Let Your Light Shine - Called to Holiness

INTRO:

AFTERPARTY September 14th 2-5pm at Griffins

New Years Eve

Study of 1 Peter

A Christian is a Lamp

Matthew 5:15–16 ESV

15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:

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Let your light shine

For what purpose? vs. 16 - God’s glory!

How do we let our light shine?

Light bulb outside of a lamp

Need to be connected to the power source in order to do what it was designed to do

Holy Because I AM Holy

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As He is holy calls you to be holy

Holy - Set apart, distinct

Holiness is the light we shine before others

3 Distinctives of Holiness

HOLINESS CAME WITH A PRICE - Vs. 18-19

Price of blood

OT Circumcision

NT blood of Christ

Holiness can’t be bought - Rich Young Ruler

Came by sacrifice

Armaggedon - Harry gives his life to save earth

HOLINESS COMES WITH A PRICE - Vs. 15-17

Live as foreigners

The customs of this world should be strange to us

TLC 90 day fiance - the price paid to come here

Matthew 10:34–39 ESV

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Vs. 39 Life is found in losing it

Social life

Relationship Life

extracurricular life

Senior Year

Holiness Sanctifies us - Vs. 2:1-2

Makes us more like Christ

Galatians 5:16–17 ESV

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

Practice makes perfect

Steph Curry - 300 shots everyday after practice during season; 500 during the offseason

1 Corinthians 9:25–27 ESV

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

1 Corinthians

How do I live out holiness?

1 Peter 2:2 ESV

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Seek the Lord in prayer

Preach the Gospel over yourself

Spend time in the Word

Seek godly relationships

Take necessary measures to remove stumbling blocks

Keep your eyes focused on Christ