Cultural Catastrophe Part 5

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Cultural Catastrophe Part 5

Pastor Kerry Wilson




• In speaking of culture we have understood thatthere are parts of culture that we condemn, partsthat we critique, often we have copied, but theone that I haven’t mentioned is the fact that we

consume. In other words we are a part of all thethings that have been made and we participate inand with them. Man has created and willcontinue to create because that is who they are,

they are making something out of what God hasgiven us. However we also find that in makingsomething out of this world, there has incurredwhat I will call “unintended consequences”,



• These are consequences that while making life

good and better the sinful nature of man has

corrupted them. Television as an example is

good for relaxation and news and sports but

sinful man has put an addition to this media

by adding nakedness etc. The same could be

said of the internet, and many other things.




• We have looked at the kingdom of Israel, in

regards to how the cultures around them

impacted their identity and distinctiveness. In

preaching from the Church of the Wilderness

the tangible part of the message becomes

clear in the fact that the idols worshipped, the

adornment displayed, the markings apparentwere visible to a large degree.




• The visibility of the cultural icons make iteasier to describe in our vernacular. A “golden

calf”, Buddha,etc. What if a more deceptive

method was employed by our enemy. A waythat because of the nature of the spiritual, bythat I mean the “invisible realm” , that nowcultural impact on the kingdom could be so

well disguised that even those withdiscernment would have trouble discerningthis power?




• I want to minister to the church on the

admonition from the Lord to Israel, live in this

culture but don’t let it absorb, deceive or

change you from what I have called you to be.

• I want to examine how that this culture has

tried to absorb us into losing our identity and

distinctiveness. A brief look at eschatology,the Eternal Plan of God will get us started.




• I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

•3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

•4

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, orany likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, orthat is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waterunder the earth.

•5

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor servethem: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visitingthe iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto thethird and fourth generation of them that hate me;




• Paul in addressing the church at Rome helps usunderstand the deceptive nature by theadmonition in Romans 12.1,2

• I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the merciesof God, that ye present your bodies a livingsacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is yourreasonable service.

•2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye

transformed by the renewing of your mind, thatye may prove what is that good, and acceptable,and perfect, will of God.




• We all wear faddish clothes, our jewelry, costume orreal is worn to compliment our clothes. We fashion ourhair, build our bodies but no one in their right mindbegins to try and match us up with a god based on

those things.• Paul eludes to being “conformed” or being squeezed

into a mold from familiarity, pressure or apathy. Hespeaks of a “transforming”, or becoming transparent.However he states that it is impossible without your

mind being in a “constant awareness mode”. “Be sober,be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as aroaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he maydevour:




• Idolatry can be defined as a “social

phenomena” where a false perception is

created and worshipped.

• Something created in the mind of the believer

that robs God of what is rightfully His. I hope it

is evident how strongly God is concerned

about His relationship with His people.



• The mind which is the process center for all thathappens around us in the natural and wherediscernment happens in the spiritual, a filter, when inthe right position in Christ, that allows us to “know”

without regard to the physical or natural realm.

• We experience the “reality” of the biblical admonition

that we “ are in the world, but not of the world “ Weare faced with the issue of how are we going to “make

something of what God has given us”. This world reallyexist, and we must realize that to change or impact thisworld we must be here.




• We are not the “Transformer”, we are being

transformed by the state of being a living

sacrifice, only then can you prove what is the

good, and acceptable will of the Lord. It is

through this transformation, that we have

impact on this culture, because we think like

Christ thinks, our life lived and words spokenoriginate from a biblical perspective.




• The only thing that was required to make them idols were theworshippers. God made accusation of those tangible things whenpronouncing that :

•2Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

•3But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath

pleased.•

4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

•5They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they seenot:

•6They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smellnot:

•7They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walknot: neither speak they through their throat.

•8They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trustethin them. Psalm 115.2-8




• Psalm 135•

15The idols of the heathen are silver and gold,the work of men's hands.

•16

They have mouths, but they speak not; eyeshave they, but they see not;

•17They have ears, but they hear not; neither isthere any breath in their mouths.

•18They that make them are like unto them: sois every one that trusteth in them




• This reveals that whatever we worship , that

we are changed into that image or acquire

those characteristics. The impact of those

heathen cultures had brought those

generations to captivity. Captivity is a wake up

call that something is going on in your spiritual

life. Worship is more than singing a song, eventhough praise is an environment conducive to

being changed.




