The Road to Hell
A. SOCIETY GETTING FARTHER AWAY FROM GOD.
B. SIMILAR TO PROGRESSION DESCRIBED IN Romans 1:18-22.
C. ARE WE FOLLOWING CLOSELY BEHIND?
A. FAILED TO RESPECT HIM IN PROPER WAY( Matt. 10:28; Heb. 10:31 ).
-Gen. 1:1; Acts 12:28. God put us here, he can take us out.
B. WE MUST GLORIFY GOD IN OUR LIVES( Matt. 5:16 ).
A. WE MUST RECOGNIZE WHAT GOD HAS DONE( Eph. 5:20 ).
1. God created us( Acts 17:28 ).
2. God showers us with blessing( James 1:17; Matt. 5:45 ).
3. Victory over sin and death( 1 Cor. 15:55-57 ).
B. DO WE SOMETIMES FORGET?( Luke 17:11-19; Rom. 2:4 ).
A. WHEN MAN REJECTS GOD'S WISDOM, HE FOLLOWS HIS OWN.
1. God's ways are belittled( 1 Cor. 1:23 ).
2. Humanism - Man has the answer( Eph. 4:17-19 ).
3. They became fools( Rom. 1:33 ). How? Look at 'em!
B. GOD'S WISDOM OPPOSED TO MAN'S( Col. 2:8 ).
1. God planned it that way( 1 Cor. 1:21 ).
2. Where has human wisdom led us?( Prov. 14:12, 34 ).
3. Our warning( 1 Cor. 10:12 ).
C. TRUE WISDOM( Prov. 1:7; 1 Cor. 3:18 ).
A. ALL HAVE AN OBJECT OF WORSHIP - PRIORITIES, COMMITMENTS.
1. The ancients worshipped things in nature - pleasure and profit.
2. Their lifeless mystical gods were created from this mind-set.
3 We, too, can be idolatrous.
a. Riches( 1 Tim. 6:17 ).
b. Pleasure( Phil. 3:18-19 ).
c. Paganism, spiritualism, mysticism, Pentecostalism.
B. WHO DO WE SERVE? WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO US?( Matt. 6:24 ).
A. MEN MAKE THEIR OWN GOD SON THEY CAN MAKE THEIR OWN RULES
( Psa. 50:21 )
B. THE RESULT?( Rom. 1:14-32 ).
A. THE JEWS FOLLOWED THIS SAME ROAD.
B. WHAT ABOUT US?
1. As a nation?
2. As a church?
3. As individuals?