Preparing your Minds for Action

BIG IDEA: It’s time to gird up loins of our minds.

1.Your Hope is a call to be ready, get your track shoes on.

Hoping Christians cannot live careless lives.

1 Thessalonians 5:5-8

5 For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. 6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

Hoping Christians are Nonconformist

Ephesians 2:1-3

2 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

2.Your Holiness is a call to be different, imitate Christ, He is the difference.

Holy Christians are set apart

Holy Christians want to please their Father

3.Your residential status is temporary, conduct yourselves as the imperishable.

Temporary Residents know where they are heading.

Temporary Residents know what it cost to get them there.