Woke or Awake? - Part 3

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Woke or Awake Adopting a Biblical World View Part 2 October 22, 2023 WHAT IS WOKEISM? Willingly Overlooking Known Evil GOOGLE "Someone who is aware of, and actively attentive to important facts and issues, especially issues of racial and social injustice.” It’s an authoritarian worldview that seeks to deconstruct the foundations of our Christian faith by overwhelming, overpowering, and overthrowing those who do not adhere to its ideology. WHAT MUST WE DO? Adopt A Biblical worldview A comprehensive, panoramic perspective from a particular standpoint. Colossians 2:8-10 8 “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. 9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.” BENEFITS TO A CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW LOGICAL CONSISTENCY EMPIRICAL ADEQUACY EXISTENTIAL RELEVANCY FIVE ASPECTS TO A WORLDVIEW Victimhood IDENTITY In Christ Galatians 4:7 “So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are His child, God has made you also an heir.” Humanistic THOUGHTS Biblical The National Science Foundation 12 - 50,000 thoughts per day 80% Negative 95% Reoccurring 2 Corinthians 10:5 “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” Subjective TRUTH Objective John 8:31-32 31 “If you hold to My teaching, you are really My disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Central FEELINGS Byproduct Jeremiah 17:9 (NKJV) “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked;” WOKE CHRISTIAN

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