This presentation looks at how the world opposes the Christian and how believers can overcome it.

1. Ultimate Fighting
Warfare with the World

2. quot;I try to hold on to this world with
everything I have
But I feel the weight of what it brings,
and the hurt that tries to grab
The many trials that seem to never end,
his word declares this truth,
That we will enter in this rest with
wonders anew quot;
- Jeremy Camp, There Will Be A Day
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3. • Overview of the World
• Warnings about the World
• Persecutions from the World
• Destiny of the World
• Overcoming the World

4. What is the World?
Kosmos:
• Condition of orderliness
• Sum total of everything
• Sum of all beings
• Planet earth
• Humanity in general
• System of human existence
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5. What is the World?
“An organized system,
made up of a set of
ideas, people,
activities, purposes; it
is the system that keeps
things going.”
- Warren Wiersbe
“We bring you news from
the world of sports…”
Simply put: It is a system that opposes God.
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6. What is the World?
1. Man’s Fallen Nature
quot;For all that is in the
world, the lust of the flesh
and the lust of the eyes and
the boastful pride of life,
is not from the Father, but
is from the world.quot;(1 John
2:16)
2. Satan
quot;We know that we are of God,
and that the whole world lies
in the power of the evil
one.quot;(1 John 5:19)
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7. Messages of the World
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8. A Response…
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9. Another Response…
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10. Another Response…
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11. State of the World
quot;And the devil said to Him, “I
will give You all this domain and
its glory; for it has been handed
over to me, and I give it to
whomever I wish. “Therefore if You
worship before me, it shall all be
Yours.”quot;(Luke 4:6-7)
quot;I will not speak much more with
you, for the ruler of the world is
coming, and he has nothing in
Me;quot;(John 14:30)
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12. State of the World
quot;And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old
who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole
world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels
were thrown down with him.quot;(Revelation 12:9)
quot;We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies
in the power of the evil one.quot;(1 John 5:19)
quot;and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from
God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you
have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the
world.quot;(1 John 4:3)
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13. Warnings About the World
“For what will it
profit a man if he
gains the whole
world and forfeits
his soul? Or what
will a man give in
exchange for his
soul?“
(Matthew 16:26)
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14. Warnings About the World
quot;For our struggle is not against flesh and
blood, but against the rulers, against the
powers, against the world forces of this
darkness, against the spiritual forces of
wickedness in the heavenly places.“
(Ephesians 6:12)
quot;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. For all that is in the
world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the
eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from
the Father, but is from the world.“
(1 John 2:15-16)
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15. Warnings About the World
quot;if God is dead, something will
indeed take God's place; it will
either be megalomania or erotomania-
the drive for power or the drive for
pleasure, the clenched fist or the
phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.”
- Malcolm Muggeridge
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16. Warnings About the World
quot;Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of
our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and
widows in their distress, and to keep oneself
unstained by the world.“
(James 1:27)
quot;You adulteresses, do you not know that
friendship with the world is hostility toward
God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of
the world makes himself an enemy of God.“
(James 4:4)
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17. Warnings About the World
quot;For if, after they have escaped the
defilements of the world by the knowledge of the
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again
entangled in them and are overcome, the last
state has become worse for them than the
first.quot;(2 Peter 2:20)
quot;See to it that no one takes you captive
through philosophy and empty deception,
according to the tradition of men, according to
the elementary principles of the world, rather
than according to Christ.quot;(Colossians 2:8)
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18. Persecution From the World
“The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me
because I testify of it, that its deeds are
evil.quot;(John 7:7)
“If you were of the world, the world would love
its own; but because you are not of the world,
but I chose you out of the world, because of
this the world hates you.quot;(John 15:19)
quot;Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world
hates you.quot;(1 John 3:13)
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19. Persecution From the World
Christian publishers Zondervan and Thomas Nelson are facing a $60
million federal lawsuit for publishing quot;homophobic and prejudicialquot;
translations of the Bible, from a man who claims he and other
homosexuals have suffered based on what the suit claims is a
misinterpretation of the Bible. – Christianpost, July 2008
In British Columbia, Dr. Chris Kempling, a school counselor, was
suspended without pay for three months in 2005 for writing a letter to
the editor of the local newspaper criticizing the Liberal government's
same-sex marriage legislation. In 2006, Canadian professor David Mullan
was fined $2,100 by Cape Breton University, after he told a student
homosexuality was quot;unnatural.“ – Christianpost, August 2008
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20. Persecution From the World
quot;They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the
world, and the world listens to them.“
(1 John 4:5)
quot;And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which
