The Woes of Worldliness
2.28.08
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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.
Intro
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?
What is Worldliness? Summary:
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 the “soul” (Greek: ψυχικός): 1Co 2:14; 1Co 15:44, 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.
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…
[God
called Israel out of the world, and now He does this with us (see 2Co 6:17
quoted below); *”manthánete” (μανθανετε): “be discipled by”]
The Nations
Which Don’t Know God
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…
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.
Jam
1:27 Pure religion2356 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.
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”: “abides into forever”]
-
Don’t take your cues from the world
Heb
12:14 KJV Follow peace with all men,
and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord…
Eph
5:11 EMTV And have no partnership
[συγκοινωνειτε
4790] with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose
[ελεγχετε 1651] them.
G4790
συγκοινωνέω
"...to
share in company with, that is, co-participate in..."
(Strong's)
>
G2841 κοινωνέω
G1651 ἐλέγχω
In
the NT, to convict, to prove one in the wrong and thus to shame him.
B. Manny of us are Worldly
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.
-
why is worldliness wrong?
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.
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.
Can’t
serve two masters… (Mat 6:24)
1Co
16:22 KJV If anyone does not affectionately
love 5368 [φιλεῖ
(Philei)] the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed331 …
In most Cases…
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
Getting Specific
-
TV (media purity)
-
Fleshly lustfullness
-
Condemnable sins
Some thoughts
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
Media
Purity
No
Bad Stuff Before Eyes:
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…
Hoseah
Snake Smash: 2KI 18:3-4
Paul
Looking @ Idols:
Act 17:16 (also 22-23)
(
Idol = demon
behind 1 Cor. 10:19)
2Pe
2:7-8 – “righteous Lot”
What’s the reward and what’s
the Hope?
2Co 6:17 Therefore come
out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the
unclean thing. And I will receive you 18 and
I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says
the Lord Almighty.
(Also:
Isa 52:11/Ezk 20:34, 41)
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HideNotes
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…
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
2. The Corrupted Church is Worldly
A. God has called His Church to be Holy
See
“God Condemns Worldliness”
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?
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