What is A Worldly Christian

The term a “worldly Christian” is an oxymoron. It is like cold-heat. Have you ever got in your car in the dead of winter hoping for warm air and turned on the heat at full blast only to find it is the same as the cold air outside. Or more relevant to us now, going to our cars to cool off and turning the air conditioner on high cool but the air coming out is hot. It is not what it is supposed to be.

1. One who chokes on the Word of God (Spitters)

a. This is the problem Paul is having with the Corinthian church. They are still on a liquefied diet of the truth, when they should be eating the real thing. They are dinking their dinner when they could be savoring steak and potatoes.

b. They are easily offended at the truth.

c. Their mind is so preoccupied by things that they don’t have time to try to comprehend the things of God.

d. If you don’t grow, you will gripe. If you are griping, it is probably because you are not growing. Bob Johnson

2. One who lives in pretense

Demas

Every worldly Christian -Spurgeon, "Travailing for Souls" Every worldly Christian hinders the progress of the gospel-- Every member of a church who is living in secret sin, who is tolerating in his heart any thing that he knows to be wrong, who is not seeking eagerly his own personal sanctification, is to that extent hindering the work of the Spirit of God. For to the extent that we maintain known unholiness, we restrain the Spirit. He cannot work by us as long as any conscious sin is tolerated. It is not over breaking of commandments that I am now speaking of, brethren, but I include 'worldliness' also-- a care for carnal things, and a carelessness about spiritual things; having enough grace just to make us hope that you are a Christian, but not enough to prove you are; bearing a shriveled apple here and there on the topmost bough, but not much fruit; this I mean, this 'partial barrenness'-- not complete enough to condemn, yet complete enough to restrain the blessing, this robs the treasure of the church, and hinders her progress.

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