Col 2:1-6
2 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; COMPARED TO LAODICEA??
2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. -- KJVCol 2:8
8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. – NIV
John 15:18-19
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. KJV
DOES YOUR WORLD VIEW MATTER??POLITICS - ECONOMICS etc.
world view defined
VIEW – GLASSES
THE WORLD VEIW OF OUR NATION HAS CHANGED:
THE NANNY STATE:
ONCE A PRODUCING NATION -- NOW WE ARE A CONSUMING NATION
WE HAVE THIS CONSUMER MIND SET
JOSH MCDOWELL, “ 45 AND OLDER, - IF IT TRUE IT WILL WORK”
“ 30 AND YOUNGER, - IF IT WORKS IT MUST BE TRUE”
1 John 2:15-17
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. KJV1 John 2:15-17
15 Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.
16 Practically everything that goes on in the world — wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important — has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him.
17 The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out — but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. MESSAGE
NOW PEOPLE “CHURCH SHOP” .... CHURCHES EMPLOY MARKTING …
DON’T BE COMPARING TO OTHER CHURCHES …. CWC .. VICTORY ..
LIFE UNLIMITED
THE FIRST CHURCH IS THE ONLY COMPARISON FOR ARE CHURCH………
……..ONLY THE GLORY OF THIS HOUSE IS DESTINED TO SURPASS THAT OF THE FIRST CHURCH
GOOD MOTHERS ARE THE PROTO-TYPE FOR THE CHURCH
THE CHUCH IS A PLACE TO SERVE ….. GOD AND HIS BODY
1 John 4:17
17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
PRAYER ….BEGATS LOVE - AND - LOVE….. UNITY
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