LOOKING LIKE YOUR PASSPORT (2 OF 10)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:13-18, 1 Peter 1:20-25, 1 Peter 2:2-3
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Looking Like Your Passport (2 of 10)
Series: This World Is Not My Home
Jeff Strite
I Peter 1:13-2:3
OPEN: How many of you have ever had a passport?
You realize that when you visit a foreign land, you MUST have a passport, because without that document you cannot move around inside their country. That passport says who you are, what nation you belong to… and it has a picture of you inside.
ILLUS: I read the true story of a woman who traveled a lot and eventually needed to get a new passport. She posed for a new picture, and as she handed in her 10-year-old passport she took one more longing look at the picture inside. Then she looked up at the clerk and sighed.
"I like this original picture better."
The clerk smiled and said "Trust me. Ten years from now, you'll like this one."
ILLUS: One of the websites I visited noted that there's a universal loathing of passport photos. Everybody seems to hate their pictures. Some people even believe that the passport office employs the same people that take your pictures down at the license branch.
One person complained "(I) look like a convicted and unrepentant mass murderer"
Another wrote "I looked like a very happy pig."
Everybody seemed to agree. They didn't think they looked like their picture. But whether they liked their photograph or not… they had better look like that picture. Because if they were to travel abroad and crossed a border into another country they would be asked to present their passport to the proper authorities.
And if they didn't look like their picture… they're not going anywhere.
Now, Peter tells us here that we are "strangers in this land". Thus we need to have a passport. And Peter describes the picture that appears there that the world will look for on our passport - a picture he insists that we MUST look like. Because if we don't look like that picture… we're not going anywhere for Jesus.
That picture is our passport in this world.
That picture tells people who w ...
Series: This World Is Not My Home
Jeff Strite
I Peter 1:13-2:3
OPEN: How many of you have ever had a passport?
You realize that when you visit a foreign land, you MUST have a passport, because without that document you cannot move around inside their country. That passport says who you are, what nation you belong to… and it has a picture of you inside.
ILLUS: I read the true story of a woman who traveled a lot and eventually needed to get a new passport. She posed for a new picture, and as she handed in her 10-year-old passport she took one more longing look at the picture inside. Then she looked up at the clerk and sighed.
"I like this original picture better."
The clerk smiled and said "Trust me. Ten years from now, you'll like this one."
ILLUS: One of the websites I visited noted that there's a universal loathing of passport photos. Everybody seems to hate their pictures. Some people even believe that the passport office employs the same people that take your pictures down at the license branch.
One person complained "(I) look like a convicted and unrepentant mass murderer"
Another wrote "I looked like a very happy pig."
Everybody seemed to agree. They didn't think they looked like their picture. But whether they liked their photograph or not… they had better look like that picture. Because if they were to travel abroad and crossed a border into another country they would be asked to present their passport to the proper authorities.
And if they didn't look like their picture… they're not going anywhere.
Now, Peter tells us here that we are "strangers in this land". Thus we need to have a passport. And Peter describes the picture that appears there that the world will look for on our passport - a picture he insists that we MUST look like. Because if we don't look like that picture… we're not going anywhere for Jesus.
That picture is our passport in this world.
That picture tells people who w ...
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