
COMPLETED LIVING FOR GOD IN OUR WORLD, Can I Be Different
LIVING FOR GOD IN OUR WORLD
Can I Be Different?
January 15,2023
Philippians 2:14-15 - Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe
1 John 5:19 - We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
A CHALLENGE TO BE DIFFERENT
1. YOU HAVE BEEN MADE NEW!
1 Peter 1:14-16 - 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.”
1 Peter 1:14-15 - Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now. 15 As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God’s life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness.
THE MESSAGE:
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
Holiness means: SET APART
Choosing to be different is a DICIPLINE
Discipline……………………………………Drifter
1 Peter 1:13 - Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.
2. PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A DIFFERENT LIFE.
1 Peter 1:13 - Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;…NKJV
How to prepare to be different:
A. I need to have a SINGLE mind.
B. I need to have a SERIOUS mind.
1 Peter 1:13 - …be sober…
WHY?
1 Peter 1:18-19 - For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
3. BECAUSE GOD PAID A PRICE FOR YOU!
BE DIFFERENT BY HAVING…
1. DISCIPLINE WITH YOUR LOVE.
1 Peter 1:22 - Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.
John 13:34-35 - “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
2. DISCIPLINE WITH YOUR MOUTH.
1 Peter 2:1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
Matthew 15:19 - For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
3. DISCIPLINE WITH YOUR DESIRE FOR GOD’s WORD.
1 Peter 2:2 - Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
WHICH PATH ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE?