Embracing Our Identity and Responsibilities in Christ
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Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you've tasted that the Lord is gracious. [00:07:46]
Healthy Believers want the word of God, and the failure to either desire this pure milk or to receive this pure milk of the word, that's why there's a lot of problems in both individual Christian lives and congregations. [00:09:01]
Coming to Him, that is to Jesus, as a to a living Stone indeed rejected indeed by men but Chosen and precious, you also as living stones are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Christ Jesus. [00:11:21]
Peter tells us Jesus is building a temple, but he's building it out of particular raw materials. Anybody want to guess what the raw materials are for Jesus's Temple? I'm looking at him right now, and some of you are more raw than others, believe me, but it's not the quality, it's the fact that we are living stones. [00:12:26]
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special people, that you may proclaim the Praises of him who called you out of the darkness Into His Marvelous Light, who once were not a people, but are now the people of God, who had not obtained Mercy but now have obtained Mercy. [00:22:48]
Beloved, I beg you, as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works which they observe glorify God in the day of visitation. [00:26:33]
Submit yourself to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme or to Governors or to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. [00:32:00]
We have this principle from Acts chapter 4. We should obey God rather than man, so do we have a very strong command to submit to the government? Yes, we do, and we will submit to the government until they tell us to sin or go against what God has said in the word. [00:34:55]
For to this you were called because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow his steps, who committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth, who when he was reviled did not revile in return, when he suffered did not threaten but committed himself to him who judges righteously. [00:40:37]
Who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we having died to sins might live for righteousness by whose Stripes you were healed, for you were like sheep going astray but have now returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls. [00:41:31]
You can endure through suffering because Christ suffered for you. Now it's true Jesus sets an example for us in that, and it is fine for us to see Jesus an example. But please understand Jesus is so much more than an example. Oh, here's an example, but he's also the Living Lord and Savior who fills your life. [00:41:31]
We have been given great privilege in Jesus Christ, and we have very significant responsibility. Let's pray that we'll receive both because God wants us to live and walk in both. [00:45:03]
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Healthy Believers want the word of God, and the failure to either desire this pure milk or to receive this pure milk of the word, that's why there's a lot of problems in both individual Christian lives and congregations. [00:09:01]
Coming to Him, that is to Jesus, as a to a living Stone indeed rejected indeed by men but Chosen and precious, you also as living stones are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Christ Jesus. [00:11:21]
Peter tells us Jesus is building a temple, but he's building it out of particular raw materials. Anybody want to guess what the raw materials are for Jesus's Temple? I'm looking at him right now, and some of you are more raw than others, believe me, but it's not the quality, it's the fact that we are living stones. [00:12:26]
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special people, that you may proclaim the Praises of him who called you out of the darkness Into His Marvelous Light, who once were not a people, but are now the people of God, who had not obtained Mercy but now have obtained Mercy. [00:22:48]
Beloved, I beg you, as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works which they observe glorify God in the day of visitation. [00:26:33]
Submit yourself to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme or to Governors or to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. [00:32:00]
We have this principle from Acts chapter 4. We should obey God rather than man, so do we have a very strong command to submit to the government? Yes, we do, and we will submit to the government until they tell us to sin or go against what God has said in the word. [00:34:55]
For to this you were called because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow his steps, who committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth, who when he was reviled did not revile in return, when he suffered did not threaten but committed himself to him who judges righteously. [00:40:37]
Who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we having died to sins might live for righteousness by whose Stripes you were healed, for you were like sheep going astray but have now returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls. [00:41:31]
You can endure through suffering because Christ suffered for you. Now it's true Jesus sets an example for us in that, and it is fine for us to see Jesus an example. But please understand Jesus is so much more than an example. Oh, here's an example, but he's also the Living Lord and Savior who fills your life. [00:41:31]
We have been given great privilege in Jesus Christ, and we have very significant responsibility. Let's pray that we'll receive both because God wants us to live and walk in both. [00:45:03]
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