WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.220 Today we're going to have another one of those 00:00:02.220 --> 00:00:06.540 good heart -to -heart talks about something that 00:00:06.540 --> 00:00:10.859 we're all deeply interested in. That's right. 00:00:12.460 --> 00:00:19.260 What actually is worldliness? A lot of people 00:00:19.260 --> 00:00:22.539 are talking about it. And I honestly believe 00:00:22.539 --> 00:00:24.859 that there are few people who really understand 00:00:24.859 --> 00:00:28.379 what they're talking about. It's like that. We 00:00:28.379 --> 00:00:32.600 use that word so promiscuously, worldliness. 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:35.979 We say that somebody is so very worldly. We point 00:00:35.979 --> 00:00:38.880 an accusing finger at a preacher's wife and we 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:43.640 say, he's worldly. Oh, he's wonderful. I'll tell 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:46.719 you something confidentially. His wife is so 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:51.380 worldly. And then just long before we see somebody 00:00:51.380 --> 00:00:57.039 else and we'll say, oh, goodness. He's such a 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:01.159 worldly person. Well, now, honestly, it's about 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:04.640 time that we got down to the bottom of this thing 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.959 of worldliness. What is it we're talking about? 00:01:08.700 --> 00:01:14.540 What actually is worldliness? And what is worldly? 00:01:16.180 --> 00:01:19.219 You will remember that we began this heart -to 00:01:19.219 --> 00:01:24.379 -heart talk with a discussion we had. from the 00:01:24.379 --> 00:01:27.060 first verse in the 8th chapter of 1 Corinthians. 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:31.579 And these Corinthian Christians had written to 00:01:31.579 --> 00:01:36.819 Paul, and they had a question too. It was regarding 00:01:36.819 --> 00:01:43.140 the eating of meat. Shall meat that has been 00:01:43.140 --> 00:01:47.180 offered in sacrifice, that part of it which is 00:01:47.180 --> 00:01:52.459 afterward on sale, be eaten by Christians? Would 00:01:52.459 --> 00:01:58.959 one be considered worldly if they purchased and 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:03.400 ate that part of the carcass that was left after 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:06.579 the better part of it had been offered in sacrifice 00:02:06.579 --> 00:02:12.840 to idols? Would they be compromising their experience, 00:02:13.139 --> 00:02:18.919 their influence, compromising as Christians? 00:02:20.460 --> 00:02:25.099 Paul begins, now as touching things offered unto 00:02:25.099 --> 00:02:33.259 idols. We know that we have the knowledge. In 00:02:33.259 --> 00:02:37.439 other words, he's saying, there was a time when 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:42.800 you too believed that there was some virtue in 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.419 those idols. And you considered those idols sacred. 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:50.270 But you've been born again. You're Christians 00:02:50.270 --> 00:02:54.729 now. You have the light. God has given you the 00:02:54.729 --> 00:02:58.969 knowledge that there is no reality in those idols. 00:03:00.030 --> 00:03:07.349 They are not sacred. It's offering meat to something 00:03:07.349 --> 00:03:12.909 that has been made with human hands. There's 00:03:12.909 --> 00:03:18.830 nothing sacred. There's no holiness, no sanctity. 