Transcript PPT - Evans Church of Christ

James 1:27 “Pure religion and undefiled before
God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless
and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep
himself unspotted from the world.”
Unblemished
Unstained, uncontaminated
Definition
Ethics - Greek = habit or custom
English = a set of moral principles
Morality - Latin = that which ought to be done and
ought not to be done
Conforming our human activity
to
the
revealed
will
of
God
Ethics and morals
“Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is
good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth
evil hath not seen God.” III John 11
 Evil = wicked, injurious, worthless
 Good = beneficial
Romans 12:1-2
 Not conformed to this world
 But transformed
1 Thes. 5:15 “See that none render evil for evil unto
any [man]; but ever follow that which is good, both
among yourselves, and to all [men].”
Romans 13:7-10
“love worketh no ill to his neighbour”
Lists the things that love prohibits
Matt. 7:12
Some things are always right -- Some things are always wrong
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To Tell the Truth
Be Honest
Love God
Love your neighbour
 Murder
 Steal
 Mouth sins
 God’s name in vain
 Liars
 Corrupt Speech
 Adultery
 115 sins listed in NT
Many problems in ethics in the world
“I am come that they might have life, and that they
might have [it] more abundantly.” John 10:10 b
God gave us rules for our own good.
Honesty
Eph. 4:28 “Let him that stole steal no more: but rather
let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which
is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.”
1 Pet. 4:15 “But let none of you suffer as a murderer,
or [as] a thief, or [as] an evildoer, or as a busybody in
other men's matters.”
2 Cor. 8:21 “Providing for honest things, not only in the
sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.”
Sexual Ethics
Pre-marital
Heb. 13:4 “Marriage is honourable in all, and the
bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers
God will judge.”
Sexual Ethics
Extra-marital
Galatians 5:19
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Adultery
Fornication
Uncleanness
Lascivousness
Sexual Ethics
Divorce and remarriage
Matt. 5:31-32 Divorce and remarry = adultery
Matt. 19:9 One cause for divorce and remarriage
and that cause is fornication
Sexual Ethics
Pornography
“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a
woman to lust after her hath committed adultery
with her already in his heart.” Matt. 5:28
“…women adorn themselves in modest apparel”
1 Timothy 2:9
Sexual Ethics
Homosexuality
Romans 1:24-32
 dishonour their own bodies
 vile affections
 against nature
 working that which is unseemly
Sexual Ethics
Abortion
Exodus 21:22-25
 Woman with child
 Fruit depart from her
 If any mischief follow
 “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand”
Romans 13:10 “Love worketh no ill to his
neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.”
Why be good ?
 God has revealed the best way of life
 God expects his children to be good
Proverbs 5:21 For the ways of man are before
the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all
his goings.
Proverbs 15:3 ¶ The eyes of the LORD are in every
place, beholding the evil and the good.
Sermon by Arthur Pigman
Evans Church of Christ
515 Gibbs Road
Evans, Ga. 30809
706-855-1249
[email protected]
www.evansgachurchofchrist.org
Sunday Morning October 14, 2012