“Avoiding The Drift”

Romans 12:9

1.  Cause: Falling in love with the present world.

Cure: Think long and hard about the deadly poison of world-love.

2. Cause: Loss of horror at offending the majesty of God's holiness through sin.

Cure: Meditate on the Biblical truth that all our acts are acts toward God and not just toward man.

3. Cause:  A sense of immunity from accountability and authority.

Cure: Submit yourself to a council of Biblically minded, spiritually wise advisers.

4. Cause: Succumbing to itching ears as love of truth evaporates.

Cure: Cultivate a love for truth, even in its smallest details, and turn a deaf ear to the desires of men to have their ears scratched with vague moralisms that massage them in their sin.

5. Cause: A vanishing attention to Scripture.

Cure: Give yourself untiringly to the study, meditation and memorization of Holy Scripture.

6.  Cause: Compartmentalizing of your life.

Cure: View everything—absolutely everything—as woven together by its relationship to the value of the glory of God.