WAR OF YOUR WORLDS (15 OF 30)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: 1 Peter 2:9-12
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War of Your Worlds (15 of 30)
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1 Peter 2:9-12
When is something worth nothing? Zimbabwe's central bank will introduce a $50 billion note -- enough to buy just two loaves of bread - as a way of fighting cash shortages amid spiraling inflation. Zimbabwe is grappling with hyperinflation now officially estimated at 231 million percent, and its currency is fast losing its value. As of Friday, one U.S. dollar was trading at around ZW$25 billion. When the government issued a $10 billion note just three (weeks ago, it bought 20 loaves of bread. That note now can purchase less than half of one loaf.
''But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation'' (1 Peter 2:9-12)
What these two verses make clear is that there are two tremendous issues in the world. Yet, the majority of the world's population see these two things as worthless. The two issues that dominate these two verses - and indeed dominate the whole New Testament - are the salvation of the human soul and the glory of God. The two great issues of the Bible are how our sinful soul might not be destroyed and God's great name might not be disparaged.
If the world believed this, the newspaper and the television and the theater and the university and popular music and industry mission statements and government goals would look and sound very different than they do: The salvation of the human soul and the glory of God. ...
Series: Navigating Home
Scott Maze
1 Peter 2:9-12
When is something worth nothing? Zimbabwe's central bank will introduce a $50 billion note -- enough to buy just two loaves of bread - as a way of fighting cash shortages amid spiraling inflation. Zimbabwe is grappling with hyperinflation now officially estimated at 231 million percent, and its currency is fast losing its value. As of Friday, one U.S. dollar was trading at around ZW$25 billion. When the government issued a $10 billion note just three (weeks ago, it bought 20 loaves of bread. That note now can purchase less than half of one loaf.
''But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation'' (1 Peter 2:9-12)
What these two verses make clear is that there are two tremendous issues in the world. Yet, the majority of the world's population see these two things as worthless. The two issues that dominate these two verses - and indeed dominate the whole New Testament - are the salvation of the human soul and the glory of God. The two great issues of the Bible are how our sinful soul might not be destroyed and God's great name might not be disparaged.
If the world believed this, the newspaper and the television and the theater and the university and popular music and industry mission statements and government goals would look and sound very different than they do: The salvation of the human soul and the glory of God. ...
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