2. or Pandering to the World? Listening to God or Pandering to the World? (Part 2) (1 Kings 22:1-40)

3. Severing Our Relationship With the World Cut Here Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask…

4. Severing Our Relationship With the World Cut Here …You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (James 4:1-4 NKJV)

5. “we [Christians] are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.” - 1 Jn. 5:19 Severing Our Relationship With the World Cut Here

6. “…many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ…” - 2 Jn. 1:7 Severing Our Relationship With the World Cut Here

7. The Bible describes the minds of those in the world as… “corrupted” (2 Pet. 1:4)And “polluted” (2 Pet. 2:20) Severing Our Relationship With the World Cut Here

8. Severing Our Relationship With the World

9. Truth Must Be Spoken Clearly “For if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for battle?” (1 Corinthians 14:8 NKJV) Taking a Stand: Calling Sin & Error What They Are

10. How To Determine Who is Right and Who is Wrong: Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which… Taking a Stand: Calling Sin & Error What They Are Who has the truth?

11. How To Determine Who is Right and Who is Wrong: you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. (1 John 4:1-6 NKJV) Taking a Stand: Calling Sin & Error What They Are Who has the truth?

12. How To Determine Who is Right and Who is Wrong: …Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (1 John 5:4-5) Taking a Stand: Calling Sin & Error What They Are Who has the truth?

13. “…Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.” (Mat. 23:27) Taking a Stand: Calling Sin & Error What They Are Speak Up!

14. “Brood of vipers!... bear fruits worthy of repentance…” (Lk. 3:7-8) Taking a Stand: Calling Sin & Error What They Are Speak Up!

15. “Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall!” (Ac. 23:3) Taking a Stand: Calling Sin & Error What They Are Speak Up!

16. “…as he [Paul] reasoned about righteousness, self- control, and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid…” (Ac. 24:25) Taking a Stand: Calling Sin & Error What They Are Speak Up!

17. “Adulterers and adulteresses!...” (James 4:4 NKJV) Taking a Stand: Calling Sin & Error What They Are Speak Up!

18. “Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” (Jas. 4:8) Taking a Stand: Calling Sin & Error What They Are Speak Up!

19. “…foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth…” (Gal. 3:1) Taking a Stand: Calling Sin & Error What They Are Speak Up!

20. “Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. May the Lord repay him according to his works.” (2 Timothy 4:14 NKJV) Taking a Stand: Calling Sin & Error What They Are Speak Up!

21. “If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” - 1 Jn. 2:15 Stop Loving the World!

22. “Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.” (1 John 3:13) Stop Loving the World!

23. "But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." (Revelation 21:8) Stop Loving the World!