The Danger of Worldly Desires - David Platt:

The Danger of Worldly Desires - David Platt:

Notes:

• Revelation 17-18
• The greatest trouble for believers in America is not persecution from the world but seduction from it
• The Church has such little influence on the world; you can not tell where the world ends and the Church begins (vice versa)
• There is difference between professing Christians and not
• 1 John 2:15-17 - “Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.”

• Repentance, repentance, repentance
• Revelation 1:1 shows the symbolism behind the literal meaning of all of Revelation

• Desiring more sensual pleasures and worldly material possessions than that of fleshly sacrifice and Godly ways
• Money in the hands of sensual, ungodly people is the biggest recipe for disaster
• Spend more than we have; save more than we need to; etc....
• Once I get this I will be happy

• The more holy you become, the more you see your unholiness
• The subtle lure of PRIDE

• Sin always destroys - when we sin, we are like cows walking to the slaughter house
• The more we feast on the things of this world, the more our hearts will go numb to God
• The more love, delight, and commune with God, the less we will love this world

• The one who didn’t deserve sin was presecuted and died for all of our sins, fulfilling the atonement of the Father
• Jesus Christ
• There are two sides and a fence. Pick one! And stick with it!