Jack Graham preaches Valentines Day message on loving God above all avoiding seductions of world
February 15, 2022 | Texas
Just ahead of Valentine’s Day, Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church Plano, Texas, told his congregation how to become a “Romans 12 kind of Christian” and warned against conforming to the world.
In a Feb. 13 sermon titled “Divine Direction,” Graham told hundreds of churchgoers that when Christians do not surrender to God, their minds will not be transformed by God. Instead of letting God’s light shine through them, they “cover Jesus,” who is inside of them.
“The world wants to seduce us, to squeeze us. Rather than becoming more and more like Jesus, we become more and more like the world, especially when we crawl off the altar,” the 71-year-old pastor and former Southern Baptist Convention president said.
“We are living off the altar as a sacrifice, and we’re on our own. That’s when the world begins to seduce us and squeeze us and cover our light. So, He says don’t do that. Stop. It’s an imperative. … Stop being ‘conformed to this world’ right now. And instead ‘be transformed by the renewing of your mind,’” Graham added…. (Excerpt from the Christian Post)
