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Now, we take you to the pulpit of the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ.

Let's have a word of prayer, then we'll get into our lesson together.

God.

We thank you so much for the time that we have to be in your presence this morning for the songs that we've sung for the opportunity to gather together and take communion with one another.

So just take a pause from the busyness of our life and just come together at the foot of the cross this morning.

And remember the sacrifice of your son.

We just, thank you so much for that guy.

We pray now that ass weave move into a a.

Of a conversation from your word.

As we continue these thoughts on being holy and being set apart, that we will open up our hearts and Minds to date.

That will allow your spirit to move within us and to convict us.

God in the change us into a direction that brings us into a deeper and more.

Holy relationship with you.

Be with us, please.

Give us your thoughts today and seen your son's name we pray.

Amen.

So this is a very, very big and important weekend for a lot of people.

It's the fourth of July weekend, all the stuff to to begin.

The other service was Fourth of July themed and, and we all have a very special connection.

We feel like to the day and it took to the celebration of the day that our nation was born more.

So to me, it's about my brother, the fourth of July's his birthday.

So he just thought everybody celebrated his birthday, but we do, we never wanted to bust that bubble to let him know that really wasn't about him.

So but Fourth of July, how many of you have good, Fourth of July plans, or have had good plans this week and weekend.

I'm done.

Some fun things.

Some of y'all need to have more fun in life, guys.

Come on now.

Fourth of July, I only asked you this way.

How many of you are proud to be an American?

That would that would probably be all up.

Listen if If you've ever travel outside of America, you are.

You are greeted very quickly with the reality that what is normal for us is not normal for the rest of the world.

What is freedom for us is not freedom to the rest of the world?

What is just really in many ways?

The things that we kind of take for granted within our country are things that other people around the world look at in there.

So, jealous of, and they want what we have so bad, especially as Christians, even though our our country and our nation tends to be walking in a direction.

Further away from God, even in that environment, we still have the freedom that if we so choose to worship like this together, this morning and I didn't live a life of Christianity, we're protected, and are able to do that.

We're able to teach the things that God wants us to teach were able to talk about those things without fear.

Of a real persecution.

Now, I mean the news not talk about us a little bit and it's and social media might talk about us a little bit, but we're not facing the we're not facing the persecution.

But Christians around the world face every day because of the fact that they simply Proclaim their faith.

We look at this idea of being an American as a badge of honour very similar to the way that Paul looked at being a Roman citizen, right?

Like he he really took his citizenship as a rolling is as something that he was proud of.

And, and, and he use that citizenship at times to kind of get himself out of trouble.

And, and let people know that that, you know, this in, he was a born Roman citizen have to buy that citizenship.

He was just luckily born into it.

Now, as you think about the sacrifices that were made the greatness Our country and of our citizenship As Americans, it is in it is really in contrast to what God calls us to be.

interestingly enough God never calls us to be an American, does he God never calls us to be an American but I believe there are some people There are some people that would claim that being an American is, maybe even more important to them than being a Christian.

I want you to open your Bibles to 1st, Peter chapter 1.

and we're going to look starting in verse 13, but What I want you to think about is maybe starting in verse 1 of First, Peter, Peter Wright, Phillies versus Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to God's elect.

So who you talkin to these talk to the Christians?

He's talking to those people that have chosen to follow God.

He's talkin about the bodies talking about the kingdom.

He's talking about God's favorite.

That's another word that Alexa can be translated into his favorite.

And I love that idea.

So different sermon for a different day.

That's the first word he uses to describe them with the next word.

He uses to describe them is exiles.

The God's elect Exile scattered throughout the Providence is an any list where they all are.

One of the things that is talked about in that we seeing scripture over and over and over.

And we see right here in this particular verse, and we're really going to see it as we get into this passage that we're going to look at a little bit deeper today as we continue these thoughts and set apart.

Is that above everything else?

We have to live as God's elect.

We have to live as children as people as brothers and sisters in the kingdom and as great as our country is and as wonderful as it is to be an American as great of a privilege, as it is to be born into this world into this country.

At this time.

We are called to be foreigners in this world.

And sometimes that brings a contradiction in our in our thought sometimes that brings a harsh reality, but the reality is like I said as America tends to be moving further and further and further away from God, and that's hard for some of us to Grass that's hard for some of us to comprehend.

Because, you know, as I said, you know, the average age of our church, that seems like it's gotten younger.

But there are still many of you who are older, who remember you?

Remember, when this nation could truly be called a Christian Nation, right?

You remember that whether or not your neighbors with the church or not, you still live by basically a christ-centered set of morality I remember now I don't remember when it was happening but I remember watching things like, I Love Lucy.

And, and even though everybody knows that Lucy and Desi, do you know that they're married?

You know, that, you know, they live a married life, never once.

Do you see that you in their bedroom?

That is slipping what two separate twin beds, because something like that of a husband.

And a wife leaving sharing a bed, was not going to be something that they were going to show on TV.

How many of you miss those days?

How many of you missed the Leave it to Beaver?

Top world.

That was once lived in this nation.

And now it's it took a hard left and we're getting further and further and further away in the correct question becomes, as we talked the last couple of weeks about how we should live.

How do we then?

Respond is Christian.

We got to live here, right?

Anybody planning on moving away anytime soon?

I don't think any of us are, how do weave them live a set apart life.

How do we live a holy life in a world in a society that is increasingly becoming on?

Holy I believe we find some of the answers here in the book of 1st Peter.

Let's start in 1st Peter.

Verse 1:13.

He says it and if you don't mind, follow along with me up there, if y'all don't mind, I'll try to get my stuff going here to Saints verse 13 and therefore with Minds that are alert and fully sober set.

Your Hope on the grace to be brought to you.

When Jesus Christ is revealed as his coming as obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires.

You had when you lived in ignorance but just as he who called you is Holy.

So be holy and all you do for.

It is written be holy because I And hopefully there's the first thing that I want you to think about with me this morning.

And that is BS to live in this culture.