complicated matters people have
typically always got their own Miss definitions and are talking about different
things while using the same words
Furthermore wicked
religious people so often like vague and slippery terminology, because we're
confusion is there deception thrives. And God is not the author of confusion.
And religious people like to pretend like everyone is referring to the same thing
because that gives them the liberal version 2 hide
their send crime under the cloak of deception
...
Worldliness is not
just Secularism
A wicked on
righteous religious hypocrite will often deceptive sleep averted me Miss Define
Worldliness as secularism
It goes without
saying that righteous people will Define Wilderness and including secular
music, anything sexually immoral, and anything loving or liking or tolerating
money, boasting in the strength of this natural life, excetera
Wicked religious
church people love to deceptively imply that Worldliness is secular ism so that
they can pretend like they are far from it, whereas righteous people obviously
Define Worldliness as including religious people, like the Bible clearly
teaches
1Th_4:3-9
KJB Because this is the will of God,
your holiness, that you should abstain from fornication: 4 That
every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in holiness and
honor; 5
Not in the passion of lust just as the nations which don’t
know God: 6 That
no one go beyond [i.e. the limits] and defraud [or overreach] his brother in
any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have
forewarned you and testified. 7 For God
hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 8 He therefore that
despises, does not despise man, but God, who hath also given unto us His Holy
Spirit. 9 But as touching brotherly love…
Jer_10:2-3 KJB Thus says the LORD, “Don’t learn* the
ways of the nations… 3 Because the customs of the people are vain…
* “μανθανετε” (manthánete): “be discipled by”
- We can see that God called Israel out of the world, and now He does
this with us: 2Co_6:17 (quoted below).
- We see that we must not take cues from the world on how to live
3Jn_1:11 WEB Beloved,
don't imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God.
Eph_5:11 EMTV
And have no partnership [συγκοινωνειτε
G4790] with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose [ελεγχετε G1651]
them.
G4790 συγκοινωνέω
"...to share in
company with, that is, co-participate in..." (Strong’s)
> The last part of this word comes from: G2841 “κοινωνέω”:
which means to reciprocate or share in common with.
G1651 ἐλέγχω
In the NT, to convict, to prove one in the wrong and
thus to shame him.
Jam_1:27 Pure religion2356
[Θρησκεία
καθαρὰ – i.e. clean reverent service] and undefiled before
God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their
affliction, and to keep5083
himself unspotted from the world.
Meta:
Θρησκεία καθαρὰ
καὶ ἀμίαντος
παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ καὶ
Πατρὶ ἡ ἐν ἡμῖν
ἐστὶν αὕτη, ἐπισκέπτεσθαι
ὀρφανοὺς καὶ
χήρας ἐν τῇ
θλίψει αὐτῶν, ἀμίαντος
τουτὸς ἄσπιλος
τηρεῖν ἑαυτὸν ἀπὸ
τοῦ κόσμου.
>> Miranda Said:
The word "religion" is
numbered (2356) but there is no explanation and I always wonder
what it means as "religion" can have a negative connotation.
"Keep" is also numbered (5083) without an explanation.
(10/16/11)
1Jn_2:15-17 WEB
Don't love the world, neither the things that
are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't 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, isn't the Father's,
but is the world's. 17 The world is passing away with its
lusts, but he who does God's will *remains forever [* μένει εἰς
τὸν αἰῶνα
– lit. abides into forever].
Jas_4:4 WEB
You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know
that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to
be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Deu_7:9-10 WEB
Know therefore
that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and
loving kindness* with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand
generations, 10 and repays those who hate him to
their face, to destroy them: he
will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.
* LXX (Greek):
G1656 “ἔλεος” (éleos) – Mercy; MT (Current
Hebrew): H2617 “חֶסד”
also meaning “kindness, merciful (kindness)… pity,” (Strong’s)
Eph_2:1-3 KJB
…you were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 In which you used to walk according to the
age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
that now works in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom we also all used to have our
lifestyle in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of
the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
So Why is worldliness wrong?
Mat_6:24 - Can’t serve two
masters…
1Co_16:22 KJV
If anyone does not affectionately love 5368 [φιλεῖ
(Philei)]
the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed331 …
>> Miranda Said:
“.....the word "accursed" is numbered (331) without an explanation.....Hell?
....it also might be helpful if you
would clarify or define (Philei) love (5369) for those not
knowing different Biblical "loves."
?”
