A New Pattern For Life Series

• When ones lives by this pattern, it will destroy them. The pleasures they crave will eventually leave them empty and frustrated.

• This items are so destructive that Paul said that they should not even be heard of among you.

• That pattern is a pattern that the lost follow, we should stay as far from them as possible.

• If you have ever owned a large animal, such as a German Shepherd, Doberman, Pit bull, or a horse, one of the things you MUST do is to make sure they know who you are the master.

• Out of control a dog can be dangerous, a horse can throw you off whenever they feel like it.

• Now if you have an out of control Chihuahua, they do not present as much of a danger.

• The sins mentioned by Paul are so powerful and hard to control that once they get a foot hold in your life, they will hurt you!

• This is why there can be no HINT of these things in your life.

• This is a hard message today because even Christian have become calloused to the effects of them in one’s life.

• In verse 4 Paul hits the subject of our speech, by the way which flow from what we think.

• Course talk deals with language that is shameful, and indecent, obscene. I LOVE comedians. Back in the day when Star Search was on, I loved the comic segment; however, I do not appreciate crude, and course “HUMOR”.

• It takes no talent and brains to drop F-bombs and use crude, vile suggestive “HUMOR” to get a laugh.

• If a 5th grade boy can write your material, you are not talented, just crude.

• Foolish talking is the talk of a fool.

• Coarse joking” (e?t?ape??a, eutrapelia) is witty talk that is corrupted by a smutty intention, a nasty insinuation which raises a laugh at the expense of someone’s good name. Aristotle called this term “cultured insolence.” (College Press NIV Commentary)

• These things are not suitable. We need to watch our language, I do not care where you work, or if you are in the military, God EXPECTS you to clean up what you say, because what you say comes from what is in your heart. LUKE 6:45

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• Luke 6:45 (HCSB) A good man produces good out of the good storeroom of his heart. An evil man produces evil out of the evil storeroom, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

• Christians, we need to rid ourselves of the flawed pattern for life and embrace the flawless!

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• Ephesians 5:5 (HCSB) For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.

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III. A word of caution concerning the flawed pattern for life.

• Each of us has a choice to make, we have to decide which pattern of life we will choose to follow.

• You can ignore what I have shared with you, you can ignore God’s word and continue to justify why it is OK for you to do what you are doing or you can realize that God has called you to something better.

• Folks will tell you to live however you want to, and you can, folks will tell you that there is no god or if there is he does not care what you do.