The chief danger that confronts the coming century, will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, Forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, Politics without God and Heaven without Hell.

- William Booth

1. Don't make the mistake of judging the past by today's available light! God didn't!

2. The gospel is more than a message to be preached; it's a lifestyle to be lived!

3. The gospel comes to all people no matter where they are and transforms not only individual by the environment they are in!

Our spiritual health check up:

1. Our relationship with others!

2. Our relationship with authority!

3. Our relationship with liberty!

4. Our relationship with our bodies!

5. Our relationship with God's sovereignty!

EQUITY: justice according to natural law or right specifically: freedom from bias or favoritism. IT’S THE QUALITY OF BEING FAIR & IMPARTIAL!

What is Equity? The term “equity” refers to fairness and justice and is distinguished from equality: Whereas equality means providing the same to all, equity means recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and must acknowledge and make adjustments to imbalances.

PROVERBS 20:23

Diverse weights are an abomination to the Lord,

And dishonest scales are not good. NKJV

Differing weights are an abomination to the Lord,

And a false scale is not good. NASB

The Lord loathes all cheating and dishonesty. TLB

1. Make sure you're helping and not enabling.

2. Help in a way that maintains the dignity of those you help.

3. Help because the Lord has led you to and not because your guilt has forced you to.

1. The nuclear family!

2. The new testament church!

3. Respect for elders and authority!

4. Appropriate care for those truly in need!

5. Hard work and generosity!

6. Biblical Masculinity: Men who'll accept responsibility, reject passivity, and lead courageously!

What are we left with:

1. See sonship through God's eyes!

2. See sonship through this lens!

3. Make sonship your main priority!