The Ravi Zacharias situation is a sober reminder to the body of Christ – we must not hide sin nor take sin and darkness lightly.
In this episode, I talk about the sober warning God gave my soul this week as I heard the report of Ravi – but rather than focus on what he did, I want us to be reminded of what the Word of God says about living upright and holy lives.
It is possible in the authority and grace of Jesus to walk in obedience and live holy, blameless lives – we are to walk in light as He is in the light – so let this be a sober warning and reminder to us all not to hide sin, but to expose it, repent, and to seek His face.
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Show Notes / Additional Resources
- Listen to Mike Winger’s overview of what to do with the Ravi Zacharias situation on Bible Thinker’s Youtube Channel.
- Download the Holy Club of Oxford questions
- Listen to episode 190: Stop and Examine Yourself!
- 7 Awful Steps Downward & 7 Glorious Steps Upward (and a bio sketch of John & Betty Stam)
Scriptures Used in the Episode
- Acts 5:1-11 – Ananias and Sapphria
- Acts 5:5 – So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.
- Acts 5:11 – So great fear came upon all the church and upon all who heard these things.
- Ephesians 5:3 – But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints …
- 1 John 1:5 – This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
- Colossians 1:12-14 – … giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
- Ephesians 1:4, 7 – … just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, … In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace …
- 1 Timothy 4:12 – Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
- 2 Corinthians 13:5 – Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
- Other Bible passages briefly mentioned: 1 Corinthians 6:19, Romans 12:1-2, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Psalm 139:23-24
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