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“What do I do when the world goes crazy?!”
Genesis 6:1-11 NIV
Matthew 24:7-13 NIV
1 Timothy 4:1 NIV
In the Hebrew sons of God comes from two words: “Ben” – son and El-o-him - God. Here is how the term is used in the bible.
It is used for a direct creation of God – (You and I are not a direct creation because we have a mom and a dad).
This word is used in the bible 3 ways:
-In the Old Testament exclusively for angels: Job 1:6; 2:1, 38:7
-In the New Testament – used for Adam in Lk. 3:38 because Adam did not have a mom and dad. He was created by God
-New believers: Jn. 1:12 talks of the new birth wherein you are a new creation (Gal. 6:15; 2 Cor. 5:17) Not born of flesh nor, the will of man but of the Spirit. (Jn 1:13)
Now Peter and Jude seem to confirm that strange things were happening in these times with angels.
2 Peter 2:4-5 NIV
Jude 1:6-7 NIV
Sexual Sin
-On average, couples will spend 3.5 years living together before marriage, and nearly nine in 10 couples (89%) live together in some capacity beforehand.
-6% of people cohabitate because they do not believe in the institute of marriage.
-About 3% of Americans wait until marriage to have sex (successfully) That’s people (alive right now in the US alone) who waited, found love, got married, then had sex for the first time after they were married – we use a little known word today called VIRGINITY!
-In the United States, more than 65 million people are currently living with an incurable sexually transmitted disease (STD). An additional 15 million people become infected with one or more STDs each year, roughly half of whom contract lifelong infections.
Violence
-Violence causes more than 1.6 million deaths worldwide every year.
-Violence is one of the leading causes of death in all parts of the world for persons ages 15 to 44.
-Violence is on the rise, with an almost fivefold increase in fatalities since 9/11.
What do I do when the world goes crazy?!
Accept your position in God!
-So then as through one transgression there resulted in condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted in the justification of life to all men.
Stand for righteousness!
-Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
-Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did. Gen. 6:22
Get saved!
-By faith, Noah became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
-God gave him an invitation to come – Gen 7:1 Then the Lord said to -Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.
-Jn 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.