What kind of relationship should we have with the world?

Recognize the conflict

The conflict is with ungodliness among the majority of the world. Galatians 6:14

James 4:4

Ephesians 2:1-3

Have a positive influence on it

Directly

Matthew 5:13-16 - Someone can see us and end up glorifying God because of our good influence and example.

John 17:14-18 - Jesus prayed that His disciples would be safe from the evil one even though He was sending them out into the world.

Philippians 2:14-16 - We should be lights in the world. We must stand strong and be a positive influence.

Indirectly

I Peter 2:12 - Behave excellently in the world.

I Peter 3:1 - the influence a godly wife can have on her husband

Avoid and rise above its sin

II Peter 2:20-22 - Do not allow yourself to be drawn back into sin!

John 15:18-19 - The world may hate us because we are not of the world.

James 1:27

We are to be sancitified by truth. John 17:17

We arm ourselves with faith.

We decide to do right.

Genesis 11:27-31 - How Lot got to Canaan.

Genesis 13:6-12 - Abram and Lot separate. Abram chooses Canaan and Lot chose Sodom.

Lot’s choice

He gets caught up in a way. Genesis 14:1-3

He simply has to live among evil people. Genesis 19:4-11

He loses all of his material wealth. Genesis 19:24-25

He loses his wife. Genesis 19:26

The battle and aftermath

Judges 8:24-27 - Gideon makes a gold ephod and it becomes a snare to the Israelites.

Judges 8:28-35 - Gideon dies and Israel goes right back to their old idolatrous ways.

Modern textbooks are filled with confessions of faith in evolution.

Miller-Urey experiment

Amino acids produced from a soup of hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and water vapor.

No oxygen was used in the experiment. If oxygen had been used, the amino acids produced would have quickly decayed. Thus, this reaction can’t happen in an oxygen atmosphere.

Peppered moths

Peppered moths in the UK during the Industrial Revolution naturally selected a darker color to blend in with the change in color of the tree bark.

In reality, moths don’t hide on tree bark! They hide higher up in trees underneath branches for camouflage. Also, moths only fly at night!

Ape to human

Darwin didn’t believe that the ape was our ancestor, merely our contemporary “cousin”. The picture is a lie to begin with.

“The fossil record is one of increasing diversity.” - Stephen Jay Gould

Haeckel’s embryos

The embryos chosen look very similar because they were purposely chosen. Other species have embryos that look completely different from each other.

Darwin’s finches

Darwin claimed that the dimensions of finches’ beaks change depending on what types of food they have to eat.

Finches don’t evolve - they just adapt back and forth between beak types depending on what type of food is available.

Conclusion:

None of the icons of evolution have stood the test of time, yet they are still taught in modern textbooks!