But Christians have always had to live among pagans.

We have always had to live among people whose habitual intents

are rooted in the lower order of things

above which Peter exhorts us to rise.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. Today

John is going to start showing you the link between the way you live and

your influence on those around you at work in your neighborhood and at home.

He calls this kind of living singing the Lord's song in a strange land.

That's also the title of his study. Now inherent in that title, John, is an intriguing

idea. As a Christian, you are a stranger, an alien in a world that is well cynical about you and what you believe is that

fair to say well it is a fair call and if you stop to think about it the Bible

says the whole world lies in the lap of the evil one. That's

pretty comprehensive, isn't it? The devil himself, Satan, Lucifer, is the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that

now works in the children of disobedience. What that says is that Satan works

above the earth, he works in the world, and he works in the people in the world.

I mean this is a dominating Satan. and he works in the people in the world.

I mean, this is a dominating satanic influence.

So to start with, as a believer,

why would we expect anything good godly beneficial out of the world?

You just can't elevate those expectations

or you will be seriously disappointed.

The world may be cynical about us without cause, but we certainly have every right to be

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