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Central Baptist Church of Ponca City, OK
DATE: Sunday PM, March 22, 2020
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: You Don’t Fit
SERMON THEME: Believers Do NOT Fit in the World
SERMON SERIES: 1Samuel
SERMON VERSES: 1Samuel 29:1-11; John 15:18-25
Why don’t we fit? — God has condemned this World!
* We are IN the World (physically) but not OF the world (spiritually); we have a different community
* We use a different language; we talk about spiritual things using spiritual terms
* We have a different philosophy; we THINK different (Biblical Worldview)
* We have different standards! (1Peter 4:4) — Purity, Modesty, Godliness, Integrity, Honesty, Separation
Consequently, The world hates and persecutes Christians because…
* The World is INTOLERANT! The world touts tolerance, but it does not practice true tolerance. The world hated Jesus… without a cause!
* We remind the World of their sin and their eventual judgment; we are an offense to the World
* Misery loves company. The hopeless world hates Christians because Christians have HOPE!
We don’t fit into the World, but…
* Do we fit into the Family of God (? Do we fit in the local family, the local NT Church? (1Corinthians 2:14)
* Stop being a hypocrite! Don’t try to fit into the World. If we are trying to fit into this lost and dying world, then we are being a hypocrite.
* We are to love the people of this world because Jesus loved the World (the people, not the system). Remember that before we knew Jesus we were OF this World.
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