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TITLE: Perilous Times
TEXT: Mark 13:7-9
PROPOSITION: We are living in dangerous times.
QUESTION: What?
KEY WORD: Lessons
READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
This passage reads like this morning's newspaper.
It is as if this was written last week.
What can we learn about these "perilous times"?
Notice the Description - "PERILOUS TIMES"
Time of - Danger, treachery, materialism, immorality
Violence, war, terrorists, civil strife = Daily news
WHAT CAN WE DO?
Exert wholesome influence where we are.
Be a light to a crooked and perverse world. Matthew 5:16
Keep us "unspotted". James 1:27
REMEMBER: Wherever you go, whatever you do -Be Christian!
- Your influence is greater than you think.
- Others are seeing your "gospel” 2 Corinthians 3:1
Look at the matter of Christian Morals
Millions have lost their sense of decency, right and wrong.
- Selfishness, Greed, Deceit, Fleshly Lusts
- Many Christians - Warped by the world
It is time to get back our basic moral values.
Recognize that moral values are constant, eternal.
- WRONG IS ALWAYS WRONG!
- Wrong is wrong even if "Everybody does it"
10 Commandments = Set of moral principles.
Christ amplified and gave deeper meaning to them.
Look At 2 Timothy 3:1-5
Every item is on the increase in our society.
Parental authority challenged, Violence in schools
Ungrateful - Better off than ever, and less satisfied
Without natural affection -
- Abortion - no love for an innocent unborn child
- Child (and elderly) abuse - no concern for own family
- Homosexuals - (Romans 1:26-28)
- Toward property - vandalism, stealing, arson
Toward authority - police, court system, lawyers
Lovers of Pleasure more than lovers of God
- Football player fined $111,111 for missing a game to be with wife during delivery of their child.
- Stay out late Saturday night, take communion Sunday night.
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