CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE

Topic: CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE

Text:  1John 2:15-16

We will be looking Christian attitudes in this edition. You are not a Christian by the name you bear or being called a Christian but by acting as a Christian in all spheres of life. In this study we will be looking at the Christian attitude towards superstitions, covetousness, bebt, vows, lending and borrowing, dressing, politics, money, temptation, truthfulness and acquisition of things etc.

SUPERSTITION AND TRADITION (Matthew 15:1-20)

What is superstition?  (Dictionary meaning)

-Excessive willingness to believe in the supernatural

-A widely held but irrational belief in supernatural influence

What is tradition? (Dictionary meaning)

-The passing on of customs or beliefs from generation to generation

-A long-established customs of belief passed on in this way

-A method or style established by an artist, writer or movement and followed by others.

Superstition and tradition of men do not have bearings in the word of God. They make you disobey God and follow the things of men. Lev 18:29-30

SOME SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS AND TRADITIONS OF MEN

a. On wedding: Alcohol (Habakkuk 2:15-16) other traditional rites (like pouring water on the feet, taking to family shrine, use of ancestral items)

b. Burial: speaking to the dead bodies by consultation, 1Samuel 28:7-15, other burial rites (cutting of flesh, shaving of hairs, Lev 19:27-28) etc laws towards the dead Lev 19:31.

c. Festivals and costumes

d. Day to day living

-Husband and Wife relationship

-Female circumcision marks/incisions on our body, Gen 17:10-14

-Chieftaincy titles age group

-Day to day living

-The ones in your village

WHAT SHOULD THE CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE BE TOWARDS THEM

1. Do not accept or believe them

2. Do not walk with them, ignore and erase them from your mind by continually meditating on God’s word, Joshua 1:8, Ps 19:11, Ps 119:9

3. Always defile them by walking contrary to them.