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Overcoming Casual Christianity

Jul 12, 2015

Passage:Revelation 3:15-18

Preacher: Rick Blackwell

Detail:

Overcoming Casual Christianity

Revelation 3:15-18 ESV

(15)  "'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!

(16)  So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.

(17)  For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

(18)  I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.

 

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV

(31)  So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 

1. Surrender to Christ as your Savior and Lord.  Be Sure!

2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV

(5)  Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

2. Seek to Know Him more deeply and completely with each new day.

Philippians 3:7-11 ESV

(7)  But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

(8)  Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

(9)  and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—

(10)  that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

(11)  that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

3. Make Him known

Acts 1:8 ESV

(8)  But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

Ephesians 3:14-19 ESV

(14)  For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

(15)  from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

(16)  that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

(17)  so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

(18)  may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

(19)  and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Casual Christian

It's more than a wish, more than a daydream

More than just a passing whim

Yes, I've said this all before

A thousand times or more

I don't wanna waste my life in chains of sin

Chorus

I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be a casual Christian

I don't wanna live, I don't wanna live a lukewarm life

Because I wanna light up the night

With an everlasting light

I don't wanna live the casual Christian life

This life is filled with strong distractions

One pulls from the left one from the right

I've already made up my mind

Gonna leave this world behind

Gonna live my life a living sacrifice.