Set Free To Be Who God Has Called You To Be

Continuing the sermon series called “Real Life Christian: Fruits, Freedom, and Infinite Architecture.” It’s a study through the Book of First John.
This is a short summary of the third sermon, titled “This Worldly World of Worldliness.” Part one is here. Part two is here.
Part of my calling as a pastor is to help set you free from the bondage of sin. So by the grace of God, here we go.

When people hear the Christian phrase “worldliness,” they immediately think they must withdraw from everything. Like stuff is all bad and corrupted and evil.

Contrary to the latest Christian bestseller, “stuff” is not wrong.
Your money, car, house, iPod, new shoes, new kitchen, Egyptian cotton sheets, and deluxe coffee machine are not wrong.
It’s never about Stuff Vs. God. He made stuff so you can enjoy it.
God never sets these two in opposition.

Instead God knows we work best when we prioritize God first and put the stuff second. We don’t reject all things like an ascetic monk, but we are not trapped by them either.

To be free from worldliness means:
God aims to turn you into a person completely satisfied in Him so that everything else would be rightly ordered in your life.
If you can be truly free from the world, you can rightly enjoy things in the world too.

There are two ways to experience this sort of freedom.

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