Unashamed

Phillip 3:17-19, Seph. 3:1-5
We live in a world that seems to have lost the ability to feel shame.
Shame: “Painful feeling from a wrong or foolish act, disgrace.”

I: “Whose glory is in their shame?” Phillip 3:19.
1. The World about us glory in things we ought to be ashamed of.
a. Hollywood glorifies Immorality.
b. The Political World.
c. The Churches shame of dead indifferent member. “We have a membership of…”
2. Why does the man or woman of high standards fail to capture the public eye?
3. “Whose God is their belly?”
a. China, Russia: lean and hungry for their cause (China: 18,000,000 in 15 yrs.).
b. America: Fat and indifferent.
4. Who mind Earthly things?
a. Spiritual things given lip service 90% belong to a church.
b. 75 to a skating party – 11 to a Christian banquet. Many to fish or play ball, 5 to a brotherhood meeting.
5. “Whose end is destruction?”
“I saw the wicked spreading himself.”

II: Workman Unashamed:
1. Conversation – Walk and manner of life.
2. Study to show.
3. Consider what the World would be with no gospel.
4. Consider what the gospel has done for us.