LIFE WITHOUT GOD

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LIFE WITHOUT GOD
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• Imagine a Life with No Fellowship with God.

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Isaiah 591-2 (NASB)

• 1 Behold, the Lord's hand is not so short that
  it cannot save Neither is His ear so dull that
  it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have made a
  separation between you and your God, and your
  sins have hidden His face from you, so that He
  does not hear.

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God will not fellowship anyone who practices sin
(Isa. 591-2).

• God who is holy will only fellowship those who
  have been forgiven of their sins (Isa. 61-7).
• God has provided a way that we can have a
  relationship with Him through His Son (2 Cor
  521).
• Yet, even after being a Christian, a person can
  choose to go back into sin and lose his
  fellowship with God.

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Hebrews 312-13 (NASB)

• 12 Take care, brethren, lest there should be in
  any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart, in
  falling away from the living God. 13 But
  encourage one another day after day, as long as
  it is still called "Today," lest any one of you
  be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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• Acting religious will not change the hard fact
  that the practice of sin causes us to lose our
  fellowship with God.

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Acting Religious

• Too often, he denies he has a sin problem that
  disrupts his fellowship with God (1 John 18).
• Often, it is a favorite sin that he does not want
  to give up (Jas 29-12).
• He continues to act religious (pray, study,
  attend worship, give, etc.).
• Yet, there is no fellowship with God, despite all
  his efforts to be spiritual.

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Matthew 721 (NASB)

• "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will
  enter the kingdom of heaven but he who does the
  will of My Father who is in heaven.

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• Where is a person in life without God?
  He is Lost!

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Ephesians 211-12 (NASB)

• 11 Therefore remember, that formerly you, the
  Gentiles in the flesh, who are called
  "Uncircumcision" by the so-called "Circumcision,"
  which is performed in the flesh by human hands
  12 remember that you were at that time separate
  from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of
  Israel, and strangers to the covenants of
  promise, having no hope and without God in the
  world.

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To Maintain Fellowship with God, Continue to Walk
in the Light.

• Our fellowship with God depends on our commitment
  to walk in the light (1 John 15-10).

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1 John 15-7 (NASB)

• 5 And this is the message we have heard from Him
  and announce to you, that God is light, and in
  Him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that
  we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the
  darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth 7
  but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in
  the light, we have fellowship with one another,
  and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from
  all sin.

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1 John 18-10 (NASB)

• 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are
  deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
  9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
  righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse
  us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we
  have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word
  is not in us.

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• There is no form of darkness or sin that we can
  continue to practice and still have fellowship
  with God (1 Thes. 522).

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Ephesians 55-8 (NASB)

• 5 For this you know with certainty, that no
  immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is
  an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of
  Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with
  empty words, for because of these things the
  wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
  7 Therefore do not be partakers with them 8 for
  you were formerly darkness, but now you are light
  in the Lord walk as children of light.

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Ephesians 59-11 (NASB)

• 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all
  goodness and righteousness and truth), 10 trying
  to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 And do
  not participate in the unfruitful deeds of
  darkness, but instead even expose them

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• It does not matter which law of God we choose to
  violate any sin that we commit will cause us to
  become a transgressor (James 29-12).

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James 29-11 (NASB)

• 9 But if you show partiality, you are committing
  sin and are convicted by the law as
  transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law
  and yet stumbles in one point, he has become
  guilty of all. 11 For He who said, "Do not commit
  adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now
  if you do not commit adultery, but do commit
  murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

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• Sins of omission, the failure to what is right
  and fulfill our duties to God, can also cause us
  to become a transgressor (James 417).

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James 417 (NASB)

• Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to
  do, and does not do it, to him it is sin.

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Life without God is no Life at All.

• Life without God is to be dead in sin (Eph.
  21-2).

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Ephesians 21-2 (NASB)

• 1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
  2 in which you formerly walked according to the
  course of this world, according to the prince of
  the power of the air, of the spirit that is now
  working in the sons of disobedience.

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• The sin, which he continues to practice, stands
  in the way of a right relationship with God and
  thus he is dead spiritually to God.

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Revelation 31-2 (NASB)

• 1 "And to the angel of the church in Sardis
  write He who has the seven Spirits of God, and
  the seven stars, says this 'I know your deeds,
  that you have a name that you are alive, but you
  are dead. 2'Wake up, and strengthen the things
  that remain, which were about to die for I have
  not found your deeds completed in the sight of My
  God.

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Revelation 33-4 (NASB)

• 3'Remember therefore what you have received and
  heard and keep it, and repent. If therefore you
  will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and
  you will not know at what hour I will come upon
  you.

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Life without God is no Life at All.

• Life without God is to be dead in sin (Eph.
  21-2).
• Life without God means slavery to sin.
• John 834 "Truly, truly, I say to you,
  everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.

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• When the child of God turns his back on God in
  order to practice sin, he has chosen to be
  enslaved to sin all over again (2 Pet. 220).

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2 Peter 220 (NASB)

• 20 For if after they have escaped the
  defilements of the world by the knowledge of the
  Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again
  entangled in them and are overcome, the last
  state has become worse for them than the first.

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The Christian cannot have it both ways!

• He cannot maintain fellowship with God and
  practice his favorite sins (or any sin) at the
  same time.
• Everyone makes a choice to what he will be
  enslaved (Rom 616-19).

