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You may think you can condemn such people, but you are just as bad, and you have no excuse! When you say they are wicked and should be punished, you are condemning yourself, for you who judge others do these very same things. 2 And we know that God, in his justice, will punish anyone who does such things. 3 Since you judge others for doing these things, why do you think you can avoid God’s judgment when you do the same things? 4 Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin?

ROMANS 2:1-4

PURITY IS EVERYTHING. 

8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

MATTHEW 5:8 

5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

COLOSSIANS 3:5

18 Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. 19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

1 CORINTHIANS 6:18-20

Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, 2 but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. 3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.

4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”

6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.

9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”

11 “No, Lord,” she said.

And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”

JOHN 8:1-11

9 Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. 

1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10 

SEXUAL PURITY APPLIES TO EVERYONE AND ITS GOD’S HEART FOR EVERYONE.

2 All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD.

PSALM 16:2

“Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”

11 “No, Lord,” she said.

And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”

JOHN 8:1-11

22 Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.

2 TIMOTHY 2:22

WE DON’T FIGHT SEXUAL SIN, WE RUN FROM IT

WE DON’T ARRIVE AT PURITY, WE RUN IN IT.

22 Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace.

11 “I regret[c] that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me…

1 SAMUEL 15:11

WE RUN IN PURITY WITH OTHERS.

Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.

2 TIMOTHY 2:22

Don’t Chance it. Change it. 

Sovereign - God has absolute right to do all things according to his own good pleasure.

God’s sovereign plan involves our involvement.

1. We facilitate change with our words

Genesis 17:2 I will make a covenant with you, by which I will guarantee to give you countless descendants.

Genesis 17:4-5 “This is my covenant with you: I will make you the father of a multitude of nations! What’s more, I am changing your name. It will no longer be Abram. Instead, you will be called Abraham, for you will be the father of many nations.

Genesis 17:15-16 Then God said to Abraham, “Regarding Sarai, your wife—her name will no longer be Sarai. From now on her name will be Sarah. And I will bless her and give you a son from her! Yes, I will bless her richly, and she will become the mother of many nations. Kings of nations will be among her descendants.”

Abram = father of many 

Abraham = father of many NATIONS

Sarai = my lady or my princess

Sarah = THE princess of a multitude 

Genesis 17:17 Lol. lol. lol.

Romans 4:17-18 Abraham was first named “father” and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do

What is NOT in your life right now- that God has promised you?  

2. We facilitate change through prayer

James 5:17-18 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours [with the same physical, mental, and spiritual limitations and shortcomings], and he prayed intensely for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land produced its crops [as usual].

12-14 I’m not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made.But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don’t get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I’ve got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward—to Jesus. I’m off and running, and I’m not turning back.

15-16 So let’s keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision—you’ll see it yet! Now that we’re on the right track, let’s stay on it.

17-19 Stick with me, friends. Keep track of those you see running this same course, headed for this same goal. There are many out there taking other paths, choosing other goals, and trying to get you to go along with them. I’ve warned you of them many times; sadly, I’m having to do it again. All they want is easy street. They hate Christ’s Cross. But easy street is a dead-end street. Those who live there make their bellies their gods; belches are their praise; all they can think of is their appetites.

20-21 But there’s far more to life for us. We’re citizens of high heaven! We’re waiting the arrival of the Savior, the Master, Jesus Christ, who will transform our earthy bodies into glorious bodies like his own. He’ll make us beautiful and whole with the same powerful skill by which he is putting everything as it should be, under and around him.

PHILIPPIANS 3:12-21

Politics: the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power. 

The Purpose of Human Government.

1. The commendation of good
2. The punishment of evil 
3. The maintenance of peace
4. The protection of the oppressed

POLITICS IS ATTEMPTING TO SET THE STANDARD FOR MORALITY.

POLITICS IS ATTEMPTING TO SET THE STANDARD FOR MORALITY AND GOD GIVES US THE STANDARD FOR MORALITY.

When outsiders who have never heard of God’s law follow it more or less by instinct, they confirm its truth by their obedience. They show that God’s law is not something alien, imposed on us, but woven into the very fabric of our creation. There is something deep within them that echoes God’s yes and no, right and wrong. Their response to God’s yes and no will become public knowledge on the day God makes his final decision about every man and woman.

ROMANS 2:14-16

15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words. 16 And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians,

MATTHEW 22:15-16

16 And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances.[b] 17 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” 

MATTHEW 22:16-17

18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? 19 Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius.[c] 20 And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” 21 They said, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” 22 When they heard it, they marveled. And they left him and went away.

MATTHEW 22:18-22

DISCIPLES ARE CALLED TO BE DUAL CITIZENS

You should have more in common with a believer in another country than you do with an unbeliever in your own country.

JON TYSON

DISCIPLES ARE CALLED TO GIVE GOVERNMENT HONOR

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 

ROMANS 13:1-2

 HOW DISCIPLES PARTICIPATE

• VOTE

“If you have the privilege of being a Christian in a Democracy, you are called to be consistent as a Christian in your voting and serving your country.”