you formerly walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air, of the
spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.“
(Ephesians 2:1-2)
quot;in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds
of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of
the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of
God.“
(2 Corinthians 4:4)
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21. Persecution From the World
Taliban gunmen shot and killed 34-year-old Gayle Williams, a Christian
aid worker in Kabul, as she was walking to work because she was
quot;spreading her religion,“ the Associated Press (AP) reported. The
Taliban claimed responsibility for shooting Williams, a South African –
British national who worked with disabled Afghans. – October 2008.
On July 20, Pastor Abraham was assaulted by Hindu extremists in
Haveri district, Karnataka state, India. According to The Voice of the
Martyrs contacts in India, “During a worship service at Friends Mission
Prayer Band Church, in Konvallichawla village, 20 members of a radical
Hindu group assaulted Pastor Abraham in the presence of his family
and congregation. During the attack the mob destroyed all the
Christian literature in the church, including Bibles.” – July 2008.
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22. Persecution From the World
“You are free in our time to say that God does not exist.
You are free to say that He does exist but He is evil. You
are free to say like some poor satirists that He would
like to exist if He could. You may talk of God as a
mystification or a metaphor. You may boil him down with
gallons of long words or boil him to the rags of
metaphysics, and it is not merely that no one punishes you
for it, but nobody protests. But if you speak of God as a
thing like a tiger - as a reason for changing one’s
conduct - then the modern world will stop you somehow if
it can. We have long past talking about whether an
unbeliever should be punished for being irreverent; it is
now thought irreverent to be a believer.”
- G. K. Chesterton
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23. Struggle with the World
quot;For our struggle is not against flesh and
blood, but against the rulers, against the
powers, against the world forces of this
darkness, against the spiritual forces of
wickedness in the heavenly places.“
(Ephesians 6:12)
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24. The Destiny of the World
quot;and those who use the world, as
though they did not make full use of
it; for the form of this world is
passing away.quot;(1 Cor. 7:31)
quot;But by His word the present heavens
and earth are being reserved for
fire, kept for the day of judgment
and destruction of ungodly men…But
the day of the Lord will come like a
thief, in which the heavens will pass
away with a roar and the elements
will be destroyed with intense heat,
and the earth and its works will be
burned up.quot;(2 Peter 3:7,10)
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25. The Destiny of the World
quot;But according to His
promise we are looking for
new heavens and a new earth,
in which righteousness
dwells.quot;(2 Peter 3:13)
quot;Then I saw a new heaven and
a new earth; for the first
heaven and the first earth
passed away, and there is no
longer any sea.quot;(Revelation
21:1)
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26. The Plan of God
Present World Christ’s Church New World
“but I have chosen you out of the world” (John 15:19)
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27. The Plan of God
“We look back into the Scriptures and
see that the true Church was to be
composed of those were born again,
called out of the world and hated by
it. The body of believers was to be a
company of witnesses to the truth in
the midst of a Christ-rejecting world,
despised and rejected by the world even
as Christ had been rejected of men
(Isaiah 53:3).”
- Donald Barnhouse
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28. Overcoming the World
• Be Born Again
• Crucify the Old
Nature
• Walk in the Spirit
• Renew your Mind
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29. Be Born Again
quot;For whatever is born of God overcomes the
world; and this is the victory that has
overcome the world—our faith. Who is the one
who overcomes the world, but he who believes
that Jesus is the Son of God?“(1 John 5:4)
quot;You are from God, little children, and have
overcome them; because greater is He who is in
you than he who is in the world.quot;(1 John 4:4)
“They are not of the world, even as I am not of
the world.quot;(John 17:16)
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30. Be Born Again
quot;These things I have spoken
to you, so that in Me you
may have peace. In the world
you have tribulation, but
take courage; I have
overcome the world.”
(John 16:33)
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31. Crucify the Old Nature
quot;But may it never be that I would boast, except
in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through
which the world has been crucified to me, and I
to the world.“
(Galatians 6:14)
quot;For by these He has granted to us His precious
and magnificent promises, so that by them you
may become partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the
world by lust.quot;(2 Peter 1:4)
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32. Walk in the Spirit
quot;Now we have received, not the
spirit of the world, but the Spirit
who is from God, so that we may
know the things freely given to us
by God,quot;(1 Corinthians 2:12)
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33. Renew Your Mind
quot;And do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, so
that you may prove what the will of God is,
that which is good and acceptable and
perfect.quot;(Romans 12:2)
quot;Therefore if you have been raised up with
Christ, keep seeking the things above, where
Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set
your mind on the things above, not on the
things that are on earth.quot;(Colossians 3:1-2)
“As the brain informs the body, the mind informs the soul.”
- Ravi Zacharias
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34. quot;There will be a day with no more tears,
no more pain, and no more fears
There will be a day when the burdens of
this place, will be no more, we’ll see
Jesus face to face
But until that day, we’ll hold on to you
always“
- Jeremy Camp, There Will Be A Day
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35. Ultimate Fighting
Warfare with the World