A Christian worldview ought to lift the fog from our eyes so that we can see this world from the right perspective.
Sermon Title: CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
Sermon Text: VARIOUS TEXTS
Sermon Series: ICYMI: BACK TO BASICS
By: PTR NIC SY
Sermon Notes:
ROMANS 12:2 NIV
2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is-- his good, pleasing and perfect will.
PHILIPPIANS 1:9-10 NIV
9 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ
2 PETER 3:18 NIV
18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.
“A worldview is the set of beliefs that form the lens through which we see the world.”
Christians must be different from the world in the way we think.
“Actions follow thoughts.”
PHILIPPIANS 1:9-10 NIV
9 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
C.S. Lewis
JUDE 1:20 NIV
20 But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.
2 TIMOTHY 2:2 NIV
2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.
Our Worldview HELPS US KNOW GOD BETTER
“We are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing the God whose world it is and who runs it. The world becomes a strange, mad, painful place … for those who do not know about God.”
J.I. Packer
Knowing God is our greatest privilege as Christians.
We were made primarily to know God.
2 PETER 3:18 NIV
18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.
LEVITICUS 26:12 NIV
12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.
HEBREWS 4:16 NIV
16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Our Worldview BUILDS US UP IN THE FAITH
HEBREWS 6:1-2 NIV
1 Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, 2 instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
MATTHEW 7:24-25 NIV
24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
We build our lives on what God says.
ACTS 20:32 NIV
32 Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
HEBREWS 5:14 NIV
14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
Our Worldview DETERMINES HOW WE LIVE
ROMANS 12:2 NIV
2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is-- his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Our thoughts and beliefs determine our way of life.
Knowing how to apply the Bible is one of the goals of developing a Christian worldview.
TITUS 1:1 NIV
1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and the knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness—
Ultimately, the greatest message that we proclaim will be spoken by our life, not in the words that we say.
CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
Helps us know God better.
Builds us up in the faith.
Determines how we live.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Helen Lemmel
Look full in His wonderful face
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace
A Christian worldview ought to lift the fog from our eyes so that we can see this world from the right perspective.