The Danger of Compromise
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· 95 viewsWe live in a world filled with thieves and scam artists. Broken people that are not looking out for you, but are only looking out for themselves. Satan is the greatest deceiver, liar, and manipulator seeking to steal, kill, and destroy. So, How do we, as the people of God, guard against the wiles of the Devil and the world? As children of God, we are commanded to be holy (set apart) unto God amid this crooked and perverse generation. Joshua 9 describes a time when the inhabitants of the Promise Land deceived Joshua. Pastor Bill uses this example to illustrate how to avoid the danger of compromise with a world in which we are trying to witness.
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Introduction: (Defining the Pain)
The art of deception:
Magic Tricks
Slight of hand
Hustles (The bait and switch)
Cons
The Christian world has it too!
Magic Tricks: The rib of Adam. Supposedly a man has one less rib than a woman. Not true! It just preaches well.
Hustles: (The bait and switch) I want to be your friend so I can tell you about Jesus.
Cons: You required to buy and candle so you can light it as a prayer to Saint Whoever or your prayer will not be heard.
Bible Lesson: (Defining the Passage)
Spotting the Deception
Spotting the Deception
Read Josua 9:1-15
Outside Deception
Outside Deception
Two types of Deception:
Two types of Deception:
Deceivers: Presenting themselves as someone their not.
Deceivers: Presenting themselves as someone their not.
“People, living in fear, will do almost anything to survive.”
“People, living in fear, will do almost anything to survive.”
“People, living in fear, will do almost anything to survive.”
People, living with insecurities, lie to everyone.
7 But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?”
Joshua 9:7
This is the same people listed in verse 1.
Manipulators
Joshua
So they were playing both sides. This leads to enemies on both sides. As we will find out in Chapter 10.
1 As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this,
People pleasers are deceptive. (Two faced)
The person that wants everyone to be happy.
The person that says yes to everyone.
The person that will never hurt your feelings.
The person that flatters you all the time.
5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
23 Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.
“If you’re pleasing everyone, you’re not being real to someone.”
“If you’re pleasing everyone, you’re not being real to someone.”
Manipulators: Identifying themselves with you to control you.
Manipulators: Identifying themselves with you to control you.
9 They said to him, “From a very distant country your servants have come, because of the name of the Lord your God. For we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
Clip from Nacho Libre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHWcoaM_59E
Girls don’t believe it. He doesn’t really like poopies. He’s just trying to get in your paints.
Inside Deception
Inside Deception
Manipulators find the things that are important to you and use them against you.
Avoiding the Compromise
Avoiding the Compromise
People living in fear lie to protect themselves.
Living in the Spirit removes fear and doubt and thus removes the need to lie or hide.
Avoiding the Compromise
Avoiding the Compromise
Defining a Compromise
Defining a Compromise
Deceivers
Manipulators
A compromise is justification of sin that goes unchecked in your life.
A compromise is justification of sin that goes unchecked in your life.
Allowing an attitude, an action, or an individual in your life that you know is against the truth of God’s Word.
Allowing an attitude, an action, or an individual in your life that you know is against the truth of God’s Word.
Avoiding the Compromise
Avoiding the Compromise
Examples:
A believer watching pornography.
A believer cheating on their taxes.
A believer having pre-marital sex.
A believer holding grudges and not loving.
A believer telling lies to protect themselves or others.
A believer being glutenous.
14 So the men took some of their provisions, but did not ask counsel from the Lord.
Joshua
“Seek a word from the Lord to avoid the lies of the world.”
“Seek a word from the Lord to avoid the lies of the world.”
The truth of God’s word will expose the lies of the world.
The truth of God’s word will expose the lies of the world.
Measure all truth by the ultimate truth of the Bible.
The more you know the Bible the more you will identify the counterfeit.
The Spirit of peace will guide you into all truth.
The Spirit of peace will guide you into all truth.
Trust the unsettling feeling that you get from the Spirit.
“Something doesn’t feel right.” That is the Spirit.
15 And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.
Joshua
Living with the Compromise
Living with the Compromise
16 At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and that they lived among them.
Joshua
The compromises you make will have residual effects throughout your life.
The compromises you make will have residual effects throughout your life.
It’s amazing how many people know the consequences of their compromises and are still willing to pay the price for it.
It’s amazing how many people know the consequences of their compromises and are still willing to pay the price for it.
I want you to stop and think of 3 compromises you are making in your life right now that you know is hurting you, those around you, or your relationship with God.
I want you to stop and think of 3 compromises you are making in your life right now that you know is hurting you, those around you, or your relationship with God.
The compromises we make in life are the things that steal the joy and vitality from our life.
The compromises we make in life are the things that steal the joy and vitality from our life.
leader Lesson: When you compromise your standards you have to live with the decision you made.
18 But the people of Israel did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders. 19 But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.
Joshua 9:
Next Week on Joshua: “You end up serving the compromise, the compromise doesn’t serve you.”
Next Steps: (Defining the Process)
Consult God, His Word, godly counsel, and the Holy Spirit on the issues of life to avoid the compromises of the world.
Consult God, His Word, godly counsel, and the Holy Spirit on the issues of life to avoid the compromises of the world.
Identify the compromises you have made and be honest about the changes you need to make to fix it.
Identify the compromises you have made and be honest about the changes you need to make to fix it.
If you find yourself living in a
Find a community of people that you can encourage and will encourage you to avoid compromises.
Find a community of people that you can encourage and will encourage you to avoid compromises.
You need people that are willing to see you for who you are and love you anyway.
You need people that will be honest with you and speak truth into your life.