10/16/11
Heb_12:14 KJV
Follow peace with all men,
and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord…
- Some of you are hypocrites, and you have nothing offered to you but
God’s wrath.
- Others of you will acknowledge your guilt and turn to the promise from God
offered to you in true repentance.
Where are we at in terms of the purity of our
media? In most cases, we need to repent to obtain purity in this area of our
lives.
>> both
Righteous Lot and Paul were “tormented” (2Pe_2: Heb_11:) and “vexed” by seeing
evil in society.
If you are watching ti
for entertainment, then it is clear to all that you are not righteous!
8/21/20
Worldliness and rebellion always says:
“If god did not say it was a sin, then there is nothing wrong with it”
Godliness always says: “I only
want to do what God tells me to do” (see “Exclusivity” in the
“Repent of Words” Bible study, and also see John Summaries: John 5; John 7; John 14)
The problem with saying, “there is nothing wrong with it” is that most
of the time God does specifically say that our indulgence is sin, but we
just don’t read and believe the Bible enough to realize how specific and
practical it is to condemn what we irrationally assume is clean. We think we
can sanctify anything by simply saying, “there is
nothing wrong with it.”
Many times we assume that the
Bible does not prohibit certain things that we take for granted, as though they
are certain inherit rights for all those who are able to enjoy them. But though
we think it is normal and ok, God fervently stands against the great majority
of our indulgence in popular media.
We can know that there is no
inherent sin in shining light in our eyes from a screen, or sound waves in our
ears through speakers. In theory, media could be pure, but the media that we
use and gluttonize in is already defiled because we addictively use it to
function in life contrary to the Scriptures in countless places:
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Media Purity
‘no fiction’
Cindy Leonard
, studied Certified
Nursing Assistant & Retailing Johnson & Wales at Job Corps (1975)
Answered 10 months ago ·
Author has 8.3K answers and 641.8K answer views
“For us to be so [i.e. serious]. It includes
the Commandment for us Not to read fiction. I have
removed fiction TV and movies also.
Never to be selfish, self-centered, not
to hate anyone else!”
https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-Bible-say-about-being-serious-minded
3/11/22
1Co_7:29-31 CAB But this I say, brothers, the time has been
shortened; so that from now on even those having wives should be as though they
had none, 30 and those weeping as though not weeping, and
those rejoicing as though not rejoicing, and those buying as though not
possessing, 31 and
those using this world as not using it up. For the form of this world is
passing away.
1Ti_5:6 WEB But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead
while she lives.
Jas_5:5 WEB You have lived delicately on the earth, and
taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
Mat_16:24 WEB Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let
him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Luk_6:24-25 WEB "But
woe to you who are rich! For you have received your
consolation. 25 Woe to you, you who are full now! For you will
be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now! For you will mourn and weep.
Though “entertainment” by itself is not wrong per se,
our use of it to constantly gratify ourselves, always needing to be entertained
and pampered, is definitely a gross and wicked sin. And this sin is the common
use in modern christianity.
We are not those who mourn and are blessed by Jesus, but those who laugh now,
to which Jesus casts His “woe” (Luk_6:25).
But even as if this common addiction to media were not enough of a
crime for us, beyond this we are content to pour into ourselves the greatest
filth with our media that God has explicitly said that He hates and forbids:
Psa_119:37 WEB Turn my eyes away from looking at
worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
Psa_101:2 I will behave myself wisely
in a perfect8549 way1870 ( includes conversation ). O when will you
come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect8537 (Complete.. innocence…
integrity) heart. (I walk habitually
in the integrity of my heart, In the midst of my house. YLT) 3. I will set no wicked thing before my eyes:
I hate the work of them that turn aside; it
will not cleave to me. 4. A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will
not know a wicked person
. 5. Whoever privily
slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that has an
high look and a proud heart I will not put up with… (KJV-Based)
Isa_33:14-17 WEB The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the
godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burning? 15 He
who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; he who despises the
gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking on
evil: 16 He
shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his
bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. 17 Your
eyes shall see the king in his beauty…
If You Solve Your Boredom
By Entertainment, That is Idolatry
4/25/12
>>
I will awaken the dawn
Hunger and thirst after righteousness
Your loving kindess
better than life
Knowing God
Conformed to world
Living in pleasures (the harlot thought
there was "nothing wrong with it" and assumed that it defaulted to
being ok!)
