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if you love the world your relationship
with your daddy in heaven has been
jeopardized he’s still your father cuz
you’re his child if you’re a Christian
but you have jeopardized intimacy so one
of the reasons why more of us aren’t
experiencing more of God is we got too
great a love affair with the world and
God is saying well if you want the world
you can’t have
me Romans 12 says be not conformed to
this
world that that’s a picturesque word uh
it’s it’s used of a of
a of of a person who handles clay this
Potter handles clay and he mows it he
conforms it into an image that he has in
his mind if he wants a plate he makes
the clay into a plate or a pot or a cup
or a saucer or a bowl he conforms it to
an
image he says be not Romans 12:2
conformed to this world
Amen now exactly how does a potter form
clay into what he wants the clay to look
like
pressure he got to squeeze it here push
it here twist it there to make it look
like what he wants it to look like you
and I live in a world that wants to
pressure
you into its image pressure you into
thinking like it thinks walking like it
walks talking like it talks acting like
it acts accepting what it’s decept and
it will make you look like a fool if you
don’t abide by the
pressure and if you don’t go with the
program will threaten to cancel
you cuz you ain’t going along with this
is how we roll now and the the pressure
is greater now because we’re in a
postmodern age postmodernity
postmodernism is where the judeo
Christian worldview has been rejected
there used to be a time even when it
wasn’t consistently ad heard to that
there was an atmosphere where a
judeo-christian world view
was at least
respected even by
non-christians but the more secular the
culture has become the more that world
view has been jettisoned and the
jettisoning of that world view has now
brought in conflicting and competing
worldviews that are pressuring you it is
costing people their jobs it is costing
people their their preferences it is
renaming people people it is redefining
institutions and you’re under the
pressure to accept
it he says don’t let the world force you
into its mold that is to accept its
values now now that does not mean that
you’re not without compassion you’re not
without love you’re not without
consideration not without concern you
just have values that are cannot be
adjusted
right don’t let the World Press
you you should be concerned about the
pressure some of your kids are getting
from their
peers to pressure them into a conforming
world view
amen because we see
today that the secular
society is pressing
us
many have left the church part of that
is the church’s fault for its
irrelevancy and its lack of uh biblical
authenticity but of the other side of
that coin is a society that’s make
that’s normalizing things and if you
want to be part of the in
crew you got to buy into the
pressure if you’re going to be serious
as a Christian
then you cannot fall into the Fatal
trap of conforming being
pressed into a world order that leaves
God
out he says love not the world neither
the things that are in the
world and then he tells you why that’s
not a good
idea because he says at the end of verse
one if anyone that means no exceptions
loves the world the love of the father
is not in
him he’s talking to
Christians if you I we us love the
world your relationship with your daddy
in heaven has been
jeopardized he’s still your father
he’s still your father CU you’re his
child if you’re a Christian but you have
jeopardized
intimacy if you love the
world he won’t hang with
you so one of the reasons why more of us
aren’t experiencing more of God is we
got too greater love affair with the
world and God is saying well if you want
the world you can’t have me amen am amen
James 4:4 says friendship with the world
is hostility with God so it’s not even
like we can’t even be
friends with the world friendship with
the world makes you God’s enemy so God
has a lot of enemies among his children
and they don’t even know that they’re
the father’s
enemy but then we called on
father to help
us be closer to his
enemy the
world we we we actually calling on God
to be
happy that we have this intimate
relationship with his
enemy he says no no no no no the love of
the
Father the intimacy with the father why
because gal
1:4 says that Jesus
came to redeem us from the
world Paul says in Galatians
6:14 I am crucified from the
world in other
words I’m in
it I participate with it but what I
don’t do is adopt the values of it amen
amen so I’m not like everybody else on
the job I’m not like everybody else in
the school I’m not like everybody else
in the neighborhood I’m not like them
because I don’t love that what I love is
the
father and what you need to know about
the world is when it finishes with you
it will spit you
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out you may love it and it may look like
it’s loving you you right
now but you
you you and I are to be marching out of
Step because we’re listening to a
different drum
be we are unique in our spheres
imperfect as we are we are
unique because we want the father more
than we want the world
Amen
you we’ve all seen a fish out of
water if you’ve seen a fish out of water
is trying to
survive you
know it’s trying to make
it the problem is it’s trying to make it
an envir in an environment it was never
created
for see it’s struggling to exist and the
reason the only reason the fish is
struggling is because it’s not supposed
to be there
amen cuz once you throw the fish back in
the water it can be what it was created
to be cuz it’s where it was created to
exist far too many of God’s children
are gills flopping and mouths open
because we are operating in an
environment we were not redeemed for
for we were redeemed for another
kingdom and God wants us to operate out
of that world view not this world view
and if you’re trying to operate off of
this worldview when you were born again
for this world view you’re going to be
sucking satanic
air and you wonder why you’re
choking cuz we’re operating in the wrong
environment not because we’re there God
expects you to be his representative in
whatever sphere he has
you but he expect you to be his
representative in whatever sphere he has
you
amen and not to say
well God the world doesn’t want you here
so you just stay outside
now Paul said in 2 Timothy 4:10 demon
demon has forsaken me saken me having
loved this present World key word is
present you know what gets us about the
world it gives us the impression this is
all there
is Deus has forsaken me because he has
loved this present world he was he was
in with me in Ministry but then the
world got so good to him that he forsook
me he wanted the Applause of the secular
crowd he wanted the recognition of the
ungodly audience he wanted the he wanted
the Embrace of the culture and because
he wanted that so badly he walked away
from
God now Jesus did say it I have to
say the world hates me he
says so when you choose me in an arena
where the world rejects me you going to
have issues amen
amen so I don’t want to just talk Pie in
the Sky stuff no you going to have
issues when the values of God clash with
the values of this world there’s going
to be a
clash not because you’re trying to make
a clash not because you’re unloving or
non-comp passionate it’s just the values
don’t
agree but the question is do you want
the world or do you want the
father when Adam and Eve broke away from
God the price tag of losing Fellowship
was
awesome
so in order for us to to operate now
because the whole point here is to
return to God to to get back on in sync
with him individually as your family
and as a
church is we have to understand the
chronology of the
world verse
17 the world is passing
away and also it’s lust but the one who
does the will of God abides
forever he
says you need to understand something
the world is passing
away it’s going to leave you or you
going to leave it that’s
right don’t make permanent something
that’s
temporary don’t make permanent something
that’s temporary the world is passing
away so don’t act like it’s not going
nowhere or you not going
nowhere something something’s going to
move here the world is passing away