NATHAN FINOCHIO

• PRAY

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

1 TIMOTHY 2:1-2

• HUMBLE CONVERSATIONS

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

TITUS 3:9 

DISCIPLES ARE CALLED TO GIVE GOD HOPE

For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.

PSALM 22:28 

JESUS IS LORD.

16 “For God so loved the world,[i] that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 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. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.” 

JOHN 3:16-21

8 “Or what woman, having ten silver coins,[a] if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? 9 And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ 10 Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

LUKE 15:8-10

IS HELL REAL?

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

JOHN 1:14

TRUTH IS ALWAYS IN TENSION

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 

DANIEL 12:2

For in death there is no remembrance of you;

    in Sheol who will give you praise?

PSALM 6:5

17 The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.

PSALM 9:17

20 The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.

EZEIKIAL 18:20 

6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 

JOHN 14:6

13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy[a] that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

MATTHEW 7:13-14

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

MATTHEW 25:41

Jesus did not present this story as a parable, and in no other parable did Jesus actually name an individual (as the poor man is here named). We have every reason to believe that Jesus gave us an actual case in history, one He knew from His eternal perspective.

DAVID GUZIK

19 “There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen, feasting lavishly every day. 20 But a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, was lying at his gate. 21 He longed to be filled with what fell from the rich man’s table, but instead the dogs would come and lick his sores. 22 One day the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side.[d] The rich man also died and was buried. 23 And being in torment in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side. 24 ‘Father Abraham!’ he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame!’

25 “‘Son,’[e] Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony. 26 Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’

27 “‘Father,’ he said, ‘then I beg you to send him to my father’s house— 28 because I have five brothers—to warn them, so that they won’t also come to this place of torment.’

29 “But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’

30 “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said. ‘But if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

31 “But he told him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.’”

LUKE 16:24-31

GOD TELLS THE TRUTH BECAUSE HE LOVES

18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

JOHN 3:18

GOD GIVES YOU THE CHIOCE BECAUSE HE LOVES

The presence of this tree – the presence of a choice for Adam – was good because for Adam to be a creature of free will, there had to be a choice, some opportunity to rebel against God. If there is never a command or never something forbidden there can then never be choice. God wants our love and obedience to Him to be the love and obedience of choice.

DAVID GUZIK

GOD MAKES A WAY BECAUSE HE LOVES

“A gray area is meaning that exists between two extremes. This is an analogy to the area of color that exists between black and white. Gray areas result from ambiguity and rich variations that naturally occur in language, culture, events, information, objects, environments and people. The ability to think in grey areas is a basic element of intelligence.” - John Spacey

13 Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? 14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, 15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, 16 having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil. 

1 PETER 3:13-17

THIS IS NOT A SERIES ABOUT ANSWERS. IT’S A SERIES ABOUT FAITH.

For we live by faith, not by sight.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:7

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love.

EPHESIANS 3:16-17

DOUBT CAN BE A STUMBLING BLOCK OR A STARTING BLOCK. 

JESUS CAN HANDLE YOUR QUESTIONS.

“MY TRUTH"

Postmodernism: the understanding/belief that there is no such thing as ABSOLUTE TRUTH. Truth belongs to the individual and is only experiential.

SELECTIVE PERCEPTION

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 

JOHN 14:6

JESUS IS THE TRUTH THAT EVERYONE IS LOOKING FOR

“Many people had sarcastically scrawled, “Baby, don’t hurt me.” A few were philosophical and flowery, including a quote from Proust and on from Plato. But no one had a real answer. Not really. It was a simply question. Was that room as lost as I felt? Those pages showed nothing but an empty abyss, and I wondered if anyone really had an answer that would satisfy… In all our films, songs, and art, we worshiped love, but no one could define it. Really? This is it?… Years later I would read C.S. Lewis’s words that described what I experienced: “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”… I started to have a sense that there HAD to be a higher love that corresponded to my desire for intimacy.”

DAVID BENNETT

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

JOHN 8:32

HIS WORD IS THE STABILITY EVERYONE HOPES FOR 

24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

MATTEW 7:24-27

Saint vs. Christian
We are saints; meaning we are disciples and if disciples it means we believe and if we believe then were are made Holy and how we are made Holy is in accepting the message of Christ in His fullness and understanding that apart from Him we are nothing but only in Him do we find identity, strength, meaning and life.
Faith. the works for the saints.
The faith then that we profess is not grounded in hollow philosophies or fanciful anecdotes but rather deepened in knowledge with wisdom and spiritual understanding.
Faith in Jesus not faith in faith
To have faith in Jesus means we know Him and trust Him to be The Way, The Truth, and The Life to everything that concerns us. Faith is not The Way, The Truth, and the Life Jesus is.
HOW TO STAY ROOTED

1. SEEK

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. - Colossians 3:1

1. FOCUS

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. - Colossians 3:2

1. SACRIFICE

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:[b] sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. - Colossians 3:5

1. DEPEND

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. - Colossians 3:12-17
THE HEART OF A ROOTED LIFE
When you do these things, you will find yourself:
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. 3 At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— 4 that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.
5 Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.
Colossians 4:2-5

1. Praying
2. Being Vigilant
3. Grateful
4. Praying and Supporting Ministry
5. Being Wise
6. Redeeming the time
7. Speaking