• 1 Corinthians 12:1,2

•1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I

would not have you ignorant.

•2Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away

unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.




• In the battle of the ages, Satan in these last

days has disguised and hidden inside of

culture, his plan to make us think that we are

operating inside of normal life. However this

plan is intended to create a power that drives

and builds importance in the mind of the

believer until they refuse to recognize that astronghold from this system has them in

captivity.




• We must understand that every other

idealism, value system, that is worshipped or

adored by way of honor has slavery at it’s end.

• God is the only source of freedom, every

other power source seeks to enslave us. We

become subject to the demands of that

thought , feeling or status.




• We use things terms like greed, power, control, but whatabout enjoyment and leisure . What about learning , ornature itself ?Anything that supplants Jesus as Lord of yourlife becomes an idol to you. You ascribe to it for yoursatisfaction but it is not real, I have found that the majority

of this agenda after the dross and covering is revealed hasMAN or MAN’s glory at it’s end. The same lie that Satantold Eve, man is still trying to become as God. The bottomline is we have been persuaded that God is withholdingsomething good from us, we can’t say that but it’s true.

Otherwise ,we wouldn’t continually struggle with theculture that Jesus established by His word when He walkedthe earth.




• Jesus the Great communicator tried to warn of

this delusion by admonishing us to keep our

priorities straight. Heaven’s culture says this,

“ Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and the

righteousness thereof, and all these things

which you are trying to have, spend, rule,

figure out, will be added unto you. You canmake something of what God has given you.




• There is a battle between fallen Lucifer and

God over who you will worship. Lucifer has a

hidden agenda, God commands that we love

Him with all of our heart, soul, mind and body.

When we join ourselves under the guise of

culture and life, this captivity evolves to

deception and God’s truths fall by thewayside. It will be the dividing point of

delusion. “




• That’s why the scripture teaches us that we

are not warring with things we can see, but

with that influence (spiritual wickedness in

high places) that draws us away from God that

is hidden inside of culture. It is a form of

witchcraft because it is so cloaked in everyday

life. Worship can be defined as what you puttime and devotion into. Where your treasure

is, there is the heart of the matter.




• What is God’s heart toward us?

•1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they nothence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

•2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannotobtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

•3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye mayconsume it upon your lusts.

•4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friendof the world is the enemy of God.

• 5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, Thespirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?




1 Corinthians 6:9-20•

9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit thekingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, noridolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

•10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

•11And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but yeare sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the LordJesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

•12

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are notexpedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not bebrought under the power of any.




•13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: butGod shall destroy both it and them. Now thebody is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and

the Lord for the body.•

14And God hath both raised up the Lord, and willalso raise up us by his own power.

•15Know ye not that your bodies are the members

of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ,and make them the members of an harlot? Godforbid.




•16What? know ye not that he which is joined

to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he,

shall be one flesh.

•17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one

spirit.

•18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth

is without the body; but he that committeth

fornication sinneth against his own body.




•19What? know ye not that your body is the

temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,

which ye have of God, and ye are not your

own?

•20For ye are bought with a price: therefore

glorify God in your body, and in your spirit,

which are God's.




•19What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or thatwhich is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?

•20But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice,they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not

that ye should have fellowship with devils.

•21Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, andof the table of devils.

•22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we strongerthan he?




•23All things are lawful for me, but all things are notexpedient: all things are lawful for me, but all thingsedify not.

•24Let no man seek his own, but every man another's

wealth.

•25Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, askingno question for conscience sake:

•26For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

•27If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, andye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat,asking no question for conscience sake.




• 28But if any man say unto you, this is offered in sacrifice unto idols,eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for theearth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:

•29Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is myliberty judged of another man's conscience?

• 30For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that forwhich I give thanks?

•31Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all tothe glory of God.

•32Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor tothe church of God:

•33Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit,but the profit of many, that they may be saved.




• The seduction in this generation aligns with

the time we are in. These scriptures move us

to a place where we embrace the God way

and reject the system of this world. God isstanding at the door knocking once again. We

have come to a place where we miss Him, and

now we seek Him in the streets.




• To have cultural change or have impact we must havecultural power.

• Two events, the Exodus and the Resurrection bring usto a place where we see the powerless being enabled

by power.• Pharoah vs. God thru Moses

• Pontius Pilate vs. Jesus

• Jesus letting him know who has the power, only by

God’s permission is this event taking place.• This power has been given to us, “tarry at Jerusalem

until you are empowered by the Holy Ghost, then goout and impact this culture…..

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