Like the Nations Around Me
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Jealous Eagle
PBE
Solomon
Started so Right
Went so wrong
Why?
How?
God saw it all
and warned about it.
Come into the Land
Come into the Land
“When you come to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’
The land they came to
land of pagans
land of temptation
God told them
remove negative influences
for this reason.
Yet, they did not push out
all people
some negative influence.
Soon enough,
great desire:
“Be like everyone else”
Saying:
In the World but Not of the World
In the World but Not of the World
World is wicked
we are stuck here.
But
we don’t have
to fit in here.
That was their temptation:
Like Other Nations
Like Other Nations
“When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’
Greatest Temptation
Teens, Pre-teens
Fit in.
Belong
Generally, not wrong
God created us
relational
Problem,
who we fit in with...
world
pagans
Christians
True Pathfinders
those on the path
Fight the temptation
to be like everyone else.
Fight against
Fitting In
here...
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Sorry to say
True Pathfinder
True Christian
doesn’t fit in here.
We are
pilgrims
strangers
passing through
not our home.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
We all want to
fit in.
I want you to
fit in.
I just don’t want
you to fit-in,
in this world!
I want you to
Fit in -
in heaven!
This is why
God say not to
choose a foreign king:
Not a Foreigner
Not a Foreigner
you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
Simply saying,
don’t allow foreigner
to be leader
person of influence
Actually applies to all
relationships
Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?
Walking same direction
2 Corinthians 6:14–15 (ESV)
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
Unequally yoked...
usually marriage
But
all relationships.
God repeatedly
calls his people
to be holy
Be Holy
literally means
be separate
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,
“I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
Therefore go out from their midst,
and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch no unclean thing;
then I will welcome you,
Appeal
Appeal
Unequally yoked...
Friends
More-than-friends
Don’t let foreigners Lead you.
Your friends
lead you
influence you