Be Different!

Are you Different?

I have always been different but wanted to be like everyone else.

Why?

Why are we like that?

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Romans 12:1–2 KJV 1900

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Be Transformed!

We are to be set apart from this world.

We are to be different.

When people came in contacted with me as a child, it didn't take them very long to see that i was not like them or the other kids.

I wanted to be the same as they were.

Little did I know at that point that God was making me to be what he called me to be.

The world should see a difference in us. although we may look the same we should be

DO NOT CONFORM TO THIS WORLD!

Ephesians 4:17–24 KJV 1900

17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not so learned Christ; 21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

When we walk of this world we alienate our selves from God!

Can People see Christ in you?

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Do you bare good fruit?

Ephesians 4:25–32 KJV 1900

25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 Neither give place to the devil. 28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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This is a letter to the Church on how to be, not to the world!

We are not only to look the part but to bare the fruit of it.

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WHEN YOU ARE TRIED WHAT FALLS OUT?

you seem like a good tree when everything is going good but when things get shaken up in your life what falls out?

WE ARE CALLED OUT!

The Geek word that is translated as “church” in the Bible is ekklesia. This word is make up of a prefix and a root. The prefix os ek or ex, which means “out of” or “from”. The root word os a form of verb kaleo, which means” to call”. Thus, ekklesia means “ those who are the called out ones.” Simply put, the invisible church, the true church, is composed of those who are called by God not only outwardly but inwardly by the Holy Spirit. When Jesus calls someone to discipleship, He is calling that person to Himself, to belong to him, to follow him, and to learn from him.

We are called to put down our old self and take on the image of Christ and to be like him.

Let God make you a fire so bright that the whole world can see it!!