Toxic - Week 2
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Definition of Toxic
Toxic: anything containing poisonous material capable of causing sickness or even DEATH.
Toxic Inside
Proverbs 25:26 NIV84
Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
How Much Is Too Much?
1 Corinthians 5:6-7 NIV84
Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast–as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
Three Things to Remember (2 of 3)
Just because everyone does it, doesn't make it RIGHT.
Dragged Down to Their Level
Romans 12:2 MSG
Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
No Benefit
1 Corinthians 6:12 NIV84
“Everything is permissible for me”–but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me”–but I will not be mastered by anything.
Test Your Influences
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 NIV84
Test everything. Hold on to the good. Avoid every kind of evil.
Ask Yourself the Following...
• Am I being ENTERTAINED by sin? • Is this pleasing to GOD? • Does this lure me away from CHRIST?
Holy, Clean, Pure
Psalm 24:3-4 NIV84
Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false.
Talk It Over
What steps will you take to remove the toxic influences in your life? Talk It Over on Facebook. • What little bits of poison have you allowed into your life? • What should our standards be for screening the influences in our lives? • How do your standards compare to God’s standards? • How can the question, “Does this draw me closer to Christ?” change the way you filter toxic influences?
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