Title: When Love Is Wrong (3)
Series: Calm In the Chaos
Author: Jerry Watts
Text: 1 John 2:15-17
As an explanation: One of the arguments for preaching through books of the Bible verse by verse is that the preacher and listeners are forced to deal with subjects that they prefer not to deal with. For instance, a preacher may not feel compelled to preach on spiritual immaturity or sexual immorality because he doesn't sense that this issue is a problem for his people, but he senses leadership to preach through 1 Corinthians. Then he arrives at 1 Corinthians 3 and reads Paul's words, "I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as spiritual babes." What follows is that Paul (under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit) unpacks those things that he says which reveal the member immaturity. Two chapters later, he writes, "It is actually reported (that means people are talking) that there is sexual immorality among you and it that kind that not even Gentiles tolerate." Then he unpacks things there that we don't want to deal with because they are 'hurtful.' So when the preacher feels compelled to preach to a particular book, there may be a word for us that we prefer NOT to speak or hear. Such is the case for our Study of 1 John - and what I'm calling "Calm in the Chaos." As I have researched the word 'chaos', I discovered that it is defined as a 'state of complete disorder and confusion, where things are unpredictable and lack organization.' The culture in America seems to fit the bill. We can't even agree on 'truth', 'right-wrong,' or good-bad. It seems that our young people today have few moral and ethical 'guardrails' and/or 'guiderails' that are unchangeable or unbreakable. We are living in a culture that finds itself between last verse of the book of Judges and Isaiah 5:20. When I read those two verses of scripture, it seems that is where we are today.
Last week at the Adult Fellowship, Kendale Lumpkins did a great job of talki ...
Series: Calm In the Chaos
Author: Jerry Watts
Text: 1 John 2:15-17
As an explanation: One of the arguments for preaching through books of the Bible verse by verse is that the preacher and listeners are forced to deal with subjects that they prefer not to deal with. For instance, a preacher may not feel compelled to preach on spiritual immaturity or sexual immorality because he doesn't sense that this issue is a problem for his people, but he senses leadership to preach through 1 Corinthians. Then he arrives at 1 Corinthians 3 and reads Paul's words, "I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as spiritual babes." What follows is that Paul (under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit) unpacks those things that he says which reveal the member immaturity. Two chapters later, he writes, "It is actually reported (that means people are talking) that there is sexual immorality among you and it that kind that not even Gentiles tolerate." Then he unpacks things there that we don't want to deal with because they are 'hurtful.' So when the preacher feels compelled to preach to a particular book, there may be a word for us that we prefer NOT to speak or hear. Such is the case for our Study of 1 John - and what I'm calling "Calm in the Chaos." As I have researched the word 'chaos', I discovered that it is defined as a 'state of complete disorder and confusion, where things are unpredictable and lack organization.' The culture in America seems to fit the bill. We can't even agree on 'truth', 'right-wrong,' or good-bad. It seems that our young people today have few moral and ethical 'guardrails' and/or 'guiderails' that are unchangeable or unbreakable. We are living in a culture that finds itself between last verse of the book of Judges and Isaiah 5:20. When I read those two verses of scripture, it seems that is where we are today.
Last week at the Adult Fellowship, Kendale Lumpkins did a great job of talki ...
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