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Intro
We live in a culture that is increasingly moving away from God and we have to learn how to live a godly life in an ungodly culture.
The Bible is a book full of stories.
Some of ya’ll learned them in veggie tales...
Daniel - 1-6 History / 6 more chapters of Daniel’s prophecy of the end times.
Bible was complied - OT is not chronological.
5 books - law / Historical Books / Poetry / Prophets (Major and Minor)
Daniel was put in the prophecy section so we would understand that history was also prophecy.
These are just great stories… it’s a playbook for how you will need to live when the prophecies happen.
Daniel lived in a country that turned from God and they paid the price.
Any time you you turn away from God, you will pay the price.
America is standing at the threshold of falling away.
We are looking at whether we as a nation will follow the Lord.
If we don’t turn back to God, we will pay the price.
We are paying the price now.
Israel fell away from God and was conquered and exiled.
If we don’t understand the time we live in, the culture will have the same effect on us it did on many of the exiled Jews.
Culture wants to influence us.
And we won’t even notice.
The devil is using culture to mess with us.
Here is where it starts...
Names show ownership.
Are you believing what culture says about you, or what God says about you?
Culture has an agenda
1. Change our identity.
Bullies in school will re-identify you.
They will cause you to wear a mask so you can exist in the culture.
A friend of mine in HS, was a jokester, but he was that to cover up his insecurities.
ILL - me hating speech class and now for the last 28 years speaking several times per week to hundreds of people.
The devil will try to rewrite your identity.
He will try to keep you from doing what God wants you to do.
Look at the names…
Daniel - God is my judge
Belteshazzar - Lady protect the king.
They gave him a girl name.
In every pagan culture, there has been gender confusion.
The devil is not just trying to make you immoral, but to cause you to totally forget who you are.
Hananiah - Yahweh has been gracious
Shadrach - I am fearful of God.
Devil is not just trying to mess up your relationships, but he is trying to ruin your relationship with God.
Mishael - Who is what God is?
Meshach - I am despised, contemptible & humiliated.
He went from Confidence to coward.
Azariah - Yahweh has helped
Abednego - Servant of Nebo
You will be a slave of the culture.
Give God a chance to out the right label on you and in you
When culture shifts, we must know who we are.
Daniel determined not to defile himself by compromising his standards.
He asked permission to not do what the culture required.
2. Compromise our standards.
Many of you feel the pressure of culture coming at you.
We are pushed to move the plumbline of God’s word to where morality is no absolute.
God’s standard is for you and not against you.
When culture shifts, we must reaffirm our convictions.
We will look at come core values from which we cannot be moved.
Test us, and see if God’s way doesn’t work out better.
There are many test of faith through out this book.
Our culture is creating a confrontation that each of us must be prepared for if we want to follow the Lord.
We have to be prepared for the tests that will come our way.
Culture will always
3. Create a confrontation.
Ill of Chris at LSU when Mohammed hit him twice… turn the other cheek.
We have to be prepared for the tests of faith that the culture will bring to us.
When culture shifts, we must respond the right way.
Church is not responding the right way.
Two extremes -
Dogmatic - I’m right and you are going to hell.
I know what I know and you are wrong… You imight be right, but it’s not effective.
God didn’t call us to be right.
Feeling - they don’t need to change.
God loves everyone so he won’t send anyone to hell.
So now we have a generation of Christians setting the Bible aside.
There needs to be a Balance between the two.
There is truth and rightness on both sides and we have to find the balance between the two.
Daniel had an uncanny way to balance his faith with his culture.
So did Jesus.
Jesus spent time with sinners but never compromised.
Truth: God’s standard
We love everyone.
Everyone is welcome.
But we believe the Bible is truth and God loves eveyone, but he loves you enough not to leave you where you are.
Our approach might be different, but our message is the same one… the Gospel.
Grace: God’s Favor
We want to be geared to the times… but anchored to the rock.
51% gospel - your life is just good enough that your good outweighs your bad.
Bible says you have to be 100% good.
Without Truth, we are corrupt.
Without Grace, we are all condemned.
Without truth, we become worldly.
Without Grace, we become judgmental.
Truth without Grace is mean.
Grace without Truth is meaningless.
Truth & Grace are medicine to our lives.
New Orleans needs more places that will give Grace and Truth - together
Grace invites us to be free.
Truth sets us free.
Grace or Truth?
You don’t don’t have to choose, you can have both.
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