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• Disordered desires and their impact on enslavement and addiction |
• Pride of life as rebelling against authority and thinking one knows better than God |
• Human tendency to follow the world and its ways |
• Cultural lies that we live by, such as "follow your heart" and assuming our hearts are pure |
• Connection made between the three roots of the world (lust of flesh, lust of eyes, pride of life) and Jesus' temptations in the wilderness |
• The same temptations faced by Jesus apply to us, including being tempted by sinful natures and the world's influence |
• Normalization of sin and brokenness in today's culture, including hyper-individualism in North American society. |
• Normalizing the value of money over human lives |
• The cultural normalization of hyper-sexualization and abortion in certain countries |
• Scripture's teaching on conforming to the patterns of this world vs being transformed by the renewing of one's mind |
• The importance of God's will, good, pleasing, and perfect will in guiding Christian decision-making |
• The speaker discusses the need for God's Spirit to guide and help people in their struggle against normalized sins in culture. |
• The world and its desires are fleeting and do not satisfy deep longings for happiness and joy, which can only come from God. |
• Doing God's will is what gives a life worth living and leads to eternal life. |
• God satisfies deep longings and restores wholeness. |
• Love for God, rather than the world, is the key to understanding God's will. |
• Loving God as He first loved us allows our brokenness to be restored and overflow with love that blesses others. |
• The importance of understanding one's identity in relation to the world |
• Living in the world but not being part of it |
• Reflecting God's love for the world and bringing about its restoration |
• Being a witness to God's love through actions and behaviors |
• Resisting patterns of the world and overcoming temptations with Jesus' power |
• The role of Jesus Christ in winning battles against sin, self, and the world |
• The struggle between good and evil, with God's sacrifice on behalf of humanity |
• The contrast between the world's sin and death versus God's gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus |
• Belonging to God rather than loving the world |
• Living in accordance with the gospel story as one's identity and calling |
• Dependence on God's love and presence, not human strength or accomplishments |
• Seeking God's will and good, rather than one's own desires or preferences |
[0.00 --> 0.90] Thank you. |
[3.30 --> 4.32] Good morning, Hope. |
[9.82 --> 15.16] I think every time, for the 11 a.m. at least, when I come up, I get the best greeting ever. |
[15.56 --> 17.04] Good morning to you two. Yes. |
[19.16 --> 25.96] This morning we get to continue on our series that we've been on about our good fight that we lived through. |
[25.96 --> 34.34] We have journeyed through reflecting on how we face the enemy, the devil, and how we face our own flesh, our own sinful natures. |
[34.78 --> 41.58] And now this morning we get to reflect on how we face the temptations of the world, as John names it. |
[42.08 --> 48.38] And so with that short introduction, if you have your Bibles with you, I invite you to turn to 1 John chapter 2. |
[49.04 --> 55.44] 1 John chapter 2. This is where Pastor Dave left us off last week. |
[55.96 --> 61.74] With the good news, the gospel message that Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, is our advocate. |
[62.36 --> 66.84] And he came as an atoning sacrifice for our sins and the sin of the world. |
[67.40 --> 69.28] That's the gospel message right there. |
[69.80 --> 74.62] And so we continue that gospel story from 1 John, starting in verse 15. |
[74.62 --> 79.30] And we read how John writes to us and God's people. |
[79.82 --> 80.36] It says, |
[80.36 --> 106.36] Amen. |
[106.36 --> 112.16] So thinking about what the world means as we read in our passage, |
[112.76 --> 119.16] the two-part question I want to leave with you during the sermon, and hopefully after the sermon as well, is this, |
[119.22 --> 120.82] and it will be up on the screen for you. |
[120.82 --> 129.82] What sin or patterns of brokenness, so lies and deceptions, and deceptive ideas I should say, |
[129.92 --> 135.48] that is not biblical and not godly, is normalized in our culture today? |
[136.44 --> 141.14] And the second part of the question is, are you aware of such normalized sin? |
[141.14 --> 148.14] Because that's what we, that's what John is talking about when he refers to the world. |
[149.14 --> 150.80] Normalized patterns of sin. |
[151.24 --> 154.44] That gets normalized in the culture that we live in today. |
[155.02 --> 159.66] And so thinking about this, an example that came to me, naturally because I am Korean, |
[159.66 --> 163.74] and I've shared this with many of you in different capacities, |
[164.50 --> 171.20] but one example of the world normalized sin in Korea is around the culture of drinking, |
[171.74 --> 172.88] which is very prominent. |
[173.42 --> 175.04] It's very normalized. |
[175.82 --> 177.12] So alcohol I'm talking about. |
[177.62 --> 180.32] It is a part of almost every dynamic of culture, |
[180.46 --> 184.92] so from funerals to weddings to weekly outings with friends and or co-workers. |
[184.92 --> 192.20] And now before I go on and name this as a normalized sin and call every single Korean sinful, |
[192.62 --> 194.72] which we are, yes, it is the truth, |
[194.84 --> 202.40] but I do believe that this culture around drinking does have some good aspect of fellowship |
[202.40 --> 204.32] and community around this culture. |
[205.06 --> 212.12] That can maybe speak into a hyper-individualist culture of our world here in North America. |
[212.12 --> 216.40] And so what I'm trying to say is this is just an illustration. |
[216.94 --> 219.76] I am not just knocking on my own heritage and culture. |
[220.38 --> 224.98] It is just an illustration to somehow get the idea of the world, |
[225.18 --> 227.94] normalize sin, the idea going in our heads. |
[228.18 --> 231.84] So with that in mind, so in Korea, if you do not drink then, |
[232.18 --> 234.50] if you do not drink and abstain from alcohol, |
[234.90 --> 238.92] whether it be religious reasons, moral reasons, health reasons, whatever it may be, |
[238.92 --> 241.12] you are seen as very counter-cultural. |
[242.20 --> 246.04] And obviously then that leaves the door wide open for Christians |
[246.04 --> 251.12] to explicitly practice being a witness to our identity as Christians |
[251.12 --> 253.00] by abstaining from drinking. |
[254.54 --> 257.50] It is to name and to resist a culture |
[257.50 --> 263.02] where joy and happiness is so tightly bound with consumption of alcohol. |
[263.02 --> 268.08] It is a little bit of what it means to not love the world, as John says for us. |
[268.50 --> 271.04] Again, not an all-encompassing example, |
[271.44 --> 275.26] but an image of a current that pulls us away from God. |
[275.60 --> 278.62] And unless you can name it and resist it, |
[279.04 --> 281.86] you may not know how strong that current is. |
[282.52 --> 283.82] So that is the first step. |
[284.06 --> 288.04] That is an example not from my experience but from my culture. |
[288.04 --> 292.86] And to get a more comprehensive idea of this term, |
[293.26 --> 295.56] the world, from our passage this morning, |
[295.62 --> 297.88] and all throughout the Bible, when it refers to the world, |
[298.34 --> 301.66] there are different definitions and uses of the Greek word cosmos. |
[302.38 --> 304.88] But specifically for us in our passage, |
[305.62 --> 310.16] this quote kind of captures the summary of what John means |
[310.16 --> 312.38] when he says, do not love the world. |
[312.78 --> 315.88] And this quote comes from the book that we've been reading |
[315.88 --> 319.12] for this sermon series from a pastor named John Mark Homer. |
[319.56 --> 320.50] And he writes this, |
[320.90 --> 323.72] So the biblical definition of the world here in this passage |
[323.72 --> 327.82] is a system of ideas, values, morals, practices, |
[328.24 --> 331.82] and social norms that are integrated into the mainstream |
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