In this lesson we continue to examine the enemies methodical battle plans as well as how to overcome the snares set by him. Both audio and slides can be found together at www.cmcoc.org Sermon by: Brian Birdow

1. This means war! (2)
By
Brian Birdow

2. Objective of Lesson
1. To show the enemies methodical
battle plans
2. To show that the battle is won in
Christ!

3. A methodical plan
Hebrews 2:1-4

4. Drift
• Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we
must pay much closer
attention to what we have
heard, lest we drift away
from it.
• The the flow or the velocity
of the current of a river or
ocean stream
• Drift (figuratively) to
gradually give up one’s
belief in the truth.

5. How not to drift?
• Remember the words of the
Jesus, the prophets, apostles
(Heb 2:1)
• Don’t harden your heart to
God, submit to His will, it is for
our own good. (Heb. 3:7-11)
• Beware (take note of) your
heart (Heb. 3:12)
• Exhort or Encourage each
other. Stay in fellowship with
other Christians! (Heb. 3:13)

6. How not to drift?
Remember our Anchor
Hebrews 6:9-20

7. Everyone else is doing it
1 Samuel 8:1-8; 2 Corinthians 6:11-18

8. Come out of the world!
• Revelation 18:4-5 I heard another voice from heaven,
saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not
participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; for her
sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has
remembered her iniquities.
• Isaiah 59:1-2 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not so shortThat
it cannot save; Nor is His ear so dull, That it cannot hear.
But your iniquities have made a separation between you
and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from
you so that He does not hear.

9. Come out of the world!
• 2 Corinthians 6:17 Therefore, come out from their midst and be
separate,” says the Lord. “And do not touch what is unclean; And
I will welcome you.
• Therefore or Wherefore - Since you are a special people. Since
God, the holy and blessed God, dwells with you and among you.
• Paul is introducing the reason to be separate.
• 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a
holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you
may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of
darkness into >>>>> His marvelous light;

10. Come out of the world!
• Come out from among them - That is, from among
idolaters and unbelievers; from a frivolous and vicious
world. (Ref. Isaiah 52:11)
• Isaiah 52:11 Depart, depart, go out from there, Touch
nothing unclean; Go out of the midst of her, purify
yourselves, You who carry the vessels of the Lord.
• In their primary historical sense, the words were
addressed as to the priests and Levites who were to return
from Babylon. They were not to bring back with them
any symbol of that “unclean” ritual which they had
witnessed there.

11. Come out of the world!
• 2 Corinthians 6:17 Therefore, come out from their
midst and be separate,” says the Lord. “And do not
touch what is unclean; And I will welcome you.
• Be separate — to be set apart, holy!
• 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own
possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies
of Him who has called you out of darkness into
>>>>> His marvelous light;

12. Come out of the world!
• 2 Corinthians 6:17 Therefore, come out from their midst
and be separate,” says the Lord. “And do not touch what is
unclean; And I will welcome you.
• Touch not the unclean thing— Keep at the utmost distance
from every person and thing whereby you might be drawn
into evil, and contract guilt.
• In Isaiah, "touch no unclean thing;” means to be pure, and to
have no connection with idolatry in any way, shape, or form!
So Christians were to avoid all unholy contact with a vain and
polluted world. The sense is, "Have no close connection
with an idolater, or an unholy person. (Ref: 1 Corinthians
15:33)

13. Come out of the world!
• And I will receive you — That is, I will receive and
recognize you as my friends and my adopted children.
This could not be done until they were separated from
an idolatrous and wicked world.
• The fact of their being received by God, and
recognized as his children, depended on their
coming out from the world.
• John 15:14 You are My friends if you do what I
command you.

14. 1 John 2:15
•Do not love the world
nor the things in the
world. If anyone loves
the world, the love of
the Father is not in
him.