1. RESPECTABLE WORLDLINESS: MORALITY
James 4:4
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.

2. RESPECTABLE WORLDLINESS: MORALITY
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul

3. By “Respectable,” We Are…
Not Discussing Worldliness That Is Accepted By God.
Discussing Worldliness That Is Accepted By Men.

4. There Are Many Forms Of Worldliness Widely Accepted Among Men.
Accepts
The Bible
Condemns
Homosexuality
Gen. 2:18-24
Rom. 1:26-28
1 Cor. 6:9-10
Jude 7
The
“In-Thing”
Same Sex
Marriage

5. There Are Many Forms Of Worldliness Widely Accepted Among Men.
Accepts
The Bible
Condemns
Adultery
Matt. 19:9
Rom. 7:2-3

6. There Are Many Forms Of Worldliness Widely Accepted Among Men.
Accepts
The Bible
Condemns
Drunkenness
Gal. 5:19-21
1 Pet. 4:3
Pro. 20:1

7. There Are Many Forms Of Worldliness Widely Accepted Among Men.
Accepts
The Bible
Condemns
Immodest Dress
1 Tim. 2:9-10
1 Pet. 3:3-4

8. There Are Many Forms Of Worldliness Widely Accepted Among Men.
Accepts
The Bible
Condemns
Abortion
Jer. 1:5
Psa. 139:13-16

9. There Are Many Forms Of Worldliness Widely Accepted Among Men.
Accepts
The Bible
Condemns
Gambling
Eph. 4:28
Col. 3:5

10. There Are Many Forms Of Worldliness Widely Accepted Among Men.
Accepts
The Bible
Condemns
Dancing
Gal. 5:19-21
Prom

11. Why Worldliness Becomes Respectable To Some Christians
Some are deceived by Satan.
Jno. 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

12. Why Worldliness Becomes Respectable To Some Christians
Some are deceived by Satan.
Some mix themselves with the world.
Hos. 7:8-9

13. Why Worldliness Becomes Respectable To Some Christians
Some are deceived by Satan.
Some mix themselves with the world.
Because of familiarity with it.
Jer. 6:15 – “Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD.

14. Why Worldliness Becomes Respectable To Some Christians
Some are deceived by Satan.
Some mix themselves with the world.
Because of familiarity with it.
Have friends & family practicing it.
Matt. 10:34-37

15. Why Worldliness Becomes Respectable To Some Christians
Some are deceived by Satan.
Some mix themselves with the world.
Because of familiarity with it.
Have friends & family practicing it.
Just sowing wild oats.
Gal. 6:7-8

16. Why Worldliness Becomes Respectable To Some Christians
Some are deceived by Satan.
Some mix themselves with the world.
Because of familiarity with it.
Have friends & family practicing it.
Just sowing wild oats.
Trivializing sin.
Jas. 2:10; Rom 6:23

17. Why Worldliness Becomes Respectable To Some Christians
Some are deceived by Satan.
Some mix themselves with the world.
Because of familiarity with it.
Have friends & family practicing it.
Just sowing wild oats.
Trivializing sin.
Overconfidence in self.
1 Cor. 10:12

18. Why Worldliness Becomes Respectable To Some Christians
Some are deceived by Satan.
Some mix themselves with the world.
Because of familiarity with it.
Have friends & family practicing it.
Just sowing wild oats.
Trivializing sin.
Overconfidence in self.
New morality – situation ethics.
Eccl. 1:9-10

19. Do You Want To See God? Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.