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Theme: Because the Father's love is a giving love, our love needs to be a giving love.
Theme: Because the Father's love is a giving love, our love needs to be a giving love.
Date: 12/01/19 File name: Christian_Virtue_2019_01.wpd ID Number:
Date: 12/01/19 File name: Christian_Virtue_2019_01.wpd ID Number:
In the early fourth century, a monk named Evagrius Ponticus came up with a list of cardinal sins—cardinal in the sense that these are foundational sins lead to other sins.
We’ve come to know them better as the Seven Deadly Sins, and include lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride.
Their considered deadly in that a person’s indulgence of them leads to spiritual death.
In time, some wise Christian said to himself, “If there are seven cardinal sins to be avoided, then what are the inverse of these sins?
What are the virtues that ought to be practiced in a believer’s life?”
They are ...
In the early fourth century, a monk named Evagrius Ponticus came up with a list of cardinal sins—cardinal in the sense that these are foundational sins lead to other sins.
We’ve come to know them better as the Seven Deadly Sins, and include lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride.
Their considered deadly in that a person’s indulgence of them leads to spiritual death.
In time, some wise Christian said to himself, “If there are seven cardinal sins to be avoided, then what are the inverse of these sins?
What are the virtues that ought to be practiced in a believer’s life?”
They are ...
Chastity ... it’s opposite it lust
Temperance ... it’s opposite is gluttony
• Temperance ... it’s opposite is gluttony
Charity ... its opposite is greed
• Charity ... its opposite is greed
Diligence ... its opposite is sloth
• Diligence ... its opposite is sloth
• Patience ... its opposite is wrath
Patience ... its opposite is wrath
Kindness ... its opposite is envy, and
• Kindness ... its opposite is envy, and
• Humility, it’s opposite is pride.
Humility, it’s opposite is pride.
Virtues are habitual and firm dispositions to do what is morally good.
By developing theses virtues we become more like Christlike ... which is the goal of the Christian life.
Tonight we begin with the virtue of charity.
Charity is love for God above all else for His own sake and love for one’s neighbor as oneself for the love of God.
Now, you would think that the opposite of charity would be generosity.
Today, people often think of charity as nothing more than a giving of money for some good cause.
ILLUS.
This Christmas season, some of you will drop money into a Salvation Army kettle, or write a check to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.
These are charities that do good work ... gospel work.
Charity in the New Testament, however, is the word agape which as most of you are well aware, if the biblical word for the love that comes uniquely from God, and is often described as a self-sacrificing love.
Then why do some New Testament translations (particularly the KJV) translate it as charity and not love?
After all, the translators of the KJV knew that love was a legitimate way to translate the agape.
The translators of the KJV actually did us a favor in translating the word the way they did.
Virtues are habitual and firm dispositions to do what is morally good.
By developing theses virtues we become more like Christlike ... which is the goal of the Christian life.
Tonight we begin with the virtue of charity.
Charity is love for God above all else for His own sake and love for one’s neighbor as oneself for the love of God.
Now, you would think that the opposite of charity would be generosity.
Today, people often think of charity as nothing more than a giving of money for some good cause.
ILLUS.
This Christmas season, some of you will drop money into a Salvation Army kettle, or write a check to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.
These are charities that do good work ... gospel work.
Charity in the New Testament, however, is the word agape which as most of you are well aware, if the biblical word for the love that comes uniquely from God, and is often described as a self-sacrificing love.
Then why do some New Testament translations (particularly the KJV) translate it as charity and not love?
After all, the translators of the KJV knew that love was a legitimate way to translate the agape.
The translators of the KJV actually did us a favor in translating the word the way they did.
When the word agape is used in the context of vertical action (God toward man and/or man toward God), it is translated as "love."
• When the word agape is used in the context of horizontal actions (man toward neighbor or enemy), it is translated as "charity."
When the word agape is used in the context of horizontal actions (man toward neighbor or enemy), it is translated as "charity."
Charity means participating in tangible acts of loving-kindness toward all others (friend or enemy) in unconditional and self-sacrificial ways.
In that context you we can understand why cardinal virtue of charity came to be understood as the opposite to the cardinal sin of greed.
True love is a love that gives.
To put it simply, to practice charity is to be compassionate.
I. TRUE LOVE ENCOURAGES US TO GIVE OF OURSELVES TO OTHERS
I. TRUE LOVE ENCOURAGES US TO GIVE OF OURSELVES TO OTHERS
1. we live in a society where many people are suffering from what sociologists call compassion fatigue
compassion fatigue
a. it’s a real physiological malady
b. some people label is simply as burnout—marked by emotional exhaustion, frustration, withdrawal, and ultimately apathy
frustration, withdrawal, and ultimately apathy
ILLUS.
It’s illustrated by the person who responds to a call for volunteers with, "Here's $50 bucks for your cause, now don't bother me any more!"
$50 bucks for your cause, now don't bother me any more!"
1) they are unwilling to offer what is needed most themself!
c. it may be one of the reasons the Apostle Paul writes ...
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
(, NIV84)
2. Christians must be actively engaged in the ministries of their church and must penetrate the institutions of society
penetrate the institutions of society
a. true love for God and true love for men demands nothing less
1) we cannot, we must not, be like the box turtle pull our heads into our shells and hope that the evil that is out there will go away
hope that the evil that is out there will go away
3. personal involvement is the only way we are going to make a difference in the world in which we live
which we live
a. the question is, will we give our church and our community what it needs the most?
b.
US!
ILLUS Adrian Rogers once said, “There are a lot of Christians who are doing nothing for either their church or their community, but there are no Christians who have nothing to do.”
either their church or their community, but there are no Christians who have nothing to do.”
A. THE SOVEREIGN GOD OF THE UNIVERSE IS OUR SUPREME EXAMPLE OF A LOVE THAT GIVES SELFLESSLY
A. THE SOVEREIGN GOD OF THE UNIVERSE IS OUR SUPREME EXAMPLE OF A
LOVE THAT GIVES SELFLESSLY
“ “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
(, NIV84)
1. God gave us what we needed most Himself!
a. God established a covenant with Abraham, but He knew that wouldn't be enough ...
b.
God gave the Law to Moses, but He knew that wouldn't be enough ...
c.
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