1. Desensitized!
Scriptural “Sensitivity” Training!

2. Desensitized!
“…to make emotionally insensitive or callous; specifically: to extinguish an emotional response (as of fear, anxiety, or guilt) to stimuli that formerly induced it”
Merriam-Webster Online

3. Desensitized! To render insensitive or less sensitive.
To make emotionally insensitive or unresponsive, as by long exposure or repeated shocks:
“This movie in effect may re-sensitize people who thought they were desensitized to violence”.
Source: Dictionary.com

4. Have we lost the Battle?
“Far from living in a world elsewhere, the faithful in the United States are remarkably like everyone else” … in the battle between faith and culture, “American culture has triumphed.”
- Alan Wolfe How We Actually Live Our Faith

5. Example of Insensitivity
Parable of the good Samaritan
Luke 10:25-37
Priest & Levite were insensitive to the needs of the man who was robbed and beaten!
Key Lesson
Be sensitive to our “neighbor”!
Ex 20:12-17
Matt. 22:34-40

6. Desensitized! When God’s people are not sensitive to sin!
Jer. 6:15; 1 Tim. 4:2; Heb. 3:12-13 3

7. Why do we become desensitized to sin & error?
Lack knowledge - Hos. 4:6
Teach…Learn -Eph. 4:20-21; Heb. 5:12-14
Failure to put off the old man of sin - Eph. 4:17-24
Transform mind - Rom. 12:2; Eph. 4:23

8. Why do we become desensitized to sin & error?
Influence of worldliness Cor. 15:33 (Prov. 6:27)
Beware of the faithless deceit of sin - Heb. 3:12-13
Not love the world - 1 Jno. 2:15-17
Do not pitch our tents toward Sodom - (Gen. 13:12-13)

9. Why do we become desensitized to sin & error?
Complacency toward God & His will - Zeph. 1:12
Wake up! Rom. 13:11-12
Obstinate rebellion - Heb. 3:7-11; 10:26-27
Fear God & obey Him - Heb. 10:31 (Prov. 1:7; 9:10)

10. Renew Our Sensitivity Toward Immodest Dress
It is Sin - 1 Tim. 2:9-10 (Prov. 7:10; Jer. 6:15)
Modest (kosmios): “Orderly, well-arranged, decent...”
Shamefastness (aidos): “A sense of shame”
Sobriety (sophrosune) - “Soundness of mind… sound judgment”
Ephesians 4:22-24

11. Renew Our Sensitivity Toward Immodest Dress
Applications include:
Revealing clothing (dresses, blouses, midriffs & mini-skirts)
Underclothes
Short shorts
Skin tight pants
Shirtless (men)

12. Renew Our Sensitivity Toward Profanity
Euphemisms, Eph. 4:29
“the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensively blunt or harsh” (Webster’s)
Ephesians 4:22-24

13. Such Euphemisms Include…
Gee; Geez (Jesus)
Gosh; Golly (God)
Lordy (Oh, Lord)
Heck (h__l)
Blue blazes (slang for h__l)
Darn; Dang (to curse, da_n)
Shoot (s__t)
Dog gone (God d__n)

14. Our Speech Should Be… Sound - Titus 2:8 Gracious & seasoned
Col. 4:6
Truth in love - Eph. 4:15, 25
Plain; bold - 2 Cor. 3:12; 7:4
As the words of God
1 Peter 4:11

15. Renew Our Sensitivity Toward Fornication
Adultery; “Shacking up”; homosexuality - 1 Cor. 6:9-11
Common in entertainment
Humor…Personalities… Accepted by Most!
Flee fornication! - 1 Cor. 6:18

16. Renew Our Sensitivity Toward Doctrinal Error
Endure sound doctrine
2 Tim. 4:3-4
“Truth is relative”
“Nobody agrees on everything”
“Everybody does something without Bible authority”
“Stop judging others”
Need to be more tolerant!
Maintain pure teaching and living
2 Tim. 1:13
Gal. 1:6-10
2 Jno. 9-11
Rom. 16:17

17. Renew Our Sensitivity Toward Lost Souls
Try to save some with sound doctrine
Matt. 9:36-38
Conscious (He “saw” them)
Compassion (moved Him)
Commitment (toward them)
We must properly value lost souls - Matt. 16:26

18. Desensitized!
When we become desensitized to sin & error we will certainly lose our souls!
John 17:14-19 15