Losing Your IdentityThrough Your Attitude

What Is Your Attitude Toward Bible Warnings?

Do We Treat Bible WarningsAs Less Important Than Sin?

SIN

WARNING

Do We Treat Warnings LikeA Caution Light and Speed Up!

How Should We ViewWarnings From God?

• Disregard?

• Speed Up?

• Slow Down?

• Prepare to Stop?

• Put On the Brakes?

Warnings About Wine

Habitual Wine-Drinkers

Prov 23:20

Do not mix with winebibbers,

Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;

NKJV

Wine Is A Mocker

Prov 20:1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.(NKJ)

Wine Enslaves the Heart

Hosea 4:11"Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.(NKJ)

Woe To Those ... Intoxicating Drink

Isa 5:11Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may follow intoxicating drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!(NKJ)

Erred Through Wine ...Stumble In Judgment

Isa 28:7But they also have erred through wine, and through intoxicating drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through intoxicating drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.(NKJ)

Drink and Forget the Law

Prov 31:4-5It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes intoxicating drink;Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the justice of all the afflicted.(NKJ)

Woe and Sorrow

Prov 23:29-30Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who linger long at the wine, those who go in search of mixed wine.(NKJ)

Do Not Drink Wine

Lev 10:8-10Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, saying: "Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, that you may distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean,(NKJ)

John the Baptist to Abstain from Wine and Strong Drink

Luke 1:15"For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.(NKJ)

Elders Not Given to Wine

Titus 1:7For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,(NKJ)

Deacons Not Given to Much Wine

1 Tim 3:8Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money,(NKJ)

Older Women Not Given To Much Wine

Titus 2:3

the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things--

(NKJ)

Timothy Told to Use a Little Wine

1 Tim 5:23No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.(NKJ)

Out Attitude Should Be Like Timothy. We Should Treat the

Warning Like A Red Light!

Be Sober and Vigilant

1 Pet 5:8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.(NKJ)

Vine defines “sober” as “to be free from the influence of intoxicants.”

Warnings About Nakedness

Naked and Not Ashamed(Before Eating the Forbidden Fruit)

Gen 2:25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.(NKJ)

Because I Was Naked

Gen 3:10So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself."(NKJ)

Nakedness and Shame

Rev 16:15"Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame."(NKJ)

Uncover = Shame

Jer 13:26

Therefore I will uncover your skirts over your face, that your shame may appear.

(NKJ)

Made Themselves Coverings

Gen 3:7Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.(NKJ)

God Clothed Them With Tunics

Gen 3:21Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.(NKJ)

Naked Is Not Covered

Lev 18:6'None of you shall approach anyone who is near of kin to him, to uncover his nakedness: I am the LORD.(NKJ)

Noah Became UncoveredGen 9:21-23Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.(NKJ)

Nakedness Exposed On Steps

Exod 20:26'Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.'(NKJ)

Covered From Waist to Thighs

Exod 28:42"And you shall make for them linen trousers to cover their nakedness; they shall reach from the waist to the thighs.(NKJ)

Uncovered Thigh Was Naked

Isa 47:2-3Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, take off the skirt, uncover the thigh, pass through the rivers. Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame will be seen; I will take vengeance, and I will not arbitrate with a man."(NKJ)

Modest Apparel

1 Tim 2:9-10in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing,but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works.(NKJ)

Out Attitude Should Be To Fully Clothe Ourself

We Should Treat Warnings About Nakedness Like A Red Light!

Warnings About Lewdness

Lewdness Defined

• Unbridled lust or sensuality

• Lasciviousness (KJV, ASV)

• Licentiousness (RSV)

Lewdness A Work of the Flesh

Gal 5:19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,(NKJ)

Being Past Feeling

Eph 4:19who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.(NKJ)

They Did Not Know How To Blush

Jer 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time I punish them, they shall be cast down," says the LORD.(NKJ)

Christians Don’t Run With Others

1 Pet 4:3-4For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles-- when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.(NKJ)

Make No Provision for the Flesh

Rom 13:13-14Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.(NKJ)

“It’s Okay To Look” ???

Matt 5:28"But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.(NKJ)

Our Attitude Should Be To Avoid Things That Create Lust

We Should Treat Warnings About Lewdness Like A Red Light!

Warnings About Worldliness

Keep Unspotted from the World

James 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.(NKJ)

Friendship with the World

James 4:4Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.(NKJ)

Lose Your Worldly Friends

1 Cor 15:33

Do not be deceived:"Evil company corrupts good habits."

NKJV

Choose Your Friends Carefully

Prov 12:26

The righteous should choose his friends carefully, for the way of the wicked leads them astray.

NKJV

Deny Worldly Lusts

Titus 2:11-12For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,(NKJ)

Escape Pollutions of the World

2 Pet 2:20For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.(NKJ)

Choked On Worldliness

Luke 8:14"And the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.(NKJ)

The World Has Been Crucified

Gal 6:14But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.(NKJ)

Do Not Love the World

I Jn 2:15-17Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world-- the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-- is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.(NKJ)

Gain the World and Lose Your Soul

Matt 16:26"For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?(NKJ)

Worldliness

• Don’t allow your job to take you away from God

• Don’t nurture friendships with worldly people

• Be careful who you date and marry

Our Attitude Should Be To Avoid Worldliness

We Should Treat Warnings About Worldliness Like A Red Light!

Conclusion:

Flee!!!

Run from Things the BibleWarns Us About!

Flee Youthful Lusts

2 Tim 2:22Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.(NKJ)

Flee These Things1 Tim 6:10-11For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.(NKJ)

Flee Sexual Immorality (Fornication)

1 Cor 6:18Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.(NKJ)

Take Warnings Seriously

Jer 6:10To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Indeed their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot give heed. Behold, the word of the LORD is a reproach to them; they have no delight in it.(NKJ)

Give Them WarningEzek 3:17-19"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me: "When I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. "Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.(NKJ)

Because He Took Warning

Ezek 3:20-21"Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. "Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; also you will have delivered your soul."(NKJ)

Don’t Lose Your IdentityAs A Christian

• Take God’s warnings seriously!

• Treat God’s warnings like red lights!

How Do You TreatGod’s Warnings?