00:03:19.389 --> 00:03:24.050 no divinity in those idols. Therefore, why should 00:03:24.050 --> 00:03:27.629 you hesitate in buying and eating the rest of 00:03:27.629 --> 00:03:31.909 the meat from the carcass? It's good meat, and 00:03:31.909 --> 00:03:36.629 it's a good day that you can get meat. And it's 00:03:36.629 --> 00:03:41.629 just like that. Therefore, the answer is in the 00:03:41.629 --> 00:03:45.469 fact whether or not you have had the spiritual 00:03:45.469 --> 00:03:49.860 knowledge. As I said to you in our last little 00:03:49.860 --> 00:03:52.900 heart -to -heart talk, that is the fact that 00:03:52.900 --> 00:03:59.860 much that we consider to be spiritual today is 00:03:59.860 --> 00:04:02.860 nothing more or less than superstition. Thousands 00:04:02.860 --> 00:04:06.580 of people who profess to be Christians are living 00:04:06.580 --> 00:04:13.979 under gross superstition in absolute spiritual 00:04:13.979 --> 00:04:19.670 darkness. Many things that you accept as being 00:04:19.670 --> 00:04:24.870 the word of God, as being religious, as being 00:04:24.870 --> 00:04:30.769 authentic, is nothing more or less than rank 00:04:30.769 --> 00:04:36.910 superstition. So let's face some things. Just 00:04:36.910 --> 00:04:40.050 face it with me. You'll remember that I left 00:04:40.050 --> 00:04:45.459 your home. In our last little heart -to -heart 00:04:45.459 --> 00:04:48.540 talk, with that portion of the Word of God, as 00:04:48.540 --> 00:04:52.740 found in 1 Peter, the third chapter. Peter said, 00:04:52.899 --> 00:04:56.579 Likewise ye wives, be in subjection to your own 00:04:56.579 --> 00:04:59.920 husbands, that, if any obey not the Word, they 00:04:59.920 --> 00:05:04.240 also may without the Word be won by the conversation 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:10.740 of the wives, while they beheld your case conversation 00:05:10.740 --> 00:05:16.240 couple the spear. Who's adoring you? He's talking 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:18.879 about the wives now. He's saying to your husband, 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.600 even though he's not a Christian, you can win 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.180 him to the Lord Jesus Christ, even though he 00:05:25.180 --> 00:05:27.959 never goes to church, even though he never hears 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:31.519 a preacher preach. That's what it means, without 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:38.779 the word. Yet you, by your example, by your beautiful 00:05:38.779 --> 00:05:44.810 Christian adoring, Dorney. Within. You're a beautiful 00:05:44.810 --> 00:05:49.750 person within. And if you're beautiful within, 00:05:49.970 --> 00:05:54.589 it'll come out as sure as can be. If you're beautiful 00:05:54.589 --> 00:06:00.069 within, believe me, it projects. I promise you 00:06:00.069 --> 00:06:07.629 it will. I promise you. Hear me. A plain appearance 00:06:07.629 --> 00:06:14.670 does not guarantee inner beauty. I've seen some 00:06:14.670 --> 00:06:20.050 women with skirts down to their ankles and sleeves 00:06:20.050 --> 00:06:25.149 down to their fingers and collars up to their 00:06:25.149 --> 00:06:29.730 chins that were the meanest women in the world. 00:06:30.129 --> 00:06:36.100 There was no inner beauty whatsoever. All their 00:06:36.100 --> 00:06:40.660 religion, all their holiness, all their righteousness 00:06:40.660 --> 00:06:47.439 was in the garb that they wore. I said a mouthful. 00:06:47.500 --> 00:06:50.339 I should stop a few minutes and just pause and 00:06:50.339 --> 00:06:56.560 let that sink in. But it's like that. Mm -hmm. 00:06:57.579 --> 00:07:02.040 Peter didn't say, don't keep the outside beautiful. 00:07:02.060 --> 00:07:08.740 He didn't say that. He said, who's Adorny? Let 00:07:08.740 --> 00:07:13.579 it not be that outward adorning of the plaiting 00:07:13.579 --> 00:07:17.560 of the hair and of the wearing of gold or putting 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:23.100 on apparel. Mm -hmm. You've gotten yourself all 00:07:23.100 --> 00:07:26.980 fixed up beautifully on the outside. But he's 00:07:26.980 --> 00:07:33.600 saying the real Adorny. That Adorny that will... 00:07:33.949 --> 00:07:36.949 when your unsaved husband, the Lord Jesus Christ, 00:07:37.209 --> 00:07:44.250 is with him. Mm -mm. Let it be the hidden man 00:07:44.250 --> 00:07:48.129 of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, 00:07:48.209 --> 00:07:52.290 even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, 00:07:52.509 --> 00:07:57.269 which is in the sight of God of great price. 