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Our theme for the year.
Peter writes to the believer and says, look forward to these things.
In other words, live a christian life that is exciting.
Get up every day and be happy about being a believer and serving Christ.
How?
Because you have so much to look forward to.
I believe that it’s time to stop living substandard as the people of God.
I’m not talking about financially or in an earthly manor, but according to the great things that we have to look forward to spiritually
And so we have been going back through 1 Peter to see what those things are.
Peter says, look forward to these things.
Our Question has been over the last two months, what are those things?
So we look back at what Peter has already written.
Live Expectantly in Your Glorious Inheritance
Our living hope, based on that inheritance - It is sure, eternal and enduring
Our Genuine Faith in the One who left us the inheritance - a real faith in THE REAL GOD!
Our Awesome Salvation - The process of change in our lives that brings about renewal and restoration in our lives.
Live Expectantly in His Amazing Grace
Grace that sobers us up to the realities and seriousness of life, yet gives us real joy and power to face it every day.
Grace that makes us Holy - Allowing the Holy Spirit of Adoption to live through us and effect our lives
Grace that through that same Holy Spirit of Adoption makes us children of Heaven.Giving us the wonderful opportunity to know the Father Heart of God.
Live Expectantly in His Powerful Word
The Word that reveals God to us.
The Word of truth that sets us free
The word of truth that purifies our soul.
And then Last week we said that we should
Live Expectantly in Our Spiritual Place and Position
WE belong to the church which is a spiritual building, built by God using spiritual stones, all built upon the truth and the person of Jesus Christ who is the Chief Cornerston.
It is a place for the homeless and the displaced
It is for those who do not know how to find God in their lives - and it becomes a place where He is found and experienced.
It is a place to belong.
We not only have a place, but a mighty position.
We are His own people.
A royal priesthood and a holy nation
We offer up our spiritual sacrifices through him:
our bodies for his service
Our praise and thanksgiving for his glory
And our acts of love towards others because of his mission.
So church, get a hold of these things in your life.
Get excited about them.
And experience them in your life every day.
Expect It.
And as you expect these things in your life, do you know what else you can expect?
A change in life
A change in relationships and everything around you.
A big part of the reasoning for these messages is that as we see our situations and ourselves the way that God sees us
When we begin to live according to the way that God created us to live.
Things around us begin to look differently too.
We are empowered to travel through this world without being affected by the world that we travel through.
as we move in the faith and assurity of our glorious inheritance, we realize that the things of this world don’t mean as much to us as we once thought they did.
As we move in his amazing Grace, we see our selves as children of heaven over children of this earth.
As we expect his powerful word to move in our lives, we not only see ourselves as the children of heaven, but so do the people of the world.
We are called to be examples of what Jesus would be to the world if He was still in it.
And He is in it, because he has placed us in it as our ambassadors
So remember this whether you feel like it or not.
Jesus is in your workplace, in that lunchroom or break room because you are there
Jesus is in your bowling alley or your dart tournament, because He is in you while you are there
Jesus is on Route 206 and Rt. 30, the Parkway and Expressway and yes, even the Turnpike.
Because if you are there, He is there
Let’s think about that and seek ways to bring him glory
Last Night, at the wedding that I was at, I was reminded of that fact several times - Jesus is there.
He makes our conduct honorable among them.
I believe that’s what is going to make the difference in our society - the World seeing a bunch of believers that really conduct themselves honorable among them
People that live differently - because let’s face it, we talk a good talk
People that are empowered in every facet of life - They pray openly and regularly (for situations).
Their families represent Jesus, their cars represent Jesus, their speech and activity represent Jesus.
That doesn’t mean that they will like it, but that they can’t speak negative of it.
as we take our spiritual place and position, we bring glory to God in every day that we live.
My Testimony
People will say - Ken you wouldn’t like it
They choose their words differently
They apologize if they say something off color around me, or just control themselves
They don’t invite me to certain activities
The eyes that are on me at a bar.
That’s not because I tell people I don’t do those things
It’s not because they think that I’m better than them
It’s because I live in a way where people just know, That’s Ken, He’s not going to do or say those things.
Let’s Go On
When we are expectant of these things in our lives, even our country looks different.
How?
For one thing we understand what liberty really is and what it’s for.
As an american, I think the one thing that drives me crazy is how our liberty is used in this country.
We have men and women putting their lives on the line everyday, I’m sure from each of our families here today and people are out there screaming, I have a right to this and I have a right to do that.
I’m sorry, that’s not what this liberty is about.
That’s not what these men and women are fighting for.
What this fight is all about is our freedom to be what God has created each and every human being to be.
To have purpose
To have dignity
To have the ability to live free in a way that frees others to walk in their freedom that was created for them.
Our law system is so messed up.
And I have to tell you that we have a good system.
We just have the wrong people in it.
It’s a system of bribes.
It’s a system of position
It’s not supposed to be like that.
But as long as we put people in place that see it as a place to grease their palm, that’s all that we are going to get
And guess what, I don’t have to like it, but I still have to live by it.
It’s the law
It says here that people use liberty as a cloak for device.
Let that not be said about the believer in Jesus Christ.
I want to tell you today that there are more good police men than bad.
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