Living Out Our Identity in Christ
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "So what God is, is working through Peter here, he's giving them a whole new identity and saying, you have a new identity in Christ, not in who you work for or the culture you're around. He's calling them to be counterculture so that they can change that culture from within side. And with that comes some challenges." (21 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Our new identity in Christ calls us to reflect his light in a dark world. Because he's done so much for us, he's saying, I need you to go be counterculture. I need you to be different. Not for you, but for the glory of God." (17 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "Peter's saying, I need you to stand aside from that. Let's read verse 11. So after, remember, the context is you're a chosen race, a royal priest, a holy nation, a people of his own possession. You were not a people, but now you're God's people. You didn't. You didn't receive mercy. Now I've given you mercy. Beloved, verse 11, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of your flesh which wage war against your soul." (33 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Peter's saying, hey, do not hold on to, do not seize on to these things that you desire. That are fleshly like the culture. I need you to cast them away. I need you to step aside. I need you to put distance between you and them." (15 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "We need to live our lives in a manner that pleases God and draws us, draws people to ask us what it is that drives us to do those good things. This is not about a moral lesson about being a better person, although that's good. This is about being and doing for the glory of God." (20 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "Peter's also writing to the Greeks and the Romans who are in the area who have moved in and they have become Christians. Now think about how that would go over in the culture that day because you had to worship Caesar. Caesar was the God and then they had all these, these, these pagan gods. But they're saying, no, no, no, we're going to worship Jesus. We're going to worship the one true God. So you're a very small sect of people and you're not worshiping the fertility God and the sun God and Caesar and you're not worshiping the, the flower, God and all these other gods. You're not doing any of that. So they're also ostracized. These people are the dejected people. They're the rejects. They are the people who are, are spit upon. They're the people who have to work for these very elite or, or wealthy people. And in that culture, you are required as their worker or their slave or living their house to worship their God or whoever they say, but they're not doing that. So you can imagine the persecution that could happen here. Again, no civil rights act." (61 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Peter's saying, wait a minute. There are some things we need to stop doing because of the blessings of the things we get to do. The things we get to do. But it's hard to control. So how do we control and understand the things we get to do? James tells us how to do this in chapter 4. He walks through what causes us to fight and quarrel. He says, what causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? James is saying the exact same thing, the same language. This warfare that's going on between your flesh and your spirit. You desire and you don't have, so you murder. You kill. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and you quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and you don't receive because you ask wrongly to spend it on your passions. Peter is saying the way you're going to fight this is realize that this is a spiritual battle more so than it is a physical battle. And to fight that spiritual battle, you've got to do it with God's spiritual power because you don't have it. You can't do it. The flesh is going to get you every single time." (78 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "Peter's hammering this idea of our identity in Christ. He's calling us to be good, to do good. Our manner, our walk of life is to be and reflect the image of God in us. Let Christ ooze out of you. Again, it's not what we can't do. It's what we get to do." (19 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "This walk with Christ is not subtraction, what you don't get to do. God is saying, come on alongside because I bought your ticket and you get to ride the roller coaster with me. Because the things that you're gonna see and experience as the Holy Spirit works through you and your conduct of your life are gonna blow your mind. Because you're gonna see his hand reach out and touch somebody through you. And there's no better joy than that. It's cool. And he's saying, come on, let's do this." (31 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "He has called us to be a change agent in your community, in your family. If you claim Christ, then be Christ-like in everything that you do. Now let's look at the end of this verse, because there is a so that. Keep your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, so that, so that, so that, when they speak against you as evildoers, so when they see you, when they speak against you, and they say, you do not return the same thing, you're not slandering, you're not reviling for reviling, you're doing the opposite. Remember, it's the abstain and it's the hold to keep. They are doing the things of the flesh, but you're standing away from them. You're doing the opposite. Jesus talked about going the extra mile. This is going the extra mile, so that when they do this, you do good works and glorify God on the day of visitation." (61 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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1. "So