00:07:58.629 --> 00:08:02.889 Oh, somebody says Miss Guman. Don't you know 00:08:02.889 --> 00:08:07.649 what Paul says in Timothée? Sure I do. I know 00:08:07.649 --> 00:08:09.589 exactly where it's found, too, the second chapter 00:08:09.589 --> 00:08:14.790 of 1 Timothée, the ninth verse. He, too, is talking 00:08:14.790 --> 00:08:19.550 about women's apparel in like manner also that 00:08:19.550 --> 00:08:26.949 women adorn themselves in modest apparel with 00:08:26.949 --> 00:08:33.279 shamefacedness, sobriety, Broided hair or gold 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.240 or pearls are costly array. Watch what follows. 00:08:37.539 --> 00:08:43.139 But which becometh women professing godliness 00:08:43.139 --> 00:08:48.379 with good works. In other words, don't get yourself 00:08:48.379 --> 00:08:52.080 all fixed up like the first horse in the parade. 00:08:52.820 --> 00:08:58.159 That's not even good taste. I've seen some women 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:00.629 who are professing Christians. that get themselves 00:09:00.629 --> 00:09:05.049 so fixed up they look like a walking Christmas 00:09:05.049 --> 00:09:13.889 tree. That's not even good taste. Watch which 00:09:13.889 --> 00:09:22.029 becometh women professing godliness. Never get 00:09:22.029 --> 00:09:25.330 to the place, though, where you think that a 00:09:25.330 --> 00:09:30.289 plain appearance guarantees inner beauty. It 00:09:30.289 --> 00:09:36.830 doesn't. No, it doesn't. I go back to what Paul 00:09:36.830 --> 00:09:40.889 said to the Corinthians. Ye have the knowledge. 00:09:43.110 --> 00:09:47.830 When you're born again and you get that inner 00:09:47.830 --> 00:09:53.309 experience, you'll know what becometh a Christian. 00:09:55.250 --> 00:10:01.100 One who rep... represents the Christ. And I've 00:10:01.100 --> 00:10:05.539 seen many a person, not because they couldn't 00:10:05.539 --> 00:10:12.340 afford a new suit, but because they wanted to 00:10:12.340 --> 00:10:18.159 give the appearance of humility. That they wore 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:25.360 baggy trousers and frayed pant legs, not because 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:30.070 they couldn't afford it, But watch, neither did 00:10:30.070 --> 00:10:36.309 they have any influence either with the unregenerated 00:10:36.309 --> 00:10:42.149 man. Because the unregenerated man will say, 00:10:42.330 --> 00:10:49.269 if your heavenly father is so poor that his child 00:10:49.269 --> 00:10:52.889 can't afford anything better than that, I don't 00:10:52.889 --> 00:10:59.480 want him for my father. Even an earthly parent 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:08.799 will work 8, 10, 12 hours a day to give to his 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:16.539 child the best humanly possible. Then, beloved, 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:22.000 how much more does your Heavenly Father want 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:28.350 you? to look nice when you represent him. And 00:11:28.350 --> 00:11:31.509 you are an heir of God and a joint heir with 00:11:31.509 --> 00:11:34.509 Christ Jesus. Let's be sensible about these things. 00:11:36.250 --> 00:11:43.070 Let's just use good common sense. Let's be reasonable 00:11:43.070 --> 00:11:45.610 about the whole thing. All right, here we go. 00:11:46.889 --> 00:11:54.419 Now the word tells us, not of the letter, for 00:11:54.419 --> 00:11:58.299 the letter killeth. There's nothing in the letter. 00:11:59.620 --> 00:12:06.139 Nothing. There's nothing in that, the way you 00:12:06.139 --> 00:12:09.299 do your hair. There's nothing in the length of 00:12:09.299 --> 00:12:15.559 your dress. The letter killeth. But the spirit 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:22.169 giveth life. Furthermore, Jesus told those who 00:12:22.169 --> 00:12:27.330 were twisting his mien, it is the spirit that 00:12:27.330 --> 00:12:33.250 quickeneth. The flesh profiteth nothing. The 00:12:33.250 --> 00:12:36.649 word that I speak unto you, they are spirit. 