Lord, Lord! - You did your own will
Specific: Premarital Romantic Indulgence
See: www.TrueConnection.org/BibleStudies/NoDating_Battle_List.htm
It
happens that music as a whole is generally one of the greatest idolatries of
the modern world, and in many ways, leaving this indulgence becomes one of the very
first basic steps of repenting of living in sin to actually follow the real
Jesus. I have found that people are generally not even close to becoming a real
Christian until they are ready to zealously throw away their old music
collection and fervently and bitterly hate what they once loved for so long.
You
cannot sing the songs of truth until you have left the music of darkness.
Just as Satan turned His beauty from pleasing God to pleasing himself,
so also he uses music (which was originally designed to worship God) to
demonically inspire people today to generate music for the indulgence of sin
Eze_28:6-8 CAB Therefore
thus says the Lord: Since you have set your heart as the heart of God; 7
because of this, behold, I will
bring on you strange plagues… against the beauty of your knowledge, 8 and they shall bring down your beauty to
destruction…
Eze_28:12 CAB …You
were a seal of resemblance, and a crown of beauty.
Eze_28:13 a WEB You
were in Eden, the garden of God…
Eze_28:13 b CAB …you
were adorned with every precious stone — the sardius,
topaz, emerald, carbuncle, sapphire, jasper, silver, gold, ligure,
agate, amethyst, chrysolite, beryl and onyx…
Eze_28:14-15 CAB From
the day that you were created you were
with the cherub; I set you on the holy mount of God; you were in the midst of
the stones of fire. 15
You were faultless in your days, from the day that you were created, until
iniquity was found in you. 16
…you have been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has
brought you out of the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Your heart was lifted up because of your
beauty; your knowledge has been corrupted by your beauty: because of the
multitude of your sins I have cast you to the ground,
I have caused you to be put to open shame before kings.
If
we ever listen to or sing music, we need to seriously consider the purity of
the song writers
While David used
prophets to create Divine music (2Ch_29:25-31), we are usually
happy to select for ourselves filthy musicians for our own beloved and sinful
melodies
Mat_12:33-37 CAB "Either
make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make
the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for a tree is known by its fruit. 34
Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For
out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 A
good man out of his good treasure brings forth good things, and an evil man out
of his evil treasure brings forth evil things.
36 But I say to you, that for every idle
word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For
by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be
condemned."
Hymns are included too
A lot of songs, especially hymns, are the sweet song of the
harlot, which are sung to lull the hearers into
passive complacency and dead religion.
Music for Entertainment Instead of Prayer and Worship
Psa_137:2-3 CAB We hung our harps on
the willows in the midst of it. 3
For there they that had taken us captive asked of us the words of a song; and they
that had carried us away asked a
hymn, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Note:
·
This passage speaks of the
Babylonian Captivity (see all of Psa_137:1-9,
especially, verses Psa_137:1,
Psa_137:3-4,
Psa_137:8-9)
·
For the most part, “the songs of
Zion” (the Psalms) had initially been divinely composed much earlier during the
reign of David (1Ch_6:31-47; 1Ch_15:15-25, 1Ch_15:27; 1Ch_16:4-7, 1Ch_16:37, 1Ch_16:41-42; 2Ch_29:25-31; and also see 2Sa_23:1)
·
Just as these Babylonians so long
ago, it is the filthy perversion of pagans today that still wants to use music
for entertainment instead of worshiping God and directing people’s hearts
toward faith and truth.
·
We can see from this that it is
filthy and sinful to use music for entertainment when God designed it for
worship
·
If we will be God’s people, then
we, along with God’s people must “hang up” music when it comes to its potential
filthy and pagan uses
·
In Psa_137:2-3 it
is because of the antagonism of indulgent pagans that God’s people had to hang
up their harps in sorrow
·
Why did they hang their harps? “For [Greek: “ὅτι” like saying ‘because’ in this case] there they that had taken us
captive asked of us the words of a song…” (Psa_137:3 CAB)
Preview: Christina Music is almost all bad:
·The Song writers are evil (heretical/crazy/un-Biblical)
·Song content is essentially empty
·and their g-d is wrong -- they worship the wrong g-d, not
the One of the Bible
>> See: WOW!!
| CoCo
Here is a Very Oversimplified
Summary
WoW < music | music BBS | CeCo
5/31/24-6/1/24
Most church music disobeys the Bible in these
categories (among others):
(1) most church
songs are written by heretical, dirty, & unrighteous singers, song writers,
and/or celebrities who are not eager & zealous about Bible obedience.
