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Does It Matter What I Think? Series
Contributed by Kevin Hoddinott on May 8, 2001 (message contributor)
Summary: Theology is the biggest deal in the world. Every one has a theology, even if they are not aware of it. This sermon asks us to stop and think about these issues.
Jesus said there is only one truth and he was it.
Only one way to God...through him....all others are lies and
birthed from hell.
The reason we can say that the Christian world view is the
only right one is because it is absolute truth...and the
nature of truth is that it makes everything that contradicts
lies.
If a world view is not biblical or God based..what then is it’s
origin?.........Hell...the demonic.
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Now think with me..... when God was saying no other Gods
before me...was he concerned about the piece of rock or
stone, metal ..no...he was disturbed about the demonically
influenced world view that the idol represented....
Idolatry is buying into a world view other than that the bible
puts forth.
Idol worship is alive and well in Orangeville....so my little
children as John warned...keep yourself from idols...beware
of world views that are not centered in the God of the bible.
Listen to your words, examine your attitudes, and your
actions..are you getting squeezed into the world views that
are not biblically based?
It can happen real easy.....you we are bombarded by it every
single day..at work, ...you can’t sing Christmas carols about
Jesus at the Christmas party.
Why because it is not consistent with other world views.
What does that imply?
That the other people world views are just as valid as yours.
Now I would argue for their right to have them...but not that
they are valid.
You are hit with it on TV.
Homosexuality is not only portrayed as an acceptable
lifestyle, but those who disagree with it are painted as
bigots and a menace to society.
Your children are really being snowed with it through their
cartoons.
In fact I would suggest that cartoons more than any other
medium is working to indoctrinate your children away from
a Christian world view.
IE: the one you all feel is so excellent..Magic school
bus...what does it teach your kids about the origins of
life...That God created...no...but that man evolved.
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It matters a great deal what you think.
Over the next weeks I want first of all to establish in your
mind a clear picture of the biblical world view...and then
give you some comparisons to demonic world views that
are controlling our society.
For any of us to be fully conscience intellectually, we
should not only be able to detect the world view of others,
but be aware of our own.
We should be able to articulate ...Why is it ours, and why in
the light of so many options, we think its true.
A World view is a set of presuppositions,
assumptions which may be true, partially true or
entirely false which we hold. Consciously or
subconsciously; and consistently about the basic
makeup of our world.
The first thing that every one of us recognizes before we
even begin to think at all, is that something exists.
In other words, all world views assume that something is
there, rather than nothing is there.
So lets jump right in with this foundational truth.....
“Everybody has a world view.”
Everybody has some thoughts about what is good and bad,
what is right and wrong.