Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures …

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral & Spiritual Failures

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures Story # 1 Headline Washington Court: Teachers Can Have Sex With 18-Year-Old Students

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 1…  Our culture usually cringes at adults manipulating children  High school seniors are still children… no matter how the courts classify them

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 1… Biblical Principles  We expect the judicial process to always be on the side of right and to uphold justice…not pervert it

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 1… Biblical Principles  We expect all who live under the law (esp. the young) to be protected  O.T. Deut 16:18-20 Eccl 3:16-17 Isa 59:12-15 Hab 1:4

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 1… Biblical Principles  N.T. Rom 13:3-4  This sets a dangerous precedent…it will only embolden further predatory behavior

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures Story # 2 Headline 22-Year-Old’s Virginity Auction Hits Record $ 3,700,000 Bid

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 2…  Our culture is coming up with more “creative ways” to market something and gain wealth  We’re finding new ways to be immoral

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 2… Biblical Principles  It takes very little effort to know how serious God views sexual immorality 1 Cor 6:9-10 Gal 5: Tim 1:9-10

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 2… Biblical Principles  Marriage = only legitimate place to satisfy the sexual appetite Heb 13:4  Marriage meant to encourage fidelity… discourage promiscuity 1 Cor 7:1-5

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 2… Biblical Principles  A person’s virginity (sexual purity) is to be protected and saved for marriage… not “auctioned off” to make money cp. Song of Sol 8:8-9

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 2… Biblical Principles  The young woman in this story is “thumbing her nose” at God Gal 6:7  She is being aided by a news media that is “glamorizing” her actions

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures Story # 3 Headline Life As We Know It Nearly Created In Science Lab

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 3…  Our culture is enamored with evolution or any “theory” opposing creation  This story offers “empty claims” and presents them as “proven facts”

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 3… Biblical Principles  Something as complex as the world could only exist by “intelligent design”  The “intelligent Designer” = God

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 3… Biblical Principles  His “creative power” is loudly declared in Scripture Gen 1:3,6,9,11,14,20,24 Psa 8:3 33:6,9 148:3-5

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 3… Biblical Principles  This story cannot account for a “beginning” somewhere Heb 11:3  It takes more faith to believe it than to believe the Bible 2 Thess 2:9-12

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures About Story # 3… Biblical Principles  This story will eventually find its way into school, our children’s textbooks  A mindset that has always resisted God Rom 1:20-22

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures Conclusion  Do these headlines “shock” us?  While we may scratch our heads they actually appeared in the news, NO…we are not “shocked”

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures Conclusion  We know the following… Jn 18:26 1 Jn 5:19 Psa 14:1  The people in these stories actually represent those mentioned in Jn 4:33-35 & Mt 9:37

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures Conclusion  These stories make us painfully aware of our enormous responsibility in protecting & safeguarding our children…and in teaching them the word of God to combat this error

Cultural Headlines Evidencing Moral And Spiritual Failures …