This is actually a much more gigantic problem
then almost anyone notices. Even when a song sounds
nice at first, the tragic reality is that researching who actually wrote the
song, and what their life was like, is surprising and disturbing.
Most church music today has been written by
morally dirty people - both throughout history and into modern times.
(2) A great deal of church songs reinforce
unbiblical salvation assurance
The next time you might get to listen through
a church service, pay very close attention to the words of each song and how
they assume that the people who are singing them are saved.
Example: How Great
is our God (it's a popular modern praise song these days)
Both hymns as well as modern contemporary
church music fall into these problems.
This disobeys what the Old Testament prophets
and the book of Revelation all prophesy against (for example). -- Feel free to
ask more about this when getting in contact with us.
Much, much more could be said about this, as
well as the next point...
(3) Church songs almost never do anything to
sharply distinguish and contrast worship toward the God of the Bible and away
from the church's long & sad track record of praising and worshipping the
wrong things.
When is the last time
church music was played and church people got seriously convicted and
cried over their apostasy?
All of these problems and many more break so
many Bible verses it's hard to list them all here, but consider Psalm 101, for
example, which stands against all of these moral problems.
There are many more facts and proofs to come, but this gives a very simplistic answer to
those who are hungry and trying to find their way out of apostasy.
Note: If you’re a hasty critic (listening or
reading this), these words mean nothing to you and are none of your business! (see: Mat_3; Mat_23)
We’re just trying to prioritize and help the
most important people: poor crouching beggars.
- TV (media indulgence, As seen previously)
- General Fleshly lustfulness
- Premarital
Romantic Indulgence
- Condemnable sins
Hoshea Snake Smash: 2KI_18:3-4
Paul
Looking at Idols: Act_17:16 (also
22-23)
1Co_10:19-22 – Idol = demon
behind
2Pe_2:7-8 – Escape like
“Righteous Lot”
1Jn_5:21 CAB Little children,
guard yourselves from idols. Amen.
Loving the world means loving the flesh
This would not be so bad except that the flesh and world are counterfeits
of “true riches” polluted by sin, so that satan
is the master of them. You step into rebellion from God when you serve the
demonic realm of this world.
Consider the subtle Greek repetition of the “age” of this world, and the
“age” to come in Eph 2
What’s
the Reward and What’s the Hope For Repenting of
Worldliness?
2Co_6:12-18 CAB 12 …you are restricted by
your own affections…
14 Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what participation
is there for righteousness with lawlessness?
And what communion is there for light with darkness? 15 And
what agreement is there for Christ with Belial? [that is, the devil] Or what part is there for a believer
with an infidel? [that
is, “ἄπιστος” (apistos)
- an unbeliever] 16 And what union is there for the temple of God
with idols?... 17 Therefore
"Come out from the midst of them and be separated," says the Lord.
"Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you." 18
"I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons
and daughters, says the LORD Almighty."
(Also: Isa_52:11/ Eze_20:34,
Eze_20:41)
It is time to be like Job…
Job_1:1 WEB There
was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That
man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and
turned away from evil.
>> Sync: JCH
| WoW
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Additions
SLV > WoW -- Friends
Friends
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Sir_37:1 Every
friend declares his friendship,
but there are friends who are friends in name
only.
>>
Get/compile other verses!!!
12 Instead, associate
with
a religious
man,
who you are sure keeps the
commandments;
who is like-minded
with yourself
and will feel for you
if you fall.
>> Sync: WOW
| EffHelp > YouTube | LO > non-contradiction |
Sync -- PENDING
The older bro: I
wish I could hang out w my friends
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Reimagining holiness for a wandering church in a watching world. Paperback –
July 3, 2014
Different makes
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save will produce disciples who stand with, but not as, the lost world. We can
walk alongside people and still stand out from them. Disciples cannot call
other disciples to repentance and change if they are not themselves changed and
changing. Churches cannot serve their divine purpose to call cities and systems
to redemption and change if they are not themselves redeemed and redemptive.
https://www.amazon.com/Different-Reimagining-holiness-wandering-watching/dp/0984575863
Mike Patz@mikepatz·Jan 7
Mike Patz
@mikepatz
Jan 7
Division
in the Church is an offense to Jesus - because unity is his heart. Curiously, what grieves Jesus also offends the world,
albeit in a different way. Our division discredits & contradicts our
Gospel. If we want an awakening, this credibility gap MUST be remedied.
