1. The Christian’s Worldview - 3 What we do with what we Know
5:19

2. Foundations to Christian living.
“We know”
Foundations to Christian living.
“We don’t know”
“We have forgotten”
“We no longer live…”

3. We no longer live as new people who do not live in the State of sin.
We have forgotten that Jesus keeps us safe and that the evil cannot lay a hand on us.
We no longer remember that we live
with a new way of thinking.
It is no longer clear to us, it’s entirely debatable that we are a people “of God” and we are not sure if the rest of the world lies in the lap of evil.

4. This is truth, the way the world truly is and we must work at remembering this truth and living according to this truth.
The truth is:
“I am God’s child”.
The rest of the world is
in bed with evil.

5. Live as light What do we do with what we know?
First – avoid two extremes
Becoming like the world
Remove ourselves from the world
Live as light

6. of how not to compromise
Refuse to Compromise
Jesus – our model
of how not to compromise
Godly man and ruler
Not a life of compromise
King
Jehoshaphat

7. In everything he walked in the
Refuse to Compromise
In everything he walked in the
ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord
1 Kings 22:42-44
King
Jehoshaphat

8. Compromise is often subtle. Compromised for peace…
Peace, wealth and honor
2 Chron. 17
Compromised for peace…
2 Chron. 18:1
King
Jehoshaphat
…which lead to war
2 Chron. 18:3
2 Chronicles 17-19

9. Compromise most often in relationships
Let’s seek the Lord
18:4-27
For the people of this world are more shrewd…that the people of the light.
Luke 16:8
King
Jehoshaphat
2 Chronicles 17-19

10. Compromise has consequences All his sons were murdered by the new king
Grandmother killed all his grandchildren (except one)
King
Jehoshaphat
Wars were fought that
didn’t need to be fought
2 Chronicles 17-19
Failed business venture

11. Live as light but
do not compromise.
Ephesians 4:17-5:8

12. Beyond a shadow of a doubt we know,
and know it absolutely, that our life came from God and belongs to God. We’re loved! We’re his children! That’s how we live!
We also know just as clearly, that the entire world-system has made its bed in the troubles and pain-ridden agony called “evil.”
They lie there with the evil one without
a clue of the danger they are in.