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\\ *Introduction:*
     As I was preparing to write this sermon, I began to think about the Holiday, and how we hold great store in our founding fathers.
How they were willing to fight, and how they gave their all for what we call the United States today.
I then began to think about today and how many people we have who are of the caliber and magnitude of our founding fathers.
Our country was founded by people who were willing to put feet on what they believed, and were willing to fight and die for what they stood for.
I look at our country today, and I think about her troubles, and how different it would be if people really got involved and spent themselves for her, instead of simply complaining about the state of affairs and then sit by and watch as special interest groups and privately funded lobbyists pull the rug out from under our nation.
I then began to thing of our faith.
I began to compare her with the state of our nation, and it struck me how similar they were in apathy and luke-warmness; how similar they were in their deterioration and lack of commitment.
I think of George Washington and what he would say about our nation today, and then I think about the Apostle Paul, and Peter, and what they would say about our church, and I think to myself, where are the caliber of these men today, and how much would be different if we had these caliber of men today.
As with our commitment to our nation, our faith needs to go more than skin deep.
Our church is foundering and struggling with issues today that are brought about by special interest groups and she is being bombarded by those who would lobby Her to compromise on issues that, if compromised, would weaken Her and cause Her to bend her knee in a time when she is more than ever called by God to stand strong.
What the church needs is fewer surface Christians, and more men and women who are committed and strong in their faith, who are in it up to their necks, but are willing to give all that they have and are for the cause of Christ and fight the good fight of faith.
The church needs those willing to stand up and be counted for what they believe.
The church needs those who are no longer content to be surface Christians, but are willing to go deeper in their faith, until they can be looked upon as the caliber of people who would be the Paul and Peters of today.
Let us look at the depth scale today, and see where we are, or need to be in relation to our faith today.
First of all:
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I.
There is the Level of Lip Service
*                *-talking the talk
-Concerned with the here and now.
What can I say that will advance my position or what people think of me now.
                - the concern, many times, is with what people think.
!! A.   there is a forked tongue
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\\ */Matthew 21:28 through Matthew 21:30 (NASB) /*28“But what do you think?
A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go work today in the vineyard.’
29“And he answered, ‘I will not’; but afterward he regretted it and went.
30“The man came to the second and said the same thing; and he answered, ‘I /will/, sir’; but he did not go.
~*~*~*We as a nation too often lack integrity, which might be described, in a loose and colloquial way, as the courage of one's convictions.
We, the people of the United States, who a little over 200 years ago ordained and established the Constitution, have a serious problem: too many of us nowadays neither mean what we say nor say what we mean.
Moreover, we hardly expect anybody else to mean what they say either.
-- Stephen L. Carter in /Integrity/.
/Christianity Today/, Vol.
40, no.
12.
!! B.   there are those who talk straight
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\\ */Proverbs 12:17 through Proverbs 12:19 (NASB) /*
17          He who speaks truth tells what is right,
            But a false witness, deceit.
18  There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,
     But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
19  Truthful lips will be established forever,
     But a lying tongue is only for a moment.
~*~*~*In the classroom setting of one Peanuts comic strip, on the first day of the new school year, the students were told to write an essay about returning to class.
In her essay Lucy wrote, "Vacations are nice, but it's good to get back to school.
There is nothing more satisfying or challenging than education, and I look forward to a year of expanding knowledge."
Needless to say, the teacher was pleased with Lucy and complimented her fine essay.
In the final frame, Lucy leans over and whispers to Charlie Brown, "After a while, you learn what sells."
The temptation to say "what sells," what others want to hear whether it is true or not, is always with us.
When we give in to that temptation, what we really sell is the integrity of our souls.
When we resist, Christ can say of us as he did of Nathaniel, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile" (John 1:47 KJV).
-- William M. Nieporte in Fresh Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching (Baker), from the editors of Leadership.
! II.
There is the Level of Life's Submission
-walking the walk
!! A.   Confirming the talk
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\\ */Ephesians 5:6 through Ephesians 5:16 (NASB) /*6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
7Therefore do not be partakers with them; 8for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light 9(for the fruit of the Light /consists/ in all goodness and righteousness and truth), 10trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
11Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; 12for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
13But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.
14For this reason it says,
     “Awake, sleeper,
     And arise from the dead,
     And Christ will shine on you.”
15Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, 16making the most of your time, because the days are evil.
~*~*~*Charles Swindoll, in Growing Deep in the Christian Life, tells about a man who bought fried chicken dinners for himself and his date late one afternoon.
The attendant at the fast food outlet, however, inadvertently gave him the proceeds from the day's business--a bucket of money (much of it cash) instead of fried chicken.
Swindoll writes:
   "After driving to their picnic site, the two of them sat down to enjoy some chicken.
They discovered a whole lot more than chicken--over $800!
But he was unusual.
He quickly put the money back in the bag.
They got back into the car and drove all the way back.
By then, the manager was frantic.
"Mr.
Clean got out, walked in, and became an instant hero.
'I want you to know I came by to get a couple of chicken dinners and wound up with all this money here.'
"Well, the manager was thrilled to death.
He said, 'Let me call the newspaper.
I'm gonna have your picture put in the local paper.
You're one of the most honest men I've ever heard of.'
"To which the man quickly responded, 'Oh, no.
No, no, don't do that!' Then he leaned closer and whispered, 'You see, the woman I'm with--she's, uh, somebody else's wife.' "
   One can be honest and still not have integrity.
!! B.   Conforming to the Word.
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\\ */1 Timothy 6:17 through 1 Timothy 6:19 (NASB) /*17Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.
18/Instruct them/ to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, 19storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.
~*~*~*Let not thy Word, O Lord, become a judgement upon us, that we hear it and do it not, that we believe it and obey it not.
-- Attributed to Thomas a Kempis.
Christianity Today, Vol.
37, no.
3.
 
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\\ */John 14:23 (NASB) /*23Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.
-Today, many would go so far to say that we cannot keep God's word.
If that is the case, we cannot love Jesus.
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There is the Level of Love's Surrender
!! A.   Giving Your Life to Jesus
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