“Thinking Straight in a Crooked World” # 4 Romans 12:1-2

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Date: May 15, 2022 Author: Wayne J. Edwards

I realize we are all troubled by the signs of our times. If the spirit of the Antichrist is here, and it is, can the Antichrist himself be far behind? But if we are to make any kind of impact upon our children and our grandchildren, we must put aside this fleshly idea that we must change the culture, change the schools, change the media, change the government, change the laws, etc., that train has left the station. If we are to have any effect upon them, it will not be by what we say or what we do, but who we are before them, for that is what they are going to remember long after we are dead and gone.  So, I must ask you, is the Christ within you being manifested through you? Can others see Jesus in you in such a way that they are drawn to Him? We will explain this further in our final sermon in the series, “Confessing Christ in an Antichrist Culture.” The title of this sermon is “Thinking Straight in a Crooked World.”

I realize we are all troubled by the signs of our times. If the spirit of the Antichrist is here, and it is, can the Antichrist himself be far behind? But if we are to make any kind of impact upon our children and our grandchildren, we must put aside this fleshly idea that we must change the culture, change the schools, change the media, change the government, change the laws, etc., that train has left the station.

If we are to have any effect upon them, it will not be by what we say or what we do, but who we are before them, for that is what they are going to remember long after we are dead and gone.  So, I must ask you, is the Christ within you being manifested through you? Can others see Jesus in you in such a way that they are drawn to Him?

We will explain this further in our final sermon in the series, “Confessing Christ in an Antichrist Culture.” The title of this sermon is “Thinking Straight in a Crooked World.”

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Wayne J. Edwards, Pastor

In many ways, our nation is already under God’s wrath. But while we live in the imminent expectation of the rapture of the Church, we are to be living examples to others as to how to live in this evil world without becoming a part of it.

While the term “sacrifice” is not a part of today’s Christian lexicon, the Bible says the primary duty of every born-again believer is that daily presentation of themselves as a living sacrifice unto God.

The Apostle Paul based his appeal upon the mercies God has shown to every believer as defined in Romans 1-11.

Notice the contrast between religion and Christianity:

Paul addressed his readers as “brethren,” those who had benefited from God’s mercies, those who had confessed their faith in Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord, and their “souls” were saved by God’s grace.

The body is that which contains our humanness, which contains our fleshly desires, which has been contaminated by inherent sin.

As was our soul before we were saved, and as our bodies are today, our minds are infected by the curse of sin.

The evidence that we have fully presented our souls, our bodies, and our minds unto the Lord is that we have died to ourselves, and Christ can live His life through us, i.e., we accept His will for our lives.

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