Justice
righteousness OR justice
Mike Patz@mikepatz·Jan 7
Mike Patz
@mikepatz
·
Jan 7
Division
in the Church is an offense to Jesus - because unity is his heart. Curiously,
what grieves Jesus also offends the world, albeit in a different way. Our
division discredits & contradicts our Gospel. If we want an awakening, this
credibility gap MUST be remedied.
Mike Patz
@mikepatz
There
will likely not be deep unity in the American church until we take seriously
BOTH righteousness AND justice.
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…
Too many
believers seem to feel the need to functionally devote themselves to EITHER
righteousness OR justice. Jesus always demands both.
Mike Patz@mikepatz
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2/11/13
- no one wakes up and says,
"when i grow up i want
to be a druggy"
- bad people watch moves
where the bad guys loose, and they still become bad guys!
- it is demanded that we do
not be like everyone else
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Diplomacy
12/8/19
In the Bible they are surprisingly diplomatic
They are Peace makers -- even w pagans
Elisha: go in peace -- to someone who made it into
heaven!
>>Scrip: /\
Diplomacy is less available now that all men
are commanded to repent
we are more diplomatic than the world
we want peace
we seek it with all men as much as possible
>>Scrip: /\
Boundaries
We want Diplomacy, not (full) reciprocation with the
world…
The principle of Diplomacy does not indicate
compromise -- unless you compromise to reciprocate, which is a Biblical word
for being defiled (reciprocated/fellowshiped) with
the world
We never agree to deny our faith when seeking to be
diplomatic -- that is a denial of the very concept of diplomacy
Normalizing sin never diplomatically feasible -- that is
not diplomacy!
If you find that homosexual controversies can make
Diplomacy outright impossible -- then you’re probably right!
Homosexuals have never been intended as a reasonable
functional part of society, which is why Moses’ Law executed them…
Now what do we do when society dysfunctions in a new
era of mercy?
We may either step back even further or we might
even get pushed out with Moses…
It is interesting how the world can sometimes remind
us of who we are and put us back in our place outside of it…
When you’ve gone too far, you can be sure you were
already going the wrong direction to begin with
Normalizing sin is a realm where Diplomacy cannot
reach.
When Diplomacies limits end, then we are reminded
that we don’t belong in this world to begin with!
Everyone is responsible for managing their own faith
in a Diplomacy.
No one is allowed to demand that another ignore or
change or compromise their faith, or else it’s no longer diplomatic
The bible has been around long before paganism, and
especially neo-paganism
If you introduce a new ideal, it is your actions
that are either diplomatic or war-like.
The newer pronoun controversy propaganda is an act
of faith -- one that belongs to those who sin
No one has any right to change or manage another who
is of a different faith (they have no authority over other people’s faith)
Even Paul who had authority refused to be lords over
people of his own faith!
>>Scrip: /\
Diplomacy = You manage your
body your faith and your life over there as we likewise over here
Though we are NOT all brothers, or of the same
faith, or values, or ideals, or preferences, or life styles, or commitments,
yet we choose to seek out common ground, ground that is already common between
two different parties, as a basis for diplomatic relations and interactions…
Imperial Paganism is intentional antichrist --
forced allegiance and conformity to legislated sin
As humans with an ancient human history, we all have
known that antichrist is expected to persecute monotheists
Whenever forced paganism is promoted, then that
constitutes an attack which is inherently non-Diplomatic
Diplomacy is peace-seeking, attacks are war-seeking
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Real Disciples Are No Longer “The nations” / Gentiles
9/19/17
Acts: they called the religious Jewish leaders, “the
nations”
1Co_12:2 You know
that when you were Gentiles, how you were led, being
carried away to these speechless idols.
1Co 12:2
οἴδατε ὅτι, ὅτε
ἔθνη ἦτε, πρὸς
τὰ εἴδωλα τὰ ἄφωνα
ὡς ἂν ἤγεσθε ἀπαγόμενοι.
1Co 12:2 οιδατε οτι BAοτε εθνη
ητε προς τα
ειδωλα τα
αφωνα ως αν
ηγεσθε απαγομενοι
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4/9/17
Lev 18:3 WEB You shall not do as they do in the
land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of
Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.
Lev 18:3 LB You shall not do according to what is done in
Egypt, in which you dwelt: and according to what is done in the land of Canaan,
into which I bring you, you shall not do; and you shall not walk in their
ordinances.
