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Introduction:
We live in a sinfully broken world that increasingly on the brink of war.
Part of this sinfully broken world is the overwhelming deception that exists - some religious, others overtly anti-religious.
As Christ’s followers see sin, destruction, judgment they may be tempted to waver or be deceived.
PASTOR OPRAH
Topics: Authenticity; Entertainment; Idolatry; Integrity; Longing; Spirituality; Teachers; Television
References: Deuteronomy 11:16; Mark 13:22; Acts 17:29; 2 Timothy 4:3–4; 2 Peter 2:1; 1 John 5:21
She has hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show for more than twenty years, amassing billions of dollars in assets and attracting more than 49 million viewers each week in the United States.
People look to Oprah Winfrey for advice on everything from genocide in Rwanda to the best-tasting oatmeal cookies.
Many people also regard her as a spiritual leader.
According to USA Today, “By the late 1990s, Winfrey’s focus was Change Your Life TV, and a New Age message was more prevalent.
She preached, making the message of her life—take responsibility, and greatness will follow—the substance of the show.
Keep a personal journal, purchase self-indulgent gifts, take time for you because you deserve it.
The notes rang true to millions of viewers.”
Cathleen Falsani, religion writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, asks straight out: “Has Oprah become America’s pastor?”
There is evidence to support this conclusion.
According to a November 2006 poll conducted by Beliefnet.com,
which looks at how religion and spirituality intersect with popular culture, 33 percent of its sixty-six hundred respondents said Winfrey has had “a more profound impact” than their pastors on their spiritual lives.
Chris Altrock, pastor of Highland Street Church of Christ in Memphis, Tennessee, says, “Our culture is changing as churches are in decline and the bulk of a new generation is growing up outside of religion.
People are now turning up at The Church of Oprah instead.”
Jim Twitchell, a professor at the University of Florida, believes that Oprah reverence makes sense.
“Religion essentially is based on high anxiety of what’s going to happen to you,” he says.
“Winfrey pushes the idea that you have a life out there, and it’s better than the one you have now, and go get it.
It has to do with this deep American faith and yearning to be reborn.
To start again.”
In The Gospel according to Oprah, Marcia Nelson says Oprah’s integrity has enhanced her spiritual stature.
“One of the things that’s key is she walks her talk,” Nelson says.
“That’s really, really important in today’s culture.
People who don’t walk their talk fall from a great pedestal—think of scandals in the Catholic Church and in televangelism.
If you’re not doing what you say you do, woe be unto you.”
—Ann Oldenburg, “The Divine Miss Winfrey?” USA Today (May 11, 2006)
The climax of this deception is to wonder if Jesus is really Who He said He is — or to wonder where he is.
- 11 What manner of persons ought ye to be?
Prop: Because of the shocking reality to come, be peacefully on guard in the middle of increasing trouble!
Points:
(1) Be on guard in the midst of what you hear & what you experience for Jesus Christ, the Son of God ()
Nationalism, materialism, & persecution have unique ways of deceiving us away from the true Christ.
7234 Boatman’s Lone Star
An artist once drew a picture.
It represented a night-scene.
A solitary man is rowing a little skiff across a lake; the wind is high and stormy, the billows, white and crested, rage around the frail bark; and not a star, save one, shines through the dark and angry sky above.
But upon that lone star the voyager fixes his eye, and keeps rowing away—on, on, on through the midnight storm.
Written beneath the picture were these words, “If I lose that I’m lost!”
—Denton
(2) Be on guard with increasing trust that the deliverance of the elect is secure in Jesus Christ, the Son of God ()
(2) The Sobering Reality about the Gospel Work ()
Know Your Election
Many people want to know their election before they look to Christ.
But they cannot learn it thus; it is only to be discovered by ‘looking unto Jesus.’
Look to Jesus, believe on Him, and you shall make proof of your election directly, for as surely as you believe, you are elect.
If you will give yourself wholly up to Christ and trust Him, then you are one of God’s chosen ones.
Go to Jesus just as you are.
Go straight to Christ, hide in His wounds, and you shall know your election.
Christ was at the everlasting council.
He can tell you whether you were chosen or not, but you cannot find out in any other way.
Go and put your trust in Him.
There will be no doubt about His having chosen you, when you have chosen Him. - Charles Spurgeon
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Self-provision or self-sufficiency & the long suffering activity of God have unique ways for clouding our perspective of the true Christ.
(3) Be on guard with absolute certainty of the return of Jesus Christ, the Son of God ()
(3) The
Knowledge of time and control of schedules have unique ways of turning our faith away from the clarity of the Son of God.
Applications Questions:
To help us be on guard peacefully:
(1) To be on guard peacefully, you must know what is True.
Are you part of the people of God?
Have you equated your patriotism to your devotion to Christ?
Have unbiblical convictions about religious materials led you to divide from other followers of the Son of God?
Have faith in the Son of God and not in a temporary nation.
REJECTING AN AWARD-WINNING BOOK
Topics: Alertness; Books; Challenges; Complacency; Devotional Life; Diligence; Enthusiasm; Indifference; Obstacles; Persistence; Reputation; Word of God
References: Joshua 1:8; Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33; Romans 10:17; 2 Timothy 3:16
Getting a novel published is extremely difficult, especially if you are an unknown author.
Chuck Ross, a freelance writer, decided to test the system.
He retyped the first twenty-one pages of a novel by Jerzy Kosinski, titled Steps, which had won the National Book Award six years before and sent them to four publishers, using the name Erik Demos as a fictitious byline.
All four publishers rejected the manuscript.
Two years later, Ross retyped the entire novel Steps and submitted it under the pen name Erik Demos to several more publishers, including the original publisher, Random House.
It was rejected by all with unhelpful comments, including Random House, which used a form letter.
All told, fourteen publishers and thirteen literary agents failed to recognize a book that had already been published and had won an important award.
Sometimes our approach to the Bible is a similar “been there, done that.”
—Noah Lukeman, The First Five Pages (Simon & Schuster, 2000)
Have unbiblical convictions about religious materials led you to divide from other followers of the Son of God?
Material wealth/appearance is not a sign of greatness or success.
Have faith in the Son of God and not in a temporary nation.
7234 Boatman’s Lone Star
An artist once drew a picture.
It represented a night-scene.
A solitary man is rowing a little skiff across a lake; the wind is high and stormy, the billows, white and crested, rage around the frail bark; and not a star, save one, shines through the dark and angry sky above.
But upon that lone star the voyager fixes his eye, and keeps rowing away—on, on, on through the midnight storm.
Written beneath the picture were these words, “If I lose that I’m lost!”
—Denton
We tend allow religious materialism to cloud our judgment away from the clarity of the Son of God.
Wood paneling, pews, and songbooks.
Build your convictions around the clear doctrine of Jesus Christ and not around church buildings, pews, paneling, and hymnbooks.
Have faith in how the Son of God clarifies who really are the people of God.
Who indwells you, and how does this help you?
As Christ told His disciples, the Holy Spirit will be the One who is Reason for which they need not worry about their answer.
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(3) To be on guard peacefully also means that we are proactively moving forward with gospel proclamation.
Rest in the knowledge of God’s eternal indwelling presence.
Be increasingly committed to gospel proclamation above & through lesser commitments in life.
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