Worldly Christianity vs. Biblical Christianity
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Worldly Christianity
Worldly Christianity
Roots of Worldly Christianity
The World/Culture
Other People
Self
Satan
Satan lies go back to the beginning with the Fall
No one will say they got their ideas from Satan
Biblical Christianity
Biblical Christianity
Roots of Biblical Christianity
Hearing the Word of God (Rom 10:17)
Obey the Word of God
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
THEIR PURSUITS
THEIR PURSUITS
Worldly Christian Pursuits
Minds Are Divided
For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Worldly Christian Pursuits
Minds are Divided
Hearts are Far from God
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
Worldly Christian Pursuits
Minds are Divided
Hearts are Far from God
Strength in Self-Centered
No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
Biblical Christian Pursuits
Minds are Set
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Biblical Christian Pursuits
Minds are Set
Hearts are Sincere
Strength is God-Centered
Soul is Secure
We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,
Part 2 - Their Recruits
Part 2 - Their Recruits
Worldly Christian Recruits
The “Crowd”
And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.
Worldly Christian Recruits
The “Crowd”
The “Proselyte”
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
Worldly Christian Recruits
The “Crowd”
The “Proselyte”
The “Member”
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
Biblical Christianity Recruits
True Disciple
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.
Their Fruits
Their Fruits
Worldly Christian Fruit
Morally
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Worldly Christian Fruit
Morally
Religiously
“ ‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
Worldly Christian Fruit
Morally
Religiously
Relationally
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Worldly Christian Fruit
Morally
Religiously
Relationally
Eternally
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Biblical Christian Fruit
Morally
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Biblical Christian Fruit
Morally
Religiously
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
Biblical Christian Fruit
Morally
Religiously
Relationally
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Biblical Christian Fruit
Morally
Religiously
Relationally
Eternally
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