Lev 18:3 κατὰ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα
γῆς Αἰγύπτου, ἐν
ᾗ κατῳκήσατε ἐπ᾿
αὐτῇ, οὐ ποιήσετε
καὶ κατὰ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα
γῆς Χανααν, εἰς ἣν
ἐγὼ εἰσάγω ὑμᾶς
ἐκεῖ, οὐ ποιήσετε
καὶ τοῖς νομίμοις
αὐτῶν οὐ πορεύσεσθε·
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3/23/17
Pro 13:20 WEB One who walks with wise men grows
wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Pro 13:20 LB If you walk with wise men you shall be wise,
but he that walks with fools shall be known.
Pro 13:20 ὁ
συμπορευόμενος
σοφοῖς σοφὸς ἔσται,
ὁ δὲ συμπορευόμενος
ἄφροσι γνωσθήσεται.
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Pro_13:20 -- Walk with Wise, not Fools
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Christmas
2/16/04; 3/4/17 (recompiled)
Jer_10:
Joh_10:
Presidents outlawed it
George Washington used it to massacre the
British
Santa:
Don’t participate in a lie! (if you are a christian…)
Santa bowing down to jesus in a manger
Don’t watch movies/TV shows about Santa and
give place for fiction that is contrary to Jesus
Fiction blurs reality and you should not give
a portion of your self to entertain a lie.
Based on faith. An
attempt by the enemy to undermine faith in Jesus:
“…he knows when you are sleeping… he knows
when you are bad or good”
Þ Then we try to tell them that Jesus, who you
can’t see knows everything about you and so you should be good…
To many church go-ers,
that’s all Jesus is anyway: a fairy tail.
The christmas angels celebrated what would become of Jesus,
not of what He was;
They celebrated what He
would do, as the savior not the
fact that He was a cute little baby.
Remember why He came,
not when He came.
[“grew in wisdom/stature/favor” Lk 2:52]
People like a cute little baby, but not Him
coming with the clouds with wrath.
We don’t feel threatened by a baby, but we
squirm at the thought of Him coming in judgment and fire!
At the temple, Simon and prophetess Anna in
the temple talked of what He would do not
about how cute He was
See: Lk 2:25-38
“…she gave thanks to God and spoke about the
child to all who were looking forward
to the redemption of Jerusalem.” (Lk 2:38 NIV)
Scary: Unsaved people get in to “The christmas spirit” how can a christian participate in that same spirit??? Isn’t there some thing
wrong here?
Don’t be deceived by “the enlightenment!”
“The Spirit of christmas” is a spirit!
This rationalizing of everything as just
being terms and not actually spiritual is the affect
of foolish worldly ideology developed by unbelievers.
Take note how our culture criticizes us for
not diving in to the same spirit as they do:
“Your just a Scrooge
‘Bah humbug!’”
It is ingrained into us as babies that you
are backsliden
if you don’t get in to christmas…
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Vain Music
1/19/17
Exo_32:6 WEB
They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and
brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose
up to play.
Exo_32:6 LB And having risen early on the next day, he
offered burnt offerings, and offered a peace offering; and the people sat down
to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Exo_32:6 καὶ ὀρθρίσας
τῇ ἐπαύριον ἀνεβίβασεν
ὁλοκαυτώματα
καὶ προσήνεγκεν
θυσίαν σωτηρίου,
καὶ ἐκάθισεν ὁ
λαὸς φαγεῖν καὶ
πιεῖν καὶ ἀνέστησαν
παίζειν.
Exo_32:19 WEB It happened, as soon as he came near
to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot,
and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.
Exo_32:19 LB And when he drew near to the camp, he saw
the calf and the people dancing; and Moses, being very angry, cast the two
tablets out of his hands and broke them to pieces under the mountain.
Exo_32:19 καὶ ἡνίκα
ἤγγιζεν τῇ
παρεμβολῇ, ὁρᾷ
τὸν μόσχον καὶ
τοὺς χορούς, καὶ
ὀργισθεὶς θυμῷ
Μωυσῆς ἔρριψεν
ἀπὸ τῶν χειρῶν
αὐτοῦ τὰς δύο
πλάκας καὶ συνέτριψεν
αὐτὰς ὑπὸ τὸ ὄρος.
