Putting Feet to Your Faith_True Religion
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First Point
False Religion is deceptive.
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Edmund Burke
“Man is, by his constitution, a
religious animal”
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False Religion is embraced through a deceptive self-
dialogue.
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Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise
man listens to advice.
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James 122 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
παραλογιζομαι paralogidzommai Deceiving with words… a deceptive self-
dialogue.
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False Religion is embraced through deceptive lures.
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James 126 If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
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απαταω/ apataō •Occurs 3 times in the New Testament.•Means to deceive, to cheat or to trick.•Used in Eph. 5:6 to refer to the deception of Eve in the Garden.
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False Religion is deeply established through empty
rules and rituals.
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Θρησκός/ThrayskosReligious
•Only occurs once in the Bible in James 1:26.•Refers to someone who is ritualistic in their faith and keeps the “externals” of pious ceremony.
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Isaiah 113Bring no more vain offerings;incense is an abomination to me.New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.
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Isaiah 114Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates;they have become a burden to me;I am weary of bearing them.
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Second Point
True Religion flows out of a personal
relationship with God.
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True Religion is pure.True Religion
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James 127 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
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True Religion is practical.True Religion
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James 127a Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction…
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Psalm 68:5
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
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Luke 711 Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him.
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Luke 712 As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her.
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Luke 713 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.”
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Luke 714 Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” 15 And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.
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Orphans in America – Relevant Magazine
•The number of children waiting to be adopted out of the U.S. foster care system has held steady around 100,000.•There are more than 300,000 churches in the country.
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“If just one family in every third church would welcome home one of these kids, we would have no more orphans in foster care; it would be the most powerful witness ever to the love of Christ.”
Kelly RosatiFocus on
the Family
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Practical Pro-Life“It is time for the pro-life movement to embrace the natural extension of the argument, and I think they’re ready to do that.”Randy
Bohlender
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True Religion is persevering.
True Religion
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James 1
27b …and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
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