attitudes of good ethics. “there is a tendency in the charismatic church today to blame all...

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CLASS 3, Section 1 THE STUDY OF ETHICS

Attitudes of

Good Ethics

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CLASS NUMBER 3SECTION ONETHE STUDY OF ETHICS

• THE CHALLENGE? • PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. • THE VICTORIOUS LIFE AND SOME EXAMPLES.• BAD ATTITUDES.

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“There is a tendency in the Charismatic Church today to

blame all failings on a personal devil or demon that made

them do it…”

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•The TRUTH1- Our bodies are still under the gravity of the sin condition. 2- The greatest struggle is in ourselves not in the outside world.

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•The TRUTH3- The greatest and ONLY victory in the area of CHRISTIAN morality and ethics comes as the Holy Spirit grows His fruit in us.It cannot be done with human willpower.

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•FRUIT OF THE SPIRITGALATIANS 5:16-26

I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust

of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;

and these are contrary to one

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another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you

are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident,

which are:

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adultery, fornication, uncleanness (impure motives), lewdness, (appealing to

lust)20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts

of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

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21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not

inherit

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•FRUIT OF THE SPIRITGALATIANS 5:16-26the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,

kindness, goodness, faithfulness,23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no

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law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the

flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let

us not become

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conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

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•ETHICAL ATTITUDES • There are ways that we think which lead us into temptation and sin. • When we begin to believe that we are more unique, powerful, gifted or deserving of special treatment we sin.

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•THE WAYS IN WHICH MINISTERS SIN

MATTHEW 23:1-36Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, 2 saying: “The

scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 Therefore whatever

they tell you to observe, that

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MATTHEW 23:1-36observe and do, but do not do

according to their works; for they say, and do not do. 4 For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and

lay them on men’s shoulders;

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MATTHEW 23:1-36but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5 But all their works they do to be seen

by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the

borders of

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MATTHEW 23:1-36their garments. 6 They love the best places at feasts, the best

seats in the synagogues, 7 greetings in the

marketplaces, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi.’

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MATTHEW 23:1-36 8 But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’;

for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all

brethren. 9 Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your

Father, He who is in

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MATTHEW 23:1-36heaven. 10 And do not be called

teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ. 11 But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 And whoever exalts himself will

be

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MATTHEW 23:1-36humbled, and he who humbles

himself will be exalted.13 But woe to you, scribes and

Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against

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MATTHEW 23:1-36men; for you neither go

in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. 14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you

devour widows’

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MATTHEW 23:1-36houses, and for a pretense make

long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

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MATTHEW 23:1-36For you travel land and sea to

win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much

a son of hell as yourselves.16 Woe to you, blind guides, who

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MATTHEW 23:1-36say, ‘Whoever swears by the

temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple,

he is obliged to perform it.’ 17 Fools and blind! For which is greater,

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MATTHEW 23:1-36the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? 18 And,

‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by

the gift that is on it, he is obliged to

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MATTHEW 23:1-36perform it.’ 19 Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the

altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 Therefore he who swears by

the altar, swears by it and by all things on it.

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MATTHEW 23:1-36 21 He who swears by the temple,

swears by it and by Him who dwells in it. 22 And he who swears

by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.

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MATTHEW 23:1-3623 Woe to you, scribes and

Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and

cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law:

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MATTHEW 23:1-36justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done,

without leaving the others undone. 24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

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MATTHEW 23:1-3625 Woe to you, scribes and

Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and

dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.

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MATTHEW 23:1-3626 Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the

inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

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MATTHEW 23:1-36For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear

beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones

and all uncleanness.

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MATTHEW 23:1-3628 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but

inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29 Woe to you, scribes

and Pharisees, hypocrites!

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MATTHEW 23:1-36Because you build the tombs of the

prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, 30 and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of

our fathers, we would not have been partakers

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MATTHEW 23:1-36with them in the blood of the

prophets.’ 31 Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that

you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up,

then, the measure

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MATTHEW 23:1-36of your fathers’ guilt. 33 Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? 34 Therefore, indeed, I send

you prophets, wise men, and

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MATTHEW 23:1-36scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you

will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to

city, 35 that on you may come all the righteous

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MATTHEW 23:1-36blood shed on the earth, from the

blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of

Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

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MATTHEW 23:1-3636 Assuredly, I say to you, all these

things will come upon this generation.”

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ATTITUDES OF MINISTERS

• Thinking of themselves more than they should. • Priest-craft – using spiritual gifts or positions as a means to manipulate or dominate others.

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ETHICAL MOTIVATION

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GOD• There is a difference between being a DECENT person and holding to a PERSONAL HOLY SPIRIT STANDARD of living. • Many secular people are DECENT and have good, moral values.

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GOD• The value system of a DECENT human being can come from the human idea of being nice and fun. • The value system for the believer is very different.

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•THE CHRIST-LIKE VALUE SYSTEM

ROMANS 12:1-2“I beseech you therefore, brethren,

by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to

God, which is your reasonable service.

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•THE CHRIST-LIKE VALUE SYSTEM

ROMANS 12:1-22 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and

acceptable and perfect will of God.”