what God is, is working through Peter here, he's giving them a whole new identity and saying, you have a new identity in Christ, not in who you work for or the culture you're around. He's calling them to be counterculture so that they can change that culture from within side. And with that comes some challenges." (21 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Our new identity in Christ calls us to reflect his light in a dark world. Because he's done so much for us, he's saying, I need you to go be counterculture. I need you to be different. Not for you, but for the glory of God." (17 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "Peter's saying, I need you to stand aside from that. Let's read verse 11. So after, remember, the context is you're a chosen race, a royal priest, a holy nation, a people of his own possession. You were not a people, but now you're God's people. You didn't. You didn't receive mercy. Now I've given you mercy. Beloved, verse 11, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of your flesh which wage war against your soul." (33 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Peter's saying, hey, do not hold on to, do not seize on to these things that you desire. That are fleshly like the culture. I need you to cast them away. I need you to step aside. I need you to put distance between you and them." (15 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "We need to live our lives in a manner that pleases God and draws us, draws people to ask us what it is that drives us to do those good things. This is not about a moral lesson about being a better person, although that's good. This is about being and doing for the glory of God." (20 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "Peter's also writing to the Greeks and the Romans who are in the area who have moved in and they have become Christians. Now think about how that would go over in the culture that day because you had to worship Caesar. Caesar was the God and then they had all these, these, these pagan gods. But they're saying, no, no, no, we're going to worship Jesus. We're going to worship the one true God. So you're a very small sect of people and you're not worshiping the fertility God and the sun God and Caesar and you're not worshiping the, the flower, God and all these other gods. You're not doing any of that. So they're also ostracized. These people are the dejected people. They're the rejects. They are the people who are, are spit upon. They're the people who have to work for these very elite or, or wealthy people. And in that culture, you are required as their worker or their slave or living their house to worship their God or whoever they say, but they're not doing that. So you can imagine the persecution that could happen here. Again, no civil rights act." (61 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Peter's saying, wait a minute. There are some things we need to stop doing because of the blessings of the things we get to do. The things we get to do. But it's hard to control. So how do we control and understand the things we get to do? James tells us how to do this in chapter 4. He walks through what causes us to fight and quarrel. He says, what causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? James is saying the exact same thing, the same language. This warfare that's going on between your flesh and your spirit. You desire and you don't have, so you murder. You kill. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and you quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and you don't receive because you ask wrongly to spend it on your passions. Peter is saying the way you're going to fight this is realize that this is a spiritual battle more so than it is a physical battle. And to fight that spiritual battle, you've got to do it with God's spiritual power because you don't have it. You can't do it. The flesh is going to get you every single time." (78 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "Peter's hammering this idea of our identity in Christ. He's calling us to be good, to do good. Our manner, our walk of life is to be and reflect the image of God in us. Let Christ ooze out of you. Again, it's not what we can't do. It's what we get to do." (19 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "This walk with Christ is not subtraction, what you don't get to do. God is saying, come on alongside because I bought your ticket and you get to ride the roller coaster with me. Because the things that you're gonna see and experience as the Holy Spirit works through you and your conduct of your life are gonna blow your mind. Because you're gonna see his hand reach out and touch somebody through you. And there's no better joy than that. It's cool. And he's saying, come on, let's do this." (31 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "He has called us to be a change agent in your community, in your family. If you claim Christ, then be Christ-like in everything that you do. Now let's look at the end of this verse, because there is a so that. Keep your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, so that, so that, so that, when they speak against you as evildoers, so when they see you, when they speak against you, and they say, you do not return the same thing, you're not slandering, you're not reviling for reviling, you're doing the opposite. Remember, it's the abstain and it's the hold to keep. They are doing the things of the flesh, but you're standing away from them. You're doing the opposite. Jesus talked about going the extra mile. This is going the extra mile, so that when they do this, you do good works and glorify God on the day of visitation." (61 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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