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2. Many
of us are Worldly
This was made after Embrace Revolution, and has a few updates to the
quotations
3.6.08
This part may be finished
at some point…
1. Worldliness
Brings Death
2. The Corrupted Church is Worldly
A. God has called His Church to be Holy
B. Corrupted Christianity is Worldly
C. The Corrupted Church Needs to Repent
1.Worldliness
Brings Death
2.The
Corrupted Church is Worldly
A.God
has called His Church to be Holy
See “God Condemns Worldliness”
Contents
B.Corrupted
Christianity is Worldly
Pharisee’s are worldly:
“We are Abraham’s children!”
Church people are worldly:
“We are christians”
We say, “You don’t have a
right to suggest that I could go to hell!”
“Tell us smooth things…”
Compare Church statistics
Religious leaders called “the nations,” (and not
Israel): Act_4:25
Act_4:1 KJVCNT
And as they spoke unto the people, the
priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
[then later…]
Act_4:5-6 KJVCNT
And it came to pass on the next day, that
their rulers, and elders, and scribes, 6 And Annas the high
priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the
kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. [Comparable
to: “the clergy in the church”]
[then after
being threatened by them…]
Act_4:23-25 KJ2000
And being let go, they went to their own
company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto
them. 24 And
when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and
said, Lord, you are God, who has made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all
that is in them: 25 Who
by the mouth of your servant David has said, Why did the nations rage, and the people imagine vain
things?
Contents
C.The
Corrupted Church Needs to Repent
Compare what Jesus said to
religious people:
“Unless you are converted”
See all the verses about
going to hell after being saved
Contents
Consider Your Path Pt. 2 – Influences
1/11/06; 1/16/06 (+Word: Created -- JS
Version?); 1/18/06 (Word: Modified); 3/7/17 (recompiled)
The UpRising Youth 01.11.06
Proverbs 4: 25-27 NKJV
25
Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look
right before you. 26 Ponder the path of your feet, And
let all your ways be established. 27 Do not turn to the right or the left;
Remove your foot from evil..
KEY POINT: You are already going down a path AND
the destination is important.
* The WISE person takes time to seriously
consider which direction they are headed
Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way that seems right to a man, but
in the end it leads to death”
Ephesians 2:1-3 MKJV
(1) And He has made you alive, who were once dead
in trespasses and sins, (2) in
which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of
disobedience; (3) among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the
lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts,
and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others
The
enemy is within
** Maybe video clip
ILL: How to Poison a Dog
Mention: There are many ways to get to Hell
The Danger of Influences
Intro Story of Daniel 1
- Teenage Daniel
taken from his home, his family, his culture and stuck in a foreign country with a foreign language, a foreign culture, a false god and wicked religion, and a dictator king.
- Ú Why you hang with right
people
- He and his
buddies recruited to train to serve the king.
- Given new names, and trained in
culture, language , and teachings of this foreign land
- It was a
comfortable situation, a good deal.
- Plenty of good food and wine à “by the way,” sacrificed
to idols
- Good clothes
- Important position in the kingdom
à Daniel 1:8
8
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he
would not defile himself with the portion of
the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested
of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
à Daniel would not let himself be defiled; he
refused because he knew that it would dishonor God.
Josiahs tag in
Ú Why
you hang with right people
Ú Show me your friends, I’ll show you your
future
Let’s also talk about
thoughts…
Ú Influences in the mind, The enemy is within
Books
Movies
Internet
Porn is obvious
Instant Messenger, blogs (myspace) - - gossip and sexual immorality
TV
MTV
Will and Grace
South Park
Music
· Saul and David (harps and psalms calm spirits)
· Satanic anointing on music/lyrics
Sexual Lyrics
Depression (Emo)
Video
Games
Ú Goes further than you think
Alter Your Thoughts * Proverbs 23:8 à “As he thinks in his heart,
so he is.”
InfluencesàThoughts à Words à Actions à Character à Destiny
(we’re talking about
PATHS)
- Ever notice how you tend to think a lot
about the things you do and like to do
- Ever notice how when you spend time
thinking about something, you end up talking about it
- Caleb
- Movies
- Gadgets/Toys/sports
Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of
those who imagine evil, but to
counselors of peace there is joy.
