The Bible and Our Culture

Restore to me the joy of Your Salvation.  (Ps 51:12a)

We are "co-laborers with Christ" "to seek and to save that which is lost."

Jesus seeks to save lost people the "cool kids" rejected.

Though we seek to save the lost, we have to disagree with their worldview.

Luke 15, the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, the Lost Son.

All humanity was lost and Jesus searches for each soul.

Luke 19:10  for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.

Jesus came to accomplish the first item on His to-do list: Save the lost.

Part 2 from yesterday with Joshua and Caleb.

The difference between secular PMA and speaking the Word of God in faith is the foundation and the direction.  

Jesus commanded us to hear his words and do them.  This will cause you to believe His Word in faith or mourn for sin.  

Your mouth sets the course of your life.

Standing in faith while mourning for sin

Numbers 13,14 compared with Matthew 7:24-27

In this dramatic story, Joshua and Caleb had to take a stand, not against the Gentiles but against their fellow worships of the true God.  How about you?

Joshua and Caleb built their lives on the Rock!

In this dramatic story, Joshua and Caleb had to take a stand against their fellow Israelites.

Romans 6 seems to good to be true, what do we do.

God's law shows how glorious God's grace really is!

Grace never lowers God's standard or gives an excuse to sin.

We appreciate grace more when we truly know sin is an outrageously big deal that prohibits us from fellowship with God.

The deceitfulness of the sinful human heart, makes sinner excuse their sin rather than repent from it.

The Deceitfulness of Sinners.

Despite what the world might claim, sin is a big deal.

We appreciate grace more when we truly know sin is an outrageously big deal that prohibits us from fellowship with God.

One might be able to love God's law and not His grace, but a lack of love for God's law inhibits the magnitude of how much we will love His grace.

The deceitfulness of the sinful human heart, makes sinner excuse their sin rather than repent from it.

Despite what the world might claim, sin is a big deal.

Human nature suppresses the truth and it brings terrible damage.

The word "denial" is not mentioned in most Bible translations; but living in the darkness is. 

Put your confidence in the LORD.  

The Founding Fathers understood the deceitful human heart talked about in Jeremiah 17, John 3, Romans 1 and 1 John 1.