Vision for Mission: Nurturing an Apostolic Heart

Ses s i on 3: The Rea l i t y of Satan i c B l i ndnes s and the Cer ta i nt y of Di v i ne Judgment 29

is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.

John 15.18-19 – If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Titus 3.3 – For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. Rom. 1.28-32 – And since they did not see fit to acknowl edge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. James 4.4 – You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 1 John 5.18-19 – There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. Gal. 1.4 – who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

1. He works in the world’s inhabitants.