Fight for Your Family
Do Not Be Misled
If the dead are not raised,
"Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character." 1 Corinthians 15:32-34
The thinking of
people who believe this life is all there is
The people who will
not repent and fight for righteousness
The people who are
lost in vanity because it seems the wicked
Are not judged, what
difference does it make
The people who want more
so they can take life easy
These type of
thinkers can be misleading
Because they do not
believe there is life after death
Or they have given up
on life and making a difference
Fighting for your
family is to keep the eternal perspective in sight
Seek the Kingdom of
God first
This life is short,
but eternity is forever
Who are you hanging
around?
How is your company
affecting your character?
Do Not Be Misled
I hate being misled.
It happens all the time…
Intentionally and unintentionally.
There seem to be multitudes of wrong
paths that keep us from the right path.
Too often we discover its money, power
or lust behind the
things that lead us.
People intentionally and unintentionally
misleading us and our families.
So how can we safeguard
against being misled?
Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15 verse 33…
Do not be misled:
"Bad company
corrupts good character."
As parents we do not want our
children hanging around bad company.
We are concerned about the influence
from kids our children spend time with
and how it will affect their character.
Paul in earlier verses defines where bad
company that corrupts good character comes from.
He says in verse 32…
If the dead are not
raised,
"Let us eat and
drink, for tomorrow we die."
Paul tell us that the way we
look at death effects our life…
“if the dead are not
raised”
There are two types of people…
Those who believe this life is all there is.
And those who believe there
is some type of life after death.
The ones who believe this life is all we get, say…
"Let us eat and
drink, for tomorrow we die."
Your character is shaped by how
you answer the question…
Is there life after
death?
Paul simply was saying people who do not believe
the dead are raised back to life, are bad company.
If this life is all there is…
Than enjoy it the
best you can.
If this life is all there is…
Than what is more
important then you?
If this life is all there is…
There will be winners
and losers.
So make sure you are the person
with the most toys in the end.
Paul was not the first to coin this term…
"Let us eat and
drink, for tomorrow we die."
It had been around for centuries before.
Isaiah 22…
The Lord is angry with His people
because they were being attacked
and instead of fighting they gave up.
The Lord, the LORD
Almighty,
called you on that day
to weep and to wail,
to tear out your hair
and put on sackcloth.
But see, there is joy
and revelry,
slaughtering of cattle
and killing of sheep,
eating of meat and
drinking of wine!
"Let us eat and
drink," you say,
"for tomorrow we
die!"
Isaiah
22:12-13
Instead of crying out to the Lord, they gave
up the fight and repentance of sin and said…
"Let us eat and
drink," you say,
"for tomorrow we
die!"
God’s judgment to this was severe…
"Till your dying
day this sin will not be atoned for,"
says the Lord, the
LORD Almighty.
Isaiah 22:14
Solomon in the Book of Ecclesiastes says…
Although a wicked man
commits a hundred crimes
and still lives a long
time, I know that it will go better
with God-fearing men,
who are reverent before God.
Ecclesiastes
8:12
Too often we see wicked people
doing better than the righteous.
The righteous can become frustrated at trying to
do what is right, but not rewarded like the wicked.
The righteous can become frustrated
with God and question His justice.
Solomon sees this with great concern but still says…
I know that it will go
better
with God-fearing men,
who are reverent
before God
Solomon in the context of Ecclesiastes 8:15…
So I commend the
enjoyment of life,
because nothing is better for a man under
the sun than to eat
and drink and be glad.
Then joy will
accompany him in his work all the
days of the life God
has given him under the sun.
Solomon is not saying give up and party,
but speaks of the
same principle
found in 1 Timothy 6:6-8…
But godliness with
contentment is great gain.
For we brought nothing
into the world,
and we can take nothing out of it.
But if we have food
and clothing,
we will be content
with that.
Be content with godliness
and enjoy what you have.
In Luke 12, Jesus tells a parable
to a man who asked
Jesus to judge
between himself and his brother
in the matter of an inheritance.
Jesus tells of a man who was a successful
farmer and wanted more so he could…
“Take life easy; eat,
drink and be merry."
Luke 12:19
God called him a fool and
says that night he will die…
"This is how it
will be with anyone who stores up
things for himself but
is not rich toward God."
Luke 12:21
If the dead are not
raised,
"Let us eat and
drink, for tomorrow we die."
Do not be misled:
"Bad company
corrupts good character."
1 Corinthians
15:32-34
The thinking of people who
believe this life is all there is…
The people who will not repent
and fight for righteousness…
The people who are lost in vanity
because it seems the wicked are not judged,
what difference does it make …
The people who want more
so they can take life easy…
These type of thinkers can be misleading
because they do not believe there is
life after death or they have given up
on life and making a difference.
Fighting for your family is to
keep the eternal perspective in sight.
Seek the Kingdom of God first.
This life is short but eternity is forever.
Who are you hanging around?
How is your company
affecting your character?
Scripture Reading
Nehemiah 4:12-15
12 Then the Jews who lived near them came and told us ten
times over, "Wherever you turn, they will attack us."
13 Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the
lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with
their swords, spears and bows. 14 After I looked things over, I stood up and
said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, "Don't be
afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your
brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes."
15 When our enemies heard that we were aware of their plot
and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to his own
work.
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