** The State tells
child molesters to not think about
molesting children
à Their attitudes are
“what, it doesn’t hurt anyone if it’s in my mind”
à Won’t declare them healed of their addiction
until they stop thinking about it
Ú Do you get the last two verses? They are saying, “You are what you eat”
(spiritually)
ÚTherefore, entertaining ungodly thoughts make
you guilty in the same way acting them out does
Ú Lustful looks (thoughts) are adultery (Mat
5:27-30) Adulterers don’t make it to heaven (24 references):
Mat 5:27-32; Mat 19:16 & 18/ Mar 10:17 & 19/ Lk 18:18 & 20;
Also see: Exo 20:14/Deu 5:18; Lev 20:10; Deu 22:22; Pro 2:16-19; 6:23-33; Jer
5:7-9; 29:22; Ezk 23:43-47; Mal 3:5-6; Mat 15:19; Mar
7:21; Rom 13:9-10; 1Cor 6:9-10; Gal 5:16-21; Heb 13:4; Jas
2:11-12; 2Pet 2:14 & 17-22; Rev 2:22-23
Jason tag in
Getting to the point:
Romans 12:9 MKJV
(9) Let love be without hypocrisy, hate (abhor)
what is evil, cling to what is good
Ø God’s will, Our Standard à Philippians 4:8
Finally,
brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is
pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or
praiseworthy—think about such things.
THE POINT: If Satan is going to use this vulnerability
in our thinking to hurt us, to dishonor God; then, we can also use this to
Take a look back at equation above: if we can put good stuff in, then outcome
likely to be good.
Give exs.
à Is this movie :
true, noble, right, pure, lovely, praiseworthy?
What does God think?
Luke 16:15 MKJV
(15) And He said to them, You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God
knows your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination
in the sight of God.
*** If
you’re gonna put it in you, make sure it lines up
with all of these areas, not just one or
some
Steal
Your Time
Hebrews 9:27
(27) And as it is appointed to men once to die,
but after this the judgment,
Life is short, what are we going to spend it
on? Something worthwhile? Or are you going to waste it
on stuff that is going to hold you back?
Like stealing a credit card and just charging
it up à wasting what God wants to use for good à your good, others’ good, and God’s good
When
we accept, submit to, and do God’s will, everyone involved wins
How God wants to use you . . .
Have a guy explain Donny’s
analogy – 85,400 sec/day
** You can’t have both, can’t do it all à sin and wicked influences keep us from being useful to
God’s kingdom because they keep God out
Josiahs tag in
Defile Your Soul
Take a look back to Daniel
Psalm 101:3-4 “I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I
hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not cling to me. A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will
not know wickedness.”
- Truck
stop/gas-station bathroom, overflowed with junk
RESTATE Psalm 101:3-4 in light of bathroom image
1 John 2:15-17 MKJV
(15) Do not love the world, nor
the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
(16) because all that is in
the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of
life, is not of the
Father, but is of the world.
(17) And the world passes away, and the lust of
it, but he who does the will of God abides forever.
GARBAGE IN à à à GARBAGE OUT
Matthew 13:41-42
(41) The Son of Man shall send out His angels, and
they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend,
and those who do iniquity (those who disobey
God),
(42) and
shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of
teeth.
.
Psalm 1:1-2 “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the
counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of
mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates
day and night.”
>Add-ins:
That
which you let Develop Desires, Determines Direction and Destiny
Psa 66:18 KJB If I value7200 iniquity in my heart, the Lord
will not hear me:
(a fearful thing)
“I’m
cool with God” – “Me and J.C.”
Javier Example: “I talk to God like a friend… we are in a argument right now”
-so
sad that he thinks this about God but God does not regard him, because he
regards sin
Isa 66:2 KJV
…but to this one
I will respect5027,
to one who is
poor and of a broken spirit, and trembles at my word.
Ú “Star Wars is a GOOD
Movie” (Star Wars combo of Pantheism, Dualism and Ying Yang.)
Ú “That Song is Sweat!”
ÚÚ What are you respecting / regarding with
value
What desires you don’t deal with
will kill you
Gal 5:24 WEB
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its
passions and lusts.
Close with tie back to path and pointing kids
towards right path
Emphasize Get around right influences
Give kids chance to pray
Extra:
Star Wars:
Twice in the
original trilogy they even refer to “The Force” as a religion. I knew that the Bible
said things like:
Have
nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. (Eph 5:11 NIV)
Have
nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. (1Tim 4:7 NIV)
Dear
friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good…(3JN
1:11 NIV)
When you enter the
land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable
ways of the nations there. (DT 18:9 NIV)
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Enfluences -Extra- Within.rtf
The enemy comes from within
end of it
tye it
back in to good in good out
So PUT in good stuf
that matters for what is right
Cut off the bad stuff (music or "nutural" )