00:12:37.389 --> 00:12:43.409 They are life. And the idea that worldliness 00:12:43.409 --> 00:12:48.889 consists just of certain things are certain pleasures. 00:12:50.409 --> 00:12:58.370 The scripture teaching is this. I know and am 00:12:58.370 --> 00:13:02.950 persuaded by the Lord Jesus Christ that there 00:13:02.950 --> 00:13:08.870 is nothing unclean of itself. But to him that 00:13:08.870 --> 00:13:13.850 esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is 00:13:13.850 --> 00:13:17.669 unclean. Time gave me you that would have gone. 00:13:18.950 --> 00:13:22.549 Hey. Told you before I began these little heart 00:13:22.549 --> 00:13:25.549 -to -heart talks on this thing of worldliness 00:13:25.549 --> 00:13:27.889 that before I finished some of you would get 00:13:27.889 --> 00:13:32.169 as mad as an old Missouri wet hen and I've seen 00:13:32.169 --> 00:13:38.269 those in the Missouri get awful mad. But watch, 00:13:38.350 --> 00:13:43.629 I'm giving you scripture. Paul says there is 00:13:43.629 --> 00:13:48.450 nothing unclean of itself but to him that is... 00:13:48.649 --> 00:13:53.269 deemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is 00:13:53.269 --> 00:14:01.549 unclean. There's a portion of the Word of God 00:14:01.549 --> 00:14:04.590 in the first chapter of Genesis that's overlooked. 00:14:06.610 --> 00:14:11.570 God saw everything that he had made, and behold, 00:14:11.830 --> 00:14:19.659 it was very good. since God has created everything. 00:14:20.259 --> 00:14:25.580 And remember, the devil creates nothing. The 00:14:25.580 --> 00:14:30.360 devil has no power of creation. None. You cannot 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:35.179 prove to me from the Word of God that the devil, 00:14:35.259 --> 00:14:40.700 the enemy of our soul, has power to create anything. 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:44.139 There's only one great creator. That's Almighty 00:14:44.139 --> 00:14:51.529 God. And since God has created everything, there 00:14:51.529 --> 00:14:57.409 are no things evil in themselves. Because it's 00:14:57.409 --> 00:15:01.490 said, God saw everything that he had made, and 00:15:01.490 --> 00:15:08.570 behold, it was good. Everything that has been 00:15:08.570 --> 00:15:16.500 created is good. There is nothing... evil in 00:15:16.500 --> 00:15:22.940 these things in themselves. They are only good 00:15:22.940 --> 00:15:29.059 things that we misuse or we use to excess and 00:15:29.059 --> 00:15:37.039 we make them evil. Are you still there? Wanted 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:41.259 to be sure. Oh, I know what somebody's saying. 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:46.750 Oh, Miss Coombe, you... You don't know my husband. 00:15:47.049 --> 00:15:51.889 He's an old alcoholic. You don't mean to tell 00:15:51.889 --> 00:15:57.070 me that God was the creator of alcohol, the most 00:15:57.070 --> 00:16:00.769 damnable thing in the world. Now, just a minute. 00:16:02.330 --> 00:16:09.029 There is no evil in alcohol in itself. Alcohol 00:16:09.029 --> 00:16:15.029 is used in industry and in medicine. It's when 00:16:15.029 --> 00:16:21.809 man takes alcohol and abuses it that it becomes 00:16:21.809 --> 00:16:29.970 evil. It becomes wrong. It becomes a sin. Take 00:16:29.970 --> 00:16:37.470 drugs. Somebody will bow that rugs are the most 00:16:37.470 --> 00:16:42.889 damnable thing in the world today. And we re... 00:16:43.129 --> 00:16:51.210 and we hear about the drug addicts, the sinfulness 00:16:51.210 --> 00:16:54.269 of drugs, and somebody will say, do you mean, 00:16:54.370 --> 00:17:01.309 Miss Grumman, that God was the creator of drugs? 