{"id":7092,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/rightside-up-values\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:44","slug":"rightside-up-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/rightside-up-values\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rightside Up Values&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Isaiah series.   Isaiah&#8217;s rebuke of prosperous society    5:8-24<\/p>\n<p>                            ===================<br \/>\n                            RIGHTSIDE UP VALUES<br \/>\n                            ===================<\/p>\n<p>    I. The fires of California.<\/p>\n<p>   II. The isolation of wealth.                             5:8-9<br \/>\n        A. Prosperity brought a building spree.<br \/>\n        B. God&#8217;s judgment is isolation.                     5:9-10<\/p>\n<p>  III. Party animals.                                       5:11-15<br \/>\n        A. A sure sign of decay in society is the pursuit of intoxication.<br \/>\n        B. There is nothing glamorous about addiction.      5:22<br \/>\n        C. It matters what kind of heroes we have.<br \/>\n        D. Once again, God&#8217;s punishment for addiction is isolation.   5:13<\/p>\n<p>   IV. Cynicism about God.                                  5:18-19<br \/>\n        A. The true nature of their sin is a cynical rejection of God.<br \/>\n        B. Skepticism leads to a total reversal of values.        5:20<\/p>\n<p>    V. How to get your values rightside up.                 5:20<br \/>\n        A. A formula for moral choices, from 1 Corinthians.<br \/>\n            1) Is it helpful &#8211; physically, spiritually, mentally? 1Co 6:12<br \/>\n            2) Does it bring me under its power?                  1Co 6:12<br \/>\n            3) Does it hurt others?                               1Co 8:13<br \/>\n            4) Does it glorify God?                              1Co 10:31<br \/>\n        B. Holiness must be a total way of life.<\/p>\n<p>   VI. You don&#8217;t want to cross God.                         5:24*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Isaiah series. Isaiah&#8217;s rebuke of prosperous society 5:8-24 =================== RIGHTSIDE UP VALUES =================== I. The fires of California. II. The isolation of wealth. 5:8-9 A. Prosperity brought a building spree. B. God&#8217;s judgment is isolation. 5:9-10 III. Party animals. 5:11-15 A. A sure sign of decay in society is the pursuit of intoxication. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1036,2,103,798],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}