Title: Choose to Be Different (2 of 9)
Series: Finding Your Way
Author: Tony Thomas
Text: 1 Peter 1:13-2:2
Proverbs 31 tell s us about the Virtuous Woman, but Proverbs 30:20 tells us about the unfaithful wife. The Contemporary English Version reads, "An unfaithful wife says, 'Sleeping with another man is as natural as eating.'" The Hillbilly Version uses modern-day vernacular that anyone can understand: "An unfaithful wife commits adultery, takes a bath, and says, 'I ain't done nothin' wrong!'"
When Sarah grew impatient with God's promise, she took matters into her own hands. She told Abraham to sleep with her handmaid. But when Hagar became pregnant she lashed out! She said, "You are responsible for the wrong that I feel!"
The word "Wrong!" is seldom used in Hollywood or Washington, DC, but normal people still understand the concept. In law a wrong is a legal injury. In ethics it's the opposite of right. In science the hypothesis is proven false if the premise doesn't hold up to repetitive experimentation.
Jesus told his disciples they could enter one of two gates: one was wide and it leads to destruction. The other is narrow and few find it. One gate is the correct entrance and the other is the wrong gate!
We're in 1 Peter 1 and today's theme is choosing to be different. Here's what Peter wrote:
13 Prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.
14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: 'Be holy, because I am holy.'
God wants us to stand out from the crowd by remaining morally pure, regardless of the lowering standards. But the longer we know Jesus, the more we seek to know His mind, the more His nature should be revealed in our lives.
I want to divide this section of into two equal halves. ...
Series: Finding Your Way
Author: Tony Thomas
Text: 1 Peter 1:13-2:2
Proverbs 31 tell s us about the Virtuous Woman, but Proverbs 30:20 tells us about the unfaithful wife. The Contemporary English Version reads, "An unfaithful wife says, 'Sleeping with another man is as natural as eating.'" The Hillbilly Version uses modern-day vernacular that anyone can understand: "An unfaithful wife commits adultery, takes a bath, and says, 'I ain't done nothin' wrong!'"
When Sarah grew impatient with God's promise, she took matters into her own hands. She told Abraham to sleep with her handmaid. But when Hagar became pregnant she lashed out! She said, "You are responsible for the wrong that I feel!"
The word "Wrong!" is seldom used in Hollywood or Washington, DC, but normal people still understand the concept. In law a wrong is a legal injury. In ethics it's the opposite of right. In science the hypothesis is proven false if the premise doesn't hold up to repetitive experimentation.
Jesus told his disciples they could enter one of two gates: one was wide and it leads to destruction. The other is narrow and few find it. One gate is the correct entrance and the other is the wrong gate!
We're in 1 Peter 1 and today's theme is choosing to be different. Here's what Peter wrote:
13 Prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.
14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: 'Be holy, because I am holy.'
God wants us to stand out from the crowd by remaining morally pure, regardless of the lowering standards. But the longer we know Jesus, the more we seek to know His mind, the more His nature should be revealed in our lives.
I want to divide this section of into two equal halves. ...
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