New Years: Routine Religion or Habitual Holiness
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A Sermon by Dr. Bob Griffin, Teaching Elder at Sovereign Grace Church
Ezekiel 22:26 “[They] have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean.”
I. THE SAD ILLUSTRATION
I Samuel 5-7
II. THE STRONG ADMONITION
II Samuel 6:1-9
III. THE SERIOUS APPLICATION
Reality Check for Routine Religion
IV. THE SURE SOLUTION
In 2015 I MUST Study/Understand God’s Word
James 1:22 “Be doers of the Word, not just hearers”
(also I Peter 2:2; Psalm 119; Matt 4:4; II Tim 2:15; John 8:31-32; Psalm 1:2-3)
In 2015 I MUST Pray
Matt 26:41 “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
(also John 14:13-14; I Thes 5:17)
In 2015 I MUST Fellowship with Other Christians
Heb 10:23-25 “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”
(also I Cor 12:18; Acts 2:42)
In 2015 I MUST Witness for Christ
Rom 1:14-16 “I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. For I am not ashamed of the gospel”
(also Col 1:28; I Peter 3:15; Acts 1:8)
In 2015 I MUST Obey God
Matt 6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other”
(also Matt 22:37; John 14:21; 15:10; Phil 4:13)
Resolved: In 2015 I will “take root downward, and bear fruit upward” (Isaiah 37:31)