When Comfort Becomes an Idol
Subtitle: "Tracing the Fruit From Complacent Faith to Cultural Collapse"

The Bad Fruit that flows from the Master of Comfort

  1. Pursuing the Master of Comfort, Popularity, Prosperity & Pleasure leads us to:
    1. Deny God's Command to be co-laborers with Christ, having a passive, complacent faith, having no meaningful hunger & thirst for Righteousness
    2. Deceive ourselves into believing that God is pleased with our passive, lukewarm, complacent & powerless faith
    3. We resort to being "Church-goers" who are active in programs and meetings, but not living as a disciple of Christ, and making no effort to make disciples for

Christ

    1. We create a world for ourselves where we pretend that everything in the world around us is OK, and absolve ourselves of the Call of God to be Salt & Light for God ls Kingdom, being unwilling to produce the Fruit of Righteousness
  1. Loss of the Fear of the Lord, a departing from Righteousness
    1. Unwillingness to put forth effort to learn, grow & become effective for the Kingdom of God & His

Righteousness because it disrupts comfort

    1. A decline in Biblical Convictions & a loss of Moral Courage
    2. Becoming more concerned & focused upon one's own image, popularity & reputation over being conformed to the Image of Christ (comfort, convenience, popularity becomes one's identity & purpose, opinions become more important than God's Word)
    3. Developing a cold or hard heart towards the overarching mission of the Church: Be a disciple who makes disciples who advance God's Kingdom & Righteousness and take authority over the works of darkness
    4. Despising & resenting the diligent effort & work of others to promote & advance God's Kingdom & Righteousness

2. Complacency & Laziness

Definition of Complacency:

the quality or state of being satisfied accompanied by unawareness or ignorance of actual dangers or deficiencies, often a willful ignorance and denial of dangers or deficiencies in order to maintain a perception of mental, emotional or physical comfort, and avoid responsibility

Definition of Laziness:

the quality of not being willing to work or use any effort

  1. Failed or ineffective Stewardship

Definition of Stewardship:

the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care

  1. Breakdown & deterioration of one's effectiveness, influence and authority for God in society, followed by:
    1. Rise of lawlessness & corruption
    2. loss of respect & loss of human dignity in society, government is esteemed superior to God, the culture is valued above God's Kingdom
    3. Good is called evil, evil is called Good; perversion replaces Truth, Moral Decency & common-sense; therefore, as a result, oppression & abuse gain dominion and reign over our lives, as God-given rights & liberties are eliminated, and persecution becomes an every day reality

Bible Verse: Psalm 47:1-2

Questions in follow-up to Bible Verse:

    1. Do we truly understand & believe the victory we have in the Lord?
    2. Do we raise our voice confidently for the cause of Righteousness in the Spirit of Grace & Truth?
    3. Do we truly believe & understanding how Great & Awesome God is?
    4. Do we understand God's Kingship over Heaven & earth, and His Kingdom Authority we are Called to operate in to do the Business of God so that His Will may be done here on earth as it is in Heaven?