Sermon Series: Spiritual Warfare in the Modern World
Sermon Text: Ephesians 5:3-18
Sermon Title: “Building Character in a World Gone Mad”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: Building Character is Spiritual Warfare.
SLIDE 2 – Point 1: We Build Character … By Resisting the Darkness (vv. 3-8a)SLIDE 3 – Ephesians 2:1-3 – “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following … the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience … by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.”SLIDE 4 – Ephesians 4:22 – “Put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires.”SLIDE 5 - Matthew 7:21-23 – “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’”SLIDE 6 – Genesis 3:4 – “But the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die.’”SLIDE 7 – John 3:19-20 – “And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things … does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.”
SLIDE 8 – Point 2: We Build Character … By Revealing the Light (vv. 8b-18)
SLIDE 9 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Your LifeSLIDE 10 – We are Called to Use Wise Judgment, But Not Be Judgmental.SLIDE 11 – A Christian is Not Called to be Everyone’s Friend.SLIDE 12 – 1 Peter 4:4 – “With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you.”SLIDE 13 – Obedience to God’s Commands isn’t Legalism, but Loving God.SLIDE 14 – We Can Only Build Godly Character … if Christ is our Foundation.
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