A Biblical Worldview

5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

The worst in us

Something about an election season that brings out the worst in us

++Conservative become more legalistic

++Liberals more accommodating

++Moderates somewhere in the middle

Each group claiming a biblical worldview

What is a Biblical worldview?

Biblical worldview (Christian worldview) refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs through which a Christian individual, group or culture interprets the world and interacts with it.

Wikipedia

A biblical worldview is based on the infallible Word of God. When you believe the Bible is entirely true, then you allow it to be the foundation of everything you say and do.

Focus on the Family

The Barna Research Group determined that only 4 percent of Americans had a “biblical” worldview.

When George Barna, who has researched cultural trends and the Christian Church since 1984, looked at the “born- again” believers in America, the results were a dismal 9 percent.

Barna /Focus on the Family

These were the questions.

++Do absolute moral truths exist?

++Is absolute truth defined by the Bible?

++Did Jesus Christ live a sinless life?

++Is God the all-powerful and all-knowing Creator of the universe, and does He still rule it today?

++Is salvation a gift from God that cannot be earned?

++Is Satan real?

++Does a Christian have a responsibility to share his or her faith in Christ with other people?

++Is the Bible accurate in all of its teachings?

According to George Barna analysis, 91% of Christians in America were shown to have a non-biblical worldview.

What do we as followers of Christ believe?

There Three Basic Worldviews

++Naturalism- _Nothing exist other than the physical universe._

++Theism- _God is the source of everything that exist, but is different form creation._

++Pantheism- _Everything that exist IS God. ( oneness) (inner peace/harnessing peace w/ the universe)_

Every Christian have at least two worldviews

At some point we must face the notion all followers of Christ have two worldviews.

Experience is the Teacher

++The first teacher is life

Worldview is formed by

++Culture

++Education

++Religious Beliefs

++Emotions

++The Bible

1. Culture—The civilization that he lives in, his society, value system, customs, arts, and his heritage with all of its traditions, traits, and ideals.

2. Education—What he has been taught as truth. Please understand that you and I are a product of what we read, watch, and subject our minds to.

3. Religious beliefs—What he has been taught as matters of faith.

4. Emotions—How he feels about a matter can be so strong that it outweighs any other logic or truth!

5. The Bible—Belief in God’s written Word and adherence to its teachings!

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Experience is the Teacher

The first teacher is life

++The second teacher an encounter with God

We spend much our life in a battle between these two worldviews

Galatians 5:17 KJV 1900

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Paul Speaks to Christians

Galatians 5:1 KJV 1900

1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

This text speaks of

++A Present Reality

Christ has

++Set us free

John 8:36 KJV 1900

36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Christ has

Set us free

++Given us new life

John 10:10 KJV 1900

10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Christ has

Set us free

Given us new life

++Died for us all

2 Corinthians 5:14 KJV 1900

14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

Galatians 5:1 KJV 1900

1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

This text speaks of

A Present Reality

++A Former Entanglement

He tells us do not

++Be entangled again

++Go back

Galatians 3:3 KJV 1900

3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

God had given them something

++Before it was missing

++Before it was absent

++Before life determined our worldview

Ephesians 2:2–3 KJV 1900

2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Galatians 5:1 KJV 1900

1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

This text speaks of

A Present Reality

A Former Entanglement

++A Requested Response

Stand Fast

++Because we know better

The Galatian Church had

++Been made alive through the Spirit

++An Encounter

Ephesians 2:1 KJV 1900

1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

Stand Fast

Because we know better

++Remember what God has done

Galatians 3:3 KJV 1900

3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Now We Wait

Galatians 5:5 KJV 1900

5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

It is through the Spirit

++We Wait

++We have Hope

++The righteousness of faith is reveal

1 Corinthians 2:9–10 KJV 1900

9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

Galatians 5:6 KJV 1900

6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

In Jesus Christ

++Not the activities of the flesh

1 Corinthians 15:50 KJV 1900

50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

In Jesus Christ

Not the activities of the flesh

++Faith which work by love

John 3:16 KJV 1900

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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