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Renew Your Sensitivity: Overcoming Desensitization in Faith

Explore the dangers of desensitization in faith and renew sensitivity towards sin, error, and societal influences. Uncover key lessons from Scripture on sensitivity and combat complacency. Reflect on renewing sensitivity towards immodest dress, profanity, fornication, doctrinal error, and lost souls to strengthen your spiritual journey. Take steps to safeguard your faith from becoming hardened and desensitized.

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Renew Your Sensitivity: Overcoming Desensitization in Faith

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  1. Desensitized! • Scriptural “Sensitivity” Training!

  2. Desensitized! “…to make emotionally insensitive or callous; specifically: to extinguish an emotional response (as of fear, anxiety, or guilt) to stimuli that formerly induced it” Merriam-Webster Online

  3. Desensitized! • To render insensitive or less sensitive. • To make emotionally insensitive or unresponsive, as by long exposure or repeated shocks: • “This movie in effect may re-sensitize people who thought they were desensitized to violence”. • Source: Dictionary.com

  4. Have we lost the Battle? “Far from living in a world elsewhere, the faithful in the United States are remarkably like everyone else” … in the battle between faith and culture, “American culture has triumphed.” - Alan Wolfe How We Actually Live Our Faith

  5. Example of Insensitivity Parable of the good Samaritan Luke 10:25-37 Priest & Levite were insensitive to the needs of the man who was robbed and beaten! Key Lesson Be sensitive to our “neighbor”! Ex 20:12-17 Matt. 22:34-40

  6. Desensitized! When God’s people are not sensitive to sin! Jer. 6:15; 1 Tim. 4:2; Heb. 3:12-13 3

  7. Why do we become desensitized to sin & error? • Lack knowledge - Hos. 4:6 • Teach…Learn -Eph. 4:20-21; Heb. 5:12-14 • Failure to put off the old man of sin - Eph. 4:17-24 • Transform mind - Rom. 12:2; Eph. 4:23

  8. Why do we become desensitized to sin & error? • Influence of worldliness - 1 Cor. 15:33 (Prov. 6:27) • Beware of the faithless deceit of sin - Heb. 3:12-13 • Not love the world - 1 Jno. 2:15-17 • Do not pitch our tents toward Sodom -(Gen. 13:12-13)

  9. Why do we become desensitized to sin & error? • Complacency toward God & His will - Zeph. 1:12 • Wake up!Rom. 13:11-12 • Obstinate rebellion - Heb. 3:7-11; 10:26-27 • Fear God & obey Him - Heb. 10:31 (Prov. 1:7; 9:10)

  10. Renew Our Sensitivity Toward Immodest Dress • It is Sin - 1 Tim. 2:9-10 (Prov. 7:10; Jer. 6:15) • Modest (kosmios): “Orderly, well-arranged, decent...” • Shamefastness (aidos): “A sense of shame” • Sobriety (sophrosune) - “Soundness of mind… sound judgment” Ephesians 4:22-24

  11. Renew Our Sensitivity Toward Immodest Dress • Applications include: • Revealing clothing (dresses, blouses, midriffs & mini-skirts) • Underclothes • Short shorts • Skin tight pants • Shirtless (men)

  12. Renew Our Sensitivity Toward Profanity • Euphemisms, Eph. 4:29 • “the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensively blunt or harsh”(Webster’s) Ephesians 4:22-24

  13. Such Euphemisms Include… • Gee; Geez (Jesus) • Gosh; Golly (God) • Lordy (Oh, Lord) • Heck (h__l) • Blue blazes (slang for h__l) • Darn; Dang (to curse, da_n) • Shoot (s__t) • Dog gone (God d__n)

  14. Our Speech Should Be… • Sound - Titus 2:8 • Gracious & seasoned • Col. 4:6 • Truth in love - Eph. 4:15, 25 • Plain; bold - 2 Cor. 3:12; 7:4 • As the words of God • 1 Peter 4:11

  15. Renew Our Sensitivity Toward Fornication • Adultery; “Shacking up”; homosexuality - 1 Cor. 6:9-11 • Common in entertainment • Humor…Personalities… Accepted by Most! • Flee fornication! - 1 Cor. 6:18

  16. Renew Our Sensitivity Toward Doctrinal Error • Endure sound doctrine • 2 Tim. 4:3-4 • “Truth is relative” • “Nobody agrees on everything” • “Everybody does something without Bible authority” • “Stop judging others” • Need to be more tolerant! • Maintain pure teaching and living 2 Tim. 1:13 Gal. 1:6-10 2 Jno. 9-11 Rom. 16:17

  17. Renew Our Sensitivity Toward Lost Souls • Try to save some with sound doctrine • Matt. 9:36-38 • Conscious (He “saw” them) • Compassion (moved Him) • Commitment (toward them) • We must properly value lost souls - Matt. 16:26

  18. Desensitized! When we become desensitizedto sin & error we will certainly lose our souls! John 17:14-19 15

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