1. Welcome

2. Unstained, uncontaminated
Christian Ethics
And Morals
James 1:27 “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
Unblemished
Unstained, uncontaminated

3. Definition
Ethics - Greek = habit or custom
English = a set of moral principles
Morality - Latin = that which ought to be done and ought not to be done
Christian
Conforming our human activity to the revealed will of God
Ethics and morals

4. Bible Teaching about Ethics
“Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.” III John 11
Evil = wicked, injurious, worthless
Good = beneficial
Romans 12:1-2
Not conformed to this world
But transformed
1 Thes. 5:15 “See that none render evil for evil unto any [man]; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all [men].”
Diotrephes
Demetrius

5. Bible Teaching about Ethics
Romans 13:7-10
“love worketh no ill to his neighbour”
Lists the things that love prohibits
Matt. 7:12

6. How to know Right from Wrong
Some things are always right -- Some things are always wrong
To Tell the Truth
Be Honest
Love God
Love your neighbour
Murder
Steal
Mouth sins
God’s name in vain
Liars
Corrupt Speech
Adultery
115 sins listed in NT
Two Assumptions
Want to do right
2. Bible is standard of authority

7. Ethics for Christians Many problems in ethics in the world
“I am come that they might have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly.” John 10:10 b
God gave us rules for our own good.

8. Ethics for Christians Honesty
Eph. 4:28 “Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.”
1 Pet. 4:15 “But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or [as] a thief, or [as] an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.”
2 Cor. 8:21 “Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.”

9. Ethics for Christians Sexual Ethics Pre-marital
Heb. 13:4 “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”

10. Ethics for Christians Works Of The Flesh Sexual Ethics Extra-marital
Galatians 5:19
Adultery
Fornication
Uncleanness
Lascivousness
Works Of
The Flesh

11. Ethics for Christians Sexual Ethics Divorce and remarriage
Matt. 5: Divorce and remarry = adultery
Matt. 19:9 One cause for divorce and remarriage and that cause is fornication

12. Ethics for Christians Sexual Ethics Pornography
“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” Matt. 5:28
“…women adorn themselves in modest apparel” Timothy 2:9

13. Ethics for Christians Sexual Ethics Homosexuality Romans 1:24-32
dishonour their own bodies
vile affections
against nature
working that which is unseemly

14. Ethics for Christians Sexual Ethics Abortion Exodus 21:22-25
Woman with child
Fruit depart from her
If any mischief follow
“Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand”

15. And Morals Christian Ethics
Romans 13:10 “Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.”
Why be good ?
God has revealed the best way of life
God expects his children to be good

16. And Morals Christian Ethics
Proverbs 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

17. Proverbs 15:3 ¶ The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

19. Nelson Chapel Church of Christ
5039 Six Mile Road
Maryville, Tn
July 9, 2017
Sermon by Arthur Pigman
2705 Druid Hill Dr.
Maryville, Tn
CCL