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Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear

Greatest Hits: How Do We Live in the World but Not of the World?

Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9624 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this edition of Ask the Pastor's Greatest Hits, Pastor J.D. talks how to live in the world but not of the world.

A glimpse inside this episode:

Who do you feel the closest kinship with? Who do you spend most of your time with? The lesson from Lot's life is that you have to make up your mind from the beginning: Who do you really want to be? If it's with the world, go there 100%. If it's with God, go with him 100%.

What do you love? What does that say about what your heart really desires?

Are you trying to get as close to the world as you can without becoming it?

So how can I be around "Sodom" but not make the mistake Lot did? It has to do with who you choose to make your close friends and your community. Those are the ones you become like—just like Proverbs 13:20 tells us.

The most miserable person in the world is the half-committed Christian.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Ask the Pastories. Pastorites. ATPs. I don't know. We're going to work on the name, guys. We're going to figure it out at some point. It's out there for us. Shoot us like in the comments, maybe some suggestions. But I'm Matt Love. I'm here,

0:22.4

not with J.D. Greer, because we are counting down the top 10 episodes, most listen to episodes

0:27.7

in Aspaster history. We've made it to number two. We're getting real close to number one. I know

0:32.5

you guys are waiting with baited breath. And this is a good one because as Christians, it's something

0:36.6

we, it's something we think about.

0:38.7

It's a biblical principle that I think sometimes many of us have to figure out what does this

0:43.7

mean to live this out practically. So the topic today, the question is, how do we live in the world,

0:48.8

but not of the world? Let's see what Jady has to say.

1:05.0

The Bible says we are to live in the world, but not be of the world, which is like a great line,

1:06.0

but what does that really mean?

1:07.1

What does that look like?

1:08.6

And how do we do that practically?

1:11.2

Maybe the other way he's going to phrase it is,

1:16.2

is there a difference between living in the world and making your home there? And he's going to use an illustration of three circles of friendship as he answers this important question today. So

1:20.6

here we go. We're going to join Pastor J.D. for his thoughts from God's word about who you really

1:24.9

want to be and where you really want to belong.

1:29.8

There is a progression of sin in your life. Most Christians do not intend to become Sodom and

1:36.4

Gimorra. Lot certainly didn't. He never intended to make it his home and he certainly did not

1:41.8

intend to be included in its judgment. But many Christians,

1:46.1

like Lot, are so attracted to the world that they make their home as close to it as possible.

1:52.3

And if they're honest, they end up identifying as much with the world as they do with the people

1:56.2

of God. So be honest. Whom do you think of most instinctively as my brothers? Who do you feel the closest

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