Psalm 1: Worldview Part 1

Four types of Christians.
1. Worldly Christians. Carnal or nominal 1 Cor. 5 speaks about these people. (result others don’t get saved)
2. Separatist Christians-Light under a bowl (result others don’t get saved and there is no love for the unsaved)
3. Overzealous and understudied = they love the Lord and want other people too, but they tend not to keenly observe the Bible and the culture around them. They are ineffective and sometimes judgmental because others are not like them. ** Foot washing. **Public prayer at boardwalk
4. Christians that Influence their culture. In the world not of the world,
This Christian studies the Bible and observes culture around them
Result is they develop a biblical world view and with their cultural knowledge they apply those things to living in the real world.
If Christians don’t impact the culture and redeem the culture they live in they become ineffective.


So how do we develop this Biblical worldview and be an effective Christian. Psalm 1 teaches us this.

This is a psalm of instruction concerning good and evil, setting before us life and death, the blessing and the curse, and having a Biblical worldview and a non-biblical world view, that we may take the right way which leads to happiness and avoid that which will certainly end in our misery and ruin.



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Godly
1-3 The non-believers are described by three characters, ungodly, sinners, and scornful.

They are ungodly first, casting off the fear of God or are ignorant of Him and His presence

sinners, that is, they break out into open rebellion against God and engage in the service of sin and Satan. Omissions make way for commissions, and by these the heart is so hardened that at length they come to be

scorners, that is, they openly defy all that is sacred, scoff at religion, and make a jest of sin.
the bad grow worse, sinners themselves become tempters to others and advocates against God.

The word which we translate ungodly signifies such as are unsettled, aim at no certain end and walk by no certain rule, but are at the command of every lust and at the beck of every temptation.

The word for sinners signifies such as are determined for the practice of sin and set it up as their trade. The scornful are those that set their mouths against the heavens.

Walks in counsel of ungodly-Gets advice from the Word and not from the world

Stands = you cannot stop people from sinning, it is a heart issue that has to be dealt with, sinners need to know about Jesus, He changes them not us.

Sits=comfortable with people hate the Lord, I can be comfortable around people who openly and outwardly hate Jesus. If you hate my wife or my kids I am not going to buddy up with you.

In life we spend too much time being influenced by ungodly people rather then God’s Word and it gives us a warped world view that comes from Satan and world and it convinces us to accept sin into our lives.

But blessed is the person who does not fall into those traps.

2 This verse contrasts verse 1 in saying the godly man instead of delighting in sinful ways they delight in the Word, submits to the guidance of the word of God and makes that familiar to him,

This coupled with limited time with ungodly people protects him against their temptations. By the words of Your lips I have kept me from the path of the destroyer, Ps. 17:4.

The more we converse with the word of God the better furnished we are for every good word and work

Meditation. In silence and solitude
1. Study so you understand what it means,
2. Memorize Commit it to memory
3. Pray about the verse
4. Preach a sermon to yourself

Example with 2 Tim 3:16 Doctrine=teaching, Reproof=conviction or feeling bad about our sin. Correction=making things straight. Instruction in Righteousness=process of training
Useful sites: www.biblegateway.com www.bible.org

This should be going on Day and Night is a merism. Totality by contrast


Day and Night=Biblical World View-the Bible should have a profound impact on your everyday life, the decisions that you make. You don’t leave you worldview at home or at church.
**Wedding ring illustration

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When we have and live by the Biblical worldview we will be like a “tree” planted by “Water”=Word
The Word will give life to the righteous person.


“Fruit” in season times of blessing and times of no blessing (not necessarily bad)

I feel now is a good time for me, in my family, ministry, school, & life.

But I know there will be status quo times and bad times. My spiritual life and the way I feel about the Lord should not necessarily depend upon how things are going.

Examples
Worldly Christian, when things go bad think God left them

Separatist Christians, think they control things going bad or good

Overzealous understudied Christian, thinks when things are status quo they need an experience to set a fire under them, or the other Christians are not serious enough, I need to get away from here.


The Christian with the healthy Biblical Worldview realizes there are natural seasons in their spiritual life and they need to press on in the good, not so good and bad

Whatever he does “prospers” according to the Word not the world.
The “righteous person” is always useful and productive to the Lord.
Remember it is not about our personal prosperity it is about lifting up Jesus’ name.