(Clip) A Caution to Young, Culture Embracing Evangelicals by John Piper

verse 10 demas in love with this present world has deserted me and gone to thessalonica now i admit i do not know if he repented there's nothing in the bible that says he did or didn't there's no evidence that he did but surely all of us at least those who are older no ministers who have forsaken their partners and left the ministry left the faith and as far as we know never returned we know people like that i think paul wants timothy here to feel not only a preparation for this sorrow in ministry this happens timothy i'm telling you it happened to me so that you'll be ready when it happens to you i think he also wants to hear the cause so that he can avoid that and doesn't ever do it in other words not ever is abandoned and doesn't ever abandon because he's seen the cause here demas in love with this present world has deserted me there is a love for the world that makes ministry impossible there is a love for the world that produces either the abandonment of ministry or the making of ministry so worldly it's useless that happens as often so if a minister starts to become worldly he's got two choices leave the ministry or make the ministry worldly then you can survive demas couldn't why paul wasn't going to happen on paul's team so here's a caution to young and i say old but i think especially young [Music] culture embracing evangelical christians you you need to ponder demas a long time in love with this present world he found ministry with paul impossible and he left it there is a love for the world there is a love for this present age this god ignoring god denying god demeaning christ distorting products of culture that is mutually exclusive with real deep love for jesus there is a love for this world that is irreconcilable with ministry to the world the ministry of exposing the world the ministry of witnessing to the world the ministry of rescuing people from the world none of that's going to happen very well if you just love it so much and they think you're just one of them so young timothy and young bethlehem remember more people leave christ and more people leave church and more people leave ministry out of love for the world than anything else you

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Length: 4min 2sec (242 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 06 2021