When Worlds Collide

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When Worlds Collide

• The battle between physical and spiritual man

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The Nature of Man

• Carnal/Fleshly Side
• Spiritual Side
• A Mind to Rule the Both

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Pride vs. Humility

• For some, Humility comes more difficulty that
  others.
• It is important to understand what God thinks of
  the proud or arrogant.
• Lets take a look at what the Bible has to say
  about the proud.

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Pride vs. Humility

• God does not appreciate the proud.
• But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God
  resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
  humble. (James 46 KJV)
• Pride comes from the heart of man
• And he said, That which cometh out of the man,
  that defileth the man. For from within, out of
  the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
  adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts,
  covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness,
  an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness All
  these evil things come from within, and defile
  the man. (Mark 720-23 KJV)

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Pride vs. Humility

• Pride leads to condemnation
• Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he
  fall into the condemnation of the devil. (1
  Timothy 36 KJV)

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How to fight against pride

• Respect the elders and become a servant to
  others.
• Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the
  elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another,
  and be clothed with humility for God resisteth
  the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble
  yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of
  God, that he may exalt you in due time (1 Peter
  55-6 KJV)
• Learn to be humble like a child
• Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this
  little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom
  of heaven. (Matthew 184 KJV)
• Realize the outcome of vain glory
• Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking
  one another, envying one another. (Galatians 526
  KJV)

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Sin vs. Righteousness

• Sin, being attractive, leads to strong temptation
• The body is hard to control
• We must decide whether to do things that are
  appealing to us

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Sin vs. Righteousness

• Some things about man are very hard to tame
• But the tongue can no man tame it is an unruly
  evil, full of deadly poison. (James 38 KJV)
• Before becoming a Christian we were in sin
• Among whom also we all had our conversation in
  times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling
  the desires of the flesh and of the mind and
  were by nature the children of wrath, even as
  others. (Ephesians 23 KJV)

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How to fight against sin

• Learn not to love the world
• Love not the world, neither the things that are
  in the world. If any man love the world, the love
  of the Father is not in him. For all that is in
  the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of
  the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the
  Father, but is of the world. (1 John 215-16 KJV)
  
• Direct the attention of our mind to good things
• Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
  whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things
  are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
  things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good
  report if there be any virtue, and if there be
  any praise, think on these things. (Philippians
  48 KJV)

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How to fight against sin

• Bring out bodies into subjection
• But I keep under my body, and bring it into
  subjection lest that by any means, when I have
  preached to others, I myself should be a
  castaway. (1 Corinthians 927 KJV)

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Excess vs. Moderation

• There is such a thing as too much of a good
  thing.
• Many activities are not wrong by their nature but
  our approach is wrong.

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Examples of Excess

• DRINK - And be not drunk with wine, wherein is
  excess but be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians
  518 KJV)
• FOOD - Be not among winebibbers among riotous
  eaters of flesh For the drunkard and the glutton
  shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall
  clothe a man with rags. (Proverbs 2320-21 KJV)
• DESIRE FOR MONEY - For the love of money is the
  root of all evil which while some coveted after,
  they have erred from the faith, and pierced
  themselves through with many sorrows. (1 Timothy
  610 KJV)

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Fighting against excess

• Live a live of moderation
• We dont have to have the biggest house, the
  nicest car, the newest style of clothes or the
  finest foods .
• Care for your body and soul
• What? know ye not that your body is the temple of
  the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of
  God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought
  with a price therefore glorify God in your body,
  and in your spirit, which are God's. (1
  Corinthians 619-20 KJV)

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TIME

• One of the biggest problems today.
• Often God is left out of our lives because of
  time.
• How we use our time is entirely our decision.

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TIME

• Our time is short and we must make good use of it
• Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.
  For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that
  appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth
  away. (James 414 KJV)
• God expects us to grow over time
• For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye
  have need that one teach you again which be the
  first principles of the oracles of God and are
  become such as have need of milk, and not of
  strong meat. (Hebrews 512 KJV)

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How to use our time

• The Bible instructs us to use wisdom
• Walk in wisdom toward them that are without,
  redeeming the time. (Colossians 45 KJV)
• We must simply make time for God
• DANIEL DID - Now when Daniel knew that the
  writing was signed, he went into his house and
  his windows being open in his chamber toward
  Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times
  a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his
  God, as he did aforetime. (Daniel 610 KJV)
• JESUS DID - And in the morning, rising up a great
  while before day, he went out, and departed into
  a solitary place, and there prayed. (Mark 135
  KJV)

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How to use our time

• We must prioritize what is truly important for us
  and make sure we are spending time attending to
  those things. What things are at the top of our
  list?

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Tools of Spirituality

• Worship
• Study
• Prayer
• Meditation
• Fasting
• Fellowship

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Questions to ask ourselves

• What other battles do we face?
• Are we winning the battles or losing them?
• Are we defending ourselves well or do we leave
  ourselves and susceptible in our battles?
• What can we do better or where can we improve?