Crisis and Culture

We look at the world around is we see a constant shift of our ideals, motives, and influence.

We see great advancements in technology as the global leaders of industry are far from professing Christ as King.

As of June 24, 2024, Apple is the world's biggest company by market capitalization, with a value of $3.181 trillion.

The Logo of the Bite out of the Apple - The bite in the Apple logo was added by graphic designer Rob Janoff in 1977 to differentiate the fruit from a cherry or cherry tomato and to add a playful touch.

Nevertheless, the “fruit with a bite mark” iconography certainly alludes to Eden and temptation, whether it was intended to or not.But just as for Adam and Eve in Eden, so it is for us: the desire to know everything only leads to grief.

We can use what is given to us from a Christless Culture and make ti for our Good.

Kevin d. Young

Famously, in the middle of the last century, a theologian named Richard Niebuhr, laid out, in a book by that title, Christ and Culture, five different paradigms. He said you can have Christ against culture, Christ of culture, Christ above culture, Christ in culture in paradox, and Christ the transformer of culture. And he tried to lay out the different historical origins and different people who he thinks he held to each of those positions, and though he tried to give equal time to each, it’s pretty clear that he felt like the last one, Christ the transformer of culture, was the best model.

As a Christians you must use the culture and flee from the Crisis.

1. The Crisis

is the sin.

Sin brings forth more Sin.

Josephus number of Adams sons is 33 son and 23 daughters.

Cain - In the Land of Nod

A wonderer

You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until in you they find their rest.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Are heart is continually restless until we Find our rest in God.

Cain built a city (Gen. 4:17),

Statistics Kevin D Young.

Global population and extreme poverty. Did you know, in 1830, 84% of the world lived in extreme poverty? And I think the number was less than $2 a day, by constant inflation adjusted numbers. 84%. Do you know what the number is now? 8.6%. You say, well, that’s just an average thrown off because there’s so many really rich people. No, since 1952, global inequality among people and between countries has been decreasing.

The chance of a person dying in a natural catastrophe, earthquake, flood, wildfire, even epidemic, has declined 99% since the 1920s. In just 100 years.

The global literacy rate, this isn’t a class so I can’t ask you for, but just think in your mind, what do you guess the global literacy rate was in 1820? In 1820, it was 10%, 10% of the world could read and write. Do you know what is today? It’s flipped. 90%.

In 1820, the average global life expectancy was 30 years old. Today, it’s 72.

2. The Culture

Sinful Culture of Beauty

Polygamy a dishonor of Gods Established Order

V.19- Lamech

Polygamy a dishonor of Gods Established Order

Adah - Adornment, ornament.

Zillah - “shade” or “shadow” and “bell

Naamah- lovlyness

Flee From the Crisis

CUlture of Pride

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 4

23 Lamech said to his wives:

Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;

wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words.

For I killed a man for wounding me,

a young man for striking me.

24 If Cain is to be avenged seven times over,

then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!

He made himslef to be Judge

He felt becasue someone wonede him he could be the one who executed a more harsh judemtn than God would.

He is greater than God Because he puts a

2

Is so often dictated

a. The Culture dictates the way a society will go

Modern Day Culture is advancing on

A city named Enoch - Dedicated, trained, disciplined

Jabal developed husbandry (4:20), nomadic herdsmen travel to make sure His flocks were well taken care of.

Jubal developed music (4:21), - Which upon its creation was not made to bring Glory to God but made to distract and move the culture in a more sin filled way.

Tubal-cain developed the work of craftsmen (workers in bronze and iron, 4:22).

Creating tools and making weapons.

These developments come from the ungodly line, which shows that unbelievers are able to understand the way the world works as established by God even while not necessarily acknowledging God as the ultimate source of these blessings.

The most radical Christians inevitably make use of the culture, or parts of the culture.

D. A. Carson

b.

According to data collected by Promise Keepers and Baptist Press, if a father does not go to church, even if his wife does, only 1 child in 50 will become a regular worshiper.

Another survey found that if a child is the first person in a household to become a Christian, there is a 3.5% probability everyone else in the household will follow. If the mother is the first to become a Christian, there is a 17% probability everyone else in the household will follow. However, when the father is first, there is a 93% probability everyone else in the household will follow.

A son was born to Seth Her named him Enosh - Weak of Frail