00:17:02.629 --> 00:17:06.269 Well, honey, I only have his word. That is that 00:17:06.269 --> 00:17:10.069 God saw everything that he had made, and behold, 00:17:10.250 --> 00:17:16.109 it was very good. And many a suffering person 00:17:16.109 --> 00:17:21.549 today, many a person in the hospital on beds 00:17:21.549 --> 00:17:26.589 of affliction, in pain, is looking up this very 00:17:26.589 --> 00:17:30.970 moment and is thanking the glorious Creator for 00:17:30.970 --> 00:17:36.450 the relief that they are receiving from that 00:17:36.450 --> 00:17:44.900 severe suffering through drugs. There is no sin 00:17:44.900 --> 00:17:52.400 in drugs when drugs are used properly to relieve 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:59.420 suffering and relieve pain. But man has misused 00:17:59.420 --> 00:18:04.720 that which God has created. Take anything. I 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:09.240 don't care what it is. You can make sin of anything. 00:18:10.220 --> 00:18:16.029 You can make sin of... Eating. You can make sin 00:18:16.029 --> 00:18:21.869 of clothing. It's true. Overindulgence in anything. 00:18:22.210 --> 00:18:25.750 The lack of wisdom in anything. I don't care 00:18:25.750 --> 00:18:31.529 what it is. You can make sin of it through misuse. 00:18:34.890 --> 00:18:41.259 What? There is nothing unclean of itself. But 00:18:41.259 --> 00:18:44.500 to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:51.779 to him it is unclean. Now at this point, may 00:18:51.779 --> 00:18:53.559 I mention something else, another scripture. 00:18:55.960 --> 00:19:00.119 Love not the world, neither the things that are 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.940 in the world. If any man love the world, the 00:19:03.940 --> 00:19:06.839 love of the Father is not in him. For all that 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:09.970 is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust 00:19:09.970 --> 00:19:14.369 of the eyes, the pride of life, is not of the 00:19:14.369 --> 00:19:19.309 Father, but is of the world. I dare say there 00:19:19.309 --> 00:19:21.329 isn't a preacher who has ever stood behind a 00:19:21.329 --> 00:19:24.529 pulpit before has preached a sermon on this portion 00:19:24.529 --> 00:19:28.269 of the Word of God. But they have used it from 00:19:28.269 --> 00:19:32.009 a negative standpoint. And they have put the 00:19:32.009 --> 00:19:36.509 emphasis on the love of the world. I do not believe 00:19:36.509 --> 00:19:42.109 that it was ever intended to be so. I believe 00:19:42.109 --> 00:19:46.190 with every atom of my being that the emphasis 00:19:46.190 --> 00:19:53.730 was intended not to be upon loving the world, 00:19:53.809 --> 00:20:02.809 but loving the Lord Jesus Christ. It's like this. 00:20:03.650 --> 00:20:10.230 If any man loved the world, The love of the Father 00:20:10.230 --> 00:20:17.049 is not in him. But watch. Let's use the positive 00:20:17.049 --> 00:20:25.009 viewpoint. When you love the Father enough, you'll 00:20:25.009 --> 00:20:29.930 not love the world. You'll not misuse these things 00:20:29.930 --> 00:20:35.109 which the Father has created for your good and 00:20:35.109 --> 00:20:42.470 my good. Mm -hmm. The crux of the whole matter 00:20:42.470 --> 00:20:52.490 of worldliness is not of things but him. How 00:20:52.490 --> 00:20:57.670 much do you love him? Look at the positive. Paul 00:20:57.670 --> 00:21:00.670 says in answering their question as to whether 00:21:00.670 --> 00:21:06.309 or not they could eat the meat. of the carcass 00:21:06.309 --> 00:21:09.470 that was left after the rest had been offered 00:21:09.470 --> 00:21:12.650 to the idols. He said, you have the knowledge. 00:21:13.349 --> 00:21:17.690 I say to you today, you are a Christian. When 00:21:17.690 --> 00:21:20.190 you want to know whether a thing is sin or not, 00:21:20.269 --> 00:21:23.069 whether it's right or wrong, you can make sin 00:21:23.069 --> 00:21:30.190 of anything. Anything. But here is your answer. 00:21:31.490 --> 00:21:36.940 When you love the creator, of all good things, 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:43.420 enough. When you love the Heavenly Father enough, 00:21:43.500 --> 00:21:50.859 when you love Jesus enough, then you will not 00:21:50.859 --> 00:21:56.579 misuse these things that He has created for your 00:21:56.579 --> 00:22:05.380 good and my good. The answer is found In loving 00:22:05.380 --> 00:22:08.779 Kim enough.