•Philip E. Hughes• “That ethical standards are seriously regarded by the secular authorities as well as by the Christian church IS NOT questioned. The presence of police forces and courts of law

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•Philip E. Hughesthroughout the world testifies to the concern for what is socially equitable... It would however, be a mistake to conclude that Christian and secular ethics must be virtually

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•Philip E. Hughesidentical simply because both have a concern for decency and order and profess antipathy to injustice...” (Christian Ethics in Secular Society – Baker Book House)

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•BIBLICAL ETHICS• The secular is driven by the motive to make his surroundings a better place and offer his chaste conduct as an offering to secular society and the god of humanism.

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•GENERATIONAL ETHICS

• Ethics that come from your parents or culture. • It points back to human upbringing and reflects on the past culture. All the best praises go to the human spirit.

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•GENERATIONAL ETHICS

• Generational ethics make NO PROVISION for restoration or reconciliation, not to mention supernatural change or real recovery and rehabilitation.

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•BIBLICAL ETHICS• The believer in Jesus Christ is chaste in his or her lifestyle because they love their LORD JESUS CHRIST more than they love their own sin and pleasure. • Eternal perspective.

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•BIBLICAL ETHICS• Believers are not “LEFT ALONE” to change themselves and their behaviour. They are changed by the HOLY SPIRIT. • There is provision for reconciliation and rehab.

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• Jesus Christ makes a place for reconciliation and rehab

LUKE 19:1-9Then Jesus entered and passed

through Jericho. 2 Now behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax

collector, and he was rich.

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LUKE 19:1-93 And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the

crowd, for he was of short stature. 4 So he ran ahead and

climbed up into a sycamore tree to

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LUKE 19:1-9see Him, for He was going to pass

that way. 5 And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw

him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down,

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LUKE 19:1-9for today I must stay at your

house.” 6 So he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully. 7 But when they saw it, they all complained, saying,

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LUKE 19:1-9 “He has gone to be a guest with a

man who is a sinner.”8 Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have

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LUKE 19:1-9taken anything from anyone by

false accusation, I restore fourfold.”9 And Jesus said to him, “Today

salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of

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LUKE 19:1-9Abraham; 10 for the Son of Man has

come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

•GOD IS POWERFUL• While secular “DECENCY” creates even more divisions in cultures and societies, Biblical ethics motivates believers to reconcile and rehabilitate indecent cultures and outcasts.

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•GOD IS POWERFUL• While secular “DECENCY” wears down with time and life, Biblical ethics grows even stronger as the found in Christ move toward the end of their human existence.

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• SECULAR ETHICS VS. BIBLICAL ETHICS

1 PETER 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of

our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of

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1 PETER 1:3-5Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an

inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade

away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who are kept by the power of

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1 PETER 1:3-5God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last

time.

•BIBLICAL ETHICS• While the secular “DECENT” person has as his motivation the self-induced command to “do good things”, the believer in Jesus Christ has as his motivation the commands of Christ.

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• BIBLICAL MOTIVATION FOR RIGHT LIVING

ROMANS 6:11-14Likewise you also, reckon

yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus

our Lord.12 Therefore do not let sin reign in

your mortal body,

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ROMANS 6:11-14that you should obey it in its

lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of

unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive

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ROMANS 6:11-14from the dead, and your

members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin

shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under

grace.

•BEING DEAD TO SIN?

• Unresponsive to the natural urges. • Feeding the need and not the greed. • Choosing not to pursue dangerous places in this world and in our thoughts.

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• Not encouraging or reanimating old sinful lifestyles. • Fleeing away from stinking, filthy sin and running to CHRIST to fill your needs.

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• Purposely interrupting nasty thought patterns and avoiding those things that feed them.• In times of uncertain decisions, God makes us ALIVE to spiritual rightness.

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• ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE FOR THE BELIEVER’S LIFE

EPHESIANS 2:1-10And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in

which you once walked according to the course of this world,

according to the prince of the

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EPHESIANS 2:1-10power of the air, the spirit who now

works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the

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EPHESIANS 2:1-10desires of the flesh and of the

mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with

which

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EPHESIANS 2:1-10He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you

have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and

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EPHESIANS 2:1-10made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ

Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us

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EPHESIANS 2:1-10in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you

have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone

should boast. 10 For we are His

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EPHESIANS 2:1-10workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God

prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

•GETTING AND STAYING HOLY

• When we were saved by Jesus Christ, God had already set in place a path for us to walk in, exist in, and live in that leads to life and light. We must choose it every day.

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• ORIGIN OF ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE

1 THESSALONIANS 4:1-8 Finally then, brethren, we urge and

exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just

as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please

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1 THESSALONIANS 4:1-8God; 2 for you know what

commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification:

that you should abstain from

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1 THESSALONIANS 4:1-8sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should know how to possess

his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, like

the Gentiles who do not know

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1 THESSALONIANS 4:1-8God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his

brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as

we also forewarned you and

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1 THESSALONIANS 4:1-8testified. 7 For God did not call

us to uncleanness, but in Holiness.

8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has

also given us His Holy Spirit.

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