Jesus Is the Only Answer for Our Culture Today
It’s not an embellishment to say our culture is falling apart. Paul tells us there is an answer, the righteousness that comes from Christ.
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Living Righteously in Dark Times
The news is very depressing these days. But that’s nothing new. Believers today need to be like those throughout time, living by faith.
A Righteous Response to Declining Morality
When a nation falls into utter rebellion against God, people give themselves over to worshiping themselves, their sexuality, their immorality. They no longer simply practice these things themselves; they actively draw others into their sinful lifestyles.
Titus 3:5
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
Philippians 4:9
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Freedom From Our Selfishness
If we were to become more of ‘who we really are,’ we would become more wicked and full of contention with one another. If it were not for the common grace of God, our world would fall apart.
We often find relational poverty even in the church, not just out in the world. We find in our own lives a severe selfishness that’s driving our ambitions and direction in life. We find a prayerlessness and lack of worship. We cannot accept the full victory and life of the gospel news unless we understand how fallen our nature is and how far from God we are.
Isaiah 32:17
And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Daniel 12:3
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