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Romans 616-18 (NASB)

• 16 Do you not know that when you present
  yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience,
  you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either
  of sin resulting in death, or of obedience
  resulting in righteousness? 17 But thanks be to
  God that though you were slaves of sin, you
  became obedient from the heart to that form of
  teaching to which you were committed, 18 and
  having been freed from sin, you became slaves of
  righteousness.

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1 Corinthians 612 (NASB)

• All things are lawful for me, but not all things
  are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but
  I will not be mastered by anything.

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• When the Lord is no longer your one and only
  Master, fellowship with
  God has ceased and slavery to sin has begun (Jude
  4).

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Life without God is no Life at All.

• Life without God is to be dead in sin (Eph.
  21-2).
• Life without God means slavery to sin.
• Life without God means our worship is vain (e.g.,
  Mark 76-9).

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Isaiah 110-12 (NASB)

• 10 Hear the word of the LORD, You rulers of
  Sodom Give ear to the instruction of our God,
  You people of Gomorrah. 11 "What are your
  multiplied sacrifices to Me?" Says the LORD. "I
  have had enough of burnt offerings of rams, And
  the fat of fed cattle.
• And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls,
  lambs, or goats. 12 "When you come to appear
  before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of
  My courts?

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Isaiah 113-15 (NASB)

• 13 "Bring your worthless offerings no longer,
  Incense is an abomination to Me. New moon and
  sabbath, the calling of assemblies- I cannot
  endure iniquity and the solemn assembly. 14 "I
  hate your new moon festivals and your appointed
  feasts, They have become a burden to Me. I am
  weary of bearing them. 15 "So when you spread out
  your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from
  you, Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I
  will not listen. Your hands are covered with
  blood.

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What if the Lord did not listen to your prayers!

• 1 Peter 312 (NASB) "For the eyes of the Lord
  are upon the righteous, And His ears attend to
  their prayer, But the face of the Lord is against
  those who do evil."

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Psalm 3414-19 (NASB)

• 14 Depart from evil, and do good Seek peace,
  and pursue it. 15 The eyes of the LORD are toward
  the righteous, And His ears are open to their
  cry. 16 The face of the LORD is against
  evildoers, To cut off the memory of them from the
  earth. 17 The righteous cry and the LORD hears,
  And delivers them out of all their troubles. 18
  The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, And saves
  those who are crushed in spirit.
• 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous
  But the LORD delivers him out of them all.

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Life without God is no Life at All.

• Life without God is to be dead in sin.
• Life without God means slavery to sin.
• Life without God means our worship is vain.
• Life without God means an unfulfilled life.

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In the grand scheme of things

• The person who lives life without God is a life
  that is empty, unfulfilled, without true meaning
  or significance.

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Ecclessiastes 1213 (KJV)

• Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter
  Fear God, and keep his commandments for this is
  the whole duty of man.

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Ephesians 210 (NASB)

• For we are His workmanship, created in Christ
  Jesus for good works, which God prepared
  beforehand, that we should walk in them.

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• In the end,
  people who lived life without God will have
  wasted their lives, having
  lived life not for God, but for
  themselves (Luke 1219-21).

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Luke 1219-21 (NASB)

• 19'And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have
  many goods laid up for many years to come take
  your ease, eat, drink and be merry."' 20 "But God
  said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul
  is required of you and now who will own what you
  have prepared?' 21 "So is the man who lays up
  treasure for himself, and is not rich toward
  God."

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Life without God is no Life at All.

• Life without God is to be dead in sin.
• Life without God means slavery to sin.
• Life without God means our worship is vain.
• Life without God means an unfulfilled life.
• Life without God means no peace.

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Isaiah 5720-21 (NASB)

• 20 But the wicked are like the tossing sea, For
  it cannot be quiet, And its waters toss up refuse
  and mud. 21 "There is no peace," says my God,
  "for the wicked."

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• Many, who have no fellowship with God,
  have a hard
  time with quiet contemplation of their life
  in view of eternity (Ps. 44).

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Psalm 44 (NASB)

• Tremble, and do not sin Meditate in your heart
  upon your bed, and be still.

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Hebrews 927 (NASB)

• And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die
  once and after this comes judgment.

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Dont Trade Your Fellowship with God for the
Practice of Sin.

• There is no pleasure on earth worth more than
  your fellowship with God (Heb. 1124-26).
• There is no worldly achievement more valuable
  than your relationship to God (Mat. 1624-26).
• Fellowship with God in Heaven or Eternal
  separation depends on our obedience to the gospel.

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2 Thessalonians 16-9 (NASB)

• 6 For after all it is only just for God to repay
  with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to
  give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as
  well when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from
  heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, 8
  dealing out retribution to those who do not know
  God and to those who do not obey the gospel of
  our Lord Jesus. 9 And these will pay the penalty
  of eternal destruction, away from the presence of
  the Lord and from the glory of His power,

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2 Thessalonians 110-12 (NASB)

• 10 when He comes to be glorified in His saints
  on that day, and to be marveled at among all who
  have believed for our testimony to you was
  believed. 11 To this end also we pray for you
  always that our God may count you worthy of your
  calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness
  and the work of faith with power 12 in order
  that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified
  in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of
  our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.