CORRUPTION & CORRECTION OF MANKIND
4/13/08 Romans 3 S__L__R__
1. Summation of God’s Indictment of man
a. Ro. 1:18-32 – degradation of humanity
1. 1 in 5 have an incurable STD
a. incurable & transmittable
b. abstinence? – pill that might help
2. FTU – newest form of dating “holidate”
b. under – several meanings
1. all have the meaning of CONTROL
2. Ownership – master to slave
3. Authority – warden to convict
4. Worth – superior to inferior
I. THE UNDENIABLE POWER OF SIN Vs. 9-20
A. Character Vs. 9-15
1. Absence of Innocence
a. 6 times – “none” – “no not one”
b. absolute negative – no possibility of positive
c. within soul of every man – dark hole of sin
d. Judges 17:6 (KJV)
… every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
2. Absence of Knowledge none “that understands”
1. 1 Corinthians 2:14 (KJV)
But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2. 2 Corinthians 4:4 (KJV)
In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
3. “Oprah & Friends” - Yr. Long Internet course
a. A Course in Miracles - 365 Day Work Book
b. 7 Yr. Dictation of New Revelation – Jesus
1. “there is no sin”
2. a “slain Christ has no meaning”
3. journey to the cross – “last useless journey”
4. “pathetic error of clinging to the Old Rugged
5. “atonement is the final lesson man has to
learn, for it teaches him that, never having
sinned, he has no need of salvation”
3. Absence of Neediness “none that seek after God”
1. Sin entered the world – Adam ran & hid
a. God became the seeker
2. “seeker sensitive serv.” – not only wrong-heretical
John 6:44 (KJV)
No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him
3. Until HS convicts & convinces of sin – no salvation
4. Absence of Absolutes “gone out of the way”
1. Word defined –
a. deviate
b. avoid
c. shun
2. No matter how much Society changes – WOG
a. by this word we shall be judged
b. not what we thing it says – not New Revelation
c. Infallible, Inerrant, Eternal Word of Living God!!
5. Absence of Purpose
1. Unprofitable
a. rendered useless
b. to spoil
2. Good – chrestos> Christ
a. morally perfect & able to stand before God
b. kindness; mercy; gentleness
B. Conduct Vs. 13-18
1. Foul Words 13-14
a. “open sepulcher” – grave does not stink – inside
b. “poison of asps” – kill with words
c. SACRAMENTO, Calif. —Adolescents and preteens are swearing more publicly than ever — especially at school, experts say.
It’s conversational swearing — in the ‘hallways and in the classroom — that is on the rise, says Timothy Jay, one of the leading scholars on cursing in the United States.
Teens are more likely to drop casual expletives, or “fillers,” than the generation before them and have more trouble adjusting their conversation to fit their audience. That means adults — especially strangers who cannot sanction the teens — hear more of the same language that’ the teens’ friends hear, says Jay, author of “Why We Curse” and “Cursing in America.”
He estimates that the average adolescent uses roughly 80 to 90 swear words a day. “Elementary school teachers report that children are using more offensive language at, school than they have in the past,” says Jay, who is compiling data for a study he will complete in the fall examining preteens and swearing. “They have been breaking the rules at school more frequently in the last 10 years.”
Jay, a psychology professor at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, Mass., has been’ studying swearing trends’ since the 1970s. He points out that language values in the United States constantly change. “Our language values are shifting, and it’s just different, not better or worse,” he says.
counselor Michael Leahy says ,that for. the most part the students at the school know when to turn off the loose language they use with their friends when talking to him.
“I think that the lines between public and private language have become. blurred for our
kids.”
the Emily Post Institute’s Cindy Post Senning, co- author of “Teen Manners: From Malls to Meals to Messaging and Beyond,” recommends talking to adolescents about the. public image they want to convey through language.
“Some people use swear words with friends and nobody is offended,” says the etiquette expert. “The problem is that it becomes a habit and it can offend unintended listeners.”
Senning suggests, working on helping teens control their profanity rather than disciplining them for using it.
Cussing is a natural behavior learned from family members, according to Jay. The solution, says Jay, is for parents to teach the etiquette of swearing. “Kids should know about the power of language. Parents should remind them about how important words can be and when you should use them,” agrees Leahy.
e. “bitterness”
1. to cut, prick or strong sharp smell
d. Not only offense against man – against God
Matthew 12:36 (MSG)
Let me tell you something: Every one of these careless words is going to come back to haunt you. There will be a time of Reckoning. Words are powerful; take them seriously
2. Fearsome Work
a. Vs. 15-17
Gainesville Sun 3/3/08
Father of slain Texas family clings to life as four sit in jail
The Associated Press
EMORY, Texas — The lone survivor of a pre-dawn attack on a rural family that had sought to break up a teenage daughter’s romance clung to life Sunday as the girl and three others sat in jail.
Terry Caffey, who was shot in the head, was able to crawl about 300 yards to a neighbor’s house while flames consumed his home with his wife, Penny, 37, and sons Mathew, 13, and Tyler, 8, inside, the Rains County Sheriff’s Department said.
Terry Caffey was in critical condition Sunday afternoon at
East Texas Medical Center in Tyler, where he was undergo¬ing surgery for four gunshot wounds, including two to his back.
His wife and sons had been shot and stabbed multiple times, according to the sheriff’s department.
The 16-year-old girl, whose name was withheld because of her age, was arraigned Sunday on three counts of capital mur¬der and was being held on $1.5 million bond. Three others from ages 18 to 20, including the girl’s suspected boyfriend, were arraigned
2 killed, 5 hurt in shootings at S. Fla. Wendy’s
“This was not a robbery. He didn’t demand anything,” said Paul Miller, a Palm Beach County sheriff’s spokesman. “Looks like this was just another random shooting like we’ve seen around the United States.”
b. “no fear of God”
…fear a fellow man. But in a few moments the same man’s mouth was using the name of God, and even of Jesus Christ, in profanity. It meant nothing to him that God had said, “The Lord will not hold him guiltless that takes His name in vain.” But what will it mean when he steps out of this life into the realities of eternity!
Calvin “Out of the contempt of God comes all wickedness. Seeing that the fear of God is the fountain of wisdom, when we are once departed from it, there abides nothing right or sincere. If it be wanting, we are loosed unto all kind of licentious wickedness.”
Proverbs 9:10: “…through the fear of the LORD a man avoids evil.”
Psalm 101:3: “I will set before my eyes no vile thing.”
Psalm 86:11: “Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.”
C. Condemnation Vs. 19-20
1. No Excuse Vs. 19
a. We sin because we were born sinners
b. “I didn’t mean to…” “I couldn’t help it …”
“God made me this way”
2. No Escape
a. “all the world”
3. No Exceptions Vs. 20
a. “no flesh”
2. THE UNDESERVED PROVISION OF GRACE Vs. 21-31
A. Prophecy of the Provision Vs. 21
1. Gen 3:15; Job;
Isaiah 53:4-9 (KJV)
4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opens not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
B. Person of the Provision Vs. 22
Acts 4:12 (KJV)
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
C. Persons for the Provision Vs. 23 -26
WEST PALM BEACH — A 60-year-old gunman wearing a jacket and tie wordlessly opened fire inside a Wendy’s during the lunchtime rush Monday, killing a firefighter who’d returned to exchange a toy and wounding five other diners. Alburn Edward Blake of West Palm Beach then turned the gun on himself.
