2020-02-26 1 Peter 2.1
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1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
I. Rid yourselves of malice and deceit.
I. Rid yourselves of malice and deceit.
1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
A. We must not entertain malice/evil in any way in our lives.
A. We must not entertain malice/evil in any way in our lives.
1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
Illus: If there is one unnamed sin in the Christian world it is the malice/evil we allow into our lives. We entertain wickedness in our lives as a friend.
Look simply at what we consider entertainment.
We regularly watch network TV where crime draws you into the mind of muderers, rapists and psycopaths.
We lighten up with comedies where sexual humor and missteps drive the storyline.
Truthfully we don’t even notice when the language used in the shows is a mixture of innuendo and cuss words normalized for our ears.
Shows like game of thrones have brought nudity infront of our eyes normalizing pornography.
And streaming services have created a market where any show for adults bypasses family raitings with only mature content.
Let’s talk about the news. News outlets have realized bias, fear, and anger will keep you connected to their new source. In this we place ourselves in their echo chamber constantly digesting their content.
When you invite the darkness of rape and murder into your home as entertainment it will have a place over your heart.
When you invite sexual comedies, and pornography into you home as entertainment it will have a place over your heart.
When you consume shows marked as mature constantly they will have a place over your heart.
When you consume news which drive bias, fear, and anger into your home, don’t be surprised when your heart matches your news show.
All of these are bringing wickedness into your life. We are living our .
28 And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.
29 They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 senseless, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful.
32 Although they know God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.
Romans 1
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B. We should be people of honesty and integrity.
B. We should be people of honesty and integrity.
1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
Illus: We should be people who follow Jesus, live by our world, and do the right thing even if it is at a cost to us.
There seems to be a rising move among christians that doing things God’s way… loving our enemy, enduring persecution, serving others is no longer the way to advance the gospel.
The logic goes that we will lose if we do things God’s way.
I would make the case that we may have already lost if loving our enemy, enduring persecution, not slandering our neighbor, and living with integrity are outdated ideas.
Winning using any way other than God’s way is losing. Doing the right thing any way but God’s way is the wrong way.
Deception is more than purposely working underhandedly towards others. Deception is abandoning God’s ways in favor of the worlds.
As believers we must return to believing that God’s ways will accomplish God’s end.
As believers we should be those known for our integrety, our love for our fellow man.
How can we be light in a dark world if we attempt to use the darkness of the world to create light.
13 Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,
15 and you know that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,
17 so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
II. Rid yourselves of hypocrisy and envy.
II. Rid yourselves of hypocrisy and envy.
1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
A. Don’t be a hypocrite. Hypocrisy is fake religion.
A. Don’t be a hypocrite. Hypocrisy is fake religion.
1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
Illus: So far, we have covered not inviting sin in to your life through media, and not embracing the worlds ways to win God’s battle.
Hypocrisy has become a HUGE sin in every church. It is being two faced.
With the rise of Social Media we see the fullness of Christian grandstanding online.
As christians we make sure to post anytime we do good works.
We so desperately think we need the false affirmation of social media that we will post that perfect picture of our bible open next to a cup of coffee. We will post our good works to be admired.
We should be doing good works, we should be pursuing God. The motives of the believer are to live in such a way to glorify God.
Hypocrisy at its core for us is using God, to make much of ourselves. It is using Christianity for your own self worship.
1 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. Otherwise, you have no reward with your Father in heaven.
2 So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward.
3 But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
B. Embrace contentment and flee envy.
B. Embrace contentment and flee envy.
1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
Illus: Malice, deceit, hypocracy, envy.
Envy is wanting what you don’t have. At it’s core it is looking for other things to fill the spot God should have.
Envy says, I need more… but not looking for God to fulfill you.
Let’s look at envy… envy can be stalking that item on Amazon only to realize it has left you just as hollow as before.
Envy is “needing” that new vehicle/house/boat.
Envy could be looking at someone else’s relationship and saying, why is my spouse/kids not like theirs.
Envy could be never being content at your job or you paycheck.
Envy is a condition of the soul where God is not your treasure… so you look to find contentment in the things of this world.
1 What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you?
2 You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.
James 4:1-4
III. Rid yourselves of slander.
III. Rid yourselves of slander.
1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
A. What do your words say about you?
A. What do your words say about you?
Illus: last but certainly not least is slander.
Can we say that this is the chief sin in any church.
Our darkened hearts are most clearly visible through our mouths.
BTW… our keyboards are extensions of our mouths. The only difference is that we don’t seem to filter what we send through our screens.
How easily do we gripe, complain, tear one another apart.
We easily tear one another apart over politics, church preferences, and any other foolish controversy our sinful heart can use to hate our fellow man.
9 With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in God’s likeness.
The lesson is simple today: Rid yourself of Malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and ALL slander.
The christian life should be free from those things… but when those things are undelt with sins in our lives, we tarnish the image of Christ to our world.
Let’s be different. What in your life do you need to repent of?