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1 Peter 2:11–12 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
1. Remember your true nationality . 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
1. Remember your true nationality . Hebrews 11:8–10 : 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
1. Remember your true nationality . Hebrews 11:13–16 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth… 15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
2. Fight for your soul . 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul . 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
2. Fight for your soul . “The flesh” refers to the fallen human personality apart from the renewing influence and control of the Holy Spirit… The New Testament constantly describes it as something much deeper than the isolated moments of sin which it generates…
2. Fight for your soul . The structure of sin in the human personality is something far more complicated than isolated acts and thoughts of deliberate disobedience… it is something much more akin to the psychological term ‘ complex’: an organic network of compulsive attitudes, beliefs and behavior deeply rooted in our alienation from God.
2. Fight for your soul . Sin originated in the darkening of the human mind and heart as man turned from the truth about God to embrace a lie about him and consequently a whole universe of lies about his creation. Sinful thoughts, words and deeds flow forth from this darkened heart automatically and compulsively, as water from a polluted fountain. — Richard Lovelace
2. Fight for your soul . 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul . 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
2. Fight for your soul . Galatians 5:19–21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these.
2. Fight for your soul . 2 Timothy 3:5 : the appearance of godliness…
2. Fight for your soul . Most congregations of professing Christians today are saturated with a kind of dead goodness, an ethical respectability which has its motivational roots in the flesh rather than in the illuminating and enlivening control of the Holy Spirit… This surface righteousness does not spring from faith and the Spirit’s renewing action, but from religious pride and conditioned conformity to tradition. — Richard Lovelace
2. Fight for your soul . 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul . 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
2. Fight for your soul . Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough. — Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
3. Overflow with goodness . 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
3. Overflow with goodness . Most of our brother Christians showed unbounded love and loyalty, never sparing themselves and thinking only of one another. Heedless of danger, they took charge of the sick, attending to their every need and ministering to them in Christ, and with them departed this life serenely happy; for they were infected by others with the disease, drawing on themselves the sickness of their neighbors and cheerfully accepting their pains.
3. Overflow with goodness . Many, in nursing and curing others, transferred their death to themselves and died in their stead. . . . The best of our brothers lost their lives in this manner, a number of presbyters, deacons, and laymen winning high commendation so that death in this form, the result of great piety and strong faith, seems in every way the equal of martyrdom. — Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria (AD 260)
3. Overflow with goodness . 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
3. Overflow with goodness . 1 Peter 4:12–14 : 12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
3. Overflow with goodness . Matthew 5:14–16 : 14 You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 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.
3. Overflow with goodness . 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.