Post by Les Brewer on Aug 14, 2021 21:16:59 GMT
Do Not Love the World - (1 John 2:12–17)
I have been trying to address the issues as we have gone through them, over the last almost year and a half now, and try to help you to be able to respond to the dramatic changes that are going on in the world around us and to understand them from a biblical perspective. This has been by most measures a very difficult and trying year. But in reality this has probably been the most exciting and joyful year of ministry I’ve ever known. I feel like Moses—forty years in Egypt, forty years in the wilderness, and now I’m 80 and I’m just getting started. I know you’re calculating that you don’t want me for another forty years.
This has been a really incredible year for life at Grace Church, hasn’t it? It’s been a wonderful year. And our disappointment doesn’t lie with our Lord. Our disappointment doesn’t lie with the redeemed in His church. But as I look over the landscape week in and week out and try to help you understand things from a biblical perspective, I’m very much aware that there is a massive amount of disappointment on the part of just about all of us who desire the honor of God and the honor of Christ, and who want an environment that is protective of virtue, who want a safe place to live and raise our children—safe from the physical harm that can come upon us and safe from the mental harm, which is even greater, that can come upon us through entertainment and media and even education. I get it; I know the level of disappointment. And I know if you follow the news, which is all bad all the time and never good, it can drive your disappointment up to a very high level. And I think this is partly because we don’t understand what we should be expecting.
Click on this next link to continue reading this sermon or scroll down to watch the recorded sermon. www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/81-116/do-not-love-the-world
I have been trying to address the issues as we have gone through them, over the last almost year and a half now, and try to help you to be able to respond to the dramatic changes that are going on in the world around us and to understand them from a biblical perspective. This has been by most measures a very difficult and trying year. But in reality this has probably been the most exciting and joyful year of ministry I’ve ever known. I feel like Moses—forty years in Egypt, forty years in the wilderness, and now I’m 80 and I’m just getting started. I know you’re calculating that you don’t want me for another forty years.
This has been a really incredible year for life at Grace Church, hasn’t it? It’s been a wonderful year. And our disappointment doesn’t lie with our Lord. Our disappointment doesn’t lie with the redeemed in His church. But as I look over the landscape week in and week out and try to help you understand things from a biblical perspective, I’m very much aware that there is a massive amount of disappointment on the part of just about all of us who desire the honor of God and the honor of Christ, and who want an environment that is protective of virtue, who want a safe place to live and raise our children—safe from the physical harm that can come upon us and safe from the mental harm, which is even greater, that can come upon us through entertainment and media and even education. I get it; I know the level of disappointment. And I know if you follow the news, which is all bad all the time and never good, it can drive your disappointment up to a very high level. And I think this is partly because we don’t understand what we should be expecting.
Click on this next link to continue reading this sermon or scroll down to watch the recorded sermon. www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/81-116/do-not-love-the-world