Are You Recommending or Renouncing Your Religion?

INTRO:
1. Whether you realize it or not you are either recommending or renouncing your Christianity.
2. Note David's statement in Psa. 66:16.
3. Also Paul in Phil. 4:9
I. Are you recommending your Christianity by the Bible?
A. Can you prove it? I Thess 5:21; Prov. 23:23
B. Does God approve of it? I Jn. 4:1; Acts 17:11
C. Do you have the Lord's word for what you do religiously? Col. 3:17; Jn. 8:31; II Jn. 9-11

II. Are you recommending your Christianity by the way you live?
A. Christians don't live like others. II Cor. 5:17; I Pet. 4:3-4
B. Words, thoughts, deeds - Jas. 1:26; Phil. 4:8; Jas. 1:22- 25

III. Are you recommending your Christianity by the way you support it?
A. Money - I Cor. 16:1-2
B. Time - Eph. 5:16
C. Talents - Matt. 25:14-30
D. Attendance - Heb. 16:25

IV. Can you recommend your religion by the way it supports you?
A. Does it give you something to hold on to in times of crisis or catastrophe?
B. Heb. 13:5; II Pet. 5:7; Psa. 57:1; Rom. 8:37; Psa. 3:3
C. II Cor. 4:17

Conclusion: Are you recommending or renouncing Christ?