Biblical Expressions

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Biblical Expressions

• Apple of my eye
• God save the king
• At his wits end
• Salt of the earth
• Jebel Usdum
• Antiseptic
• Ezk.164
• Sacrifices, Lv.213

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Mt.513-16

• J. D. Tant Brethren, we are drifting
• Some have lost their influence
• Christians in name only

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I Attitude Toward Bible

• I can know God by nature w/o Bible
• If so, why did Jesus talk?
• Mt.728-29
• Ps.191-4

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II Attitude Toward Bible Authority

• Whatever judgment of elders allows, we can do
  it
• Would justify everything from mechanical music
  to Mariolatry
• Mt.721-23
• Cecil Hook

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III Attitude Toward Knowledge Of Bible

• Christians, once a courtroom joke
• Mt.633
• Families used to have Bible studies
• Entertainment crowded it out

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IV Attitude Toward Sin

• Mt.529-30 radical
• Many sins condemned in principle
• Mt.1016
• Ga.519-21
• 1. Incomplete list
• 2. Expects us to know the rest
• 3. This is serious
• Hb.512-14, ability to distinguish and
  evaluate (1 Co. 1210)

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Principles Avoid what is . . .

• Doubtful, Ro.142-5, 23.
• Detrimental, 1 Co.612a.
• Domineering, 1 Co.612b
• Dangerous (to self), 1 Co.619-20
• Dangerous (to others), 1 Co.89
• Destructive, 1 Co.1023

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Avoid what is . . .

• 7. Discouraging (to others), 1 Co.1027-30
• 8. Defiant (to God), 1 Co.1031
• 9. Distracting, Hb.121-2
• 10. Deceitful, 1 Pt.216
• 11. Double-minded, 1 Jn.216
• A few applications

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1. Movies

• Many keep the TV on more than 40 hours a week
  
• Ps.1013
• What I see doesnt affect me!
• David and Madison Ave. must be insane
• Video games

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2. Mixed swimming

• Mt.528
• Partially dressed bodies invite lewd thoughts
• Advertisers, harlots, and honest men admit it

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3. Immodest dress

• 1 Tim.29-10
• Modest decent (A-S) seemly (Th.) appropriate
  (BDAG) in good taste (Zerwick)
• Propriety Connotes fem. reserve in matters of
  sex. In the word is involved an innate moral
  repugnance to the doing of the dishonorable. It
  is shame-fastness which shrinks from
  trans-gressing the limits of womanly reserve and
  modesty (RR, 490)
• Mt.186-7 radical (attitude)

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• Moderation It is that habitual inner
  self-government, w. its constant rein on all the
  passions and desires, which would hinder the
  temptation to them from arising (Trench, 72)
• Mk.515
• Preserving the profession (1 T.210) avoid what
  is too . . .
• High . . .Low . . .Tight . . .Thin

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4. Dancing

• Ga.519
• Lasciviousness includes
• 1. indecent bodily movements
• 2. unchaste handling of males and females

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5. Pornography

• Ga.519
• Billions spent on it in US annually in
  magazines, TV, internet

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6. Promiscuity

• Lusts of men, 1 Pt.42 (3-4)
• In the flesh (ct. v. 1 318)
• According to the flesh
• Ro.122 2 Co.515
• Lewdness, 1 Pt.43
• Unbridled lustful excesses (2 Pt.27)
• Lusts, 1 Pt.43 (211)

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7. Alcohol

• 1 Pt.43
• Drinking party not of necessity excessive,
  but giving opportunity for excess (Trench, 225)
  
• Est.18 verb Ac. 2321
• Alcohol has many defenders and no defense (A.
  Lincoln) 
• 8. MDR