Sermon Series: Christ’s Clarity for a Confused World – Part 1
Scripture: Mark 12:28-31; Colossians 2:8
Speaker: Rev. Fred Tham
Series: “Christ’s Clarity for a Confused World” (Christian Ethics) – Part 1
Text: Mark 12:28-31; Colossians 2:8
1. Solving Puzzles
2. The Puzzles of Life
3. The Journey Thus Far
4. What is Ethics?
A. “The branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with
respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the
goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.”
B. “A system of moral principles.”
5. Biblical Morality: 3 Assumptions
6. The Older Testament Speaks to Us
7. The Newer Testament Speaks to Us
8. Biblical Morality: 5 Foundations
9. Making Moral Decisions
James 3:17-18 (The Message)
17-18 Real wisdom, God’s wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by
getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and
blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can develop a
healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you
do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity
and honor.
Mark 12:28-31 (NIV)
28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus
had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the
most important?”
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God,
the Lord is one.
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your
mind and with all your strength.’
31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment
greater than these.”
Colossians 2:8 (NIV)
8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which
depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.